With all due respect, you are a naive fool. Do you work for DuckDuckGo? Have you administered their servers? You (and any other user) have absolutely no way of validating claims of 'we don't keep any records' by this company or any other. Anyone who takes such claims at face value might as well use Google as they are not really serious about protecting their privacy.
wow.. did you get your talking points right from the teachers union? or the PTA? 1) is the install of a linux distribution significantly different for various laptops? No. Is there anythign to maintain once set up? Sounds like very little per the submission 2) they adjust tests like the SAT to justify staying in business. And no, I very much doubt the test have gotten any harder if the complaints of college professors teaching entry level courses are any judge. 3) What part of parents pay for their own kids dont you get? Are the kids not educated? Making parents of school age children feel the brunt of the cost would inject a dose of reality into school spending that has not been there for 50 years. 4) I'm glad you have kept up on what I do so closely that you know which school budgets I have read and when. In fact I have been a vocal opponent of my school district budget for over a decade and have had numerous conversations with multiple superintendents about not just the budget but the fact they estimate nearly 50% of the students are illegals. In any event, I correctly pointed out a) they were misleading taxpayers when they claimed budgets were only going up 4 or 5% when in fact they were going up 12+% because they didn't count increased state and federal aid and further 2) that when times got bad they were going to be left trying to figure out how to tax people to make up for a 30 or 40% shortfall. And what exactly are they doing today? Hmm Mr. genius? Go fuck yourself as it is people like you who have created unbearable taxes in our municipalities.
FIrst off, we have a tech in the IT dept trying to push Linux on the administrator yet he has no fucking clue about hardware requirements and has to 'ask slashdot' to give him good choices. You want mac book air but a lot cheaper? Really? Let me wave my magic want but I don't thing its long enough to pull that feat off.
Second, even were we to assume that this whole idea was good (I dont), the thought that you would waste your tax payers money on anything but the cheapest equipment is insane. Elementary school kids? where destruction at a moments notice is not just assumed but expected? Are the kids going to be making animations for Pixar? Apparently not by your definition which shows the heaviest use to be 'internet' which I assume is web browser which can play flash video. Did the thought even occur to buy used equipment? Or just solicit donations of old laptops from the residents of your community?
So once again, poorly thought out solution looking for a problem. Is it any wonder test scores are stagnant since the 1950s? It really is time to make the cost of education the responsiblity of just those with school age children. That would rapidly put an end to the wastefulness and general idiocy of the school systems.
This is *exactly* why we are stuck where we are. As LCD/LED flat panels took over the TV market they were geared for native TV resolutions. All that other crap in the article is just that, crap. Development of hi-res consumer displays effectively ended. The great hope now is the adoptoin of that ultra hdtv standard will force a move to a native resolution of 7,680 × 4,320, as much as I despise the 16:9 format for anything other than movies/tv.
I assume you are speaking of yourself. Have you never asked a professor or a TA a question? Do you really expect to do so in a 'class' with 10s of thousands? And by 'learning' are you speaking of your ability to pass a multiple choice test? I truly wonder how many who think they have 'learned' something because they pass those and similar online exams could actually go up to a blackboard and, given the questions, come up with the correct answers. My gut says 5% and that is probably optimistic.
I've taken quite a few of the Coursera offerings and while on the whole they are good, they are not a substitute for the in class experience. Will this hypothetical graduate degree be awarded based on the successful completion of a series of multiple choice tests? Robo graded programs or essays?
Where is the feed back from the instructor? Where is the feed back from other students? An online 'discussion' forum is a pitifully poor substitute for either especially when the class sizes are in the 10s of thousands.
I think an earlier poster in a somewhat rambling post did hit on one reason why people seem hell bent on moving this way - grade inflation and the general lowering of standards. I saw this over 10 years ago when getting a graduate degree in computational finance. I had a far better grasp of math nearly 15 years after my undergrad degree than those seniors who were taking some of the entry level grad courses. And I'll be the first to say that I was not even remotely a math genius and often struggled to get Bs and C's. But it was abundantly clear that I had actually learned something. So is the push for on-line courses in part driven by what seems to be increasingly weak offerings at the traditional programs? Could be. But I do not expect that to translate into people getting anything better, just cheaper.
Two things here that you do not understand. First, it matters not whether the litigant ultimately wins. You (the association) are going to be stuck with legal bills regardless. Second, to get the "protection" against ultimate damages as you describe then the association must in fact set itself up as an ISP, not just 'act' like one. That is kind of like saying that the owner of a home who pays for internet which is then shared by others in the house (teens, wife, husband, adult children) could never be named in a suit as well, gee they were just acting as an ISP to the other household members.
There is really nothing to be gained by doing this and is certainly not justified by the samll amount of money each member might save over a go it alone. As an aside, I have a vaction condo where the association has arranged a group discount but each member is individually billed for cable TV That would be a far better objective.
While I'm sure all technical hurdles might eventually be overcome (at some cost) the primary reason for NOT doing this is:
You are putting your condo association into legal jeopardy and this is something the Board should never allow to happen. While you may think that your residents are all good people, you are exposing the association to legal actions if any residents are found to have themself used that internet connection to commit or conspire to commit a crime.
It is possible that in the end your Association will prevail in court and not have to pay damages (in this day and age that may be a very slim chance). Regardless, you will be saddled with potentially very large legal bills to defend the Association.
This is a liability the Association does not need to undertake. Internet, phone, tv are all available directly to the residents at varied price points. This is not the same as maintaining roads, parking lots, etc for the common use of the residents.
And one last reason not to do this - even if you say 'you must call the company to report problems' the residents will still call and complain to the Board and management agent anyway.
Please, run, not walk, away from this idea. FYI, I was president of a large HOA for three years so speak from some personal experience.
Indeed I was too hasty with my reply but has been some time since I worked through that. Unfortunately as one who is not in physics day to day the memory of things read and learned tends to fall off somewhat exponentially with time!
I checked a number of physics blogs including Tommaso's who generally catches most of the good stuff in HEP. I'll try to read the actual paper tonight. And please, don't get me started on string theory! Have you presented at any conferences yet?
The fact that I was only an undergrad who continued (on my own) studies of nuclear and HEP and can understand this I'm really shocked that a PhD candidate would not. You should have been exposed to this in your senior year as undergrad and I would imagine at least one course on nuclear/particle physics in graduate work, even if you concentration will be in some other area. Just about any non picture book on particle (and sometimes nuclear) physics will discuss neutral K mixing. Note that the states are often referred to as K1 and K2.
While the authors (as they always do) consider this landmark, I was unable to find any comment on their letter or the preprint (apparently this) in the usual places. This could be in part because it is a) not 'real' and b) doesn't have the words 'Higgs' or 'superluminal neutrino' in the title.
THnak you for saving me the time of writing the same comment. I'd add that this guy should be fired for mocking the role of COBOL (and probably FORTRAN too) in government IT systems as he clearly has no understanding of the value of stability and the inherent costs of sexy new bling.
followed closely by Free and Net BSD. Not linux. Regardless, no cloud storage can be considered secure as you do not have physical control over the hardware, it really does not matter what OS is used, the system is inherently flawed. You may be fine with all the limitations that brings for pictures of your drunken escapades but it is not fine for storing valuable corporate data (which may also come with fiduciary responsibilities too.)
Waxes come with varying amounts of fluoro compounds which are hydrophobic. Things like NotWax contain teflon in liquid form but do not last very long. Unfortunately, very high fluorocarbon waxes do not preform well on cold dry snow (say snow temps below 15F) and there are specialized waxes which contain molybdenum to reduce drag from static charge buildup.
The attraction of a coating is, in theory, you might never need to wax again or perhaps only once every year or two. Hot wax fumes are not particularly friendly to your body either.
Perhaps many of you were too young to remember the dot.bomb era when shares rose hundreds of % not long after the IPO. The common reaction eventually became, why are the companies leaving so much money on the table? Why are their underwriters not advising a higher initial price?
So here we have FB apparently finally finding a price at which the shares are fuly valued, or reasonably close to being so (or perhaps slightly over valued.) This should be viewed as a good thing.
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With all due respect, you are a naive fool. Do you work for DuckDuckGo? Have you administered their servers? You (and any other user) have absolutely no way of validating claims of 'we don't keep any records' by this company or any other. Anyone who takes such claims at face value might as well use Google as they are not really serious about protecting their privacy.
wow.. did you get your talking points right from the teachers union? or the PTA?
1) is the install of a linux distribution significantly different for various laptops? No. Is there anythign to maintain once set up? Sounds like very little per the submission
2) they adjust tests like the SAT to justify staying in business. And no, I very much doubt the test have gotten any harder if the complaints of college professors teaching entry level courses are any judge.
3) What part of parents pay for their own kids dont you get? Are the kids not educated? Making parents of school age children feel the brunt of the cost would inject a dose of reality into school spending that has not been there for 50 years.
4) I'm glad you have kept up on what I do so closely that you know which school budgets I have read and when. In fact I have been a vocal opponent of my school district budget for over a decade and have had numerous conversations with multiple superintendents about not just the budget but the fact they estimate nearly 50% of the students are illegals. In any event, I correctly pointed out a) they were misleading taxpayers when they claimed budgets were only going up 4 or 5% when in fact they were going up 12+% because they didn't count increased state and federal aid and further 2) that when times got bad they were going to be left trying to figure out how to tax people to make up for a 30 or 40% shortfall. And what exactly are they doing today? Hmm Mr. genius? Go fuck yourself as it is people like you who have created unbearable taxes in our municipalities.
FIrst off, we have a tech in the IT dept trying to push Linux on the administrator yet he has no fucking clue about hardware requirements and has to 'ask slashdot' to give him good choices. You want mac book air but a lot cheaper? Really? Let me wave my magic want but I don't thing its long enough to pull that feat off.
Second, even were we to assume that this whole idea was good (I dont), the thought that you would waste your tax payers money on anything but the cheapest equipment is insane. Elementary school kids? where destruction at a moments notice is not just assumed but expected? Are the kids going to be making animations for Pixar? Apparently not by your definition which shows the heaviest use to be 'internet' which I assume is web browser which can play flash video. Did the thought even occur to buy used equipment? Or just solicit donations of old laptops from the residents of your community?
So once again, poorly thought out solution looking for a problem. Is it any wonder test scores are stagnant since the 1950s? It really is time to make the cost of education the responsiblity of just those with school age children. That would rapidly put an end to the wastefulness and general idiocy of the school systems.
oldest I see is http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/emacs-18.59.tar.gz
circa 1992
not sure, but I think at some point the version # jumped too. the net.ancients might remember better
no bloatware
This is *exactly* why we are stuck where we are. As LCD/LED flat panels took over the TV market they were geared for native TV resolutions. All that other crap in the article is just that, crap. Development of hi-res consumer displays effectively ended. The great hope now is the adoptoin of that ultra hdtv standard will force a move to a native resolution of 7,680 × 4,320, as much as I despise the 16:9 format for anything other than movies/tv.
I assume you are speaking of yourself. Have you never asked a professor or a TA a question? Do you really expect to do so in a 'class' with 10s of thousands? And by 'learning' are you speaking of your ability to pass a multiple choice test? I truly wonder how many who think they have 'learned' something because they pass those and similar online exams could actually go up to a blackboard and, given the questions, come up with the correct answers. My gut says 5% and that is probably optimistic.
I've taken quite a few of the Coursera offerings and while on the whole they are good, they are not a substitute for the in class experience. Will this hypothetical graduate degree be awarded based on the successful completion of a series of multiple choice tests? Robo graded programs or essays?
Where is the feed back from the instructor? Where is the feed back from other students? An online 'discussion' forum is a pitifully poor substitute for either especially when the class sizes are in the 10s of thousands.
I think an earlier poster in a somewhat rambling post did hit on one reason why people seem hell bent on moving this way - grade inflation and the general lowering of standards. I saw this over 10 years ago when getting a graduate degree in computational finance. I had a far better grasp of math nearly 15 years after my undergrad degree than those seniors who were taking some of the entry level grad courses. And I'll be the first to say that I was not even remotely a math genius and often struggled to get Bs and C's. But it was abundantly clear that I had actually learned something. So is the push for on-line courses in part driven by what seems to be increasingly weak offerings at the traditional programs? Could be. But I do not expect that to translate into people getting anything better, just cheaper.
When Ahboracle jumps on board with crap like this you know it has peaked.
Two things here that you do not understand. First, it matters not whether the litigant ultimately wins. You (the association) are going to be stuck with legal bills regardless. Second, to get the "protection" against ultimate damages as you describe then the association must in fact set itself up as an ISP, not just 'act' like one. That is kind of like saying that the owner of a home who pays for internet which is then shared by others in the house (teens, wife, husband, adult children) could never be named in a suit as well, gee they were just acting as an ISP to the other household members.
There is really nothing to be gained by doing this and is certainly not justified by the samll amount of money each member might save over a go it alone. As an aside, I have a vaction condo where the association has arranged a group discount but each member is individually billed for cable TV That would be a far better objective.
While I'm sure all technical hurdles might eventually be overcome (at some cost) the primary reason for NOT doing this is:
You are putting your condo association into legal jeopardy and this is something the Board should never allow to happen. While you may think that your residents are all good people, you are exposing the association to legal actions if any residents are found to have themself used that internet connection to commit or conspire to commit a crime.
It is possible that in the end your Association will prevail in court and not have to pay damages (in this day and age that may be a very slim chance). Regardless, you will be saddled with potentially very large legal bills to defend the Association.
This is a liability the Association does not need to undertake. Internet, phone, tv are all available directly to the residents at varied price points. This is not the same as maintaining roads, parking lots, etc for the common use of the residents.
And one last reason not to do this - even if you say 'you must call the company to report problems' the residents will still call and complain to the Board and management agent anyway.
Please, run, not walk, away from this idea. FYI, I was president of a large HOA for three years so speak from some personal experience.
quite likely has more than Obama and Mittens combined as using ssid was heavily promoted by supporters as a technique to raise name awareness.
think i got some slides and presentation papers from 2010 and 11 based on your post above, thanks!
could be outside shot. would need advanced math degree for crypto or other serious geeky stuff.
is why we have a representative democracy. This guy must have missed those classes in school.
Indeed I was too hasty with my reply but has been some time since I worked through that. Unfortunately as one who is not in physics day to day the memory of things read and learned tends to fall off somewhat exponentially with time!
I checked a number of physics blogs including Tommaso's who generally catches most of the good stuff in HEP. I'll try to read the actual paper tonight. And please, don't get me started on string theory! Have you presented at any conferences yet?
The fact that I was only an undergrad who continued (on my own) studies of nuclear and HEP and can understand this I'm really shocked that a PhD candidate would not. You should have been exposed to this in your senior year as undergrad and I would imagine at least one course on nuclear/particle physics in graduate work, even if you concentration will be in some other area. Just about any non picture book on particle (and sometimes nuclear) physics will discuss neutral K mixing. Note that the states are often referred to as K1 and K2.
While the authors (as they always do) consider this landmark, I was unable to find any comment on their letter or the preprint (apparently this) in the usual places. This could be in part because it is a) not 'real' and b) doesn't have the words 'Higgs' or 'superluminal neutrino' in the title.
THnak you for saving me the time of writing the same comment. I'd add that this guy should be fired for mocking the role of COBOL (and probably FORTRAN too) in government IT systems as he clearly has no understanding of the value of stability and the inherent costs of sexy new bling.
followed closely by Free and Net BSD. Not linux. Regardless, no cloud storage can be considered secure as you do not have physical control over the hardware, it really does not matter what OS is used, the system is inherently flawed. You may be fine with all the limitations that brings for pictures of your drunken escapades but it is not fine for storing valuable corporate data (which may also come with fiduciary responsibilities too.)
Waxes come with varying amounts of fluoro compounds which are hydrophobic. Things like NotWax contain teflon in liquid form but do not last very long. Unfortunately, very high fluorocarbon waxes do not preform well on cold dry snow (say snow temps below 15F) and there are specialized waxes which contain molybdenum to reduce drag from static charge buildup.
The attraction of a coating is, in theory, you might never need to wax again or perhaps only once every year or two. Hot wax fumes are not particularly friendly to your body either.
I need this. You have 6 months to get it to me. I'll finally be able to break 60 mph even on sierra cement
Seeing that Falcon 9 is a private vehicle does it need to carry comp and collision? What about uninsured driver? PIP? And is LEO 'no fault'?
(I ask only partly in jest)
Perhaps many of you were too young to remember the dot.bomb era when shares rose hundreds of % not long after the IPO. The common reaction eventually became, why are the companies leaving so much money on the table? Why are their underwriters not advising a higher initial price?
So here we have FB apparently finally finding a price at which the shares are fuly valued, or reasonably close to being so (or perhaps slightly over valued.) This should be viewed as a good thing.