Well, there are two ways to pick a college. One is to go to a prestigious college, [...] It doesn't matter what happened in the classroom as long as you have that brand behind you. Claudia and I were up at Harvard talking to students, and they said they get nothing from their classes
I don't think this is true. I went to Cambridge, and everything I've experienced and heard about other universities, including from exchange students at MIT is that the 'more prestigious' universities *are* harder. Certainly I didn't "get nothing" from the course. That's just silly.
The second reason to go to college is get a good liberal arts education.
Wait, what? What happened to science?
[The professors] provide a good education because they don't expect professors to do research.
Yeah there's some truth in this, but if they aren't doing research it probably means they aren't at the cutting edge of knowledge. And they *do* teach the cutting edge to undergrads (or at least they did for me).
[Saying everyone should major in arts:] They can always learn vocational things later, on the job. They can even get an engineering degree later—by the way, in two years rather than four.
Riiighht... I don't think I need to go on. I do think they are right about publishing though. The whole thing is a scam. Many journals even charge authors to publish!
I never said you could. You seem confused. There is no need for key exchange in thhis case. They just needed to use a better encryption method, e.g. AES.
They don't need to. Diffie-Hellman is for key exchange, but the mobile company already has a copy of the key stored on your SIM card, so they don't need to do any key exchange.
The problem is that they used weak encryption, not that they used symmetric encryption.
Hooray! Now we just need to stop all those people saying "an historic", which is especially weird because I bet they don't say "an house" or "an horse" or "an history of over-correction".
I think it results from primary school teaching of "rules" like "i before e except after c", or "an goes before vowels", which people then go on to apply blindly.
What they should reaally do, is physical games. I.e. like Wii Fit, but not really boring. E.g. something like whack-a-mole, but with boxing instead of a hammer!
it's not Google's fault that Motorola is so blatantly circumventing the spirit of the OS
I disagree. Maybe at the beginning Google had to bow to phone manufacturer's wishes, but I think it is popular enough now that they can add a few more requirements in return for getting all the Google apps. For example:
* You have to provide Android upgrades for a year after the EOL of the phone. * You can unlock the bootloader in the same way as the nexus one (but it can void the warranty). * You have to provide a non-skinned ROM option. * The phone has to pass some kind of conformance test. Maybe they already do this, but it's clearly not a great test if the they do; e.g. most phones don't support call recording, behave very differently when they are sleeping, and so on.
This is basically what the nexus one does. You can unlock it, but it voids your warranty, and adds an unlocked padlock icon to the boot screen to show that you have unlocked it.
Watts per day really pisses me off. You even get it on technical blobs like Engadget, who should know better. Then again, they are also stupid enough to think a "$100" phone is much better value than a "$200" phone...
I disagree. Stating an amount of money is an important and common enough thing that it deserves its own symbol. It also prevents confusion in some cases, e.g. what if you're buying a 15R resistor?
Bullshit. You're supposed to put a comma where it helps the flow. There's no need to make up silly rules. Personally I think most people are too comma heavy; I certainly wouldn't put the comma before 'because' in your examples.
This is definitely true, but it is also true that a lot of criticism for programs are along the lines of:
"Sure it slices bread, but why can't it teleport me to the moon? What a POS!"
I think most FOSS developers aren't short on ideas to implement; they *are* short on time and money and even constructive criticism doesn't help with that.
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Well, there are two ways to pick a college. One is to go to a prestigious college, [...] It doesn't matter what happened in the classroom as long as you have that brand behind you. Claudia and I were up at Harvard talking to students, and they said they get nothing from their classes
I don't think this is true. I went to Cambridge, and everything I've experienced and heard about other universities, including from exchange students at MIT is that the 'more prestigious' universities *are* harder. Certainly I didn't "get nothing" from the course. That's just silly.
The second reason to go to college is get a good liberal arts education.
Wait, what? What happened to science?
[The professors] provide a good education because they don't expect professors to do research.
Yeah there's some truth in this, but if they aren't doing research it probably means they aren't at the cutting edge of knowledge. And they *do* teach the cutting edge to undergrads (or at least they did for me).
[Saying everyone should major in arts:] They can always learn vocational things later, on the job. They can even get an engineering degree later—by the way, in two years rather than four.
Riiighht... I don't think I need to go on. I do think they are right about publishing though. The whole thing is a scam. Many journals even charge authors to publish!
I never said you could. You seem confused. There is no need for key exchange in thhis case. They just needed to use a better encryption method, e.g. AES.
Erm, it is. They just cracked the encryption algorithm.
They don't need to. Diffie-Hellman is for key exchange, but the mobile company already has a copy of the key stored on your SIM card, so they don't need to do any key exchange.
The problem is that they used weak encryption, not that they used symmetric encryption.
Maybe so, but signal attenuation isn't the only factor - probably more important is the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
Yeah that is a great idea. E.g. I haven't played it but dwarf fortress could easily teach you about geology.
It has to be fun, plus informative though. I think many times they don't bother with the fun.
Hooray! Now we just need to stop all those people saying "an historic", which is especially weird because I bet they don't say "an house" or "an horse" or "an history of over-correction".
I think it results from primary school teaching of "rules" like "i before e except after c", or "an goes before vowels", which people then go on to apply blindly.
What they should reaally do, is physical games. I.e. like Wii Fit, but not really boring. E.g. something like whack-a-mole, but with boxing instead of a hammer!
(unless what they send you is a password that you typed in when you signed up).
Yeah I was referring to this.
A fridge using 41.66W * 24 hours uses 1000Wh.
A light bulb using 10W * 168 hours uses 1680Wh.
That is exactly correct (* = 'for'). Do some research, or ask someone with an Engineering degree (i.e. me).
You're not a journalist are you?
For *your* benefit, Watts per hour is NOT a unit of power or energy. Let me illustrate by analogy with speeds:
Watt: power
Watt-hour: energy (I.e. energy transfered in one our at one Watt)
Knot: speed
Knot-hour: distance (I.e. distance travelled in one our at one knot)
Watts per hour is as nonsensical as knots per hour or MPH per hour....
Don't worry, hardly anyone gets this right.
Yeah I can't count the number of times I've signed up to some web site, only to be emailed my password.
it's not Google's fault that Motorola is so blatantly circumventing the spirit of the OS
I disagree. Maybe at the beginning Google had to bow to phone manufacturer's wishes, but I think it is popular enough now that they can add a few more requirements in return for getting all the Google apps. For example:
* You have to provide Android upgrades for a year after the EOL of the phone.
* You can unlock the bootloader in the same way as the nexus one (but it can void the warranty).
* You have to provide a non-skinned ROM option.
* The phone has to pass some kind of conformance test. Maybe they already do this, but it's clearly not a great test if the they do; e.g. most phones don't support call recording, behave very differently when they are sleeping, and so on.
This is basically what the nexus one does. You can unlock it, but it voids your warranty, and adds an unlocked padlock icon to the boot screen to show that you have unlocked it.
Watts per day really pisses me off. You even get it on technical blobs like Engadget, who should know better. Then again, they are also stupid enough to think a "$100" phone is much better value than a "$200" phone...
Actually I just typed it (alt-gr + 4). Maybe slashdot have finally fixed their system!
€€€
£££ (pounds never worked before)
I'm not confused. In addition to denoting a resistance by Ohms, they are often labelled like this:
1R2 = 1.2 Ohm
1k2 = 1.2 kOhm
1M2 = 1.2 MOhm
(i.e. the letter replaces the decimal point and also indicates the SI prefix.)
And so on, so 1500R would be 1500 Ohm (although you'd probably use 1k5).
I disagree. Stating an amount of money is an important and common enough thing that it deserves its own symbol. It also prevents confusion in some cases, e.g. what if you're buying a 15R resistor?
And € is great.
Can I get a "Well duh!"?
Unlikely. You can already do full-screen flash and (somewhat amazingly) it hasn't been abused as far as I know.
Chrome has added a javascript full-screen video API, and Firefox has a non-javascript full-screen context menu item for HTML5 videos.
Bullshit. You're supposed to put a comma where it helps the flow. There's no need to make up silly rules. Personally I think most people are too comma heavy; I certainly wouldn't put the comma before 'because' in your examples.
This is definitely true, but it is also true that a lot of criticism for programs are along the lines of:
"Sure it slices bread, but why can't it teleport me to the moon? What a POS!"
I think most FOSS developers aren't short on ideas to implement; they *are* short on time and money and even constructive criticism doesn't help with that.
"Bang Goes the Theory" did it. They guy on there seems a lot better at making stuff work than the mythbusters team.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1qoINo2MPM
When government fucks with free markets, the customer loses, always.
Absolutely right. Except with railways.
And telecoms, and energy.
And insurance, and finance and retail and marketing.
And health care.
Always.
Is it illegal to burn your own house down (making sure there is no-one inside)?