I didn't stop it. I guess it simply timed out. I guess, therefore, that the servers that host acid3 only got a 3/100 on their slashdot test. Just running the test now gave me 50/100.
Where do you go to school? Perhaps you should have applied and gone somewhere that was a challenge to you. Certainly you wouldn't be saying this if you took Econ at Priceton, UC, Stanford, etc?
True, more and more people are going on to college. But realistically, the same percentage are actually getting educated as always.
You saying that the BS is the new high school diploma ignores the vast variability in WHERE that BS came from. That matters, a lot, whether we like to admit it or not. Your school may be one such that a BS is a high school diploma. So why are you at that school?
what these courses cover is rediculously easy.
I now see why... Normally I never respond to AC posts, but here I'll bite.
I'm going to the most prestegious school I can afford. It's also the most competative out of the universities I applied to (which were limited to universities I could afford to attend.) I go to UW-Madison. Widely regarded (although the accuracy of which is debatable) as one of the public Ivy's. It may not be as prestigious as Princeton or Stanford, but it doesn't have a bad reputation by any means. In other words, not supposed to be a schmuck school. I could've gone to the University of Minnesota had I wanted to. I'm originally from Minnesota, and so it was no surprise that my parents and brother (who went to the U) pressured me to go to UofM. However, I chose UW-Madison, am enrolled as a business student, and am graduating this semester from my 3-year stint while double-majoring in Finance, Investment & Banking as well as Economics. I could have done Economics - Math Emphasis if I wanted to, but then I would've had to stay for a 7th semester. If I had actually studied for my econ courses and put a little more effort math and statistics (I should have put more in,) I have no doubts that I could've taken graduate-level economics courses. Taking Econometrics, however, would've been over-the-top, as it would have essentially required taking two advanced-calculus classes, and I the last math course I've taken was Intermediate Calc 3 (Intro to Multivariate Calculus,) so I would have had to take 4 or 5 additional math classes just to take Econometrics. To give the department some credit, its statistics courses are challenging. They're significantly more difficult than the statistics courses taught in the business school.
If I had wanted to be challenged for Economics, I would have tacked on majoring in Math. However, there is no reason why the economics department is so lax with regards to math. Despite their philosophy, understanding the concepts is only a start; it's not good enough.
So, I hope that computer science graduation is down because those that belong there are attending. Not those that just want to make big bucks because it's an "in profession". I believe I'm not alone here in saying that this applies to the majority of people earning Bachelors' Degrees. The Bachelors' is the new highschool diploma, while the Masters' is the new Bachelors'. Fortunately, the PhD. is still the PhD.
Seriously, though; when I look through my economics courses, I wonder how half of the people managed to get in to the university. I also wonder how half of the people left (1/4 of the total, for those of you who are in the 1/2 that shouldn't be in the University) are in the Senior level courses. Then I pay attention to what the professor is saying and realize that what these courses cover is rediculously easy. For the first exam this semester for my senior-level econ course, I studied approx. 2-3 hours. I got 92%. About 10% of the class scored just as well as I did or better. In my senior-level econ course last semester, I studied more (probably ~5-10 hours per exam) and got ~73% for each exam, which curved to be a comfortable A (I don't recall anyone getting more than 80% on a single exam, the highest score I recall was a 78), which again put me in the top 10%. The only difference between these two courses was that one had about 25 people in it, the other has about 120. Neither involves any significant math skills; the most advanced math I've had to use was partial derivatives for an intermediate micro course.
The economy is tanking due to the Republicans. Whomever the next president will be is about to oversee the greatest collapse we've seen since the Great Depression, as the only thing shoring up our economy at the moment is over $600 billion of loaned capitol which is going to baloon to $2 trillion by years end at the current pace. If I were a strategist, I would throw the election, to let the Republicans take it, and watch as everything collapses around them. The only problem with that theory, though, is that they have to win eventually, otherwise they'll just be seen as incompetent. I'm convinced that they intentionally screwed over the 2004 election by choosing a candidate who didn't pose that much of a change from Bush. They sacraficed 2 supreme court justices and 4 years of power because they knew that there was no way that anyone could turn Iraq around in 4 years. So instead, they figured they'd let the GOP take the blame. Since Iraq would fall into such a horrible state, the majority of the public would forgive them in 2012 for not getting Iraq back up to 80% normalicy of where it was in 2000 because of how horrible of conditions it was in by the time they got to power.
If I were a Democratic strategist, I would say forthright, right now, that Florida and Michigan's delegate votes will not count for 2008. I would go further and say "Hey, don't blame the Democratic Party, blame your states for breaking the rules. We stated up-front what the consequences would be for states who vote early and, hence, break the rules."
Then I would reminisce about FDR bringing the US out of the Great Depression*. I would also recall Roosevelt's NRA (National Recovery Act) and tout its slogan of "We Do Our Part." Nothing makes Americans more proud than hearing how they made America and the world better during the time period of ~1938-1946. Well, maybe by recalling the American Revolution while omitting the colonists' use of guerilla warfare, but we still hate Hitler more than King George, although it would be convenient to connect the two names...
*Despite the fact that FDR didn't do that, the US's neutrality during WW2 and supplying both the Allies and the Axis with food and machinery/munitions did just that. By the time the Japanese empire attacked Pearl Harbor, the US economy had essentially recovered from the crash of 1928.
I figure XFS, Reiser4, Ext4, or the like should buy me some time. Figuring that Windows has 90%+ of the market share, I should be safe from most mischevious people that would break in to my home to steal my stuff.
Pakistan will take care of that by reducing demand. After all, how can you watch videos on Youtube if you can't even get to youtube.com? Don't start with me about embedded videos on 3rd party websites, you smartasses
Too many who fly simply don't understand that it's a cooperative effort. Bag overhead, get in your seat, buckle up. Wait until you're up above 10,000 feet before you stand up to dig out your laptop or MP3 player (you can't run it until that point, anyway). Take your jacket off before you board the plane. If you have an aisle seat, wait until near the end of your section/group is called since you'll have to get up anyway to let the window seat in; if you're a window seat, queue up first in our group. I agree with the comments about people who are not ready are the ones who hold up the queue for everyone else. However, I've noticed that the stewartesses/flight attendants don't care (for me, at least) about electronics being on. I got yelled at once by a stewart for having my cell phone out one time, but otherwise, I kept my headphones on during their whole presentation for buckling up and learning how to use floatation devices when the flight never crosses a body of water. Maybe I just got lucky, or maybe it was because the flight was an 11:00am flight on a Monday, when the only people that were flying were business people and myself (who was flying to an interview for a job.) The joys of not flying with families....
Sooo many people oppose the theory of evolution because they don't know what it is. I'm willing to wager that at least 99% of these people are of Judeo-Christian-Islamic faith. These people oppose the theory because they claim the Earth is only ~6000 years old or so. However, the theory of evolution makes no assumptions about how old the Earth is. What these people are ignorant of is that they are confusing the theory of Evolution, which deals purely with biology, with the Big Bang theory, which deals more with physics and astronomy.
So, in short: Theory of Evolution!=Big Bang Theory
requiring convicted criminals to use a vpn would be a step in the right direction. I would love to see the results of only restricting convicted pedo's to only VPN's.
Pedo 1: a.s.l? Pedo 2: 13, f, nyc. u? Pedo 1: 12, f, nyc 2! Hmm, a network of only 13-year-olds.... So the real question is, would it be one giant digg?
I can see this surviving for some programs, for many programs, in fact. The system I envision is one where the P2P is limited to subscribers of the ISP (of course, there will be people to find out how to get around this part,) and because the traffic stays within the ISP's lines, then it helps alleviate the fears about the internet backbones being too saturated.
However, there are too many programs that people want to watch *right away.* Remember, contrary to the/. meme, loads of people watch sports events, and love it or hate it, programs like American Idol "rely" on interactive viewers. Delaying the "broadcast" by 3 hours because of availability of peers won't affect programs that people regularly record (e.g. the evening news, the latest episode of Doctor Who, etc) but it will affect programs whose main draws are that they're live and/or interactive.
In reality, the "free" stuff is not really all that competitive with products that are expensive. I'll be sure to tell that to the Mozilla Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation the next time I see them. I'll also be sure IBM gets the memo.
There are tons of commerical software that are not competitive with products that are "free." However, rather than dieing on sourceforge or freshmeat, they die on random, isolated servers or in brick & mortar stores.
You *do* know that Microsoft existed before Windows, right? And that Windows 1.0 wasn't graphical, at that, right?
I remember having plenty of fun with DOS. I also remember having plenty of fun with Apple IIe's. And as far as I know, both of those predate Linux, although I suppose BSD predates all of the above by considerable margins.
(ie, the only football game out there) Konami makes Pro Evolution/Winning Eleven, which is touted as the most realistic football game out there and has a very dedicated fanbase.
Oh, you ment American football. Gotcha.... As far as I'm concerned, all video games for that sport went downhill after Tecmo Superbowl
Now the 360 is just a game console that plays pretty much the same games as Sony's.... But only for the first two generations or so. Then PS3 games will likely come on BluRay discs, taking advantage of double-digit GB storage capacity while the 360 is still stuck at about 7GB. Now, although the dreamcast had other faults, one of the main reasons why it died was because it only had a CD-ROM drive. Had the system come equipped with a DVD-ROM drive, perhaps it would've lasted longer. Nobody likes popping discs in and out when they're supposed to have an immersive experience. This goes for music, movies, and games alike.
The B-2 has an internal crew of 2. That's ignoring all of the ground crew, like Air Traffic Control and mechanics. The real size of the B-2 crew is considerably greater than 2.
Assuming that copyright infringement is wrong (which is not unanimously concluded here at/.,) who is it that commits the wrong?
A) The person making the "goods" available without permission? B) The person who acquires said goods without IP holder's permission/going through the legal channels of acquiring said "goods?" C) A&B?
Or, you know, during the night. In my climate, we get 9 hours of sunlight in the winter. In Alaska, they get much less. So, given that the "car typically sits around for 75% of the day doing nothing," and it can only charge for roughly 33% of the day, you're looking at getting some sort of passive power production that can make energy at 75% of the rate that it consumes said energy.
This is also assuming that you don't park your car in a garage or ramp at work, and that you don't park it under a tree. It's also assuming that you park it on the street, as opposed to in your garage. Granted, these problems could be bypassed by having the power production on the roof of your house, but then where are you going to produce the energy for all the appliances in your home?
And Linux can also be configured to reboot on automatic updates if you so desire.
Feature or bug? The only time I have to reboot my desktop is when I upgrade the kernel. Not when I install random application X, not when I upgrade my video drivers, not when I upgrade my desktop environment or window manager. And how often do I upgrade my kernel? Maybe 3 times a year, if that.
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I didn't stop it. I guess it simply timed out. I guess, therefore, that the servers that host acid3 only got a 3/100 on their slashdot test. Just running the test now gave me 50/100.
True, more and more people are going on to college. But realistically, the same percentage are actually getting educated as always.
You saying that the BS is the new high school diploma ignores the vast variability in WHERE that BS came from. That matters, a lot, whether we like to admit it or not. Your school may be one such that a BS is a high school diploma. So why are you at that school?
what these courses cover is rediculously easy.
I now see why... Normally I never respond to AC posts, but here I'll bite.
I'm going to the most prestegious school I can afford. It's also the most competative out of the universities I applied to (which were limited to universities I could afford to attend.) I go to UW-Madison. Widely regarded (although the accuracy of which is debatable) as one of the public Ivy's. It may not be as prestigious as Princeton or Stanford, but it doesn't have a bad reputation by any means. In other words, not supposed to be a schmuck school. I could've gone to the University of Minnesota had I wanted to. I'm originally from Minnesota, and so it was no surprise that my parents and brother (who went to the U) pressured me to go to UofM. However, I chose UW-Madison, am enrolled as a business student, and am graduating this semester from my 3-year stint while double-majoring in Finance, Investment & Banking as well as Economics. I could have done Economics - Math Emphasis if I wanted to, but then I would've had to stay for a 7th semester. If I had actually studied for my econ courses and put a little more effort math and statistics (I should have put more in,) I have no doubts that I could've taken graduate-level economics courses. Taking Econometrics, however, would've been over-the-top, as it would have essentially required taking two advanced-calculus classes, and I the last math course I've taken was Intermediate Calc 3 (Intro to Multivariate Calculus,) so I would have had to take 4 or 5 additional math classes just to take Econometrics. To give the department some credit, its statistics courses are challenging. They're significantly more difficult than the statistics courses taught in the business school.
If I had wanted to be challenged for Economics, I would have tacked on majoring in Math. However, there is no reason why the economics department is so lax with regards to math. Despite their philosophy, understanding the concepts is only a start; it's not good enough.
Maybe there should be a slashdot3 test. First client is acid3
I scored 3/100 here.
Using Epiphany 2.20.3
Seriously, though; when I look through my economics courses, I wonder how half of the people managed to get in to the university. I also wonder how half of the people left (1/4 of the total, for those of you who are in the 1/2 that shouldn't be in the University) are in the Senior level courses. Then I pay attention to what the professor is saying and realize that what these courses cover is rediculously easy. For the first exam this semester for my senior-level econ course, I studied approx. 2-3 hours. I got 92%. About 10% of the class scored just as well as I did or better. In my senior-level econ course last semester, I studied more (probably ~5-10 hours per exam) and got ~73% for each exam, which curved to be a comfortable A (I don't recall anyone getting more than 80% on a single exam, the highest score I recall was a 78), which again put me in the top 10%. The only difference between these two courses was that one had about 25 people in it, the other has about 120. Neither involves any significant math skills; the most advanced math I've had to use was partial derivatives for an intermediate micro course.
If I were a Democratic strategist, I would say forthright, right now, that Florida and Michigan's delegate votes will not count for 2008. I would go further and say "Hey, don't blame the Democratic Party, blame your states for breaking the rules. We stated up-front what the consequences would be for states who vote early and, hence, break the rules."
Then I would reminisce about FDR bringing the US out of the Great Depression*. I would also recall Roosevelt's NRA (National Recovery Act) and tout its slogan of "We Do Our Part." Nothing makes Americans more proud than hearing how they made America and the world better during the time period of ~1938-1946. Well, maybe by recalling the American Revolution while omitting the colonists' use of guerilla warfare, but we still hate Hitler more than King George, although it would be convenient to connect the two names...
*Despite the fact that FDR didn't do that, the US's neutrality during WW2 and supplying both the Allies and the Axis with food and machinery/munitions did just that. By the time the Japanese empire attacked Pearl Harbor, the US economy had essentially recovered from the crash of 1928.
I figure XFS, Reiser4, Ext4, or the like should buy me some time. Figuring that Windows has 90%+ of the market share, I should be safe from most mischevious people that would break in to my home to steal my stuff.
Pakistan will take care of that by reducing demand. After all, how can you watch videos on Youtube if you can't even get to youtube.com? Don't start with me about embedded videos on 3rd party websites, you smartasses
Would this qualify as 11?
Sooo many people oppose the theory of evolution because they don't know what it is. I'm willing to wager that at least 99% of these people are of Judeo-Christian-Islamic faith. These people oppose the theory because they claim the Earth is only ~6000 years old or so. However, the theory of evolution makes no assumptions about how old the Earth is. What these people are ignorant of is that they are confusing the theory of Evolution, which deals purely with biology, with the Big Bang theory, which deals more with physics and astronomy.
So, in short:
Theory of Evolution!=Big Bang Theory
Pedo 2: 13, f, nyc. u?
Pedo 1: 12, f, nyc 2! Hmm, a network of only 13-year-olds.... So the real question is, would it be one giant digg?
I can see this surviving for some programs, for many programs, in fact. The system I envision is one where the P2P is limited to subscribers of the ISP (of course, there will be people to find out how to get around this part,) and because the traffic stays within the ISP's lines, then it helps alleviate the fears about the internet backbones being too saturated.
/. meme, loads of people watch sports events, and love it or hate it, programs like American Idol "rely" on interactive viewers. Delaying the "broadcast" by 3 hours because of availability of peers won't affect programs that people regularly record (e.g. the evening news, the latest episode of Doctor Who, etc) but it will affect programs whose main draws are that they're live and/or interactive.
However, there are too many programs that people want to watch *right away.* Remember, contrary to the
There are tons of commerical software that are not competitive with products that are "free." However, rather than dieing on sourceforge or freshmeat, they die on random, isolated servers or in brick & mortar stores.
...G-strings? If there's only one approved website, can we call it the G-spot?
You *do* know that Microsoft existed before Windows, right? And that Windows 1.0 wasn't graphical, at that, right?
I remember having plenty of fun with DOS. I also remember having plenty of fun with Apple IIe's. And as far as I know, both of those predate Linux, although I suppose BSD predates all of the above by considerable margins.
Oh, you ment American football. Gotcha.... As far as I'm concerned, all video games for that sport went downhill after Tecmo Superbowl
The B-2 has an internal crew of 2. That's ignoring all of the ground crew, like Air Traffic Control and mechanics. The real size of the B-2 crew is considerably greater than 2.
The Netscape is dead! Long live the Netscape!
After that, the screens on each key will be covered by cheetos and doritos crumbs
*Ducks*
Assuming that copyright infringement is wrong (which is not unanimously concluded here at /.,) who is it that commits the wrong?
A) The person making the "goods" available without permission?
B) The person who acquires said goods without IP holder's permission/going through the legal channels of acquiring said "goods?"
C) A&B?
See Maya, Shake, Nuke, Houdini, Oracle, BEA WebLogic, DB2, Adobe Acrobat (Reader), Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, and VMWare.
Professionals aren't afraid to use proprietary software. They just want the damn things to work.
Or, you know, during the night. In my climate, we get 9 hours of sunlight in the winter. In Alaska, they get much less. So, given that the "car typically sits around for 75% of the day doing nothing," and it can only charge for roughly 33% of the day, you're looking at getting some sort of passive power production that can make energy at 75% of the rate that it consumes said energy.
This is also assuming that you don't park your car in a garage or ramp at work, and that you don't park it under a tree. It's also assuming that you park it on the street, as opposed to in your garage. Granted, these problems could be bypassed by having the power production on the roof of your house, but then where are you going to produce the energy for all the appliances in your home?
Like what percentage of their users get n or more ads for "Find Hot Singles in your area!" or "Find a Fuck Buddy in your area!"
I hope you lot read the terms of agreement when you signed up for your internet service.
Feature or bug? The only time I have to reboot my desktop is when I upgrade the kernel. Not when I install random application X, not when I upgrade my video drivers, not when I upgrade my desktop environment or window manager. And how often do I upgrade my kernel? Maybe 3 times a year, if that.
Feature or bug?