Note, however, that it was a good idea to use a special character to denote arguments to commands. Look at all the problems that can arise in Unix if you ever have a file named -i, or -rf, or whatnot: how do you ever select it? In ways that are different for every Unix utility, or sometimes (most times, maybe) not at all. Plus, using the * wildcard can have interesting results in those cases, although to be fair, that's due to Unix's retarded idea of shell globbing instead of letting the utilities do it themselves with a shared library.
On the other hand, I do dislike Windows's use of \ for directory separation, as that key is in a different place on different keyboards...
Of course, you could also have the people who are on welfare now just do those jobs and get paid with welfare only. That way it wouldn't cost any more, and there wouldn't be as much need for illegals. Better all around.
You wouldn't want to put it right between someone's eyes? Why not? If you were mad enough to shoot someone with any gun, wouldn't the total disintigration of the head that the 30.06 would give you make it even more satisfying?
No, sir, you do not understand conservation of energy. Consider a prop plane. Over some interval of time, a propeller accelerates a relatively large amount of mass (compared to a jet) a relatively small amount, for a given force: F=ma. The energy in that mass of air is given by E = (1/2)mv^2. Now, in the same amount of time, let's say a jet engine moves half the mass of air with twice the acceleration. This gives us the same force as the prop engine, but the energy lost in the exhaust is 1/2(1/2m)(2v)^2 or (1/4)m4v^2 or mv^2, twice the energy as the air moved by the prop engine - for the same thrust. The air-fuel mixture of the jet engine is irrelevant: it's putting too much work into a fast moving, hot stream of air that we don't need, except at high speeds where props are inefficient because the tips get too close to the speed of sound.
Because a lot of development goes into jets these days, and because they carry so many people, they're pretty efficient in absolute terms, but I guarantee you that if you wanted more efficiency you would get it with a prop plane flying slower than a jet. (I'm not saying that we should do this, mind you.)
Scum? Whiny crybaby? Tough guy attitude? Just because you're a space shuttle, that doesn't give you the right to treat everyone like dirt just because they're telling you something you don't want to hear. Has all this hate been building up with each of my posts, or is it really all just from this?
But we're a corporation and we don't HAVE a sense of ethics!
More to the point, though, it's not like we're stopping customers from getting codes to unlock them somehow. If they can do that on their own, then fine. But as a customer service rep for Cingular, I have been ordered not to help customers migrate away from us. That seems fair to me. They can unlock their phones if they are able to, and we don't have to help them. Everybody's happy. (Obviously not really.)
I'm not saying that no one can get codes. Far from it: customers can do whatever they want with the phones that they bought. But I am saying that I, as a customer support rep, have received orders that I am not supposed to actively help customers migrate away from us. I'll double check on CSP tomorrow, but I am pretty sure that this is our policy now. Whether it always has been, I don't know.
I'll check CSP when I'm at work tomorrow. Until then, I can only go on what my trainer said. She did speak authoritatively on this issue, and said that no, we don't give out unlock codes, and that Cingular doesn't allow us to. And that does make sense to me. It's not like we're stopping customers from unlocking them if they can figure out how - we just aren't actively helping them do it. That's what I'd expect from a cell phone company, really.
Whiny crybabies? What the fuck are you talking about? Go ahead and unlock the phone if you want. I really don't give a rat's ass, and neither does Cingular. But why should we HELP you do it? That's like complaining that you don't have free speech if the government won't force everyone to listen to you. You can still do whatever you want with your phone.
I work for Cingular, and we DON'T give out unlock codes, ever, no matter who the customer is or what they say. I doubt if any US wireless provider does. If you can figure out how to unlock it yourself, then great, but there is simply no reason for a wireless provider to help you switch to another network.
I think that people don't realize that RIM is an evil company because they got attacked by ANOTHER evil company over a stupid little patent. People see that RIM fought back instead of just paying the licensing fees and think that RIM is the good guy. But they're both bad guys: RIM holds a lot of stupid patents as well, and enforces them to keep competition out. The best possible result of the RIM vs Whoever lawsuit would have been for the judge to order RIM to shut down: that way there might be enough of an impact to make influential people take a look at the patent system. Too bad that didn't happen.
HIGH radar signature, sir. It wasn't designed with any LO requirements in mind, seeing as it was designed back in the 80's. Other than that, yes, it is a great aircraft, if it is equipped with decent avionics. It's worth pointing out, though, that the EF Typhoon is also a superior fighter, as it is LO and simply a much more advanced design.
I was waiting for someone to point that out as well.
Anyway, here's something neat to think about: if you only want the transmission line voltages to be a few thousand volts, then it is actually possible to make it DC. Switching DC-DC converters can be made to step DC up to or down from 6000 volts or so if you use IGBTs. It may even be possible to go even higher than that if you use them in series (although I've never heard of anyone doing that). Of course, it would be very silly to do so because it would cost a fortune and wouldn't be as reliable as a good old-fashioned tranformer working on AC, which is AC's real advantage. Too bad the mains aren't a higher frequency so we could use smaller transformers...
Of course, when you get beyond only a few thousand volts, then AC becomes the only way to do it at all.
It IS his problem, though. Because most consumers don't know shit about what they're actually buying, John Expert can't get a TV, stereo, or speakers without having to pay a whole lot more to get the thing to do what it was supposed to in the first place. The mediocre technology usually wins out. I hate it.
Sir, modern ciphers like AES are designed to be highly resistant to known plaintext attacks. AES would never have been chosen if it had any serious known vulnerabilities in this regard. Knowing both the ciphertext and the cleartext does not make finding the keys significantly less difficult in this instance: you'd still be a lot better off investing in the million dollar equipment to get the key off the hardware itself. If you don't believe me, look up AES vulnerabilities, and you'll see that the few potential vulnerabilities aren't simple known-plaintext attacks.
In what system is an order of magnitude defined to be a distinct big-O expression? I took those same maths, and nowhere did they call them orders of magnitude, although we certainly referred to the same expressions. Everything I've ever read and heard has defined an order of magnitude to be a single factor of ten. I invite you to check out this page at Wikipedia (and no, I didn't just edit it now to support what I'm saying).
I checked out that link, and I noticed something really odd: the reporter says that Linux distributions can't include mp3 players because the patents on mp3 make it incompatible with the GPL. What the fuck are they talking about? The GPL doesn't apply to software that runs ON Linux, only to stuff that links directly to the kernel. It's perfectly legal to distribute non-GPLed software along with Linux, and it's not the GPL that would make it illegal to distribute patented software, but rather the patents themselves.
I don't understand why no one's pressing criminal charges here. That is clearly profiting off of copyright infringement, and EVERYONE knows that that is bad.
I've never been to UCLA, so I don't know how many profs they have there who try to shut out opposing views. Maybe it's not one of the hotspots for that. In all fairness, I've never encountered any profs who graded me down for my views even when I disagreed with them, but then again I've only ever taken required English and liberal arts courses. So who knows how widespread or not the problem is?
But as far as this guy's intentions: I say... let's wait and see. Maybe he's doing it to expose the bad profs, or maybe he's doing it because he hates people who think differently than him. Either way, it should become clear in a few months. If he's a malevolent asshole, I owe you a Coke. (Although we'll have both forgotten about it by then...)
Well, a lot of people who call themselves true conservatives would argue that the Republicans in power are not really conservatives at all, but rather Republicans. Another poster somewhere in this story said it much better than I, but I can see that you've already noticed that there's not that much in common between the Republicans and a true small-government conservative ideology. (Not to say that that's even my ideology - there are good ideas to be taken from both liberal and conservative schools of thought.)
Also OT: your post seemed so sane and reasoned compared to the one right before it that I just had to respond in kind...
No, I wasn't attempting to mislead people; I was rather trying to remind people that just because McCarthy did things in a controversial (damaging) way, that didn't mean that the problem didn't actually exist. I said it rather too strongly, though, as I reacted to what the previous poster said rather than thinking through a more measured response.
I don't actually defend McCarthy's actions: just his objectives.
Ah, someone sane to respond to. I mentioned McCarthy because a lot of people throw out McCarthy and witch hunts without realizing that there were communist spies back then. I realize that McCarthy destroyed people's lives, and I didn't mean to suggest that his way was really the best choice.
Obviously there is a potential for abuse with this sort of thing. However, there is also a potential for rooting out the kind of profs who will harass and fail anyone who dares challenge the irrelevant political ideas that they preach about instead of staying on topic. Now, not all profs do that, and probably not even most, but there are some, and this sort of thing could give students a way to fight back against that where they find it. If the guy in charge of this fund is open-minded enough not to try and blackball any prof who's liberal, but instead focuses on the ones who are nuts, this could be a really good thing. Of course the grading is the really key thing here, but the collection of this sort of evidence as well would just help build a case. Then we could all see the information that is exposed and decide for ourselves.
By the way, that sort of use would definitely fall under fair use if the materials were reproduced only in part, as they would be if copyright infringement were that much of a concern.
They are documents that they freely handed out, and things that they said in class. That's why there's nothing wrong with it. And by the way, I'm not American at all, so go kill yourself.
1) McCarthy was right - he did find a lot of communists, and
2) What the hell is wrong with collecting documents and recordings of things that the profs themselves said? It's not like they're making anything up here - they're just bringing them to light. As someone else has already said, a lot of the radical tenured professors are left of Josef Stalin in outlook.
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Note, however, that it was a good idea to use a special character to denote arguments to commands. Look at all the problems that can arise in Unix if you ever have a file named -i, or -rf, or whatnot: how do you ever select it? In ways that are different for every Unix utility, or sometimes (most times, maybe) not at all. Plus, using the * wildcard can have interesting results in those cases, although to be fair, that's due to Unix's retarded idea of shell globbing instead of letting the utilities do it themselves with a shared library.
On the other hand, I do dislike Windows's use of \ for directory separation, as that key is in a different place on different keyboards...
Of course, you could also have the people who are on welfare now just do those jobs and get paid with welfare only. That way it wouldn't cost any more, and there wouldn't be as much need for illegals. Better all around.
You wouldn't want to put it right between someone's eyes? Why not? If you were mad enough to shoot someone with any gun, wouldn't the total disintigration of the head that the 30.06 would give you make it even more satisfying?
No, sir, you do not understand conservation of energy. Consider a prop plane. Over some interval of time, a propeller accelerates a relatively large amount of mass (compared to a jet) a relatively small amount, for a given force: F=ma. The energy in that mass of air is given by E = (1/2)mv^2. Now, in the same amount of time, let's say a jet engine moves half the mass of air with twice the acceleration. This gives us the same force as the prop engine, but the energy lost in the exhaust is 1/2(1/2m)(2v)^2 or (1/4)m4v^2 or mv^2, twice the energy as the air moved by the prop engine - for the same thrust. The air-fuel mixture of the jet engine is irrelevant: it's putting too much work into a fast moving, hot stream of air that we don't need, except at high speeds where props are inefficient because the tips get too close to the speed of sound.
Because a lot of development goes into jets these days, and because they carry so many people, they're pretty efficient in absolute terms, but I guarantee you that if you wanted more efficiency you would get it with a prop plane flying slower than a jet. (I'm not saying that we should do this, mind you.)
Scum? Whiny crybaby? Tough guy attitude? Just because you're a space shuttle, that doesn't give you the right to treat everyone like dirt just because they're telling you something you don't want to hear. Has all this hate been building up with each of my posts, or is it really all just from this?
But we're a corporation and we don't HAVE a sense of ethics!
More to the point, though, it's not like we're stopping customers from getting codes to unlock them somehow. If they can do that on their own, then fine. But as a customer service rep for Cingular, I have been ordered not to help customers migrate away from us. That seems fair to me. They can unlock their phones if they are able to, and we don't have to help them. Everybody's happy. (Obviously not really.)
I'm not saying that no one can get codes. Far from it: customers can do whatever they want with the phones that they bought. But I am saying that I, as a customer support rep, have received orders that I am not supposed to actively help customers migrate away from us. I'll double check on CSP tomorrow, but I am pretty sure that this is our policy now. Whether it always has been, I don't know.
I'll check CSP when I'm at work tomorrow. Until then, I can only go on what my trainer said. She did speak authoritatively on this issue, and said that no, we don't give out unlock codes, and that Cingular doesn't allow us to. And that does make sense to me. It's not like we're stopping customers from unlocking them if they can figure out how - we just aren't actively helping them do it. That's what I'd expect from a cell phone company, really.
Whiny crybabies? What the fuck are you talking about? Go ahead and unlock the phone if you want. I really don't give a rat's ass, and neither does Cingular. But why should we HELP you do it? That's like complaining that you don't have free speech if the government won't force everyone to listen to you. You can still do whatever you want with your phone.
I work for Cingular, and we DON'T give out unlock codes, ever, no matter who the customer is or what they say. I doubt if any US wireless provider does. If you can figure out how to unlock it yourself, then great, but there is simply no reason for a wireless provider to help you switch to another network.
I think that people don't realize that RIM is an evil company because they got attacked by ANOTHER evil company over a stupid little patent. People see that RIM fought back instead of just paying the licensing fees and think that RIM is the good guy. But they're both bad guys: RIM holds a lot of stupid patents as well, and enforces them to keep competition out. The best possible result of the RIM vs Whoever lawsuit would have been for the judge to order RIM to shut down: that way there might be enough of an impact to make influential people take a look at the patent system. Too bad that didn't happen.
HIGH radar signature, sir. It wasn't designed with any LO requirements in mind, seeing as it was designed back in the 80's. Other than that, yes, it is a great aircraft, if it is equipped with decent avionics. It's worth pointing out, though, that the EF Typhoon is also a superior fighter, as it is LO and simply a much more advanced design.
I was waiting for someone to point that out as well.
Anyway, here's something neat to think about: if you only want the transmission line voltages to be a few thousand volts, then it is actually possible to make it DC. Switching DC-DC converters can be made to step DC up to or down from 6000 volts or so if you use IGBTs. It may even be possible to go even higher than that if you use them in series (although I've never heard of anyone doing that). Of course, it would be very silly to do so because it would cost a fortune and wouldn't be as reliable as a good old-fashioned tranformer working on AC, which is AC's real advantage. Too bad the mains aren't a higher frequency so we could use smaller transformers...
Of course, when you get beyond only a few thousand volts, then AC becomes the only way to do it at all.
It IS his problem, though. Because most consumers don't know shit about what they're actually buying, John Expert can't get a TV, stereo, or speakers without having to pay a whole lot more to get the thing to do what it was supposed to in the first place. The mediocre technology usually wins out. I hate it.
Spoken like someone who's never read Reflections on Trusting Trust...
Sir, modern ciphers like AES are designed to be highly resistant to known plaintext attacks. AES would never have been chosen if it had any serious known vulnerabilities in this regard. Knowing both the ciphertext and the cleartext does not make finding the keys significantly less difficult in this instance: you'd still be a lot better off investing in the million dollar equipment to get the key off the hardware itself. If you don't believe me, look up AES vulnerabilities, and you'll see that the few potential vulnerabilities aren't simple known-plaintext attacks.
In what system is an order of magnitude defined to be a distinct big-O expression? I took those same maths, and nowhere did they call them orders of magnitude, although we certainly referred to the same expressions. Everything I've ever read and heard has defined an order of magnitude to be a single factor of ten. I invite you to check out this page at Wikipedia (and no, I didn't just edit it now to support what I'm saying).
I checked out that link, and I noticed something really odd: the reporter says that Linux distributions can't include mp3 players because the patents on mp3 make it incompatible with the GPL. What the fuck are they talking about? The GPL doesn't apply to software that runs ON Linux, only to stuff that links directly to the kernel. It's perfectly legal to distribute non-GPLed software along with Linux, and it's not the GPL that would make it illegal to distribute patented software, but rather the patents themselves.
I don't understand why no one's pressing criminal charges here. That is clearly profiting off of copyright infringement, and EVERYONE knows that that is bad.
I've never been to UCLA, so I don't know how many profs they have there who try to shut out opposing views. Maybe it's not one of the hotspots for that. In all fairness, I've never encountered any profs who graded me down for my views even when I disagreed with them, but then again I've only ever taken required English and liberal arts courses. So who knows how widespread or not the problem is?
But as far as this guy's intentions: I say... let's wait and see. Maybe he's doing it to expose the bad profs, or maybe he's doing it because he hates people who think differently than him. Either way, it should become clear in a few months. If he's a malevolent asshole, I owe you a Coke. (Although we'll have both forgotten about it by then...)
Well, a lot of people who call themselves true conservatives would argue that the Republicans in power are not really conservatives at all, but rather Republicans. Another poster somewhere in this story said it much better than I, but I can see that you've already noticed that there's not that much in common between the Republicans and a true small-government conservative ideology. (Not to say that that's even my ideology - there are good ideas to be taken from both liberal and conservative schools of thought.)
Also OT: your post seemed so sane and reasoned compared to the one right before it that I just had to respond in kind...
No, I wasn't attempting to mislead people; I was rather trying to remind people that just because McCarthy did things in a controversial (damaging) way, that didn't mean that the problem didn't actually exist. I said it rather too strongly, though, as I reacted to what the previous poster said rather than thinking through a more measured response.
I don't actually defend McCarthy's actions: just his objectives.
Ah, someone sane to respond to. I mentioned McCarthy because a lot of people throw out McCarthy and witch hunts without realizing that there were communist spies back then. I realize that McCarthy destroyed people's lives, and I didn't mean to suggest that his way was really the best choice.
Obviously there is a potential for abuse with this sort of thing. However, there is also a potential for rooting out the kind of profs who will harass and fail anyone who dares challenge the irrelevant political ideas that they preach about instead of staying on topic. Now, not all profs do that, and probably not even most, but there are some, and this sort of thing could give students a way to fight back against that where they find it. If the guy in charge of this fund is open-minded enough not to try and blackball any prof who's liberal, but instead focuses on the ones who are nuts, this could be a really good thing. Of course the grading is the really key thing here, but the collection of this sort of evidence as well would just help build a case. Then we could all see the information that is exposed and decide for ourselves.
By the way, that sort of use would definitely fall under fair use if the materials were reproduced only in part, as they would be if copyright infringement were that much of a concern.
They are documents that they freely handed out, and things that they said in class. That's why there's nothing wrong with it. And by the way, I'm not American at all, so go kill yourself.
1) McCarthy was right - he did find a lot of communists, and
2) What the hell is wrong with collecting documents and recordings of things that the profs themselves said? It's not like they're making anything up here - they're just bringing them to light. As someone else has already said, a lot of the radical tenured professors are left of Josef Stalin in outlook.