Unfortunately, Arnold cannot run because he was born outside the US. It would take an ammendment to the constitution to allow him to be a presidential candidate.
In any case, Bill needs to keep doing his charity work, seeing as Warren Buffet gave him most of his fortune, or else Melinda would probably have a fit.
This doesn't even include math heavy courses like Vector Mechanics, Chemistry, Physics, Elec. Eng., Economics, and others.
Be thankful you don't have to take what a Physics or EE major would have to take- there are people in industry who have degrees who do not even understand how much of the math works (as I witnessed at a presentation on planar magnetics).
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Welcome to the Social.
Microsoft, can we please have an Ice Cream Social? I like free food and I might buy a Zune if you have one.:-)
Are these counties using those Diebold voting machines?
After watching the HBO special (which was very slanted, to say the least), it is clear to me that their electronic voting machines suck. Here are some interesting tidbits I learned from the pseudo-documentary:
Diebold voting machines use Microsoft Windows
Diebold voting machines use Microsoft Access and SQL server for their databases.
It is relatively trivial for someone with knowlegde of Access to change a vote using a simple SQL statement.
The databases are not encrypted.
Most interesting was the fact that all the individual ballots get stored on a memory card, which has an embedded SQL engine. All the memory cards are plugged in to a central computer where all the votes are tabulated using a program called "gems.exe". Just 1 SQL statement can change the entire election. Poof, our Democracy is gone.
Another friendly reminder to use open source (or Oracle) databases and to code in languages like C++ and Java rather use MS Visual Basic/SQL Server combination currently used.
A note- My sig says "OMG Physics!" I know what.9999 repeating forever is, 100%. That was the whole point of the comment, that management will never be happy until EVERYTHING is 100%.
or some Wiccans say it makes fun of their religion (which has as much to do with ancient witchcraft as P. Diddy has to do with Bluegrass...).'"
I thought we established that "P." Diddy was no longer to be used:P. "Diddy" wants to be closer to his fans, especially the ones who are bluegrass freaks.
One interesting accident came across to me when I bought a Power Mac 8600 some many years ago. Inside the case, everything was fairly easy to remove, but there was a real oddity I could not explain about some handles in the case:
Why were these components made of greenish-blue plastic? I said to myself at the time, "I wonder if they'll make computers out of this," not really thinking it would happen.
Fast forward to the Original 233MHz iMac. I could not believe that the same material that had been inside my 8600 was now on the skin of an iMac. It looks like Apple was experimenting with new materials long before the new iMac came out. Possibly, Steve got on board, looked at the inside of a Power Mac 9700, and said "Make computers out of this plastic!"
This is all speculation, of course, but it is interesting to see how Apple incorporated the same material on the exterior of their new flagship product as on the interior of their old.
The top of the Zune had a clear glass layer while the exterior had a tactile feel to it, nothing like the hard metal and plastic of the iPod devices. The 'skin' of the Zune was a 'rubberized' material that had a smooth seductive feel to it. I found myself unable to stop stroking the device, so much that the demo assistant asked me to put it down.
Good god, who was your demo assistant, Paris Hilton? Go get a hotel room with your Zune and see if you can knock it up.
One thing that the article mentions were that the math scores were for 4th and 8th grade students.
Most of the advanced concepts in Math such as algabra, trig, geometry, analytic geometry, differential and integral calculus, vectors, etc. are not taught until high school. I would like to see a study where 12th graders of all countries were compared rather than the younger crowd.
It is common in society to associate people with good memories as people with high IQ's.
This is simply not true. If you actually take an IQ test, you will see that it does not test your memory as had been done in the study, but rather your cognitive thinking skills. In fact, there are many people who can memorize history or math equations or whatever, but they come up far short when they have to apply the concepts they memorized.
Again, memorization is not critical thinking, and memorization != IQ.
Is that a real poncho? I mean, is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
Kudos for being one of the few people who actually know that quote (Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris).
I wish the record companies would get their act together again so I can buy Zappa's stuff on iTunes once more.
On a related note, Zappa died in 1993 of prostate cancer. Breast cancer is not the only thing people have to worry about.
We all need to start tagging the stories with "fuddoesnotmeanwhatyouthink" because I only ever see it used as "I like/don't like issue X" now. It means Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, and is very specific as a tactic to spread scary misinformation folks. It's not meant as a label for anything, *anything* that you disagree with.
Oh, but this is slashdot. Anything with kittens, ponies, or females causes fear, uncertainty, and doubt here.:-)
I noticed that no one had commented on the Virgin Airlines Apple/Dell dilemma.
To recap:
Virgin Airlines was not allowing ANY Apple or Dell computers, regardless of the battery manufacturer, to use batteries on board its planes. Batteries would have to be checked in and sit in the cargo hold of the plane. The only way to power your computer is then from the power brick, which few planes provide.
Now, will Virgin Airlines ban all Toshiba laptop batteries, too?
I did an independent study for a class where the programming language was C. I found my game so interesting that I decided to try to get it posted on sourceforge.net. I submitted it and it was accepted (yay!).
The program is a game that does a lot of random number generation and text processing. It operates essentially like a shell does.
I noticed a sharp increase in downloads every fall and spring of the source code for the game. I received two emails from professors (who will remain anonymous) that students were taking my project and, with very few modifications, were submitting it as their project for a semester.
I love everything being open source, but if people are to cheat using my stuff then that is not acceptable. I decided to hide the source code on the sf.net download page and only have a universal binary for Mac OS X (Windows, you are coming when I get your pch crap done, I also have plans to make a Linux version).
The downloads stopped except for the people who actually wanted to use the program for fun. While I want my app to be open source, it makes me angry that people would use my work as their own. I absolutely hate cheating, so much so that I am willing to stop source code downloads in my projects.
It is sad, really, but if that is what must be done to stop people from stealing my work, violating the GPL, and being bastards in general, then I will have to open up the source for the project only during the summer.
In 2002 I went to a conference in San José California. It was a technology conference for young engeering students and had CEO's of many large companies (such as Intel) making speeches. We also toured Silicon Valley, got a chance to visit Apple, Cisco, etc. inside the buildings and we toured all the nearby Universities in the Bay Area, including Berkeley, UCSC, etc.
I had a special item wish me- an ultra powerful rechargable battery-powered flashlight. I had not perfected the design (I had not even tried to design a case) and I ended up using high capacity handset batteries from Radio Shack to power the thing. All in all, there were about 51,000mWH of power strapped to what was little more than a assembly to hold the lights and a separate double-sided copper pcb that all the anode and cathode terminals were connected to.
The thing worked great, it was incredibly bright (it used three high luminosity light bulbs), it just looked like a bomb. I mean, the little battery cells looked like mini sticks of dynamite ready to explode at any time.
Only problem was I did not consider airport baggage handlers in my design. They ended up cutting the sheathing of one of the positive wires with the copper clad PCB. Of course, it had to be in the negative terminal, which burned a huge hole in my polyester bag, burned through two pairs of shorts, and melted a toothpaste tube, all tucked away inside the cargo cabin of the plane.
I was not pleased to find out that my great invention had been so easily destroyed (for heaven's sake it was the ultimate rechargeable flashlight!). My uncle found out about the incident and gave me a fire extinguisher rated for electric fires for Christmas. T.t (crying face)
Looking back, how the hell did they even allow that device on the plane? That could have seriously damaged someone's luggage (besides mine) and filled the cabin with toxic smoke, or worse yet exploded inside the cargo cabin, all 51Wh of it all. Banning ALL Apple and ALL Dell batteries, not just those made by Sony, is shortsighted and likely a decision made by a very uninformed person. My battery was more a risk to the plane then any of the Sony batteries and they inspected it and let me on. What gives?
some analysts believe that that the iPod is in the "early stages of its product expansion"
This is exteremely true. "iPod" is now one of the most valuable brands in the world. Coincidentally, this article comes at a time when Apple's stock price has made a very nice recovery. I wonder if someone is feeling a little sore because they sold their Apple stock too soon.
I worked this summer in an all-MS company. I left it using PHP, MySQL, and Apache.
Businesses have this "comfort" mindset that if it is MS software, it will integrate ok. They won't be 5 years down the road saying, "I wish we had done it the other way."
The company I worked for does just under $100M USD per year, so they are not especially small, but also not especially large. MS's main selling point is that a business like that can use MS products because they integrate everything together. There were fears about going onto other platforms because you might (oh my god!) have to hire an employee who knows how to run an enterprise-class software operation. This costs lots of $$ and people who can do that are few and far between.
ASP.NET was brought alone to keep developers in these mid-sized corporations from going to technoligies like JSP, servlets, etc. The problem is no one at the company wants to hire anyone who knows how to do either the open source or windows. It's a catch-22: Can't get the nice customer-integrated website because we don't know Java or C#, but we are taking an awful risk if we hire several people at 70K-120K per year to get this thing for us.
Thus Microsoft has a vast untapped user base that they are trying to persuade to businesses hire those software engineers who can write the killer apps for the company. ASP.NET was the MS answer to JSP, but what MS didn't realize when they spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing.NET that companies like the one I worked for are too small to hire a dedicated Java or C# programmer for web programming. I don't think they're trying to kill JSP- they will never succeed in doing that. Java has many advantages over C# and large corporations that run in heterogenious environments are going to choose Java.
So, with untapped user base = untapped money for MS. They saw a "hole" in their solution for businesses when JSP came out, and they are trying to plug it right now.
The not-yet-announced XXXServe will feature 16 processor cores, and a new pornography server- iPorn Server. iPorn is designed to streamline the flow of porn from server to client. Starting with Hi-Def H.264 compatibiliy, it will certainly become the defacto standard for companies that distribute porn. It's designed with Slashdot nerds in mind, featuring 32GB Max of RAM, 10x Fibre channel connectivity to XServe RAID's or for SAN systems, 20 FW800 ports for high speed, hi-resolution video streams.
iTunes Podcast? Forget about it. iTunes will support a new feature called Porncast(s). It's the next big thing!
iPorn Server and XXXServe will revolutionize the way people watch porn, for photos, audio, and video.
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In any case, Bill needs to keep doing his charity work, seeing as Warren Buffet gave him most of his fortune, or else Melinda would probably have a fit.
Be thankful you don't have to take what a Physics or EE major would have to take- there are people in industry who have degrees who do not even understand how much of the math works (as I witnessed at a presentation on planar magnetics).
Microsoft, can we please have an Ice Cream Social? I like free food and I might buy a Zune if you have one. :-)
After watching the HBO special (which was very slanted, to say the least), it is clear to me that their electronic voting machines suck. Here are some interesting tidbits I learned from the pseudo-documentary:
Most interesting was the fact that all the individual ballots get stored on a memory card, which has an embedded SQL engine. All the memory cards are plugged in to a central computer where all the votes are tabulated using a program called "gems.exe". Just 1 SQL statement can change the entire election. Poof, our Democracy is gone.
Another friendly reminder to use open source (or Oracle) databases and to code in languages like C++ and Java rather use MS Visual Basic/SQL Server combination currently used.
A note- .9999 repeating forever is, 100%. That was the whole point of the comment, that management will never be happy until EVERYTHING is 100%.
My sig says "OMG Physics!" I know what
Thank you
Management won't care until they get 99.9999999999999... repeating forever ;-)
I thought we established that "P." Diddy was no longer to be used
Why were these components made of greenish-blue plastic? I said to myself at the time, "I wonder if they'll make computers out of this," not really thinking it would happen.
Fast forward to the Original 233MHz iMac. I could not believe that the same material that had been inside my 8600 was now on the skin of an iMac. It looks like Apple was experimenting with new materials long before the new iMac came out. Possibly, Steve got on board, looked at the inside of a Power Mac 9700, and said "Make computers out of this plastic!"
This is all speculation, of course, but it is interesting to see how Apple incorporated the same material on the exterior of their new flagship product as on the interior of their old.
Good god, who was your demo assistant, Paris Hilton? Go get a hotel room with your Zune and see if you can knock it up.
Most of the advanced concepts in Math such as algabra, trig, geometry, analytic geometry, differential and integral calculus, vectors, etc. are not taught until high school. I would like to see a study where 12th graders of all countries were compared rather than the younger crowd.
This is simply not true. If you actually take an IQ test, you will see that it does not test your memory as had been done in the study, but rather your cognitive thinking skills. In fact, there are many people who can memorize history or math equations or whatever, but they come up far short when they have to apply the concepts they memorized.
Again, memorization is not critical thinking, and memorization != IQ.
You are truely a convert
Kudos for being one of the few people who actually know that quote (Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris).
I wish the record companies would get their act together again so I can buy Zappa's stuff on iTunes once more.
On a related note, Zappa died in 1993 of prostate cancer. Breast cancer is not the only thing people have to worry about.
We all need to start tagging the stories with "fuddoesnotmeanwhatyouthink" because I only ever see it used as "I like/don't like issue X" now. It means Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, and is very specific as a tactic to spread scary misinformation folks. It's not meant as a label for anything, *anything* that you disagree with.
:-)
Oh, but this is slashdot. Anything with kittens, ponies, or females causes fear, uncertainty, and doubt here.
Whoever did that- It is an insult to retarded people everywhere.
You better stop buying oil too.
That's some hard time they're looking at.
To recap:
Virgin Airlines was not allowing ANY Apple or Dell computers, regardless of the battery manufacturer, to use batteries on board its planes. Batteries would have to be checked in and sit in the cargo hold of the plane. The only way to power your computer is then from the power brick, which few planes provide.
Now, will Virgin Airlines ban all Toshiba laptop batteries, too?
The program is a game that does a lot of random number generation and text processing. It operates essentially like a shell does.
I noticed a sharp increase in downloads every fall and spring of the source code for the game. I received two emails from professors (who will remain anonymous) that students were taking my project and, with very few modifications, were submitting it as their project for a semester.
I love everything being open source, but if people are to cheat using my stuff then that is not acceptable. I decided to hide the source code on the sf.net download page and only have a universal binary for Mac OS X (Windows, you are coming when I get your pch crap done, I also have plans to make a Linux version).
The downloads stopped except for the people who actually wanted to use the program for fun. While I want my app to be open source, it makes me angry that people would use my work as their own. I absolutely hate cheating, so much so that I am willing to stop source code downloads in my projects.
It is sad, really, but if that is what must be done to stop people from stealing my work, violating the GPL, and being bastards in general, then I will have to open up the source for the project only during the summer.
I had a special item wish me- an ultra powerful rechargable battery-powered flashlight. I had not perfected the design (I had not even tried to design a case) and I ended up using high capacity handset batteries from Radio Shack to power the thing. All in all, there were about 51,000mWH of power strapped to what was little more than a assembly to hold the lights and a separate double-sided copper pcb that all the anode and cathode terminals were connected to.
The thing worked great, it was incredibly bright (it used three high luminosity light bulbs), it just looked like a bomb. I mean, the little battery cells looked like mini sticks of dynamite ready to explode at any time.
Only problem was I did not consider airport baggage handlers in my design. They ended up cutting the sheathing of one of the positive wires with the copper clad PCB. Of course, it had to be in the negative terminal, which burned a huge hole in my polyester bag, burned through two pairs of shorts, and melted a toothpaste tube, all tucked away inside the cargo cabin of the plane.
I was not pleased to find out that my great invention had been so easily destroyed (for heaven's sake it was the ultimate rechargeable flashlight!). My uncle found out about the incident and gave me a fire extinguisher rated for electric fires for Christmas. T.t (crying face)
Looking back, how the hell did they even allow that device on the plane? That could have seriously damaged someone's luggage (besides mine) and filled the cabin with toxic smoke, or worse yet exploded inside the cargo cabin, all 51Wh of it all. Banning ALL Apple and ALL Dell batteries, not just those made by Sony, is shortsighted and likely a decision made by a very uninformed person. My battery was more a risk to the plane then any of the Sony batteries and they inspected it and let me on. What gives?
Replace "Poor Canada. :-(" with:
"Designed in the USA by Hippies. ~_~"
It looks like a 15-year-old girl designed that site. Poor Canada. :-(
This is exteremely true.
"iPod" is now one of the most valuable brands in the world.
Coincidentally, this article comes at a time when Apple's stock price has made a very nice recovery. I wonder if someone is feeling a little sore because they sold their Apple stock too soon.
Businesses have this "comfort" mindset that if it is MS software, it will integrate ok. They won't be 5 years down the road saying, "I wish we had done it the other way."
The company I worked for does just under $100M USD per year, so they are not especially small, but also not especially large. MS's main selling point is that a business like that can use MS products because they integrate everything together. There were fears about going onto other platforms because you might (oh my god!) have to hire an employee who knows how to run an enterprise-class software operation. This costs lots of $$ and people who can do that are few and far between.
ASP.NET was brought alone to keep developers in these mid-sized corporations from going to technoligies like JSP, servlets, etc. The problem is no one at the company wants to hire anyone who knows how to do either the open source or windows. It's a catch-22: Can't get the nice customer-integrated website because we don't know Java or C#, but we are taking an awful risk if we hire several people at 70K-120K per year to get this thing for us.
Thus Microsoft has a vast untapped user base that they are trying to persuade to businesses hire those software engineers who can write the killer apps for the company. ASP.NET was the MS answer to JSP, but what MS didn't realize when they spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing .NET that companies like the one I worked for are too small to hire a dedicated Java or C# programmer for web programming. I don't think they're trying to kill JSP- they will never succeed in doing that. Java has many advantages over C# and large corporations that run in heterogenious environments are going to choose Java.
So, with untapped user base = untapped money for MS. They saw a "hole" in their solution for businesses when JSP came out, and they are trying to plug it right now.
The not-yet-announced XXXServe will feature 16 processor cores, and a new pornography server- iPorn Server. iPorn is designed to streamline the flow of porn from server to client. Starting with Hi-Def H.264 compatibiliy, it will certainly become the defacto standard for companies that distribute porn. It's designed with Slashdot nerds in mind, featuring 32GB Max of RAM, 10x Fibre channel connectivity to XServe RAID's or for SAN systems, 20 FW800 ports for high speed, hi-resolution video streams.
iTunes Podcast? Forget about it. iTunes will support a new feature called Porncast(s). It's the next big thing!
iPorn Server and XXXServe will revolutionize the way people watch porn, for photos, audio, and video.