I went to RIT. A lot of shcools spend more money on upeerclassmen then on the freshman, think about it, the senior year classes SHOULD require more skills/equipment and in the end money then freshman classes. RIT's problem with drop outs has many issues:
1) The accept un-/under-qualified applicants, which they do because they feel this need to fill seat and grow into a larger school. Over the last 10 years they have almost doubled the size.
2) They expect students to realize how crappy they are doing and GET help. If they were to add more "Freshman advisors" and anyone who get's less then a 2.0 GPA in a semister is REQUIRED to talk to one of these people (who makes sure they get the help)
3) It's a hard school, i personal know 2 people who dropped out because they had nervous breakdowns!
Don't bitch about the uperclassman benifiting from the lower classman's tuition, that happens EVERYWHERE. If those 50% that leave freshman year cared about their 26 grand they would have done what they needed to to pass. As you pointed out, all freshman year is English Comp and Lit, Basic Sciences, a few fine arts, total fitness and the activiteis, and maybe 1 class in your major each quarter! If they can't pass that, they would prolly have flunked out almost anywere they went!
Too bad the companies with the moderately deep pockets are the ones that pay well. I work for one with more then "moderately deep pockets" and i like my nice big paycheck.:)
Actually, have you ever tried to write RETURN TO SENDER on a AOL-mailed CD?
The post office won't return it.
Ever taken a bunch of them down to the post office and sent to back certified mail (and request delivery confirmation>?
AOL sends you a Cease and Desist letter.
I'm serious, some friends and I did this in college because we were bored.
Didn't you catch that the converstaion with the councilman down at the machine level in Zion was a really good way for a program in a Meta-Matrix to be seeing if Humans can be ready to put the war behind them and live peacefully with the machines in the real world? They WANT this war to end, but they don't want to reveal the Meta-Matrix unless they are sure the humans won't take the fight back into the real world. If there's a Meta-Matrix or not, the first 2 movies were entertaining and the 3rd one should be as well.:)
Only if there was A LOT of overlap. Different memory chips/main boards (even if they are the exact same model munber) would lead to slightly different results. If you were to set it up in such a way that there were many runs of the same test, and using a composit of ALL results you might get interesting results, but then your error bars would be larger and your results might be meaningless).
Ture, but My sister has an iPod, she bought a CD which had copy protection and was UNABLE to load it onto her iPod. Now she is NOT a power user, she just follows the directions that came w/ the MAC/iPod. Plug in cable, insert CD, click button to copy songs to iPod. Now that it has failed on a Copy protected CD, she KNOWS what copy protection is and won't buy disks with it! So while many people arn't tech savvy enought to download/burn music, these are the people MOST alienated by copy protection. The people who DON'T copy music. The "good" customers, and they are most effected. The tech savvy who download/burn are also the ones who can easily copy protected CDs by getting around copy protection. SO the honest people get pissed, and the people who copy still copy. This will have a VERY similar long term effect to what Intuit saw w/ activation.
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Why not put in a HDD big enough for a WHOLE shift? Then make the drives external and changeable, at the start of a shift the cops insert the drive. It records the whole shift (including all radio traffic). At the end of the shift the WHOLE thing is stored somewhere. This could be seen as a bit of envasion of privacy, but could also protect them in court. There's no way that could really "edit" the tape with it showing.
Ok, So User A buys it, makes a Audio CD which User B rips and puts on a P2P network. The issue is that any system that supports fair DRM uses, is also very easy to abuse. I'm not a fan of locking down eveything w/ DMR and killing fair use, but I can see where the other side stands...and it's not a pretty picture for either side. I don't think it will ever be easy to solve/
Their total sales went up, but I recall reading that their Market Segment Share (how they did relative to competitive products) went down. So More people used software to do their taxes this year, so the pie was bigger, but Intuit got a smaller percentage of the pie. While total sales are important, MSS is JUST and if not MORE important. Here's a referance. Intuit wants to stopp the loss in MSS.
Just remember people have to PAY for each return. So if they sell X copies and get 2X returns online (and there are Y people would bought the software and PRINTED and mailed returnes) the X people paid for the software and 2X - Y paided for on-line filing, X+Y paied for ONLY the online filing....but it's still better then if even 1/2 of them decided to do it by hand and not give ANY money to Intuit!
What about is a cow or two go flying by?
"Actualy I think that was the same cow.":)
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Cool....taht makes sense. I thought you ment you had a pre-release of that one (since i know that there have been pre-releases out since dec of last year). Thanks for clarifying.:)
Well if you live in one of the VERY select cities there ya' go. If not, well you SOL.:(
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Um.....it was release on Jan. 8 2003 (4 M, 1 D ago) how exactly have you been using it for over a year now? If it was functional that long ago they wouldn't have waited till Jan to release it.
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I have a TV tuner and could build one my self, but I would prefer a set top box, that can power itself on to record, that I don't have to run wires to the PC for, that's a NICE unit. If I build on it looks "home built"....too bad they arn't selling any TiVos this way, they are only selling the service to DVD makers who can build it into DVD players. I guess when it comes out I might be looking at a new DVD player:)
Unless you needed the speed. However in reality how quickly do you need to load 100 - 120 gigs of data? There ARE solid state media getting larger and larger and for some applications they are the right choice (digital camera/camcorders for example). The size will continue to increase and the price drop and maybe in 5 years we will see 1 TB solid-state hard drives as a standard. For now, the only time the HDD is really a noticable bottle neck on my PC is between levels in a game, however w/ a gig of ram, once the level is pre-loaded I can play the entire thing and the only time it ever accesses the disks is for saves.:)
Um.....Moore's law says it will double every 18 months. Last time I checked that WAS exponential (not linear). It always looks linear on the graphs because people use logrithmic graph paper. The HDs just have a steeper linear slope on the log paper.:)
It would also open a whole host of ethical concerns.....if there IS life there, can we halt it's evolution so we can live there? Do we try and preserve it? What if it's so different from us that we can learn more about biology from it? Sometimes the importance of a discovery/invention isn't known till it's been made and all the interesting uses start to pop out.:)
Um........oxidization is NOT life....it's a chemical reaction. No life involved. Also you CANNOT have a process (alive or not) that disreguards the laws of chemistry. There's a whole branch of chem (Organic Chemestry) that explains life, and it follows ALL the rules of chem, it just add a whole bunch of new ones on top of the basic ones. Yes looking for things that are "odd" can lead to finding life, but it's not proff of life, and if we find something that violates the laws of Chem that's not life, it's just time for new laws!
You do realize that they aren't talking about little green men right? They are talking about microscopic organisims, and to the best of our scientific knowledge there's alot of variation possible, but it's all largly the same. In fact if it's as "different" as you are suggesting it will probably be different enough that neither NASA's or the ESA's probes would ahve the equipment to detect it. They are depending on "life" there haveing the same building block as "life" here.:)
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I went to RIT. A lot of shcools spend more money on upeerclassmen then on the freshman, think about it, the senior year classes SHOULD require more skills/equipment and in the end money then freshman classes. RIT's problem with drop outs has many issues:
1) The accept un-/under-qualified applicants, which they do because they feel this need to fill seat and grow into a larger school. Over the last 10 years they have almost doubled the size.
2) They expect students to realize how crappy they are doing and GET help. If they were to add more "Freshman advisors" and anyone who get's less then a 2.0 GPA in a semister is REQUIRED to talk to one of these people (who makes sure they get the help)
3) It's a hard school, i personal know 2 people who dropped out because they had nervous breakdowns!
Don't bitch about the uperclassman benifiting from the lower classman's tuition, that happens EVERYWHERE. If those 50% that leave freshman year cared about their 26 grand they would have done what they needed to to pass. As you pointed out, all freshman year is English Comp and Lit, Basic Sciences, a few fine arts, total fitness and the activiteis, and maybe 1 class in your major each quarter! If they can't pass that, they would prolly have flunked out almost anywere they went!
.....it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end. :)
Too bad the companies with the moderately deep pockets are the ones that pay well. I work for one with more then "moderately deep pockets" and i like my nice big paycheck. :)
Damn I wish I had mod points, that's the funniest thing on /. yet today. :)
Actually, have you ever tried to write RETURN TO SENDER on a AOL-mailed CD?
The post office won't return it.
Ever taken a bunch of them down to the post office and sent to back certified mail (and request delivery confirmation>?
AOL sends you a Cease and Desist letter.
I'm serious, some friends and I did this in college because we were bored.
At an anti-farm of course. :)
Didn't you catch that the converstaion with the councilman down at the machine level in Zion was a really good way for a program in a Meta-Matrix to be seeing if Humans can be ready to put the war behind them and live peacefully with the machines in the real world? They WANT this war to end, but they don't want to reveal the Meta-Matrix unless they are sure the humans won't take the fight back into the real world. If there's a Meta-Matrix or not, the first 2 movies were entertaining and the 3rd one should be as well. :)
Only if there was A LOT of overlap. Different memory chips/main boards (even if they are the exact same model munber) would lead to slightly different results. If you were to set it up in such a way that there were many runs of the same test, and using a composit of ALL results you might get interesting results, but then your error bars would be larger and your results might be meaningless).
Ture, but My sister has an iPod, she bought a CD which had copy protection and was UNABLE to load it onto her iPod. Now she is NOT a power user, she just follows the directions that came w/ the MAC/iPod. Plug in cable, insert CD, click button to copy songs to iPod. Now that it has failed on a Copy protected CD, she KNOWS what copy protection is and won't buy disks with it! So while many people arn't tech savvy enought to download/burn music, these are the people MOST alienated by copy protection. The people who DON'T copy music. The "good" customers, and they are most effected. The tech savvy who download/burn are also the ones who can easily copy protected CDs by getting around copy protection. SO the honest people get pissed, and the people who copy still copy. This will have a VERY similar long term effect to what Intuit saw w/ activation.
Why not put in a HDD big enough for a WHOLE shift? Then make the drives external and changeable, at the start of a shift the cops insert the drive. It records the whole shift (including all radio traffic). At the end of the shift the WHOLE thing is stored somewhere. This could be seen as a bit of envasion of privacy, but could also protect them in court. There's no way that could really "edit" the tape with it showing.
Ok, So User A buys it, makes a Audio CD which User B rips and puts on a P2P network. The issue is that any system that supports fair DRM uses, is also very easy to abuse. I'm not a fan of locking down eveything w/ DMR and killing fair use, but I can see where the other side stands...and it's not a pretty picture for either side. I don't think it will ever be easy to solve/
Their total sales went up, but I recall reading that their Market Segment Share (how they did relative to competitive products) went down. So More people used software to do their taxes this year, so the pie was bigger, but Intuit got a smaller percentage of the pie. While total sales are important, MSS is JUST and if not MORE important. Here's a referance. Intuit wants to stopp the loss in MSS.
Just remember people have to PAY for each return. So if they sell X copies and get 2X returns online (and there are Y people would bought the software and PRINTED and mailed returnes) the X people paid for the software and 2X - Y paided for on-line filing, X+Y paied for ONLY the online filing....but it's still better then if even 1/2 of them decided to do it by hand and not give ANY money to Intuit!
If the sky is green, there's a problem
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What about is a cow or two go flying by?
"Actualy I think that was the same cow."
Cool....taht makes sense. I thought you ment you had a pre-release of that one (since i know that there have been pre-releases out since dec of last year). Thanks for clarifying. :)
Well if you live in one of the VERY select cities there ya' go. If not, well you SOL. :(
Um.....it was release on Jan. 8 2003 (4 M, 1 D ago) how exactly have you been using it for over a year now? If it was functional that long ago they wouldn't have waited till Jan to release it.
I have a TV tuner and could build one my self, but I would prefer a set top box, that can power itself on to record, that I don't have to run wires to the PC for, that's a NICE unit. If I build on it looks "home built"....too bad they arn't selling any TiVos this way, they are only selling the service to DVD makers who can build it into DVD players. I guess when it comes out I might be looking at a new DVD player :)
Unless you needed the speed. However in reality how quickly do you need to load 100 - 120 gigs of data? There ARE solid state media getting larger and larger and for some applications they are the right choice (digital camera/camcorders for example). The size will continue to increase and the price drop and maybe in 5 years we will see 1 TB solid-state hard drives as a standard. For now, the only time the HDD is really a noticable bottle neck on my PC is between levels in a game, however w/ a gig of ram, once the level is pre-loaded I can play the entire thing and the only time it ever accesses the disks is for saves. :)
Um.....Moore's law says it will double every 18 months. Last time I checked that WAS exponential (not linear). It always looks linear on the graphs because people use logrithmic graph paper. The HDs just have a steeper linear slope on the log paper. :)
Um....there's SATA on the radar screens :). It is worth the cost of moving to a faster media. :)
It would also open a whole host of ethical concerns.....if there IS life there, can we halt it's evolution so we can live there? Do we try and preserve it? What if it's so different from us that we can learn more about biology from it? Sometimes the importance of a discovery/invention isn't known till it's been made and all the interesting uses start to pop out. :)
Um........oxidization is NOT life....it's a chemical reaction. No life involved. Also you CANNOT have a process (alive or not) that disreguards the laws of chemistry. There's a whole branch of chem (Organic Chemestry) that explains life, and it follows ALL the rules of chem, it just add a whole bunch of new ones on top of the basic ones. Yes looking for things that are "odd" can lead to finding life, but it's not proff of life, and if we find something that violates the laws of Chem that's not life, it's just time for new laws!
That or "Lifeform" :)
You do realize that they aren't talking about little green men right? They are talking about microscopic organisims, and to the best of our scientific knowledge there's alot of variation possible, but it's all largly the same. In fact if it's as "different" as you are suggesting it will probably be different enough that neither NASA's or the ESA's probes would ahve the equipment to detect it. They are depending on "life" there haveing the same building block as "life" here. :)