It really depends on the age of your kids, and whether or not they are walking home through the "Inner City". Some elementary schools go up to grade 8. I don't know about you, but i'm sure a lot of parents let their 13 year olds walk home alone. With younger kids, the parents probably should be picking up the kids. Assuming that all the parents come at 3 o'clock to pick up the kids, how long will it take to process all those parents? Assuming that 250 parents show up to pick up their kids, and at 10 seconds to process each parent, that's 2500 seconds, which is over 40 minutes.
No, he would only have to drive 200 feet down the road and pick the kid up on the sidewalk while he was walking home. Besides, there's too many witnesses if you try to abduct the child at the school. They're better off just driving down the street, and getting the child there, as there would probably be a lot less people around.
Yeah, when working with GIMP, I usually stick it on it's own desktop, that way it's 17 windows don't interfere with the other applications i'm running. I wish this was available on windows. I know you "can" have multiple desktops on windows, but because it's non-standartd, it ends up being slow, and kind of quirky. With all the eye-candy they are pumping into vista, I wonder if they had the smarts to copy something that's been around in X for many many years.
I wonder if GIMP care that it isn't photoshop. Photoshop is an expensive professional tool, that let's face it, is probably the best thing out there. GIMP on the other hand is a free application, with no corporate backing, and isn't really used in a professional environment. Still it fills the need for a nice photo editor for those who don't need tons of features, and don't want to pay for it. I think that for the most part, GIMP is comparable to most of the other consumer level editors, and should get the recognition it deserves.
I think that just because people end up using the internet for porn, does not mean that the internet would have failed without porn, or that porn is responsible for the internet or its speed in any way. There's a lot of porn magazines, and porn that can be watched on TV (Broadcast or video). I don't think that magazines would not exist if it wasn't for porn, or that TV would be much different if there wasn't any porn available on it. Just because a high percentage of the web is porn, does not mean that porn is the reason the internet is so successful.
Based on my inboxes, I'll have to say that spam is pretty much solved, a long time ago. But it wasn't solved by Microsoft. My hotmail gets hundreds of spams a day, and they all end up in my inbox. On the other hand, My yahoo account also gets hundreds of spam a day. Only 2 or 3 get to my inbox. The rest go to my bulk mail folder. My other account that I don't post everywhere on the web gets maybe 20 spam per day, but none of it ever gets to my inbox. Maybe 1 or 2 a week. It uses spam assassin to weed out the spam. Neither of the three ever seem to get any false positives. I haven't had a problem with spam in a while, except with hotmail. Which seems to be extremely bad at getting rid of spam, unless you turn on the whitelist feature, which although it gets rid of the spam, is not a very good way of dealing with it, because everybody not in your address book ends up in your spam box.
The difference between a chemist giving away his work for free and a programmer giving his work away for free is that a programmer only requires time to create his work. After buying a computer, which he probably already owns anyway, he only has to contribute time to give away stuff for free. Also, most programmers enjoy what they are doing, and don't think of it as work, but actually a hobby. The cost comes down much more when you consider open source software, and the fact that you can run a computer for almost nothing. A chemist on the other hand has to pay for many chemicals, many of them very expensive. He also has to pay for lots of equipment, in order to have a proper lab, so he doesn't burn his house down. This is why I think programming is so great. It lets you be very creative and productive, without paying tons for equipment and supplies.
The problem is, is that once your patent expires, anybody can make your drug and sell it. If you are in the business of making new drugs, then you have to come up with a new drug, to replace the drug that everyone else is also making. If you are in the business of producing already known drugs and selling them, this is competely sustainable. If you are in the business of coming up with new drugs and selling those, there will come a point when there is no more need for businesses coming up with new drugs, or at least a reduced need, in which all the companies which currently do this cannot survive.
I wasn't referring to any specific clothing company, but rather clothing as a whole. People will always need clothes, and therefore, there will always be a clothing industry, regardless of where it's located. On the other hand, drug companies had it easy before they cured most of the diseases. As more diseases get cured, there is less business for them, and the industry as a whole suffers. Once there are no more diseases to cure, there is nothing on which to have an industry, except in production, which isn't really the same business.
But decades isn't really all that long in a sustainable business sense. Clothes would be sustainable, because everyone wears clothes, and clothes wear out, thereby creating the need for new clothes. Creating new drugs is not sustainable because you start off with a lot of diseases to cure, and eventually, you cure them all (hopefully). Unless new diseases are coming out at a rate that you can sustain your business, then making new drugs is not sustainable. In the same way, cutting trees isn't sustainable unless you replant the trees. Curing diseases isn't sustainable unless you create new diseases.
Yeah, but most above ground pools i'v seen require no digging. Maybe some leveling. But it's kind of hard to have a pool if your landscape isn't mostly level already.
This is just relaying the problem. Instead of you notifying 7 companies, you call someone else, and they notify the 7 companies, which makes 7 people come and put flags all over the property. The 7 companies still have to be notified, and 7 people have to be sent out. Completely inefficient.
You shouldn't have to make the call in the first place. Because you'd have to call the phone, power, gas, internet, cable, and about 7 other organizations to figure out if there was anything down there. An easier way would be to have it centallized in a database. You type in where you want to dig, In GPS coordinates, and it tells you what is located underneath, if anything.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but how does an argument about children finding/looking at porn fall into the same area as child porn. 13 years olds will look because they are interested, they always have, even before the internet. Yet somehow they are now making the argument that stopping children from looking at porn, will somehow stop child porn.
Despite what the policy might say, it's my experience that professors don't enforce it that strictly. Because in computer science, it's often hard to tell if someone is cheating, because following proper procedures, for small assignments, things often end up looking very much the same. Also, the use of IDE's to format code means that all the code and even the comments end up looking very much the same, often with just different wording. I think it's hard to make a case against someone who cheated. Because of this, they usually just give you a 0 on the assignment, and then if they catch you another one or two times, you're out of the course. I don't know anybody who was kicked out of the programme for cheating. Although I'm sure it happened.
I guess that depends on where you live. I also graduated last spring, and all my classmates (that I know of) have found good jobs. We didn't get people running up and giving us jobs, but we applied for jobs and got them. Mind you, this was Software engineering, with Coop, so we all had experience. I think the most important thing you can do in school, apart from actually doing the work, and learning the material, is to get into the co-op program, and get some real world experience. It pays well too and helps to keep the student loans at a minimum.
It really depends on the way your brain works. I know people who really struggled through it, despite studying almost every night. Myself, I just breezed through it. On the other hand, I struggled with calculus, whereas the others did quite well in that. For some reason, linear algebra just made sense to me. So much so, that I took linear algebra 2, as an elective, because I found the first one so interesting. Don't take it from me as not being that hard, But as far as i'm concerned, there wasn't a lot of stuff to memorize, just a certain level of understanding that you have to get. Calculus on the other hand was hard for me, because for integration/derivation, there's about 50 methods that we had to employ to to integrate and derive different equations. I never found that there was any real understanding in that, other than, The integral is the area under the graph, and the derivitive is the slope of the graph. Everything else seemed to be memorization of how to actually do the integration/derivation.
Yeah, it's amazing the number of people who just type in URLs. But, I think they get a lot of wasted bandwidth because of it. They probably get a lot of traffic from people who don't bring them any revenue. Seriously, I don't know how porn makes any money with the amount of free stuff available.
Also a good point to note, is that with the advent of Satellite radio with no commercials, who's going to put up with radio for that much longer. If you listen to the radio more than 1 hour per day, it's probably worth it. At $15 per month, it comes out to $0.50 per day. I think that most people would gladly eat that cost for the thought of radio without commercials. I don't listen to the radio, but the reasons I stopped is because there was too many commercials, songs were repeated too much, and DJs were just as bad as the commercials. I think that Satellite radio has cleared up every reason why I don't listen to radio, and I am thinking of getting one. I wonder when the same will happen with TV. How much a month would you pay for advertisement free TV?
I really like the Idea of the On/Off toggle. This would come in useful, when people decide to take the stairs. They could be courteous and turn it off, or motion/heat sensors could detect if the person left. This would also be nice inside the elevator, when you happen to press the wrong button. I think eliminating stops that aren't even needed would speed up the elevators much more than all this smart elevator stuff.
Just because I use math to describe my invention, doesn't mean that my invention is a mathematical algorithm. The way a toaster works can be explained using mathmatics, but you also have to use physics and chemistry to explain how the electricity makes the element hot, how the heat gets to the bread, and why the bread turns brown when the heat is applied to the toast. Just because you use math to describe the physics and the chemisry, doesn't mean that your invention is math. If you look at RSA, it is only mathematical steps, and doesn't need any tangible objects, only numbers being manipulated. A toaster require physical things such as the toast, the heating elements, and electrons moving though them.
Just because a mathematical algorithm is non-trivial, doesn't mean you can patent it. Most of the new stuff that mathematicians come up with is non-trivial. The fact of the matter is, is that math is patentable. If all your invention is, is a series of mathematical operations, then that shouldn't be patentable. Most software is either A) implementing some new mathematical algorithm, and although, non-trivial, is not patentable, because it is a mathematical algorithm, or B), is the usage of these algorithms in a certain order, which usually is pretty trivial, to anybody skilled in the field.
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It really depends on the age of your kids, and whether or not they are walking home through the "Inner City". Some elementary schools go up to grade 8. I don't know about you, but i'm sure a lot of parents let their 13 year olds walk home alone. With younger kids, the parents probably should be picking up the kids. Assuming that all the parents come at 3 o'clock to pick up the kids, how long will it take to process all those parents? Assuming that 250 parents show up to pick up their kids, and at 10 seconds to process each parent, that's 2500 seconds, which is over 40 minutes.
No, he would only have to drive 200 feet down the road and pick the kid up on the sidewalk while he was walking home. Besides, there's too many witnesses if you try to abduct the child at the school. They're better off just driving down the street, and getting the child there, as there would probably be a lot less people around.
Yeah, when working with GIMP, I usually stick it on it's own desktop, that way it's 17 windows don't interfere with the other applications i'm running. I wish this was available on windows. I know you "can" have multiple desktops on windows, but because it's non-standartd, it ends up being slow, and kind of quirky. With all the eye-candy they are pumping into vista, I wonder if they had the smarts to copy something that's been around in X for many many years.
I wonder if GIMP care that it isn't photoshop. Photoshop is an expensive professional tool, that let's face it, is probably the best thing out there. GIMP on the other hand is a free application, with no corporate backing, and isn't really used in a professional environment. Still it fills the need for a nice photo editor for those who don't need tons of features, and don't want to pay for it. I think that for the most part, GIMP is comparable to most of the other consumer level editors, and should get the recognition it deserves.
This was posted over half an hour ago, and still has only 10 comments. Obviously nobody cares.
I think that just because people end up using the internet for porn, does not mean that the internet would have failed without porn, or that porn is responsible for the internet or its speed in any way. There's a lot of porn magazines, and porn that can be watched on TV (Broadcast or video). I don't think that magazines would not exist if it wasn't for porn, or that TV would be much different if there wasn't any porn available on it. Just because a high percentage of the web is porn, does not mean that porn is the reason the internet is so successful.
Based on my inboxes, I'll have to say that spam is pretty much solved, a long time ago. But it wasn't solved by Microsoft. My hotmail gets hundreds of spams a day, and they all end up in my inbox. On the other hand, My yahoo account also gets hundreds of spam a day. Only 2 or 3 get to my inbox. The rest go to my bulk mail folder. My other account that I don't post everywhere on the web gets maybe 20 spam per day, but none of it ever gets to my inbox. Maybe 1 or 2 a week. It uses spam assassin to weed out the spam. Neither of the three ever seem to get any false positives. I haven't had a problem with spam in a while, except with hotmail. Which seems to be extremely bad at getting rid of spam, unless you turn on the whitelist feature, which although it gets rid of the spam, is not a very good way of dealing with it, because everybody not in your address book ends up in your spam box.
The difference between a chemist giving away his work for free and a programmer giving his work away for free is that a programmer only requires time to create his work. After buying a computer, which he probably already owns anyway, he only has to contribute time to give away stuff for free. Also, most programmers enjoy what they are doing, and don't think of it as work, but actually a hobby. The cost comes down much more when you consider open source software, and the fact that you can run a computer for almost nothing. A chemist on the other hand has to pay for many chemicals, many of them very expensive. He also has to pay for lots of equipment, in order to have a proper lab, so he doesn't burn his house down. This is why I think programming is so great. It lets you be very creative and productive, without paying tons for equipment and supplies.
The problem is, is that once your patent expires, anybody can make your drug and sell it. If you are in the business of making new drugs, then you have to come up with a new drug, to replace the drug that everyone else is also making. If you are in the business of producing already known drugs and selling them, this is competely sustainable. If you are in the business of coming up with new drugs and selling those, there will come a point when there is no more need for businesses coming up with new drugs, or at least a reduced need, in which all the companies which currently do this cannot survive.
I wasn't referring to any specific clothing company, but rather clothing as a whole. People will always need clothes, and therefore, there will always be a clothing industry, regardless of where it's located. On the other hand, drug companies had it easy before they cured most of the diseases. As more diseases get cured, there is less business for them, and the industry as a whole suffers. Once there are no more diseases to cure, there is nothing on which to have an industry, except in production, which isn't really the same business.
But decades isn't really all that long in a sustainable business sense. Clothes would be sustainable, because everyone wears clothes, and clothes wear out, thereby creating the need for new clothes. Creating new drugs is not sustainable because you start off with a lot of diseases to cure, and eventually, you cure them all (hopefully). Unless new diseases are coming out at a rate that you can sustain your business, then making new drugs is not sustainable. In the same way, cutting trees isn't sustainable unless you replant the trees. Curing diseases isn't sustainable unless you create new diseases.
Yeah, but most above ground pools i'v seen require no digging. Maybe some leveling. But it's kind of hard to have a pool if your landscape isn't mostly level already.
This is just relaying the problem. Instead of you notifying 7 companies, you call someone else, and they notify the 7 companies, which makes 7 people come and put flags all over the property. The 7 companies still have to be notified, and 7 people have to be sent out. Completely inefficient.
You shouldn't have to make the call in the first place. Because you'd have to call the phone, power, gas, internet, cable, and about 7 other organizations to figure out if there was anything down there. An easier way would be to have it centallized in a database. You type in where you want to dig, In GPS coordinates, and it tells you what is located underneath, if anything.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but how does an argument about children finding/looking at porn fall into the same area as child porn. 13 years olds will look because they are interested, they always have, even before the internet. Yet somehow they are now making the argument that stopping children from looking at porn, will somehow stop child porn.
Despite what the policy might say, it's my experience that professors don't enforce it that strictly. Because in computer science, it's often hard to tell if someone is cheating, because following proper procedures, for small assignments, things often end up looking very much the same. Also, the use of IDE's to format code means that all the code and even the comments end up looking very much the same, often with just different wording. I think it's hard to make a case against someone who cheated. Because of this, they usually just give you a 0 on the assignment, and then if they catch you another one or two times, you're out of the course. I don't know anybody who was kicked out of the programme for cheating. Although I'm sure it happened.
I guess that depends on where you live. I also graduated last spring, and all my classmates (that I know of) have found good jobs. We didn't get people running up and giving us jobs, but we applied for jobs and got them. Mind you, this was Software engineering, with Coop, so we all had experience. I think the most important thing you can do in school, apart from actually doing the work, and learning the material, is to get into the co-op program, and get some real world experience. It pays well too and helps to keep the student loans at a minimum.
It really depends on the way your brain works. I know people who really struggled through it, despite studying almost every night. Myself, I just breezed through it. On the other hand, I struggled with calculus, whereas the others did quite well in that. For some reason, linear algebra just made sense to me. So much so, that I took linear algebra 2, as an elective, because I found the first one so interesting. Don't take it from me as not being that hard, But as far as i'm concerned, there wasn't a lot of stuff to memorize, just a certain level of understanding that you have to get. Calculus on the other hand was hard for me, because for integration/derivation, there's about 50 methods that we had to employ to to integrate and derive different equations. I never found that there was any real understanding in that, other than, The integral is the area under the graph, and the derivitive is the slope of the graph. Everything else seemed to be memorization of how to actually do the integration/derivation.
Yeah, it's amazing the number of people who just type in URLs. But, I think they get a lot of wasted bandwidth because of it. They probably get a lot of traffic from people who don't bring them any revenue. Seriously, I don't know how porn makes any money with the amount of free stuff available.
2 Words. "Educational Programming" Maybe then, the average person wouldn't be so oblivious to the world around them.
Also a good point to note, is that with the advent of Satellite radio with no commercials, who's going to put up with radio for that much longer. If you listen to the radio more than 1 hour per day, it's probably worth it. At $15 per month, it comes out to $0.50 per day. I think that most people would gladly eat that cost for the thought of radio without commercials. I don't listen to the radio, but the reasons I stopped is because there was too many commercials, songs were repeated too much, and DJs were just as bad as the commercials. I think that Satellite radio has cleared up every reason why I don't listen to radio, and I am thinking of getting one. I wonder when the same will happen with TV. How much a month would you pay for advertisement free TV?
I really like the Idea of the On/Off toggle. This would come in useful, when people decide to take the stairs. They could be courteous and turn it off, or motion/heat sensors could detect if the person left. This would also be nice inside the elevator, when you happen to press the wrong button. I think eliminating stops that aren't even needed would speed up the elevators much more than all this smart elevator stuff.
No, it would work the same way as the elevators do now. The more you press the button, the faster it comes. :)
Just because I use math to describe my invention, doesn't mean that my invention is a mathematical algorithm. The way a toaster works can be explained using mathmatics, but you also have to use physics and chemistry to explain how the electricity makes the element hot, how the heat gets to the bread, and why the bread turns brown when the heat is applied to the toast. Just because you use math to describe the physics and the chemisry, doesn't mean that your invention is math. If you look at RSA, it is only mathematical steps, and doesn't need any tangible objects, only numbers being manipulated. A toaster require physical things such as the toast, the heating elements, and electrons moving though them.
Just because a mathematical algorithm is non-trivial, doesn't mean you can patent it. Most of the new stuff that mathematicians come up with is non-trivial. The fact of the matter is, is that math is patentable. If all your invention is, is a series of mathematical operations, then that shouldn't be patentable. Most software is either A) implementing some new mathematical algorithm, and although, non-trivial, is not patentable, because it is a mathematical algorithm, or B), is the usage of these algorithms in a certain order, which usually is pretty trivial, to anybody skilled in the field.