Let us rephrase the original statement to read, "If one is good with math, then one is bad with people." This can be represented more generally as "if p then q".
Since we know q to be true if p is true, we can also say that if q is not true, p cannot be true--this is the contrapositive, which is always true if the original statement is true. You have attempted to assert that if you are bad with people, you must be good with math--in effect, if q then p. This is the converse of the original statement and is not necessarily true (as you have astutely pointed out). One may, assuming the original statement to be true, in fact be both bad with people and bad at math, or good with math and bad with people, but not good with people and good at math. (We shall ignore for the moment that the original statement is not really true because the article doesn't mention social confidence. Rather, it mentions confidence in mathematical ability and enjoyment of math, not people. But I digress.)
Of course, you'd know this already if you were good at math.
I also probably should've mentioned this: as part of the day we were able to speak to legislators, and the guy I spoke to said he didn't really understand most of it until it was "explained" to him by the IT guy. He said he didn't know anything about encryption but would be sure to ask about it when he got a chance.
For what it's worth, I did try and say that protecting one's own computer is better than pretending that a network name change will solve your problems. I accepted that businesses shouldn't use open WiFi to transmit credit card numbers or anything like that. I pointed out that there's a much greater risk of identity theft from someone responding to eBay's "threat" to suspend his account than from someone sitting right next to him at Starbucks snooping. I even said that the FCC probably had jurisdiction anyway and the law couldn't be enforced. (Westchester was, I believe, the first county to ban cell phones while driving, and I was told that like that law, this law was passed in the hopes it would lead to a similar saw being passed statewide and, presumably, at the federal level.)
I think the obvious solution is to require any legislator wanting to regulate technology pass a basic proficiency exam to understand exactly what it is they're passing. (Or, in the case of "or," an English test.)
I went to the Westchester County Student Legislative Day a few weeks back, and the WiFi law was actually one of the subjects of the "mock legislative session."
I played the role of a member of the press, which basically enabled me to engage in some level of dialogue with my fellow student representatives. I asked them how changing what the network is called when it pops up in Windows is at all conducive to creating a secure network, at which point they tried to convince me that businesses would have to install a firewall. It went something like this:
Him: "I'd like to call your attention to this section, where it specifically mentions a 'network firewall'." Me: "I'd like to call your attention to the word 'or'."
The one kid I was arguing with told me he thought his copy of the law was different, but it wasn't. So they dealt with it:
Him: "Okay, to appease this reporter, I'd like to propose an amendment, and change the word 'or' to 'and'."
I won't buy a device for browsing the web unless it can do at least VGA.
Not that there's much of a point to it. Not sure about other devices, but if you have a device with a VGA screen running Windows Mobile, it's pointless. It takes your nice expensive screen and fast processor, quadruples the size of every pixel, and emulates a significantly less expensive and lower quality screen. And it slows everything down a fair bit too with all the scaling.
I'd love to "use the right tool," but at the moment the right tools are still plagued with Microsoft's genius.
I find it more interesting how Microsoft didn't like being fined by the European Union, being an American company (with a majority of American stockholders and all) while they take advantage of Brazillian laws to stifle speech that would be permitted freely in the US, at least according to the blurb and the article. I guess it saves them from booting up their Macs to create more FUD in Acrobat....
For clarification: by "why DS would be able to play GBA games" I mean "why Nintendo would allow DS to play GBA games" given that it's being touted as a third system. I know how it's possible and such, it just seems like an odd move by Nintendo if the DS is supposed to emerge in a new niche. Sorry about that.
And N-Sider has some screenshots from GameCube/GBA/DS games, including all the DS first party titles. Looks like MKDS will have some courses from MKDD? And the new SMB game looks... well, a bit out of place, but cool nonetheless. Doesn't look like it's using the second screen that much, though.
I'm still stumpted as to why DS would be able to play GBA games if it's an entirely different system, but whatever. IGN seems pleased.
I doubt the service would work at all, but not because it'd be extra software. From what I can tell from the screenshot the service has an additional IE window that says "Closing this window disconnects FreeFi" or something to that effect. So I'd imagine it probably inserts HTML into each page or something that forces browsers to resize and fit under the ad on top, and if the service thinks the ads aren't working (like if they're not being served to you) you don't get any other content. Otherwise I don't know why they'd rely on an IE window that you might be able to F11 out of to show their ad if they're writing their own program. And any program would probably be too much of a pain in the ass to install in the first place (doing a good job of defeating the purpose of hotspots).
Seems sort of stupid to me to alienate your PPC users or those whose browsers won't support whatever the method they use is, but it's business.
The patch can be downloaded from http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/1105-h ost-sol ( registered customers only).
I love when companies release vital updates or other material, and then effectively force registration of all their clients. So either register with the mothership, or deal with a vulnerable program? Great.
Exactly. What about all the complaints against spam? I'm sure these are some of the same people complaining about how spam infiltrates their inboxes every day. And I can't believe that they're also against spam filters because they not only "read" your e-mail, but look for and take note of key features of the message, i.e. content. What a horrible violation of privacy.
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Actually, the site says in the Features section that it can either actually delete files or run in "safe mode":
You can delete files using your weapons
It's perfectly safe to use bfm strictly for entertainment by starting it in safe mode, files won't be removed from the hard drive but they'll still disappear in the 3D environment
The point isn't really to prevent anyone from ever being linked to their domain. I got it because I didn't like the idea of people having my address/phone number just by running a search. If you get the private registration, you don't actually have any personal information revealed to the world, and you still get an e-mail address that you can use to let people contact you directly. I just don't think that RandomInternetUser needs to have my address or be able to call me.
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Not necessarily.
Let us rephrase the original statement to read, "If one is good with math, then one is bad with people." This can be represented more generally as "if p then q".
Since we know q to be true if p is true, we can also say that if q is not true, p cannot be true--this is the contrapositive, which is always true if the original statement is true. You have attempted to assert that if you are bad with people, you must be good with math--in effect, if q then p. This is the converse of the original statement and is not necessarily true (as you have astutely pointed out). One may, assuming the original statement to be true, in fact be both bad with people and bad at math, or good with math and bad with people, but not good with people and good at math. (We shall ignore for the moment that the original statement is not really true because the article doesn't mention social confidence. Rather, it mentions confidence in mathematical ability and enjoyment of math, not people. But I digress.)
Of course, you'd know this already if you were good at math.
It's also possible he used a song to help him out.
If anyone's too lazy to check the link I can always post the lyrics instead.
I also probably should've mentioned this: as part of the day we were able to speak to legislators, and the guy I spoke to said he didn't really understand most of it until it was "explained" to him by the IT guy. He said he didn't know anything about encryption but would be sure to ask about it when he got a chance.
For what it's worth, I did try and say that protecting one's own computer is better than pretending that a network name change will solve your problems. I accepted that businesses shouldn't use open WiFi to transmit credit card numbers or anything like that. I pointed out that there's a much greater risk of identity theft from someone responding to eBay's "threat" to suspend his account than from someone sitting right next to him at Starbucks snooping. I even said that the FCC probably had jurisdiction anyway and the law couldn't be enforced. (Westchester was, I believe, the first county to ban cell phones while driving, and I was told that like that law, this law was passed in the hopes it would lead to a similar saw being passed statewide and, presumably, at the federal level.)
I think the obvious solution is to require any legislator wanting to regulate technology pass a basic proficiency exam to understand exactly what it is they're passing. (Or, in the case of "or," an English test.)
I went to the Westchester County Student Legislative Day a few weeks back, and the WiFi law was actually one of the subjects of the "mock legislative session."
I played the role of a member of the press, which basically enabled me to engage in some level of dialogue with my fellow student representatives. I asked them how changing what the network is called when it pops up in Windows is at all conducive to creating a secure network, at which point they tried to convince me that businesses would have to install a firewall. It went something like this:
Him: "I'd like to call your attention to this section, where it specifically mentions a 'network firewall'."
Me: "I'd like to call your attention to the word 'or'."
The one kid I was arguing with told me he thought his copy of the law was different, but it wasn't. So they dealt with it:
Him: "Okay, to appease this reporter, I'd like to propose an amendment, and change the word 'or' to 'and'."
It passed, by the way. Kinda scary.
So, uh... which is it?
Pocket IE is a joke. Minimo on WM is better already and it barely even runs.
It's a sad but real scenario when Microsoft is gaining ground in the mobile device industry.
Not that there's much of a point to it. Not sure about other devices, but if you have a device with a VGA screen running Windows Mobile, it's pointless. It takes your nice expensive screen and fast processor, quadruples the size of every pixel, and emulates a significantly less expensive and lower quality screen. And it slows everything down a fair bit too with all the scaling.
I'd love to "use the right tool," but at the moment the right tools are still plagued with Microsoft's genius.
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I find it more interesting how Microsoft didn't like being fined by the European Union, being an American company (with a majority of American stockholders and all) while they take advantage of Brazillian laws to stifle speech that would be permitted freely in the US, at least according to the blurb and the article. I guess it saves them from booting up their Macs to create more FUD in Acrobat....
For clarification: by "why DS would be able to play GBA games" I mean "why Nintendo would allow DS to play GBA games" given that it's being touted as a third system. I know how it's possible and such, it just seems like an odd move by Nintendo if the DS is supposed to emerge in a new niche. Sorry about that.
And N-Sider has some screenshots from GameCube/GBA/DS games, including all the DS first party titles. Looks like MKDS will have some courses from MKDD? And the new SMB game looks... well, a bit out of place, but cool nonetheless. Doesn't look like it's using the second screen that much, though.
I'm still stumpted as to why DS would be able to play GBA games if it's an entirely different system, but whatever. IGN seems pleased.
I doubt the service would work at all, but not because it'd be extra software. From what I can tell from the screenshot the service has an additional IE window that says "Closing this window disconnects FreeFi" or something to that effect. So I'd imagine it probably inserts HTML into each page or something that forces browsers to resize and fit under the ad on top, and if the service thinks the ads aren't working (like if they're not being served to you) you don't get any other content. Otherwise I don't know why they'd rely on an IE window that you might be able to F11 out of to show their ad if they're writing their own program. And any program would probably be too much of a pain in the ass to install in the first place (doing a good job of defeating the purpose of hotspots).
Seems sort of stupid to me to alienate your PPC users or those whose browsers won't support whatever the method they use is, but it's business.
The patch can be downloaded from http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/1105-h ost-sol ( registered customers only) .
I love when companies release vital updates or other material, and then effectively force registration of all their clients. So either register with the mothership, or deal with a vulnerable program? Great.
Exactly. What about all the complaints against spam? I'm sure these are some of the same people complaining about how spam infiltrates their inboxes every day. And I can't believe that they're also against spam filters because they not only "read" your e-mail, but look for and take note of key features of the message, i.e. content. What a horrible violation of privacy.
Oh look, there's that test file I wanted to del- oops, there goes /etc/passwd....
The point isn't really to prevent anyone from ever being linked to their domain. I got it because I didn't like the idea of people having my address/phone number just by running a search. If you get the private registration, you don't actually have any personal information revealed to the world, and you still get an e-mail address that you can use to let people contact you directly. I just don't think that RandomInternetUser needs to have my address or be able to call me.
Step 1: Throw device with Windows CE out window.
Step 2: Purchase new device. Help economy.
Step 3: Windows CE has been restarted successfully.
Yeah, everyone knows that Microsoft wouldn't be involved in an April Fool's joke until May.
"mobilemag writes 'MobileMag has released a photo...'"
Well, he tried.
A company making misleading claims? That's never happened before.