And they want to scare of the parents as well. A part of the program is a take home and fill-out-together letter to the parents.
I wrote a long comment about this and the program last time this was mentioned.
There are some links to the pdf files in the program there.
The Starving Artist is a discussion based game where students are divided in group and shall produce a CD but then they are ripped off by "file swapping". "how does this makes you feel?"
Share the following statements with the students to summarize the lesson with the class. These statements help summarize the lesson and connect the concepts to the students personally.
- To legally own it, legally buy it.
- If you haven't paid for it, you've stolen it.
- Copying a movie or CD for a friend is illegal.
- If you wouldn't take a movie or CD from the shelves of a store without paying for it, then why do it online?
I must say that $100,000 is dirt cheap for a program like this.
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-Filing range increased from $12-$15 to $15-$18
-First day closing price of $63.38
350% on the first day...
Ahh, those were the days.
There was an article in Toronto Star, a respected newspaper with decent jounalists, on the Iraq/Iran subject. I did not find any dirct link, but there is a copy (sometimes I really love google)of the article here
From the story:
No doubt, Saddam has mistreated Kurds during his rule. But it's misleading to say, so simply and without context, that he killed his own people by gassing 5,000 Kurds at Halabja.
This happened in a *very* brutal war, where both sides commited atrocities. We certaily know that sometimes civilians get caught in the crossfire. That's bad, and ther is no excuse for that, but using this episode as of of the arguments* to justify the attack is stupid IMO.
*The Bush administration have repeatedly before, under and after the war been saying that Hussein's attacks on his own people where a part of the reason behind the war.
(PS Most of the doctors/GP's and hospital staff seemed to have been on their holidays too)
Yeah, can you imagine, during the holiday too..
Please donn't be so populistic. Media love to makes stories on how bad this is.
The truth is that this was an extreme heat wawe, worse than encountered in more than 100 years. If you know anything about sustained heat ovver a long time combined with lots of old people you would know that those two don't go well together.
When the temperature increases from 35 degrees Celsius you will see that the mortality rate among old people increases like some kind of logaritmic function. For example.(numbers are fictional, but you get the picture):
Average temp: 35 C Number of people that dies each day: 25
Average temp: 37.5 C Number of people that dies each day: 50
Average temp: 40 C Number of people that dies each day: 500
Average temp: 42.5 C Number of people that dies each day: 2000
Average temp: 45 C Number of people that dies each day: 10000
Everyone that works with things like this knows that this could have happened anywhere, including USA with the same increase in temperature above normal levels.
(...), it doesn't even compare with the French enforcing a 35-hour max workweek.
And how exactly is that a problem for you?
I mean, If you advocate that countries should have a 40 hours + work week, then do so inside you country. The french can take care of themselfes (mostly;-)) and if they think that a 35-hour work week is a good thing overall for the country, then let them go for it, and we'll see how long they can keep their economy afloat.
You know; in other countries people tend to choose what's best for them, and sometimes they avoid the mantra that whats best for businesses is the best for you.
And if one combine this disconnect ability with muliple drives in RAID (5 or 10) you will see why SCSI scales *so* much better than IDE.
Even under heavy load, for example many SQL queries the CPU load is relatively low and the CPU can work on other tasks.
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For the consumer the distinction does not matter.
But The Economist is business "paper" and to them, and many of their reader, the difference in wheter PDA evolve into mobile phones versus mobiles eating the PDA market is significant.
Right now it looks like the new mobile phones from for example Sony Ericssson are outclassing the PDA in Europe, especially in the low-end PDA-section like Palm. Most people needs a phone first, and then some PDA functionality.
Maybe some of the business class PDA's will survive because of the extra functionallity they provide that some are willing to pay extra for, but it looks like the the mobiles will take the rest of the market.
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The "Readers Choice" list is not exactly a scientific measurement, but interesting anyway.
Readers' choice (Top 10)
- 'Mystery' ferry nurse comes forward
- Blame the Cubs
- Brianna: The Little Girl That Could
- A window on North Korea's horrors
- The 'Silver Fox' Unplugged
- Apple's Music Man
- Spy programs threaten data on PvCs
- Parting with a Pet
- Pope beatifies Mother Teresa
- How to protect your home network
Screw Iraq and all those difficault questions about the Economy; the Cubs ain't going to the World Series!!!
The Infiniband gear used to connect the cluster is non-exportable,[..]
True, but they could have used generic non-export controll Gigabit Ethernet and achieved 50-70% of the performance Infiniband delivers.
Routers and switces could be bough in Asia.
And standard/generic network technology will probably catch up on the performance side compared to the proprietary and specialised Infiniband. Hey, a third world country investing for nuclear research might choose Gigabit Ethernet anyway becasue of the price/performance ratio.
Microwave ovens became available in the 50s, but they did not become popular until the late 70s. Why? Because they have no porn value, so it took 20 years to get the economy of scale and demand strong enough for the price to come down. Had there been a potential porn use for the microwave, we all would have had them for $100 before we landed on the moon.
When I said that it doesn't matter in a larger context, I meant that it doesn't matter for those that have choosen to use their computers for this because their extra costs are so small to them.
This does not reflect my political wievs and I agree with you that this attitude could lead to problems if everyone though like this.
Anyway, the extra pollution because of DC dwarfs compared to many other forms (cars, unnecessary heating of homes etc.)of pollution.
The 20% figure was fictional from my side. It could be 10% or 30% for all I now.
But to most people that run computers for distributed computing, they consider those 10%/20%/30% extra on the power bill a relativly small cost.
It looks like IR, WiFi and 802.11 are crushing Bluetooth in all areas related to computers.
But on wireless headsets for mobile phones Bluetooth is alive and kicking. Nokia, Sony Ericson, Samsung, Siemens, Motorola, Plantronics and Nextlink all delivers headsets based on Bluetooth.
Not very popular in US yet, but as these items shrink in size and price they will increase their popularity. A little bird whispered in my ear that these gadgets are selling pretty well in Scandinavia, Japan, and South Korea.
Yes, but unless you live in a warm area you would have propably used a lot of that electricity to warm up your house anyway.
Actually, if you live in a warm area you have to pay for the power used in the distibuted computing twice. First in the compter and then in the removal process; air condition.
But most people don't live in a are where they need to run either air condition or some form of oven 24/7 so the balance is mixed.
Distributed computing is not a very efficient use of power since many of the computers are old and power up unnecessarily hardware. But the extra costs are distributed on so many individuals that it doesn't matter anyway. Power is cheap in industralised countries (maybe too cheap) so the difference between a $100 and a $120 power bill is minimal.
Sure. However if one exclude support (the article contained no info about this and I'm not sure about the Apple/VT deal) it looks like UT paid far more for the interconnect and network stuff in their cluster.
The VT use Mellanox InfiniBand (InfiniScale 96-port 10Gb/sec switches and InfiniHost dual port host channel adapters ).
On the other hand UT probably paid many milions for the Cray solution. Faster(?) and with lower latency, but with a worse price/performance ratio.
It looks like the author of the article failed to correctly understand the priciples behind GPL.
I think it's safe bet to say that he has never read the license text.
The easy priciple behind GPL, the old (simplified) "free as in freedom, not free as in beer" is something that a jounalist that writes about this stuff at least should know about even if he is a advocate of proprietary software. So it's beyond his capacity to analyse the dispute between Cisco/Linksys and Free Software Foundation.
Bought by a bank for some insane amount of dollars in 1988 (or 1987). 16 MHZ 386 with optional math processor installed, 2 MB RAM; later upgraded to 8 MB (they charged $2000), and 70 MB ESDI HD. My dad used it there for three years and then brought it home.:-)
In 1992 I snagged it and have used it since (more or less).
Ran DOS until 1994, then I upgraded it with a IBM 320MB SCSI HD and installed Windows 3.11. Used it as a backup machine.
In 1997 I installed Linux on it. I think it was Slackware 3.3 or something. Never got it to work properly with the MCA/ESDI setup. So later I installed Debian 2.0 and 2.1 which is currently running with kernel 2.0.39 as backup server for my mail and some files. Runs like a charm with uptime over 200 days (went down in a power outage caused by lightening).
The most impressive is the quality of the parts inside the machine. In 15 years of operation, and running as a server the last 6 years, the only component that has failed is a fan.
I'm suspecting that the ESDI HD will fail soon but I won't hold my breath.
I hate to sound old, but the truth is that they simply do not build computers like this anymore.
It will be very interesting to see if the DCMA can protect the company from this (and future) disclosure(s). That could indicate that a company with a degraded product can be protected from accusation and disclosure if that hurts them financially.
If the stock market and their customers don't react to this, but instead accept this as "normal business practise" they could continue to sell their products. Over time this would lead to a sustainable environment for companies that in a "normal" society would have been put out of business.
If on apply some normal sense of economic theory competition should have lead them to bankruptcy but with the music industry they might be able to coexist. For a while.
No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to facilitate piracy and theft of digital property.'
credentials
I just want to copy the CD I BOUGHT.
one's knowledge and the cover of academia
So becasue some grad student discovered this in "academica" it should have been kept as a secret?
cover of academia to facilitate piracy
Yes, we all belive that what he really wanted was to commit "piracy" not to expose some stupid non-working restrictions technology.
theft of digital property.
For the umteenth time: Copyright infringement is not theft.
This must be The Most Erroneous and Counterfactual statement of the year.
Darl McBride had some nice rants but this is a masterpiece.
And do not think that "XP allready got a firewall" because that firewall don't stop outgoing connections. So when one of those trojans has snagged all your banking information the Xp firewall won't help you stop it.
Having a firewall that detects outgoing connections is vital to learning about new spyware/malware/trojans/virus on your computer.
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I wrote a long comment about this and the program last time this was mentioned.
There are some links to the pdf files in the program there.
The Starving Artist is a discussion based game where students are divided in group and shall produce a CD but then they are ripped off by "file swapping". "how does this makes you feel?"
I must say that $100,000 is dirt cheap for a program like this.
350% on the first day...
Ahh, those were the days.
HAHAHA.
From the story:
This happened in a *very* brutal war, where both sides commited atrocities. We certaily know that sometimes civilians get caught in the crossfire. That's bad, and ther is no excuse for that, but using this episode as of of the arguments* to justify the attack is stupid IMO.*The Bush administration have repeatedly before, under and after the war been saying that Hussein's attacks on his own people where a part of the reason behind the war.
Please donn't be so populistic. Media love to makes stories on how bad this is.
The truth is that this was an extreme heat wawe, worse than encountered in more than 100 years. If you know anything about sustained heat ovver a long time combined with lots of old people you would know that those two don't go well together.
When the temperature increases from 35 degrees Celsius you will see that the mortality rate among old people increases like some kind of logaritmic function. For example.(numbers are fictional, but you get the picture):
Average temp: 35 C Number of people that dies each day: 25
Average temp: 37.5 C Number of people that dies each day: 50
Average temp: 40 C Number of people that dies each day: 500
Average temp: 42.5 C Number of people that dies each day: 2000
Average temp: 45 C Number of people that dies each day: 10000
Everyone that works with things like this knows that this could have happened anywhere, including USA with the same increase in temperature above normal levels.
I thought that was just a myth.
And how exactly is that a problem for you?
I mean, If you advocate that countries should have a 40 hours + work week, then do so inside you country. The french can take care of themselfes (mostly ;-)) and if they think that a 35-hour work week is a good thing overall for the country, then let them go for it, and we'll see how long they can keep their economy afloat.
You know; in other countries people tend to choose what's best for them, and sometimes they avoid the mantra that whats best for businesses is the best for you.
Even under heavy load, for example many SQL queries the CPU load is relatively low and the CPU can work on other tasks.
But The Economist is business "paper" and to them, and many of their reader, the difference in wheter PDA evolve into mobile phones versus mobiles eating the PDA market is significant.
Right now it looks like the new mobile phones from for example Sony Ericssson are outclassing the PDA in Europe, especially in the low-end PDA-section like Palm. Most people needs a phone first, and then some PDA functionality.
Maybe some of the business class PDA's will survive because of the extra functionallity they provide that some are willing to pay extra for, but it looks like the the mobiles will take the rest of the market.
Screw Iraq and all those difficault questions about the Economy; the Cubs ain't going to the World Series!!!
Sure you can install a wireless system at home together with the dial-up, but most peolpe don't.
No need for that.
After reading that introduction I feel that I can speak with infinite wisdom on the subject without RTFA. Thanks, But No Thanks.
True, but they could have used generic non-export controll Gigabit Ethernet and achieved 50-70% of the performance Infiniband delivers.
Routers and switces could be bough in Asia.
And standard/generic network technology will probably catch up on the performance side compared to the proprietary and specialised Infiniband. Hey, a third world country investing for nuclear research might choose Gigabit Ethernet anyway becasue of the price/performance ratio.
Someone give this man a Nobel Price in Economics!
+1 Funny and Insightful.
This does not reflect my political wievs and I agree with you that this attitude could lead to problems if everyone though like this.
Anyway, the extra pollution because of DC dwarfs compared to many other forms (cars, unnecessary heating of homes etc.)of pollution.
The 20% figure was fictional from my side. It could be 10% or 30% for all I now.
But to most people that run computers for distributed computing, they consider those 10%/20%/30% extra on the power bill a relativly small cost.
But on wireless headsets for mobile phones Bluetooth is alive and kicking. Nokia, Sony Ericson, Samsung, Siemens, Motorola, Plantronics and Nextlink all delivers headsets based on Bluetooth.
Not very popular in US yet, but as these items shrink in size and price they will increase their popularity. A little bird whispered in my ear that these gadgets are selling pretty well in Scandinavia, Japan, and South Korea.
Actually, if you live in a warm area you have to pay for the power used in the distibuted computing twice. First in the compter and then in the removal process; air condition.
But most people don't live in a are where they need to run either air condition or some form of oven 24/7 so the balance is mixed.
Distributed computing is not a very efficient use of power since many of the computers are old and power up unnecessarily hardware. But the extra costs are distributed on so many individuals that it doesn't matter anyway. Power is cheap in industralised countries (maybe too cheap) so the difference between a $100 and a $120 power bill is minimal.
The VT use Mellanox InfiniBand (InfiniScale 96-port 10Gb/sec switches and InfiniHost dual port host channel adapters ).
On the other hand UT probably paid many milions for the Cray solution. Faster(?) and with lower latency, but with a worse price/performance ratio.
I think it's safe bet to say that he has never read the license text.
The easy priciple behind GPL, the old (simplified) "free as in freedom, not free as in beer" is something that a jounalist that writes about this stuff at least should know about even if he is a advocate of proprietary software. So it's beyond his capacity to analyse the dispute between Cisco/Linksys and Free Software Foundation.
In 1992 I snagged it and have used it since (more or less).
Ran DOS until 1994, then I upgraded it with a IBM 320MB SCSI HD and installed Windows 3.11. Used it as a backup machine.
In 1997 I installed Linux on it. I think it was Slackware 3.3 or something. Never got it to work properly with the MCA/ESDI setup. So later I installed Debian 2.0 and 2.1 which is currently running with kernel 2.0.39 as backup server for my mail and some files. Runs like a charm with uptime over 200 days (went down in a power outage caused by lightening).
The most impressive is the quality of the parts inside the machine. In 15 years of operation, and running as a server the last 6 years, the only component that has failed is a fan.
I'm suspecting that the ESDI HD will fail soon but I won't hold my breath.
I hate to sound old, but the truth is that they simply do not build computers like this anymore.
If the stock market and their customers don't react to this, but instead accept this as "normal business practise" they could continue to sell their products. Over time this would lead to a sustainable environment for companies that in a "normal" society would have been put out of business.
If on apply some normal sense of economic theory competition should have lead them to bankruptcy but with the music industry they might be able to coexist. For a while.
credentials
I just want to copy the CD I BOUGHT.
one's knowledge and the cover of academia
So becasue some grad student discovered this in "academica" it should have been kept as a secret?
cover of academia to facilitate piracy
Yes, we all belive that what he really wanted was to commit "piracy" not to expose some stupid non-working restrictions technology.
theft of digital property. For the umteenth time: Copyright infringement is not theft.
This must be The Most Erroneous and Counterfactual statement of the year.
Darl McBride had some nice rants but this is a masterpiece.
Much better than ZoneAlarm.
And do not think that "XP allready got a firewall" because that firewall don't stop outgoing connections. So when one of those trojans has snagged all your banking information the Xp firewall won't help you stop it.
Having a firewall that detects outgoing connections is vital to learning about new spyware/malware/trojans/virus on your computer.
...including all those hash-exploits...