One thing to consider is that you don't necessarily need to go through a formal study-abroad program. Such programs are often designed to do a lot of hand-holding, e.g. for students whose knowledge of the local language is limited. Since you already speak English and Spanish fluently, you probably don't need linguistic or cultural hand-holding in order to attend an institution in an English- or Spanish-speaking country. Your languages cover not only most of Latin America, Spain, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but other countries in which English is widely used in universities, such as the Netherlands and India. You may need to make arrangements to receive credit at your home university for courses take abroad or if you need to use scholarship money, but you don't have to go through a formal study-abroad program.
Another thing to consider is that, even if it is problematic to get the CS courses you want at a foreign institution, you might be able to get courses in related areas. Math and electrical engineering are obvious possibilities, but depending on your interests a foreign institution might be strong in something else relevant, e.g. biology or linguistics.
Acknowledging that Hamas won the election doesn't require Israel to submit without protest to the constant commission of war crimes by Hamas. The Nazis were legally elected in Germany. Do you think that that made resistance to Nazi aggression somehow illegitimate?
This wasn't an emergency communication. It was just a "hi from the new prime minister", and the responses would do no more than give him an idea of the geographic distribution of his support. It isn't even a good survey technique.
Moreover, Thailand has good radio and television penetration. There is one TV for every two Thai people. He could easily have gone on TV and radio.
Am I the only person who noticed that the sentence:
The initial criticism is that John Levine sent a note to a policy mailing list and summarized the concerns raised as ranging from
is nonsensical? The criticism is not that John Levine sent a note. Rather, John Levine
sent a note summarizing the US government's criticism. I don't care about fine points of prescriptive grammar, but it would be nice if posts made sense.
No, typing English is much easier because the relationship between the letters and the sound of the word is not arbitrary. Granted, English spelling has quite a few irregularities, but the relationship is still far more systematic than in the case of Chinese.
The claim that support for aging musicians is a moral issue is ridiculous. Musicians are no different from people in any other occupation. Everyone works for a certain period of time, then ceases to work and has to rely on some combination of savings and investments made when they were working, whether by themselves or on their behalf by the government or some other source of pensions. When they were performing or writing the musicians had no expectation that their copyrights would last longer than they currently do, nor any certainty as to whether anyone would be interested in their work, so it isn't as if they are being discriminated against or a contract has been broken.
While I don't want to defend excessively frequent or detailed progress reports for programmers, I don't think that the examples you cite are at all comparable. In the situations in which programmers are asked for progress reports, they are members of a team working on components that must be integrated and tested together and/or are working on long-term projects for which there are deadlines. In these situations, somebody needs to know whether the components are on track to be ready on time and whether the deadlines are going to be met. In contrast, lawyers, doctors, fighter pilots etc. are not generally working on long-term projects and are not working on joint projects.
When they are in such situations, they may indeed need to submit progress reports. If a lawyer is heading up a major lawsuit or a corporate acquisition, with the assistance of associates and paralegals, he or she does indeed keep track of the progress of the various team members. He doesn't just tell an associate to prepare a brief on such-and-such an issue and leave it at that - he sets a deadline for a draft so that he can review it and have changes made if necessary. If a fighter pilot's assignment is protection for transport aircraft, there isn't any long term project on which he need report, but if his assignment is, say, strafing enemy troops, he does indeed report on the results of his action: did he locate the target, what sort of casualties did he inflict, etc. In this case there will likely be other sources of intelligence as well, so his report won't be the only source of information, but his commander will nonetheless want some indication of the impact of the action.
Precisely. If this guy has a valid trademark, it must be for products in one or more industry segments. Since the normal use of emoticons is not to identify products or companies of any sort, his trademark is irrelevant. It's just like the fact that I can't sell software or game stations and call call them "Microsoft", but if I choose to use "Microsoft" as an expression indicating exasperation or disbelief or some such thing, I am perfectly free to do so.
The dispute is between him and the university, not him and "the public". If the university gets the rights to the software, that doesn't necessarily mean that it will benefit the public anymore than if he does. Maybe the university will sell it to a propietary software house. Maybe it will sit on it and nobody will be able to use it other than the original users at the university. Maybe if he gets the rights the developer will open source it.
If funding agencies like NSERC want recipients of their funding to make software and other results of research generally available, they most likely will require that the software be made available under a free license or public domain rather than assigning it to the university as owner.
What NSERC's role is here is unclear, but there's no reason to think that the developer is trying to cheat NSERC or the public.
MS Windows and the Mac also have hierarchical file systems, but they don't use the notion of current working directory the way Unix does. My reference to the "file system" was sloppy, but what I said should have made it clear that this was what I was referring to.
Unfortunately, the effort to lure MS Windows users to GNU/Linux results in copying bad features as well. For example, one of the great things about Unix in general is the hierarchical file system. When I want to work on a certain project, I cd into the appropriate directory and fire up a program such as emacs, which then defaults to looking for files in that directory. However, programs that aim at compatibility with MS Windows don't do this. If I start up OpenOffice.org in my project directory and ask it to open a file, it displays the last directory in which it looked, which may be far off in a different corner of the file system. I then have to navigate into my current project's directory one click at a time, without the speed and ease of the command-line.
Making this kind of behavior available as an option for people new to GNU/Linux is fine, but software running on GNU/Linux ought to take advantage of the core features of GNU/Linux. As a long-time (26 year) Unix person, I resent having inferior features of MS Windows imposed on me so as to attract MS Windows users.
Not exactly. From the account of Grills' testimony in Wired:
Grills was in the kitchen with Drew and Sarah, Lori Drew's then-13-year-old daughter, when she proposed creating a fake MySpace account to get information on Megan. Drew applauded the plan, and thought it was funny, but did not herself conceive it, Grills said.
The three of them crowded around Drew's computer as Grills set up the account.
So, yes, it was Grills who actually did the work of creating the account, but Drew was present and involved. According to Grills' testimony, Drew not only urged them (Grills and Sarah Drew) on but helped write the messages to Megan.
While I agree that this conviction misapplies the law in a dangerous way and hope that it will be overturned, I think you're understating Lori Drew's culpability in this matter. She was not just the culprit's friend's mom. The culprit, Ashley Grills, was her employee. Moreover, she created the MySpace account that Grills used and was aware of what Grills was doing. So, yes, Grills appears to be the person most culpable, but Drew is hardly an innocent party.
Libertarian legal scholar Eugene Volokh has posted a discussion of this in which he concludes that what Holder advocated was actually a very narrow restriction on helping people build bombs.
More than that, I hope someone will make a movie about this. I gather that Marie Lindor doesn't look a lot like Julia Roberts, but I'm sure the movie people can figure out the casting.
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One thing to consider is that you don't necessarily need to go through a formal study-abroad program. Such programs are often designed to do a lot of hand-holding, e.g. for students whose knowledge of the local language is limited. Since you already speak English and Spanish fluently, you probably don't need linguistic or cultural hand-holding in order to attend an institution in an English- or Spanish-speaking country. Your languages cover not only most of Latin America, Spain, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but other countries in which English is widely used in universities, such as the Netherlands and India. You may need to make arrangements to receive credit at your home university for courses take abroad or if you need to use scholarship money, but you don't have to go through a formal study-abroad program.
Another thing to consider is that, even if it is problematic to get the CS courses you want at a foreign institution, you might be able to get courses in related areas. Math and electrical engineering are obvious possibilities, but depending on your interests a foreign institution might be strong in something else relevant, e.g. biology or linguistics.
I see your point. It's a slippery slope. Pretty soon they'll be releasing the names of Nazi prison camp guards and Islamic terrorists.
Acknowledging that Hamas won the election doesn't require Israel to submit without protest to the constant commission of war crimes by Hamas. The Nazis were legally elected in Germany. Do you think that that made resistance to Nazi aggression somehow illegitimate?
Here's an informative post about the suit, and here is the original complaint.
This wasn't an emergency communication. It was just a "hi from the new prime minister", and the responses would do no more than give him an idea of the geographic distribution of his support. It isn't even a good survey technique.
Moreover, Thailand has good radio and television penetration. There is one TV for every two Thai people. He could easily have gone on TV and radio.
For some additional info, see Octopussies.
Am I the only person who noticed that the sentence:
is nonsensical? The criticism is not that John Levine sent a note. Rather, John Levine sent a note summarizing the US government's criticism. I don't care about fine points of prescriptive grammar, but it would be nice if posts made sense.
And I suppose that CoS agents also made up the newspaper articles to which the Wikipedia article links?
According to the Wikipedia article on Church of Scientology, the IRS has granted them non-profit charitable status.
No, typing English is much easier because the relationship between the letters and the sound of the word is not arbitrary. Granted, English spelling has quite a few irregularities, but the relationship is still far more systematic than in the case of Chinese.
Countersuits? Feh! The headline I look forward to is: "RIAA lawyers jailed for contempt of court". That will discourage them more than countersuits.
The claim that support for aging musicians is a moral issue is ridiculous. Musicians are no different from people in any other occupation. Everyone works for a certain period of time, then ceases to work and has to rely on some combination of savings and investments made when they were working, whether by themselves or on their behalf by the government or some other source of pensions. When they were performing or writing the musicians had no expectation that their copyrights would last longer than they currently do, nor any certainty as to whether anyone would be interested in their work, so it isn't as if they are being discriminated against or a contract has been broken.
While I don't want to defend excessively frequent or detailed progress reports for programmers, I don't think that the examples you cite are at all comparable. In the situations in which programmers are asked for progress reports, they are members of a team working on components that must be integrated and tested together and/or are working on long-term projects for which there are deadlines. In these situations, somebody needs to know whether the components are on track to be ready on time and whether the deadlines are going to be met. In contrast, lawyers, doctors, fighter pilots etc. are not generally working on long-term projects and are not working on joint projects.
When they are in such situations, they may indeed need to submit progress reports. If a lawyer is heading up a major lawsuit or a corporate acquisition, with the assistance of associates and paralegals, he or she does indeed keep track of the progress of the various team members. He doesn't just tell an associate to prepare a brief on such-and-such an issue and leave it at that - he sets a deadline for a draft so that he can review it and have changes made if necessary. If a fighter pilot's assignment is protection for transport aircraft, there isn't any long term project on which he need report, but if his assignment is, say, strafing enemy troops, he does indeed report on the results of his action: did he locate the target, what sort of casualties did he inflict, etc. In this case there will likely be other sources of intelligence as well, so his report won't be the only source of information, but his commander will nonetheless want some indication of the impact of the action.
Precisely. If this guy has a valid trademark, it must be for products in one or more industry segments. Since the normal use of emoticons is not to identify products or companies of any sort, his trademark is irrelevant. It's just like the fact that I can't sell software or game stations and call call them "Microsoft", but if I choose to use "Microsoft" as an expression indicating exasperation or disbelief or some such thing, I am perfectly free to do so.
The dispute is between him and the university, not him and "the public". If the university gets the rights to the software, that doesn't necessarily mean that it will benefit the public anymore than if he does. Maybe the university will sell it to a propietary software house. Maybe it will sit on it and nobody will be able to use it other than the original users at the university. Maybe if he gets the rights the developer will open source it.
If funding agencies like NSERC want recipients of their funding to make software and other results of research generally available, they most likely will require that the software be made available under a free license or public domain rather than assigning it to the university as owner.
What NSERC's role is here is unclear, but there's no reason to think that the developer is trying to cheat NSERC or the public.
MS Windows and the Mac also have hierarchical file systems, but they don't use the notion of current working directory the way Unix does. My reference to the "file system" was sloppy, but what I said should have made it clear that this was what I was referring to.
Unfortunately, the effort to lure MS Windows users to GNU/Linux results in copying bad features as well. For example, one of the great things about Unix in general is the hierarchical file system. When I want to work on a certain project, I cd into the appropriate directory and fire up a program such as emacs, which then defaults to looking for files in that directory. However, programs that aim at compatibility with MS Windows don't do this. If I start up OpenOffice.org in my project directory and ask it to open a file, it displays the last directory in which it looked, which may be far off in a different corner of the file system. I then have to navigate into my current project's directory one click at a time, without the speed and ease of the command-line.
Making this kind of behavior available as an option for people new to GNU/Linux is fine, but software running on GNU/Linux ought to take advantage of the core features of GNU/Linux. As a long-time (26 year) Unix person, I resent having inferior features of MS Windows imposed on me so as to attract MS Windows users.
Not exactly. From the account of Grills' testimony in Wired:
So, yes, it was Grills who actually did the work of creating the account, but Drew was present and involved. According to Grills' testimony, Drew not only urged them (Grills and Sarah Drew) on but helped write the messages to Megan.
While I agree that this conviction misapplies the law in a dangerous way and hope that it will be overturned, I think you're understating Lori Drew's culpability in this matter. She was not just the culprit's friend's mom. The culprit, Ashley Grills, was her employee. Moreover, she created the MySpace account that Grills used and was aware of what Grills was doing. So, yes, Grills appears to be the person most culpable, but Drew is hardly an innocent party.
No, and you'd know that if you read Volokh's post. The Second Amendment does not give unlimited freedom to make, possess, and use weapons.
Libertarian legal scholar Eugene Volokh has posted a discussion of this in which he concludes that what Holder advocated was actually a very narrow restriction on helping people build bombs.
None of the above is unnecessary since the correct answer is D.
I didn't find the linked article very informative, but with the help of Google found this very nice explanation of the problem.
Good point, but I think that the MPAA doesn't include all of the studios. Maybe an independent could do it.
More than that, I hope someone will make a movie about this. I gather that Marie Lindor doesn't look a lot like Julia Roberts, but I'm sure the movie people can figure out the casting.