It's a common myth that MIMO - sticking on multiple antennas - is for redundancy purposes.
If you actually crunch through the math, increasing the number of antennas basically increases the theoretical capacity of the wireless channel, meaning faster transmission speeds over the same distance/attenuation/power. So the extra antennas aren't in case one antenna fails, it's to increase transmission speeds.
That's fucking bullshit. The only reason you think that is because domestic news sources give it more publicity when it condemns the US for "War on Terror" tactics, rather than when it does something boring like talking about massacres in South America or the Darfur conflict.
Have you even looked at the Amnesty International website? Here let me show you a quote from their 2006 annual report that describes, "...widespread rape and killings continued - most shockingly in Darfur - against a background of poverty and disease." Source: http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/globaloverview-e ng
Yes, the website does go on to criticize the US for one full sentence, and it also makes damn sure that China's rural policies, torture by Middle-Eastern governments, and incredibly poverty in Africa are mentioned as well.
Also, do you know WHY America gets criticzed for even (relatively, compared to the Darfur genocide) slips in human rights records? This is because Americans - me included - consider their country to be a role model for the rest of the world. We obviously aren't as bad as China when it comes to censorship or Syria when it comes to torture, but why are we even comparing ourselves to that? Does it really feel that good to say, "well, at least we aren't as bad as the Darfur Janjaweed militia?" We hold ourselves to a higher moral standard, and I see nothing wrong when international human rights organizations call us out when we lapse from that standard. If we consider ourselves a symbol of freedom and democracy in the world, we better be able to take flak when we deviate in any way from those principles.
"Silent about genocide, subjugated poverty and terror; up to and including denial of distribution of UN medicine to children resulting in the deaths of 100K+ under 18 because of political alliances."
I'm sorry, but that's complete bullshit.
Silent about genocide? From their on website (http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/globaloverview- eng), "In Africa, the number of armed conflicts declined following several peace agreements in 2005. But widespread rape and killings continued - most shockingly in Darfur - against a background of poverty and disease." Their worldwide report condens mass killings in numerous other countries as well.
In addition to that, I've seen numerous speakers from AI giving lectures/talks about the Darfur genocide. Your comment isn't just offensive because it's a lie, but because you're slandering one of the few organizations that's exerting public pressure to relieve the plight of the Darfur people.
I'm afraid I couldn't find a single source for Amnesty International causing deaths by denying children medicine; please feel free to post a news link from a credible source. Also, I'm curious, how does an NGO, primarily funded by private donations, have the power and reach to deny "100k+ under 18" kids medicine?
When considering the risk of adding one stock to a particular portfolio (say, the S&P 500), the key determining factor is not the individual variation in the Google stock, but the covariance (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Covariance.html) it has with all the other stocks in the portfolio already. When it comes to building a portfolio, we primarily care about the return of each stock + covariance among the stocks.
It's really easy to check this just by looking at how the variance of multiple variables (in this case, stocks) is calculated (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Variance.html).
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover. If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city. And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there."
- Pat Robertson, Nov. 9th broadcast of the 700 Club.
From what I remember of my one semester law class, only Supreme Court rulings set precedent for the rest of the country. Other cases may reference this one for arguments/contents, but this is in no way precedent for any other jurisdictions.
The pending cases in Georgia & the Kansas school board policy are unlikely to be directly affected.
"Name any society that has survived more than 4000 years ever.
I assume what you mean by 'society' is not an ethnic group but a kind of recognisable contiguous social formation."
Chinese society, while not neccesarily having survived 4000 years (evidence of the Xia Dynasty is only present from Zhou era writings - physical evidence remains elusive), does have a solid foundation of ~3000 years. The Zhou dynasty from late 10th century BC heavily influences modern Chinese society, and is considered by many to be the defining character of China. The basis of much modern Chinese philosophy/thought began with the Confucian set of ethics written during the subsequent Warring States period. While the cycle of dynastic rise/fall and foreign invasions did have a great deal of impact on Chinese culture, the Chinese of today do not consider themselves a seperate people from those that lived in the Zhou, which is enough for me to consider it as one society. One example of this is the classic, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," which was writtenmuch later about the Warring States period (~5th century); the contents of the book continue to play heavily in modern Chinese diplomacy and thinking.
You're right. The US/NATO are one of the most consistently morally upright military forces during wartime; I have no argument with that. I'm also convinced that if say, China/Russia had invaded, we'd be seeing much more brutality and inhumane treatment stories.
That's not the problem.
The problem is that the US declares itself as a "City Upon a Hill," a force for freedom and democracy in the world - a perfectly noble and admirable goal, but one that invites criticism. A country that claims it fights for freedom, democracy, and human rights must hold itself up to the highest standard if it's to maintain moral authority in war. The reason America is criticized so harshly and is watched so closely is that few other countries in the world claim to invade other countries partially on the basis of bringing freedom and equality there. (Whether that was the original intent is irrelevant - the Administration has publicly shifted towards this new rationale). You cannot espouse the rule of law and human rights to other countries if you yourself fail to live up to that standard.
A leader cannot make excuses for immoral behavior, only rectify the mistakes and never let them occur again.
How is that a problem for America?
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I fail to see how that's a problem for the US Dept. of Defense.
Senator McCain just led a passage of a bill that would expressly condemn torture and lifts language from the Geneva Conventions. Guess what the White House reaction has been... Cheney is now working hard behind the scenes to make sure that it dies when in the House or during committee, and Bush has vowed to veto any such bill. The official stance is that such language would "hinder the US's ability to defend itself."
Given recent news reports of the US using white phosphorus on civilians and napalm when taking Falluja, it's doubtful that Geneva conventions were even considered when this prototype was developed.
It's a good thing that America stands for freedom, democracy, and human rights, otherwise I'd be worried...
"Yes, let's look at how many new refineries have been constructed in the US in the last 30 years. And how many nuclear plants have been constructed in the same timeframe."
Instead of blaming the relatively weak and powerless environmentalists (how many seats does the Green party have in our beloved Congress?), maybe you should consider that Texaco, Unocal, Chevron, etc, don't exactly want to see cheap and safe nuclear power crushing their sale of natural gas/coal. It's also more than likely that by keeping refining capacity at artifically low levels, that they can string along the public for a longer period of time on a dwindling supply of oil.
"Your sarcasm doesn't measure up to reality, does it? The fact is, if the US had been continuing to build out its nuclear power capacity we may not be discussing energy strains the way we are today."
It's far more likely that a paranoid public, feeding on information from hyped up reports from 3-Mile island, is taking a "not in my backyard" approach to this.
Think hard.
How much power does the environmental lobby really have in this country? Facts: 1. No Kyoto Treaty 2. Current administration/party in power refuses to recognize global warming, and went as far as to hire a guy to CENSOR reports on this topic. 3. Scaled back clean air regulations. 4. Not a SINGLE Green Party Senator (check out the Bundestag for comparison) 5. Massive subsidies for an energy sector that's been posting record profits.
"Isn't this the sort of copyright abuse that would have all of Slashdot up in arms yelling 'Fair use! Fair use!' if it were being employed in any other context?"
Fair use is absolutely irrelevant here.
Fair use is about allowing _private_ individuals to make single copies for backup purposes. Making a copy of the Lord of the Rings DVD so you're not screwed if your original gets scratched is fine. Making thousands of copies of a science teaching guide to distribute state-wide is NOT covered under fair use. Stop shouting hypocrisy where none exists.
The National Academies' National Research Council and the National Science Teachers Association hold the copyrights to the science instruction guides, and they can at whim (unless they signed a prior contract with the Kansas School system) stop licensing their material. In this case, it seems their decision is perfectly reasonable, since they don't want themselves linked to a science curriculum that's closer to the 12th rather than 21st century. Why should they license their legitimate teaching guide to an institution that's opposed to the very principles they believe in? It's their copyrighted material, and their choice. Your comment about Scientology are entirely irrelevant; the Scientology lawsuits had absolutely nothing to do with withdrawing licensed material.
You're right, I'm sure Linux developers would be happy to work on driver support if the manufacturers were more forth-coming. I'm also sure that most Linux developers are also saints who donate to UNICEF, help old ladies across the street, and also only say "LOL" when they're actually laughing. None of that's relevant.
The problem is that none of this matters to the end-user who's giving Linux a shot for the first time. It doesn't matter whose fault it is that their digital camera doesn't work, or why their laptop's sound card can't play back sound. You just lost a customer.
"The name may not roll off the tongue quite like American Idol does, but that hasn't kept the Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl contest from sweeping China. Zhao Jingyi, 17, the "schoolgirl" candidate won the Changsha competition.
Like Idol, which named its winner Wednesday night, China's Super Girl gives aspiring singing stars a shot at televised fame and fortune."
Looks like American culture has spread far and wide...
Yeah too bad they'll now suffer terribly with expanded access to new goods and services, educational opportunities, and contact with the outside world besides 1-2 hollywood stars visiting ever 2 years. I just hope the Chinese government doesn't do anything terrible like build more hospitals or expand access to electricity... Damn them for having spent $3 billion in local Tibetan communities on this project and creating thousands of jobs...
Real shame that the standard of living in Tibet has risen steadily from the subsistence level ever since the CCP took control, huh?
"Linux software devs/power users get a lot of, being elitist, arrogant and not giving users a choice etc."
Linux software not giving us enough CHOICE?! So apparently 20 different windows managers, 300 mail apps, and more distributions than there are stars in the universe isn't enough choice for you?
Damn dude...I mean Linux has problems, but not enough choices isn't the one that comes to mind.
No one at the school I attend thinks analog is on the way out. Given the advances in wireless/RF technology, most of the kids in the EE program are going the analog or wireless/communications channel route, because that's where the future is. And guess what, we're all learning about how to make nice, stable, op-amps, given desired frequency response, transient behavior, power constraint, and temperature/process variation specifications. Device physics for BJT, BiCMOS, and just plain CMOS are still covered in excruciating detail. Noise characteristics of analog systems, PLL's, D/A Converters, and all that other great stuff is still thoroughly dissected. We're not just learning how to use Verilog and program a damn FPGA. I don't think you give EE kids enough credit.
The hardcore theory for signals & systems isn't being left out either; everyone here learns about Laplace transforms/feedback, and how to analyze frequency response behavior using those tools. All that nice math that relates to wireless transmission (source and channel coding/markov chains/linear algebra/dynamic programming) is taught down to as much detail as I found in most undergraduate math classes.
So yeah, some places may not teach this analog stuff, but most places still do. To sum it up, NO ONE, it a competent EE program thinks analog is on the way out. Even at the undergrad level, all the *pure* digital design kids know that we're running into analog behavior in high-speed circuits.
You've set up a straw man argument in this case. Of course no one is going to support child pornography, but that's not the issue at all in this case. The EFF is saying that we have a reasonable expectation of privacy when we go to get our computers fixed.
The unpleasant consequence of concept of this "privacy" is that some child pornographers may get away, but we as a society find this to be a justifiable risk/harm in order to maintain a free society. If we applied your argument to the 4th Amendment, we should also void that, since it's very probable that some child molestors/exploiters have gotten away because the police searched their property inappropiately. Hell, we might as well throw away freedom of the press too, since it undermines our government's ability to conduct foreign policy at times. The negative consequences of a law don't automatically justify removing that law, if the law serves to maintain a higher principle. There are literally thousands of criminals who were almost unquestionably guilty, but have been let go, because procedural steps have not been followed properly.
The erosion of civil liberties start when we start denying equal protection to individuals charged with some of the most vile crimes. A man accused of child pornography possession deserves just as much protection under the law as the next guy.
Attacking the EFF for supporting child pornography is a nice try, but is an entirely specious argument.
I think that Apple can pull a middle ground here. They can basically do what Microsoft was saying it wanted to do with the XBox 360 accessories.
Apple will sell the OS as a stand-alone software package, but it will also run a hardware certification/licensing program with 3rd party manufacturers. There'll be a shiny "Tested for Apple OSX 10.x.x" hologram sticker on any hardware that the 3rd party manufacturer has submitted to Apple along with a nice hefty licensing fee. This way, Apple can ensure that all of the hardware will interoperate correctly and still rake in huge profits on the "certification/licensing" of hardware.
You maintain the end-user experience while at the same time making unholy amounts of money. Cheapskates can still run un-certified hardware that might or might not work, and those willing to pay extra will still have their "it just works" experience.
That's doubtful considering K&R was written in 1978, and this was the first public spec of the language. ANSI C didn't even come along until the 80's.
The initial developement of C wasn't even done until 1973, so unless you were at Bell Labs with Thompson and Ritchie in 1969, I think you're just making shit up.
You're either really senile, or must've fallen very far in life to go from the forefront of Computer Science in the 1970's to trolling on Slashdot.
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I cannot believe you are serious. There are so many misconceptions in that single statement that I'm not sure where to start.
Do you also boil your water by pushing the water molecules really really fast using your hands?
It's a common myth that MIMO - sticking on multiple antennas - is for redundancy purposes.
If you actually crunch through the math, increasing the number of antennas basically increases the theoretical capacity of the wireless channel, meaning faster transmission speeds over the same distance/attenuation/power. So the extra antennas aren't in case one antenna fails, it's to increase transmission speeds.
Reminds me of a quote from Friedman's "The World is Flat" that sums it up pretty well:
"In China, Bill Gates is Britney Spears; in America, Britney Spears is Britney Spears."
That's fucking bullshit. The only reason you think that is because domestic news sources give it more publicity when it condemns the US for "War on Terror" tactics, rather than when it does something boring like talking about massacres in South America or the Darfur conflict.
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Have you even looked at the Amnesty International website? Here let me show you a quote from their 2006 annual report that describes, "...widespread rape and killings continued - most shockingly in Darfur - against a background of poverty and disease." Source: http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/globaloverview-
Yes, the website does go on to criticize the US for one full sentence, and it also makes damn sure that China's rural policies, torture by Middle-Eastern governments, and incredibly poverty in Africa are mentioned as well.
Also, do you know WHY America gets criticzed for even (relatively, compared to the Darfur genocide) slips in human rights records? This is because Americans - me included - consider their country to be a role model for the rest of the world. We obviously aren't as bad as China when it comes to censorship or Syria when it comes to torture, but why are we even comparing ourselves to that? Does it really feel that good to say, "well, at least we aren't as bad as the Darfur Janjaweed militia?" We hold ourselves to a higher moral standard, and I see nothing wrong when international human rights organizations call us out when we lapse from that standard. If we consider ourselves a symbol of freedom and democracy in the world, we better be able to take flak when we deviate in any way from those principles.
"Silent about genocide, subjugated poverty and terror; up to and including denial of distribution of UN medicine to children resulting in the deaths of 100K+ under 18 because of political alliances."
- eng), "In Africa, the number of armed conflicts declined following several peace agreements in 2005. But widespread rape and killings continued - most shockingly in Darfur - against a background of poverty and disease." Their worldwide report condens mass killings in numerous other countries as well.
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I'm sorry, but that's complete bullshit.
Silent about genocide? From their on website (http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/globaloverview
Here's a full link to the Amnesty website disucssing the Darfur genocide in depth as well as other African issues: http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/2af-summary-eng
In addition to that, I've seen numerous speakers from AI giving lectures/talks about the Darfur genocide. Your comment isn't just offensive because it's a lie, but because you're slandering one of the few organizations that's exerting public pressure to relieve the plight of the Darfur people.
I'm afraid I couldn't find a single source for Amnesty International causing deaths by denying children medicine; please feel free to post a news link from a credible source. Also, I'm curious, how does an NGO, primarily funded by private donations, have the power and reach to deny "100k+ under 18" kids medicine?
Sorry but that's just plain wrong.
When considering the risk of adding one stock to a particular portfolio (say, the S&P 500), the key determining factor is not the individual variation in the Google stock, but the covariance (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Covariance.html) it has with all the other stocks in the portfolio already. When it comes to building a portfolio, we primarily care about the return of each stock + covariance among the stocks.
It's really easy to check this just by looking at how the variance of multiple variables (in this case, stocks) is calculated (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Variance.html).
how did this get modded troll??
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover. If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city. And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there."
- Pat Robertson, Nov. 9th broadcast of the 700 Club.
From what I remember of my one semester law class, only Supreme Court rulings set precedent for the rest of the country. Other cases may reference this one for arguments/contents, but this is in no way precedent for any other jurisdictions.
The pending cases in Georgia & the Kansas school board policy are unlikely to be directly affected.
"Name any society that has survived more than 4000 years ever.
I assume what you mean by 'society' is not an ethnic group but a kind of recognisable contiguous social formation."
Chinese society, while not neccesarily having survived 4000 years (evidence of the Xia Dynasty is only present from Zhou era writings - physical evidence remains elusive), does have a solid foundation of ~3000 years. The Zhou dynasty from late 10th century BC heavily influences modern Chinese society, and is considered by many to be the defining character of China. The basis of much modern Chinese philosophy/thought began with the Confucian set of ethics written during the subsequent Warring States period. While the cycle of dynastic rise/fall and foreign invasions did have a great deal of impact on Chinese culture, the Chinese of today do not consider themselves a seperate people from those that lived in the Zhou, which is enough for me to consider it as one society. One example of this is the classic, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," which was writtenmuch later about the Warring States period (~5th century); the contents of the book continue to play heavily in modern Chinese diplomacy and thinking.
You're right. The US/NATO are one of the most consistently morally upright military forces during wartime; I have no argument with that. I'm also convinced that if say, China/Russia had invaded, we'd be seeing much more brutality and inhumane treatment stories.
That's not the problem.
The problem is that the US declares itself as a "City Upon a Hill," a force for freedom and democracy in the world - a perfectly noble and admirable goal, but one that invites criticism. A country that claims it fights for freedom, democracy, and human rights must hold itself up to the highest standard if it's to maintain moral authority in war. The reason America is criticized so harshly and is watched so closely is that few other countries in the world claim to invade other countries partially on the basis of bringing freedom and equality there. (Whether that was the original intent is irrelevant - the Administration has publicly shifted towards this new rationale). You cannot espouse the rule of law and human rights to other countries if you yourself fail to live up to that standard.
A leader cannot make excuses for immoral behavior, only rectify the mistakes and never let them occur again.
I fail to see how that's a problem for the US Dept. of Defense.
Senator McCain just led a passage of a bill that would expressly condemn torture and lifts language from the Geneva Conventions. Guess what the White House reaction has been... Cheney is now working hard behind the scenes to make sure that it dies when in the House or during committee, and Bush has vowed to veto any such bill. The official stance is that such language would "hinder the US's ability to defend itself."
Given recent news reports of the US using white phosphorus on civilians and napalm when taking Falluja, it's doubtful that Geneva conventions were even considered when this prototype was developed.
It's a good thing that America stands for freedom, democracy, and human rights, otherwise I'd be worried...
"Yes, let's look at how many new refineries have been constructed in the US in the last 30 years. And how many nuclear plants have been constructed in the same timeframe."
Instead of blaming the relatively weak and powerless environmentalists (how many seats does the Green party have in our beloved Congress?), maybe you should consider that Texaco, Unocal, Chevron, etc, don't exactly want to see cheap and safe nuclear power crushing their sale of natural gas/coal. It's also more than likely that by keeping refining capacity at artifically low levels, that they can string along the public for a longer period of time on a dwindling supply of oil.
"Your sarcasm doesn't measure up to reality, does it? The fact is, if the US had been continuing to build out its nuclear power capacity we may not be discussing energy strains the way we are today."
It's far more likely that a paranoid public, feeding on information from hyped up reports from 3-Mile island, is taking a "not in my backyard" approach to this.
Think hard.
How much power does the environmental lobby really have in this country?
Facts:
1. No Kyoto Treaty
2. Current administration/party in power refuses to recognize global warming, and went as far as to hire a guy to CENSOR reports on this topic.
3. Scaled back clean air regulations.
4. Not a SINGLE Green Party Senator (check out the Bundestag for comparison)
5. Massive subsidies for an energy sector that's been posting record profits.
"Isn't this the sort of copyright abuse that would have all of Slashdot up in arms yelling 'Fair use! Fair use!' if it were being employed in any other context?"
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Fair use is absolutely irrelevant here.
Fair use is about allowing _private_ individuals to make single copies for backup purposes. Making a copy of the Lord of the Rings DVD so you're not screwed if your original gets scratched is fine. Making thousands of copies of a science teaching guide to distribute state-wide is NOT covered under fair use. Stop shouting hypocrisy where none exists.
The National Academies' National Research Council and the National Science Teachers Association hold the copyrights to the science instruction guides, and they can at whim (unless they signed a prior contract with the Kansas School system) stop licensing their material. In this case, it seems their decision is perfectly reasonable, since they don't want themselves linked to a science curriculum that's closer to the 12th rather than 21st century. Why should they license their legitimate teaching guide to an institution that's opposed to the very principles they believe in? It's their copyrighted material, and their choice. Your comment about Scientology are entirely irrelevant; the Scientology lawsuits had absolutely nothing to do with withdrawing licensed material.
A more appropiate analogy would've been the National Institute on Media disallowing Jack Thompson to use their name because the man has gone batshit crazy.
Link: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid
You're right, I'm sure Linux developers would be happy to work on driver support if the manufacturers were more forth-coming. I'm also sure that most Linux developers are also saints who donate to UNICEF, help old ladies across the street, and also only say "LOL" when they're actually laughing. None of that's relevant.
The problem is that none of this matters to the end-user who's giving Linux a shot for the first time. It doesn't matter whose fault it is that their digital camera doesn't work, or why their laptop's sound card can't play back sound. You just lost a customer.
Haha maybe this'll cheer you up:
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"The name may not roll off the tongue quite like American Idol does, but that hasn't kept the Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl contest from sweeping China. Zhao Jingyi, 17, the "schoolgirl" candidate won the Changsha competition.
Like Idol, which named its winner Wednesday night, China's Super Girl gives aspiring singing stars a shot at televised fame and fortune."
Looks like American culture has spread far and wide...
Yeah too bad they'll now suffer terribly with expanded access to new goods and services, educational opportunities, and contact with the outside world besides 1-2 hollywood stars visiting ever 2 years. I just hope the Chinese government doesn't do anything terrible like build more hospitals or expand access to electricity... Damn them for having spent $3 billion in local Tibetan communities on this project and creating thousands of jobs...
Real shame that the standard of living in Tibet has risen steadily from the subsistence level ever since the CCP took control, huh?
No, I think that's the wrong reference. We'd be riding our bikes around and looking at boobies:
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ROI is a shitty measurement of a project's worthiness. You use NPV, or if not that, at least IRR...
"Linux software devs/power users get a lot of, being elitist, arrogant and not giving users a choice etc."
Linux software not giving us enough CHOICE?! So apparently 20 different windows managers, 300 mail apps, and more distributions than there are stars in the universe isn't enough choice for you?
Damn dude...I mean Linux has problems, but not enough choices isn't the one that comes to mind.
Sorry dude but you're wrong.
No one at the school I attend thinks analog is on the way out. Given the advances in wireless/RF technology, most of the kids in the EE program are going the analog or wireless/communications channel route, because that's where the future is. And guess what, we're all learning about how to make nice, stable, op-amps, given desired frequency response, transient behavior, power constraint, and temperature/process variation specifications. Device physics for BJT, BiCMOS, and just plain CMOS are still covered in excruciating detail. Noise characteristics of analog systems, PLL's, D/A Converters, and all that other great stuff is still thoroughly dissected. We're not just learning how to use Verilog and program a damn FPGA. I don't think you give EE kids enough credit.
The hardcore theory for signals & systems isn't being left out either; everyone here learns about Laplace transforms/feedback, and how to analyze frequency response behavior using those tools. All that nice math that relates to wireless transmission (source and channel coding/markov chains/linear algebra/dynamic programming) is taught down to as much detail as I found in most undergraduate math classes.
So yeah, some places may not teach this analog stuff, but most places still do. To sum it up, NO ONE, it a competent EE program thinks analog is on the way out. Even at the undergrad level, all the *pure* digital design kids know that we're running into analog behavior in high-speed circuits.
You've set up a straw man argument in this case. Of course no one is going to support child pornography, but that's not the issue at all in this case. The EFF is saying that we have a reasonable expectation of privacy when we go to get our computers fixed.
The unpleasant consequence of concept of this "privacy" is that some child pornographers may get away, but we as a society find this to be a justifiable risk/harm in order to maintain a free society. If we applied your argument to the 4th Amendment, we should also void that, since it's very probable that some child molestors/exploiters have gotten away because the police searched their property inappropiately. Hell, we might as well throw away freedom of the press too, since it undermines our government's ability to conduct foreign policy at times. The negative consequences of a law don't automatically justify removing that law, if the law serves to maintain a higher principle. There are literally thousands of criminals who were almost unquestionably guilty, but have been let go, because procedural steps have not been followed properly.
The erosion of civil liberties start when we start denying equal protection to individuals charged with some of the most vile crimes. A man accused of child pornography possession deserves just as much protection under the law as the next guy.
Attacking the EFF for supporting child pornography is a nice try, but is an entirely specious argument.
I think that Apple can pull a middle ground here. They can basically do what Microsoft was saying it wanted to do with the XBox 360 accessories.
Apple will sell the OS as a stand-alone software package, but it will also run a hardware certification/licensing program with 3rd party manufacturers. There'll be a shiny "Tested for Apple OSX 10.x.x" hologram sticker on any hardware that the 3rd party manufacturer has submitted to Apple along with a nice hefty licensing fee. This way, Apple can ensure that all of the hardware will interoperate correctly and still rake in huge profits on the "certification/licensing" of hardware.
You maintain the end-user experience while at the same time making unholy amounts of money. Cheapskates can still run un-certified hardware that might or might not work, and those willing to pay extra will still have their "it just works" experience.
That's doubtful considering K&R was written in 1978, and this was the first public spec of the language. ANSI C didn't even come along until the 80's.
The initial developement of C wasn't even done until 1973, so unless you were at Bell Labs with Thompson and Ritchie in 1969, I think you're just making shit up.
You're either really senile, or must've fallen very far in life to go from the forefront of Computer Science in the 1970's to trolling on Slashdot.
even weird is when they say the channel capacity can be negative, since I(X;Y) is > 0 by definition, and C = max over I(X;Y).