Talk to the instructor. If the OP is that far ahead, and the instructor is worth a shit, then s/he will work with the OP to do independent study and more credit.
Depends on the community college. There are some that are academically rigorous and serve as the first 2 years of a 4 year college curriculum at a much lower cost. And there are 4 year colleges that are diploma mills.
Why take the risk? One lucky mine could ruin your whole day.
I lived in Charleston, SC for a while. It was not too unusual to dig up unexplosed ordinance from the Civil war; some of it was still dangerous.
Unless you want to die, treat all unexploded ordinance as dangerous; the older, the more dangerous.
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Well, reading is "distracting" and "entertaining". My kids use their computers to play games, sure. Listen to obnoxious music, sure. But they also study the videos of their swims, (they're competitive swimmers), do homework, write poetry and stories, and such. (I'm sure they're going to be Nobel-winning authors. NOT. But they have fun with it.)
This just takes it up to the next level. I hated riding the bus; I'd rather take the subway. Too many kids being assholes on the bus.
I think all in all this is good. The bus driver has to drive, not be a nanny. The more attention s/he can pay to driving and not to screaming fighting kids, the safer everyone is.
And, best of all, listen to the kids. They like it, although no doubt they didn't quote the disaffected ones.
When I was in college (and a fine Ivy League school it was), AI was 10 years away according to my profs, who were the leading authorities in teh field. Now, 30 years later, it's 20 years away. Not sure what the progression is, but I'd say in 20 years it will be 30 years away.
I'm not holding my breath on this one. We'll make machines that can mimic most basic human behavior - like those bloody stupid phone switchboards - but an actual creative and independently thinking intelligence is a long, long way off.
Hehe... One reason the Iraqi Scuds were so hard to bring down is that they broke up and tumbled on the descent, throwing out all sorts of debris and also making their descent hard to predict.
It's damn hard to bring down a missile in flight (do the math on the approach velocities and the accuracy required). It's easy to spew out debris and confuse the defense. High tech can't really take on low tech in some things.
Most bicycle commuters are experienced riders; if not, they ride pretty slowly. I ride 9 miles one way and it takes me about 35 minutes give or take.
An electric bike can do 12 - 20 MPH and the rider is typically not paying much attention. This is a deadly combination; you have a fast moving vehicle in a mixed use bike/pedestrian path with an unlicensed (typically) inexperienced driver.
I've had to swerve around kids, dogs, leashes, grandmas, you name it. Powered vehicles don't mix.
I was trying to say that if the RIAA offered reasonable licensing for a reasonable fee then most of the problems would go away.
The problem is that to stay legal, I'd have to pay one of several organizations to play the music, and another organization to copy the music. Neither organization wants to talk to you unless you produce several hundred CDs at a time. There is no mechanism in the current licensing to allow you to create a single CD with the songs you like and play it to a class or group.
The licensing is a convoluted mess, so even if you want to be legal it's virtually impossible.
I pay for music - because typically I look for specific artists or songs. It's easier for me to find it on Amazon rather than wade through piles of junk.
I would also like for the music industry to clean up its licensing. Let me buy music that I can play anywhere, in public, to any group of people smaller than, say, 100.
No strings, no fear, no stupid RIAA tricks. Come on RIAA, make it easy for us to be legal. You make it as hard as possible, with impossible convoluted licensing (you need a separate license for public performance and for copying a CD) so that it's nearly impossible to remain within the licensing restrictions and play the music I like.
Heck, I could make a strong argument that the music industry licensing is so convoluted that it is impossible to play music and be legal.
The problem is actually worse.... The British found this out in India. Fix the disease and infant death through better medicine and clean water, without birth control and massive outreach and education, and people will continue to have 12 babies.
Before modern medicine only 2 or 3 might survive to adult hood. With good medicine, all 12 survive, and the result is mass starvation and poverty.
So I certainly hope that B & M are well aware of history and know that they will have to educate as well as heal.
The DOJ can choose to allocate resources to certain things. They have, in the past, chosen not to defend a particular law vigorously. Conversely, they seem to be putting a lot of effort and resources behind this law.
They can choose not to file a brief and simply allow the court to rule but they've chosen to devote resources to this battle.
28 years ago I built a 75' extension cord with medial grade stuff. Both plugs and the wire in between are "medical grade". That extension cord is still sitting out side in the weather to this day, as good as the day it was build. It's been run over by cars, left in the sun for years, left in the rain and snow and ice, been salted and painted.
It still works.
Now you can tell me that "medical grade stuff" is overpriced, but I'll stack up my extension cord with anything you can buy from Wall Mart and I bet you mine will come out on top.
I'm not arguing the supposed superiority of the DSK. Look up the history of the QWERTY layout - it was designed to place the most used keys far apart mechanically to lessen the incidence of jamming, and, as a side effect, slowed down the typists because of some awkward hand movements. If you ever typed on a mechanical keyboard, you know what I mean. Try typing a line on one; your fingers will cramp after a couple of sentences. It's a lot harder than on a computer keyboard.
The fact is that we have learned to live with this and can be proficient at it, and modern electronic keyboards have made it less strenuous. But you have to wonder why in 140 years of typing we still use a keyboard developed to minimize jamming on a long-dead device....
Exactly. I can type 40 to 60 words per minute on a regular keyboard. In what way is 25 WPM considered progress?
And the standard QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow typists down.
I think it speaks loads to the crappy UI on phones and fairly screams for a new input paradigm. (I don't have one, mind you; I'm just an old dude who learned to type with all 10 fingers.)
Both could easily be adapted, both offer a rich world that could be serialized, and both offer human interest plots that are suitable for non-techies in a bizarre environment with enough twists to warp your mind.
Seriously, I put this into the "personal responsibility" category. If I know that flying can kill me, I won't fly. I won't whine about requiring many, many thousands of people changing their habit to suit my condition.
Good grief. I'm far more inconvenienced by the fat turds that take up half my seat but I don't get a special "fat free" zone.
I'm all for reasonable accomodation. People are alergic to all sorts of things, and reasonable accomodation should be made. But really, it's her choice to fly, not something forced upon her. If being in public is so dangerous, she should stay home. (Really, even if the airline doesn't serve peanuts, I can still bring them on board.)
And, will she only fly Air Canada? What about all the other airlines in the world?
This whole thing smacks of self-promotion and cheap publicity.
I've also run into one provider that sends back a password via SMS. So I guess in this brave new world you need both... At least until the last trumpet of the dinosaurs dies down.
But I guess that's my point. I would think that the number of people who have a cell phone with no contract, but have broadband and a computer on 24/7, is vanishingly small.
If you have a cell phone, then you typically have a contract. If you have the resources for a broadband connection, then you have the resources for a mobile phone contract.
So are they thinking that people will use this at home while maintaining their cell phone contract? In any case, I don't see a big market for this.
It's a neat idea, and if they sold the bare hardware with open drivers, they might have a market - I might use it to tap into my SIP provider directly. This way, I just don't see it.
And then again there is ignorance. The elementary school across the street from me runs an unsecured network. They also use channel-hopping APs, with the result that WiFi is utterly unusable in my neighborhood between 7 AM and 2 PM.
I tried dealing with their IT guys; basically I surmised that this is how Cisco provisioned the APs (in other works, how they came out of the box) and that they have security on their network.
True, to acutally use the network you have to log in, but without WPA or even WEP, anyone can snoop on the network. You use https to log in, but once logged in you are on a totally unsecured network with everything transmitted in the clear.
I've thought about snooping on their network and presenting it to the board, but they'd probably try to bust me rather than fix the problem.
If all of the features are in the Control Panel, why do the developers need shortcuts?
In other words, what's wrong with the Control Panel interface that hinders developers to the point where they have to hack in these types of kludges?
And, yes, I consider a directory with a "special string" a horrible kludge. Think of all the behind-the-scenes complications that this brings on. Every directory creation/access has to be checked for these modes. How does a godmode directory interact with a random app?
Yup, we do this... We generate about 1/2 of our power from the methane off our digesters. (I work for a wastewater plant).
We still burn off a lot of methane - it's not cost effective yet to bring on another generator.
I've been toying with a waste methane coop and buy the extra methane from the WWTP. It would cost about $1/W to buy in, and then you'd be responsible for your share of O&M, and anything extra would be sold back to the grid.
I need about 200 investors at $3K ea. Think of all the green credits you get.
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Talk to the instructor. If the OP is that far ahead, and the instructor is worth a shit, then s/he will work with the OP to do independent study and more credit.
Depends on the community college. There are some that are academically rigorous and serve as the first 2 years of a 4 year college curriculum at a much lower cost. And there are 4 year colleges that are diploma mills.
Don't get caught up in the label.
Why take the risk? One lucky mine could ruin your whole day.
I lived in Charleston, SC for a while. It was not too unusual to dig up unexplosed ordinance from the Civil war; some of it was still dangerous.
Unless you want to die, treat all unexploded ordinance as dangerous; the older, the more dangerous.
Well, reading is "distracting" and "entertaining". My kids use their computers to play games, sure. Listen to obnoxious music, sure. But they also study the videos of their swims, (they're competitive swimmers), do homework, write poetry and stories, and such. (I'm sure they're going to be Nobel-winning authors. NOT. But they have fun with it.)
This just takes it up to the next level. I hated riding the bus; I'd rather take the subway. Too many kids being assholes on the bus.
I think all in all this is good. The bus driver has to drive, not be a nanny. The more attention s/he can pay to driving and not to screaming fighting kids, the safer everyone is.
And, best of all, listen to the kids. They like it, although no doubt they didn't quote the disaffected ones.
When I was in college (and a fine Ivy League school it was), AI was 10 years away according to my profs, who were the leading authorities in teh field. Now, 30 years later, it's 20 years away. Not sure what the progression is, but I'd say in 20 years it will be 30 years away.
I'm not holding my breath on this one. We'll make machines that can mimic most basic human behavior - like those bloody stupid phone switchboards - but an actual creative and independently thinking intelligence is a long, long way off.
Hehe... One reason the Iraqi Scuds were so hard to bring down is that they broke up and tumbled on the descent, throwing out all sorts of debris and also making their descent hard to predict.
It's damn hard to bring down a missile in flight (do the math on the approach velocities and the accuracy required). It's easy to spew out debris and confuse the defense. High tech can't really take on low tech in some things.
What you said plus....
Most bicycle commuters are experienced riders; if not, they ride pretty slowly. I ride 9 miles one way and it takes me about 35 minutes give or take.
An electric bike can do 12 - 20 MPH and the rider is typically not paying much attention. This is a deadly combination; you have a fast moving vehicle in a mixed use bike/pedestrian path with an unlicensed (typically) inexperienced driver.
I've had to swerve around kids, dogs, leashes, grandmas, you name it. Powered vehicles don't mix.
I was trying to say that if the RIAA offered reasonable licensing for a reasonable fee then most of the problems would go away.
The problem is that to stay legal, I'd have to pay one of several organizations to play the music, and another organization to copy the music. Neither organization wants to talk to you unless you produce several hundred CDs at a time. There is no mechanism in the current licensing to allow you to create a single CD with the songs you like and play it to a class or group.
The licensing is a convoluted mess, so even if you want to be legal it's virtually impossible.
I pay for music - because typically I look for specific artists or songs. It's easier for me to find it on Amazon rather than wade through piles of junk.
I would also like for the music industry to clean up its licensing. Let me buy music that I can play anywhere, in public, to any group of people smaller than, say, 100.
No strings, no fear, no stupid RIAA tricks. Come on RIAA, make it easy for us to be legal. You make it as hard as possible, with impossible convoluted licensing (you need a separate license for public performance and for copying a CD) so that it's nearly impossible to remain within the licensing restrictions and play the music I like.
Heck, I could make a strong argument that the music industry licensing is so convoluted that it is impossible to play music and be legal.
So clean up your act.
The problem is actually worse.... The British found this out in India. Fix the disease and infant death through better medicine and clean water, without birth control and massive outreach and education, and people will continue to have 12 babies.
Before modern medicine only 2 or 3 might survive to adult hood. With good medicine, all 12 survive, and the result is mass starvation and poverty.
So I certainly hope that B & M are well aware of history and know that they will have to educate as well as heal.
The DOJ can choose to allocate resources to certain things. They have, in the past, chosen not to defend a particular law vigorously. Conversely, they seem to be putting a lot of effort and resources behind this law.
They can choose not to file a brief and simply allow the court to rule but they've chosen to devote resources to this battle.
28 years ago I built a 75' extension cord with medial grade stuff. Both plugs and the wire in between are "medical grade". That extension cord is still sitting out side in the weather to this day, as good as the day it was build. It's been run over by cars, left in the sun for years, left in the rain and snow and ice, been salted and painted.
It still works.
Now you can tell me that "medical grade stuff" is overpriced, but I'll stack up my extension cord with anything you can buy from Wall Mart and I bet you mine will come out on top.
Sometimes more expensive is better.
I'm not arguing the supposed superiority of the DSK. Look up the history of the QWERTY layout - it was designed to place the most used keys far apart mechanically to lessen the incidence of jamming, and, as a side effect, slowed down the typists because of some awkward hand movements. If you ever typed on a mechanical keyboard, you know what I mean. Try typing a line on one; your fingers will cramp after a couple of sentences. It's a lot harder than on a computer keyboard.
The fact is that we have learned to live with this and can be proficient at it, and modern electronic keyboards have made it less strenuous. But you have to wonder why in 140 years of typing we still use a keyboard developed to minimize jamming on a long-dead device....
Surely there has to be a better input paradigm.
Exactly. I can type 40 to 60 words per minute on a regular keyboard. In what way is 25 WPM considered progress?
And the standard QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow typists down.
I think it speaks loads to the crappy UI on phones and fairly screams for a new input paradigm. (I don't have one, mind you; I'm just an old dude who learned to type with all 10 fingers.)
msexchange
Am I the only one who read that M-Sex-Change?
Must be my 3D Porn glasses....
Ummm.... XP SP5?
Lasa Mason's Arachne.
Janet Kagan's Mirabile.
Both could easily be adapted, both offer a rich world that could be serialized, and both offer human interest plots that are suitable for non-techies in a bizarre environment with enough twists to warp your mind.
Well, considering planes have crashed from an excess of fat, I'd say that's pretty inconveniencing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/us/faa-reviews-rules-on-passenger-weight-after-crash.html?pagewanted=1
Seriously, I put this into the "personal responsibility" category. If I know that flying can kill me, I won't fly. I won't whine about requiring many, many thousands of people changing their habit to suit my condition.
Good grief. I'm far more inconvenienced by the fat turds that take up half my seat but I don't get a special "fat free" zone.
I'm all for reasonable accomodation. People are alergic to all sorts of things, and reasonable accomodation should be made. But really, it's her choice to fly, not something forced upon her. If being in public is so dangerous, she should stay home. (Really, even if the airline doesn't serve peanuts, I can still bring them on board.)
And, will she only fly Air Canada? What about all the other airlines in the world?
This whole thing smacks of self-promotion and cheap publicity.
I've also run into one provider that sends back a password via SMS. So I guess in this brave new world you need both... At least until the last trumpet of the dinosaurs dies down.
But I guess that's my point. I would think that the number of people who have a cell phone with no contract, but have broadband and a computer on 24/7, is vanishingly small.
If you have a cell phone, then you typically have a contract. If you have the resources for a broadband connection, then you have the resources for a mobile phone contract.
So are they thinking that people will use this at home while maintaining their cell phone contract? In any case, I don't see a big market for this.
It's a neat idea, and if they sold the bare hardware with open drivers, they might have a market - I might use it to tap into my SIP provider directly. This way, I just don't see it.
I don't get it....
My T-Mobile contract gives me virtually unlimited calling in the US, and with my VOIP carrier I can call anywhere in the world for 0.01 Euro/min.
I've spent hours on the phone to Europe and Japan and have yet to recharge my original 10 Euro purchase.
And I'm not thethered to the house, I don't have another gadget to deal with, and it works anywhere I get a cell signal.
What problem is this gadget trying to solve?
And then again there is ignorance. The elementary school across the street from me runs an unsecured network. They also use channel-hopping APs, with the result that WiFi is utterly unusable in my neighborhood between 7 AM and 2 PM.
I tried dealing with their IT guys; basically I surmised that this is how Cisco provisioned the APs (in other works, how they came out of the box) and that they have security on their network.
True, to acutally use the network you have to log in, but without WPA or even WEP, anyone can snoop on the network. You use https to log in, but once logged in you are on a totally unsecured network with everything transmitted in the clear.
I've thought about snooping on their network and presenting it to the board, but they'd probably try to bust me rather than fix the problem.
If all of the features are in the Control Panel, why do the developers need shortcuts?
In other words, what's wrong with the Control Panel interface that hinders developers to the point where they have to hack in these types of kludges?
And, yes, I consider a directory with a "special string" a horrible kludge. Think of all the behind-the-scenes complications that this brings on. Every directory creation/access has to be checked for these modes. How does a godmode directory interact with a random app?
The mind reels.
Yup, we do this... We generate about 1/2 of our power from the methane off our digesters. (I work for a wastewater plant).
We still burn off a lot of methane - it's not cost effective yet to bring on another generator.
I've been toying with a waste methane coop and buy the extra methane from the WWTP. It would cost about $1/W to buy in, and then you'd be responsible for your share of O&M, and anything extra would be sold back to the grid.
I need about 200 investors at $3K ea. Think of all the green credits you get.