that would work if we could put the projectors at a distance of infinity. But digging a hole infinity feet deep or getting a pole infinity feet long to mount the projectors would be too expensive.
Basically, if a projector positioned directly over north pole shining down, there exists a band in the northern hemisphere that the projector can't 'see' because of a point at a higher latitude that blocks it.
put another way: Next time you are outside, look around and note how you can only see less than half of the earth because of the horizon. As you go upward, your horizon will go out, but it will never go so far as to enable you to see half of the earth. Since one point can only see less than half of the earth, two will never be able to see the whole earth.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Not only do they have a much, much larger budget than SCO, but IBM has been doing patent litigation since before it was cool to do patent litigation. If there was a WWE for patent litigation, IBM would have the Grand Heavy Weight champion belt. SCO would be some lightweight amateur. Sure, IBM is letting them them win a bit at first, but then suddenly IBM is going to get off the mat after a two count and pile drive SCO through the floor and break a cheap steel chair over their head. Just wait...soon....soon.
Lately, with all of this censorship by the FCC, reporters being arrested because they won't reveal thier sources, and now this talk of congress censoring video games, I propose a constitutional ammendment that will protect my freedom to say what I want to. The text of this fictional amendment (which doesn't exist because this stuff wouldn't even be considered if it did) would read something like:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Once this one is up, we'll work out one with regards to them arresting people indefinately without a trial....
Are you serious? I don't know if you've actually ever been to washington, but a vast majority of the population consist of people that were too liberal for california and decided to move north. It's an extremely 'no government is good government' kind of mentality. It's also the LAST place I'd expect that religious fundamentals have infiltrated.
I'm actually surprised that Washington of all places was the first to pass this bill. I suspect it might be a "since we can't get a piece of that pie into our tax coffers, we're going to shut it down" type of situation.
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While I'm not sure of any operating systems that require a morse code interface to run, I do know that some distributions don't try to go for user friendlyness and try to go for some other goals (such as performance). While yes, this is marketing drivel, it's not completely empty that they're going for an "easy-to-install-and-use desktop operating system".
There's a fine difference between "Managment was incompetent" and "Management was actively screwing things up". For example, Challenger and Colombia are clear-cut examples of the latter. DART, based on the grand-parent's description, seems like it was the former. Yes, they were incompetent, but they weren't knowingly bypassing safety checks - they just didn't know they were there in the first place.
I wonder how this will make people feel now that everyone is complaining about how the "government" is listening and recording phone calls and what have you
Except that people aren't. I read in TIME magazine last night that over 50% of the people interviewed think that the NSA call database is justified in the War On Terror (TM). Most people will only care if it influences thier ability to watch American Idol, and if not, oh well.
I saw it in "Joel on software", but the best thing you can do to help someone learn to write is to make them, well, write. Have them type up 2-3 essays per week. Subjects can be whatever you (or they) want, but the best way to become a good writer is to just keep writing and get feed back. If they can learn to express the proper way to pill a cat, they'll be able to use a lot of those same skills and express the best way to set up a build server using cron jobs.
granted, you'll probally get sick of reading about why Kirk is better than Picard, if this truely is an all engineers class.
That's probally because canada is at a much higher latitude than the US, so canadiens have to spend a lot more energy keeping themselves from freezing. Also, their population is more spread out, so they have to drive further to get to all of the places they need to go, once again resulting in more energy.
what would be interesting is to see if more industrial polution is being produced per capita up north.
There was a userfreindly comic a ways back that this reminds me of. Something like:
This is the Recording Executive that wanted DRM.
This is the programmer that made the DRM.
These are the thousands of hackers that have nothing better to do than to break that DRM.
I'd be curious to see some of her other classroom policies. She sounds a lot like a professor that I had whose lecuture were (1) putting up an advertisement for Altera (he used to work for them), (2) spending the rest of the class going over the ad. After a week, I realized that the class wasn't worth going to, so I stopped going. First he sent out an angry e-mail saying that he was going to start doing attendance checks. A week later, he sent out another one complaining that we were just going to his class and sleeping.
What I've learned over my 4 years in college was that if the professor is good, and actually adds value to what they're teaching, students will come, and students will pay attention. Sure, there will be a couple that won't, but a majority of students want to get the most value out of their educational dollar. If a professor wastes everyone's time (Are you hearing this, professors Mitra / LaMont / Chang?), then they'll have to resort to attendance checks and other stuff like that so they can fool themselves into thinking that they're actually teaching. This seems an awfully lot like she's one of those professors, trying desperatly to get students to pay attention.
You obviously don't know how actual software development goes:
The Supervisor will ask the programmer how long it will take to code X. The programmer will say "One Month"
One Month sounds like a long time, but "a few weeks" is the same amount of time, but sounds less daunting. So the supervisor will tell his manager "A few weeks"
The manager will say "A couple weeks" to his director, who will tell his senior director "A week or so".
The vice president will get an estimate of "A few days"
The executive vice president will hear "A day, give or take"
And when Bill Gates gets the estimate, it "Feature X will be ready tomorrow"
Then the programmer gets in the next day with an e-mail down the chain of command asking why X isn't done yet.
If any boss asks your to put in 80+ hours a week for more than a week or two at a time (IE, right before a release), you need to take a good solid look at the highway, no matter what your situation is. Once they know that you'll work 80+ hours a week, they'll exploit that to the fullest.
I got a descent laptop during my senior year in college. How useful it was depended on the class:
For my security class, it was mixed. Sure, I was able to wikipedia whatever the professor was talking about and add to the discussion, but a lot of time I spent on it was playing poker.
Same with my political science class. Added to the discussion, but when the professor got out her soapbox, it was good to check out slashdot or whatever.
For my software design class, it was a savior. It was one of those classes where the professor was someone with no industry experience in the past 15 years who insisted that he knew better than us how things went in industry. (Famous quote: "The waterfall model is by far the most common method" - I haven't seen it used in any of the three jobs that I've had). I would have skipped, but he did attendance checks. I tried sleeping, but he kept yelling at us for falling asleap. Before class, I'd just load up on anime and not have that hour and a half be a total waste.
Same with my senior design class. Someone whose industry experience was 2 years in the electrical power industry in the 1970s trying to teach a bunch of Computer Engineers how things were done. Two hours of my life every week that I'll never get back. Partially saved.
in short, I think this will put the burden on professors to give a good presentation and not just waste students time. You hear that, Professor Mitra and Lamont? If you gave relivant information instead of wasting our time, you wouldn't have to take attendance because students would actually want to show up to your class. Laptops just give us students another way to skip without taking the grade hit.
The best part is, when one is destroyed, it's consciousness is downloaded into another unit, saving on re-training time. Though it might get bitter about being destroyed over and over...
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that would work if we could put the projectors at a distance of infinity. But digging a hole infinity feet deep or getting a pole infinity feet long to mount the projectors would be too expensive. Basically, if a projector positioned directly over north pole shining down, there exists a band in the northern hemisphere that the projector can't 'see' because of a point at a higher latitude that blocks it. put another way: Next time you are outside, look around and note how you can only see less than half of the earth because of the horizon. As you go upward, your horizon will go out, but it will never go so far as to enable you to see half of the earth. Since one point can only see less than half of the earth, two will never be able to see the whole earth.
"These are the first iPods made by kids for kids! And we pass the *wink* slavings on to you!"
I think you hit the nail on the head. Not only do they have a much, much larger budget than SCO, but IBM has been doing patent litigation since before it was cool to do patent litigation. If there was a WWE for patent litigation, IBM would have the Grand Heavy Weight champion belt. SCO would be some lightweight amateur. Sure, IBM is letting them them win a bit at first, but then suddenly IBM is going to get off the mat after a two count and pile drive SCO through the floor and break a cheap steel chair over their head. Just wait...soon....soon.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Once this one is up, we'll work out one with regards to them arresting people indefinately without a trial....
You could say that about linux in its early days. Or about Openoffice. Or about a lot of other products.
give it time. They got some smart people working over there in googleland (possible theme park name?).
I'm actually surprised that Washington of all places was the first to pass this bill. I suspect it might be a "since we can't get a piece of that pie into our tax coffers, we're going to shut it down" type of situation.
While I'm not sure of any operating systems that require a morse code interface to run, I do know that some distributions don't try to go for user friendlyness and try to go for some other goals (such as performance). While yes, this is marketing drivel, it's not completely empty that they're going for an "easy-to-install-and-use desktop operating system".
Um, yes there is. The 9th amendment.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
There's a fine difference between "Managment was incompetent" and "Management was actively screwing things up". For example, Challenger and Colombia are clear-cut examples of the latter. DART, based on the grand-parent's description, seems like it was the former. Yes, they were incompetent, but they weren't knowingly bypassing safety checks - they just didn't know they were there in the first place.
Except that people aren't. I read in TIME magazine last night that over 50% of the people interviewed think that the NSA call database is justified in the War On Terror (TM). Most people will only care if it influences thier ability to watch American Idol, and if not, oh well.
granted, you'll probally get sick of reading about why Kirk is better than Picard, if this truely is an all engineers class.
In the words of Louis Black: "This is Congress doing the people's work. The people's stupid, stupid work.
what would be interesting is to see if more industrial polution is being produced per capita up north.
This is the Recording Executive that wanted DRM.
This is the programmer that made the DRM.
These are the thousands of hackers that have nothing better to do than to break that DRM.
Another false layer of security for parents that can't be bothered to actually raise thier children. All the kid has to do is to:
- Tell parents that they'll be over at billy's house for a while
- Parents see child over at billys house on thier GPS system.
- Kid leaves phone on doorstep of Billy's house, proceeds to go to the overpass to drop rocks on cars.
That's the problem: its an easily defeatable system that makes it too easy to lull parents into a false sense of security.He's also busy helping win the . Because we know that he/she/it doesn't want to lose the office pool with satan again this year.
Too late
What I've learned over my 4 years in college was that if the professor is good, and actually adds value to what they're teaching, students will come, and students will pay attention. Sure, there will be a couple that won't, but a majority of students want to get the most value out of their educational dollar. If a professor wastes everyone's time (Are you hearing this, professors Mitra / LaMont / Chang?), then they'll have to resort to attendance checks and other stuff like that so they can fool themselves into thinking that they're actually teaching. This seems an awfully lot like she's one of those professors, trying desperatly to get students to pay attention.
The Supervisor will ask the programmer how long it will take to code X. The programmer will say "One Month"
One Month sounds like a long time, but "a few weeks" is the same amount of time, but sounds less daunting. So the supervisor will tell his manager "A few weeks"
The manager will say "A couple weeks" to his director, who will tell his senior director "A week or so".
The vice president will get an estimate of "A few days"
The executive vice president will hear "A day, give or take"
And when Bill Gates gets the estimate, it "Feature X will be ready tomorrow"
Then the programmer gets in the next day with an e-mail down the chain of command asking why X isn't done yet.
If any boss asks your to put in 80+ hours a week for more than a week or two at a time (IE, right before a release), you need to take a good solid look at the highway, no matter what your situation is. Once they know that you'll work 80+ hours a week, they'll exploit that to the fullest.
For my security class, it was mixed. Sure, I was able to wikipedia whatever the professor was talking about and add to the discussion, but a lot of time I spent on it was playing poker.
Same with my political science class. Added to the discussion, but when the professor got out her soapbox, it was good to check out slashdot or whatever.
For my software design class, it was a savior. It was one of those classes where the professor was someone with no industry experience in the past 15 years who insisted that he knew better than us how things went in industry. (Famous quote: "The waterfall model is by far the most common method" - I haven't seen it used in any of the three jobs that I've had). I would have skipped, but he did attendance checks. I tried sleeping, but he kept yelling at us for falling asleap. Before class, I'd just load up on anime and not have that hour and a half be a total waste.
Same with my senior design class. Someone whose industry experience was 2 years in the electrical power industry in the 1970s trying to teach a bunch of Computer Engineers how things were done. Two hours of my life every week that I'll never get back. Partially saved.
in short, I think this will put the burden on professors to give a good presentation and not just waste students time. You hear that, Professor Mitra and Lamont? If you gave relivant information instead of wasting our time, you wouldn't have to take attendance because students would actually want to show up to your class. Laptops just give us students another way to skip without taking the grade hit.
The best part is, when one is destroyed, it's consciousness is downloaded into another unit, saving on re-training time. Though it might get bitter about being destroyed over and over...
Perfect timing for NetBeans 5 to come out. I just got done starting up NetBeans 4.0. I started it when it came out.
Has netcraft confirmed it?