I'm a nerd. A lot of my friends are nerds. I work full time for other nerds. Please believe me when I say that I've met my share of nerds that are not enlightened. In fact, I've met some pretty damn dumb nerds over the years.
I am very much on the side of individuals having a right to privacy but since when does a business have a right to privacy? I say screw the corporate fat cats.
How about this, an airline that doesn't try and serve me crappy food and half a can of pop or wow me with seat back entrainment? But instead one that gives me a wider seat and a little more leg room.
When I was a CS student I watched the faculty have this conversation a number of times (I also worked for the department).
Part of the discussion was around what a computer science education should contain. I guess you could sum it up as theory vs. vocational. There were the old school, mathematics based theorists and the new(er) school that wanted more software engineering. Of course this then led to the question of what would get cut to fit a new course(s) in.
My program had a capstone class that was software development. The problem that we ran in to was that it was too short. The 15 weeks of the semester weren't enough to allow for a real development cycle. Along with that not all of the faculty had the kind of experience of managing simultaneous development groups that teaching a course like this requires.
It's a hard problem to solve at the undergraduate level.
I think how well Penn State is compensated by the state can be calculated in lots of different ways. I'm sure Penn State benefits from things like state maintained roads, sewer systems and other general public infrastructure. As an educational institution there is some chance that they don't pay property taxes which means that they don't pay in to the funds that pay for that same infrastructure.
All that said, I think software patents suck, no matter who is doing the patenting.
Actually, this is exactly the direction that Microsoft seems to be taking with Vista. I just got back from the MS TechEd conference and I was able to talk to some of the folks on the Vista team. They are already doing some nice work with virtualization to keep users from having to run with administrative privileges to make an application work.
Add to this the recent announcement (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/ may06/05-22Virtualization.mspx) of Microsoft's intention to acquire a company called Softricity (http://www.softricity.com/) that sells a product that does application virtualization.
With Virtual PC and Virtual Server in the mix I'd say that MS might well be on the verge of doing some interesting work.
I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but this is kind of old news. The BBC podcast has been going on since the beginning of '05. And the CBC podcast trials are at least three months old as well.
I just want to give folks a heads up. I think we should all shy away from saying things like "the environmental movement" because it's a lot like say "the open source movement." Or did I miss a memo and has everyone switched to the GPL now?
While I fully believe that Microsoft needs to take their fair share of the blame on this the lion's share of the blame could well go to lazy programmers. I've given up counting the number of applications I've run across that require that the user have elevated rights. And it is clear that it's not the fault of the OS but rather the application programmer.
Given the current state of Windows XP, there's no reason that a user needs to have elevated rights to run a program.
Now, installation is another question.
I'm the first to admit that I've lusted after Mac laptops since the day were introduced. I've even owned one. One of the things that I wonder about is Apple's stance on DRM.
Seems like everyday I read something about Apple putting more restrictions on things like iTunes. So, my question is, where do folks draw the line?
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The fine women at Pop Goes The Culture do a very nice job of talking about and breaking down the writing of Malcolm Gladwell.
What I was trying to say was that the books and the radio play aren't just slapstick. The humour is funny on many levels and you have to use your whole brain to really get it.
On the other hand, based strictly on the trailers that I have seen, the movie seems like they are going with a more action based story. So, instead of using the whole brain, much of the reaction comes from the portion of the brain that humans share with lizards. That can be fun, but not the only kind of fun.
Just to make things clear, as I type this I'm listening to repeats of Dead Ringers on BBC Radio 4. And I think that the the BBC production of the Lord of the Rings is far better than the films that Peter Jackson made.
Douglas Adams, on a number of occasions, said that he never intended the film to be a direct adaptation of the book. And, in the introduction of at least one of the books, he talked about how the books were different from the TV show which was different from the radio play.
I wasn't all that impressed with the trailer. It looks like the story, which was always for me very cerebral, has been dumbed down into an action flick. I like action flicks as much as the next guy, but not every movie has to be one.
The trailer does make it come across as very, MIBish. A fun movie, but nothing to write home about. Right now, I'm thinking that Sideways is going to turn out to be a lot funnier than Hitchhiker.
Turns out that Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ will do this just fine. In fact a quick google for skypecasting will pop up some instructions on how do this.
Actually you can do this with what the folks from http://www.slimdevices.com/ have come up with. Their Slimserver software is written in Perl and is open source. Since it's all web based you can manage what's being played with a handheld.
I do this at home and it works quite well. The SqueezeBox that they sell doesn't have any kind of amp built into it but it does plug right into your stereo (or you can use powered speakers).
When anti-abortion groups post this information on doctors who perform abortions, it is considered a threat. Why is this any different?
While I don't like the idea of folks posting people's private addresses, I think it is important to point out that those anti-abortions groups have encouraged and supported the murder of doctors and the bombing of health clinics.
Ok, so someone explain to me why students, in a dorm, are paying extra money to someone else for internet access if they are getting access from the Univ. already? Just how much money does the average college student these days?
The thing that comes to mind is what happens if/when the membrane breaks. If someone is using dirty swamp water you get giardia stew. It wouldn't even take a large hole, it could be something small enough that folks wouldn't notice it.
So, what're the membranes made of and what kind of damage can they face?
Windows DFS will do what the original poster asks about. Any single DFS share can point to multiple windows shares and data copied to the DFS share is copied to all of the replication shares.
It's not RAID based in that there isn't any sort of parity data. What's happening is that the same data is getting copied across all of the shares via the File Replication Service (FRS).
I believe that for this to work all of the shares involved need to be NTFS shares and this may only work on domain based DFS systems (I've not tried this with standalone DFS).
I have this in place at work and it works great.
So I've been putting in CF lightbulbs all over my apartment whenever I can. The do cost more but I've cut down on both time spent changing the bulbs and the cost to run them.
In the summer they are great since they produce a lot less heat and so my apt. stays cooler as well.
I've been wondering for a long time what it would be like if lots of people had solar power on their homes. And whether or not this kind of thing could be lessened if we could create a parallel power grid. Who care's if mine goes down for minute, I can just borrow some power from my next door neighbor.
Implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.
It looks like this is exactly the question that the person doing the work is trying to ask. The Community Connections Project outlines the nature of the research that they are doing. It's part of the Center for Refecltive Community Practice which seems to be doing a number of interesting projects combining community and technology.
Oh and USA Today also ran a story on this and other community networks last November.
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I'm a nerd. A lot of my friends are nerds. I work full time for other nerds. Please believe me when I say that I've met my share of nerds that are not enlightened. In fact, I've met some pretty damn dumb nerds over the years.
I am very much on the side of individuals having a right to privacy but since when does a business have a right to privacy? I say screw the corporate fat cats.
Can I get an Amen to this one?!?!
How about this, an airline that doesn't try and serve me crappy food and half a can of pop or wow me with seat back entrainment? But instead one that gives me a wider seat and a little more leg room.
When I was a CS student I watched the faculty have this conversation a number of times (I also worked for the department). Part of the discussion was around what a computer science education should contain. I guess you could sum it up as theory vs. vocational. There were the old school, mathematics based theorists and the new(er) school that wanted more software engineering. Of course this then led to the question of what would get cut to fit a new course(s) in. My program had a capstone class that was software development. The problem that we ran in to was that it was too short. The 15 weeks of the semester weren't enough to allow for a real development cycle. Along with that not all of the faculty had the kind of experience of managing simultaneous development groups that teaching a course like this requires. It's a hard problem to solve at the undergraduate level.
I think how well Penn State is compensated by the state can be calculated in lots of different ways. I'm sure Penn State benefits from things like state maintained roads, sewer systems and other general public infrastructure. As an educational institution there is some chance that they don't pay property taxes which means that they don't pay in to the funds that pay for that same infrastructure.
All that said, I think software patents suck, no matter who is doing the patenting.
It's studies like this that make the behavior of George Bush start to make sense. The big baby.
Actually, this is exactly the direction that Microsoft seems to be taking with Vista. I just got back from the MS TechEd conference and I was able to talk to some of the folks on the Vista team. They are already doing some nice work with virtualization to keep users from having to run with administrative privileges to make an application work. Add to this the recent announcement (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/ may06/05-22Virtualization.mspx) of Microsoft's intention to acquire a company called Softricity (http://www.softricity.com/) that sells a product that does application virtualization.
With Virtual PC and Virtual Server in the mix I'd say that MS might well be on the verge of doing some interesting work.
Let me see, places where Canada exceeds the U.S.
1. Broadband
2. Healthcare
3. Less Crime
4. Better Beer.
I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but this is kind of old news. The BBC podcast has been going on since the beginning of '05. And the CBC podcast trials are at least three months old as well.
I just want to give folks a heads up. I think we should all shy away from saying things like "the environmental movement" because it's a lot like say "the open source movement." Or did I miss a memo and has everyone switched to the GPL now?
While I fully believe that Microsoft needs to take their fair share of the blame on this the lion's share of the blame could well go to lazy programmers. I've given up counting the number of applications I've run across that require that the user have elevated rights. And it is clear that it's not the fault of the OS but rather the application programmer. Given the current state of Windows XP, there's no reason that a user needs to have elevated rights to run a program. Now, installation is another question.
I'm the first to admit that I've lusted after Mac laptops since the day were introduced. I've even owned one. One of the things that I wonder about is Apple's stance on DRM. Seems like everyday I read something about Apple putting more restrictions on things like iTunes. So, my question is, where do folks draw the line?
The fine women at Pop Goes The Culture do a very nice job of talking about and breaking down the writing of Malcolm Gladwell.
What I was trying to say was that the books and the radio play aren't just slapstick. The humour is funny on many levels and you have to use your whole brain to really get it.
On the other hand, based strictly on the trailers that I have seen, the movie seems like they are going with a more action based story. So, instead of using the whole brain, much of the reaction comes from the portion of the brain that humans share with lizards. That can be fun, but not the only kind of fun.
Just to make things clear, as I type this I'm listening to repeats of Dead Ringers on BBC Radio 4. And I think that the the BBC production of the Lord of the Rings is far better than the films that Peter Jackson made.
Douglas Adams, on a number of occasions, said that he never intended the film to be a direct adaptation of the book. And, in the introduction of at least one of the books, he talked about how the books were different from the TV show which was different from the radio play. I wasn't all that impressed with the trailer. It looks like the story, which was always for me very cerebral, has been dumbed down into an action flick. I like action flicks as much as the next guy, but not every movie has to be one. The trailer does make it come across as very, MIBish. A fun movie, but nothing to write home about. Right now, I'm thinking that Sideways is going to turn out to be a lot funnier than Hitchhiker.
Turns out that Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ will do this just fine. In fact a quick google for skypecasting will pop up some instructions on how do this.
Actually you can do this with what the folks from http://www.slimdevices.com/ have come up with. Their Slimserver software is written in Perl and is open source. Since it's all web based you can manage what's being played with a handheld.
I do this at home and it works quite well. The SqueezeBox that they sell doesn't have any kind of amp built into it but it does plug right into your stereo (or you can use powered speakers).
When anti-abortion groups post this information on doctors who perform abortions, it is considered a threat. Why is this any different?
While I don't like the idea of folks posting people's private addresses, I think it is important to point out that those anti-abortions groups have encouraged and supported the murder of doctors and the bombing of health clinics.
Ok, so someone explain to me why students, in a dorm, are paying extra money to someone else for internet access if they are getting access from the Univ. already? Just how much money does the average college student these days?
The thing that comes to mind is what happens if/when the membrane breaks. If someone is using dirty swamp water you get giardia stew. It wouldn't even take a large hole, it could be something small enough that folks wouldn't notice it.
So, what're the membranes made of and what kind of damage can they face?
Windows DFS will do what the original poster asks about. Any single DFS share can point to multiple windows shares and data copied to the DFS share is copied to all of the replication shares. It's not RAID based in that there isn't any sort of parity data. What's happening is that the same data is getting copied across all of the shares via the File Replication Service (FRS). I believe that for this to work all of the shares involved need to be NTFS shares and this may only work on domain based DFS systems (I've not tried this with standalone DFS). I have this in place at work and it works great.
So I've been putting in CF lightbulbs all over my apartment whenever I can. The do cost more but I've cut down on both time spent changing the bulbs and the cost to run them.
In the summer they are great since they produce a lot less heat and so my apt. stays cooler as well.
I've been wondering for a long time what it would be like if lots of people had solar power on their homes. And whether or not this kind of thing could be lessened if we could create a parallel power grid. Who care's if mine goes down for minute, I can just borrow some power from my next door neighbor. Implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.
I, for one, would seriously consider moving to a town that I new had FTTH that was run locally. Is there a list of such towns/services?
It looks like this is exactly the question that the person doing the work is trying to ask. The Community Connections Project outlines the nature of the research that they are doing. It's part of the Center for Refecltive Community Practice which seems to be doing a number of interesting projects combining community and technology. Oh and USA Today also ran a story on this and other community networks last November.