The perfect, cheap LCD would probably be out of that little "disposable" digital camera shown on/. a few days ago. The size is perfect in comparison to the huge, gaudy PDA.
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From my college experience, it's apparent that students in liberal arts majors (not sciences or engineering -- class by themselves there) really have to try to fail, in order to fail. That doesn't mean self-sabotage so much as willful negligence of requirements.
As an engineering student in my last semester, I applaud you for that statement. It is amazingly true. But, I think that there are a few individuals out there that actually have to try to keep from failing in a liberal arts course. Thouse, they don't make up the percentages of those degrees like the engineering students do. One example. I took an upper level communications class to satifsy some cross-major credits, and we were asked what our proudest moment in life was. The answer by one of the students? Getting back into ASU after failing out.
One of my friends was telling me that they were reading an essay about Harvard and there was a problem there that didn't exist in the past. Today, there are many, many more students graduating with honors than there used to be. It's almost as if the degrees are being watered down and made easier. The essay went on to say that the 'A' is not the grade you start at and move down, but you should be started and the 'C' and move yourself up. So, if this is happening at Harvard, just think what goes on at your local public college.
If you don't know that Animal Farm had parallels in Russian history, then perhaps you have not read enough other fiction? Tolstoy? Dostoyevsky? Chekhov? And perhaps that is an indication of a lack of encompassing knowledge and perhaps you should fail to pass? Hmm...
What ever happened to reading a book for the shear enjoyment and pleasure that comes out of reading a book without having to worry about analyzing every little detail in the book and looking for parallel in the real world or some pointless piece of symbolism?
To say it shows a lack of encompassing knowledge is incorrect. I have recently just read my first bit of Dostoevsky. Just because this is my first piece of real Russian literature doesn't mean I am illiterate or stupid. I have read countless other books in my day. Why should you have to read 3 different books to understand the first (which is what you are saying by promoting your "lack of encompassing knowledge" point of view)?
Agreed. I've setup wireless access points and connections at both of my parents houses. It was a pain in the ass. Getting the connection to just work was easy. After that, trying to enable encryption was a chore. I couldn't even get WPA to work. Only WEP would work at all. I figured there's something that I'm doing wrong, but I just gave up, said "screw it" and went with WEP. Now, that took me all of about 4-5 hours, not helped by the fact that the laptop kept trying to auto-connect to the neighbors open AP instead of the AP that I told it to connect to. The average user would've stopped at about the 45 minute mark and just called it a day. I'd like to think I know what I'm doing when it comes to computers and networking, but encryption over a wireless network was a serious chore.
Nope, you don't have a correct grasp on the situation. Here's the way you should look at it:
What if Apple reverse engineered the RealPlayer so that they could figure out how to get their codec to play in the Real media player.
They aren't releasing a hacked version of the realplayer, they are offering a way of encoding their media to play in something else.
Real has not reverse engineered something and added it into their product, they have reverse engineered something to allow their product to work in another. Think about this:
If someone figures out a way to get their printer no-name printer cartridges to work in a name-brand printer, what's the problem?
It is not specific gravity, I think you meant specific weight. Why? Specific gravity is unitless, so if you multiplied it out, you would still have a volume. You need something that will have a unit of force. I basically just remember that you need to displace more mass than the object in it, and that's how I do my buoyancy stuff. Yeah, if the force is needed, then gravity needs to be taken into account.
Techincally, buoyancy force is the total volume of the fluid displaced multiplied by the density. That is how "lighter than air" craft are able to stay aloft. Aircraft, use lift.
Even that lightweight helicopter has extra mass that could be shed. get rid of the floats, the windscreen, body, etc. Reduce it to nothing but a frame. Is it still highly unlikely? Yeah. Though I'd imagine that if they would instead use a much thinner wing, made entirely of carbon fiber or something, that they could have a very efficient, very light wing that they could spin very fast. Those blades on their helicopter are huge. I'd have trouble believing that there are too many engines out there that could turn those blades and generate enough lift to get everything off the ground.
He's saying that it may have been 6% higher than it should have in that year, but what about in other years? How have the murder rates compared then? Maybe it's a small fluctuation, and the crime rate is just holding steady.
Ad blocking is not built-in. It is added, via an extension, which the user must make a conscious decision to install. So, if joe six-pack wants it, he can have it, otherwise, no big deal. Extensions increase what a browser can do, and if some guy chooses to make one that blocks ads, so be it. There are many other extensions that add other kinds of functionality, that frankly, most users couldn't care less about.
It's not solid metal. It's thin-walled tubing. Very easyily cuttable. Bolt-cutters will cut through a steering wheel in about 2 seconds, a hacksaw in about 15.
If there is a 1% chance of failure, there is a 99% chance of success. 99% ^ 4 = 96.1% chance of success. 1-96.1 ~ 3.9. Your way is normally what is used though in determining failure rates, and the other way is used to determine the chances of hitting a lotto jackpot or something.
Ok, I will concede that it is more confusing, especially if you have to create folders, and mount them, edit fstab etc. Fortunately, this is all being worked on. The gnome project has an interesting program that should be included when it is released in september called the Gnome Volume Manager. It even has inputs on what to do when you plug in a digital camera. I have a feeling that the "mount" command will shortly become a thing of the past for Aunt Millie.
You are flat-out wrong about one aspect, 3d programs. Yes, 3DS Max is wonderful, BUT, have you happened to ever hear of a little program known as Maya? It runs on linux, and it is what a majority of movie houses use to create their stuff.
Don't even try to say that Maya is not an "industry standard"
802.11x is a real problem. Chances are that you were lucky enough to have a card that has a chipset that has a Linux driver. I know that the newer Prism chipsets (almost every Linksys in existence for the last 2 years) don't have linux drivers. It really, truly is a 50-50 proposition on if it works or not. To know if it will work, I use Knoppix, which has all the hardware detection, and every wireless driver built in. If wireless works with it, then you're ready to rock, otherwise, you will need the windows driver, and a pay-ware program known as ndiswrapper. So, there are options, but it is probably the area where things are the furthese from being perfect. I know we had a TON of hurdles to clear at our last install-fest, where we had about 30 laptops, they all wanted linux, and we pulled our hair out trying to get them to work. And this was all back in May, and a lot has not changed since then. Until the companies release specs or drivers, or until someone reverse engineers it, then it won't work quite right.
I was gonna make the same point. Kernel recompiles happen once-in-a-great while. Also, I wouldn't expect a novice Windows user to know how to recompile anything at all, and I don't expect a novice linux user to do the same. When you want a new kernel, just upgrade your distro and you'll be set.
Nearly every digital cammera that you plug in will be recognized as an external, USB storage device. When you realize this, you simply mount it, copy the files, and you are done. You don't need any kind of "special" software. Hell, that's how I do it in Windows.
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The perfect, cheap LCD would probably be out of that little "disposable" digital camera shown on /. a few days ago. The size is perfect in comparison to the huge, gaudy PDA.
From my college experience, it's apparent that students in liberal arts majors (not sciences or engineering -- class by themselves there) really have to try to fail, in order to fail. That doesn't mean self-sabotage so much as willful negligence of requirements.
As an engineering student in my last semester, I applaud you for that statement. It is amazingly true. But, I think that there are a few individuals out there that actually have to try to keep from failing in a liberal arts course. Thouse, they don't make up the percentages of those degrees like the engineering students do. One example. I took an upper level communications class to satifsy some cross-major credits, and we were asked what our proudest moment in life was. The answer by one of the students? Getting back into ASU after failing out.
One of my friends was telling me that they were reading an essay about Harvard and there was a problem there that didn't exist in the past. Today, there are many, many more students graduating with honors than there used to be. It's almost as if the degrees are being watered down and made easier. The essay went on to say that the 'A' is not the grade you start at and move down, but you should be started and the 'C' and move yourself up. So, if this is happening at Harvard, just think what goes on at your local public college.
If you don't know that Animal Farm had parallels in Russian history, then perhaps you have not read enough other fiction? Tolstoy? Dostoyevsky? Chekhov? And perhaps that is an indication of a lack of encompassing knowledge and perhaps you should fail to pass? Hmm...
What ever happened to reading a book for the shear enjoyment and pleasure that comes out of reading a book without having to worry about analyzing every little detail in the book and looking for parallel in the real world or some pointless piece of symbolism?
To say it shows a lack of encompassing knowledge is incorrect. I have recently just read my first bit of Dostoevsky. Just because this is my first piece of real Russian literature doesn't mean I am illiterate or stupid. I have read countless other books in my day. Why should you have to read 3 different books to understand the first (which is what you are saying by promoting your "lack of encompassing knowledge" point of view)?
Oh...since about 1997
WRONG! You only have to claim those purchases when you are itemizing deductions. If you don't itemize, then you don't do it.
It costs that much because you have to have enough money to pay for the lawyers you employ to go after people that speak out against your product.
Agreed. I've setup wireless access points and connections at both of my parents houses. It was a pain in the ass. Getting the connection to just work was easy. After that, trying to enable encryption was a chore. I couldn't even get WPA to work. Only WEP would work at all. I figured there's something that I'm doing wrong, but I just gave up, said "screw it" and went with WEP. Now, that took me all of about 4-5 hours, not helped by the fact that the laptop kept trying to auto-connect to the neighbors open AP instead of the AP that I told it to connect to. The average user would've stopped at about the 45 minute mark and just called it a day. I'd like to think I know what I'm doing when it comes to computers and networking, but encryption over a wireless network was a serious chore.
What if Apple reverse engineered the RealPlayer so that they could figure out how to get their codec to play in the Real media player.
They aren't releasing a hacked version of the realplayer, they are offering a way of encoding their media to play in something else.
Real has not reverse engineered something and added it into their product, they have reverse engineered something to allow their product to work in another. Think about this:
If someone figures out a way to get their printer no-name printer cartridges to work in a name-brand printer, what's the problem?
Billions? Why settle for billions when you can have TRILLIONS!
It is not specific gravity, I think you meant specific weight. Why? Specific gravity is unitless, so if you multiplied it out, you would still have a volume. You need something that will have a unit of force. I basically just remember that you need to displace more mass than the object in it, and that's how I do my buoyancy stuff. Yeah, if the force is needed, then gravity needs to be taken into account.
Techincally, buoyancy force is the total volume of the fluid displaced multiplied by the density. That is how "lighter than air" craft are able to stay aloft. Aircraft, use lift.
Even that lightweight helicopter has extra mass that could be shed. get rid of the floats, the windscreen, body, etc. Reduce it to nothing but a frame. Is it still highly unlikely? Yeah. Though I'd imagine that if they would instead use a much thinner wing, made entirely of carbon fiber or something, that they could have a very efficient, very light wing that they could spin very fast. Those blades on their helicopter are huge. I'd have trouble believing that there are too many engines out there that could turn those blades and generate enough lift to get everything off the ground.
He's saying that it may have been 6% higher than it should have in that year, but what about in other years? How have the murder rates compared then? Maybe it's a small fluctuation, and the crime rate is just holding steady.
I know, b/c one of my friends was cited for smoking a joint, and he stayed in tent city.
Ad blocking is not built-in. It is added, via an extension, which the user must make a conscious decision to install. So, if joe six-pack wants it, he can have it, otherwise, no big deal. Extensions increase what a browser can do, and if some guy chooses to make one that blocks ads, so be it. There are many other extensions that add other kinds of functionality, that frankly, most users couldn't care less about.
One car pulls up, guy hops out, pulls out bolt cutters, and it's over. It's not like they have to walk around carrying them.
It's not solid metal. It's thin-walled tubing. Very easyily cuttable. Bolt-cutters will cut through a steering wheel in about 2 seconds, a hacksaw in about 15.
If there is a 1% chance of failure, there is a 99% chance of success. 99% ^ 4 = 96.1% chance of success. 1-96.1 ~ 3.9. Your way is normally what is used though in determining failure rates, and the other way is used to determine the chances of hitting a lotto jackpot or something.
Ok, I will concede that it is more confusing, especially if you have to create folders, and mount them, edit fstab etc. Fortunately, this is all being worked on. The gnome project has an interesting program that should be included when it is released in september called the Gnome Volume Manager. It even has inputs on what to do when you plug in a digital camera. I have a feeling that the "mount" command will shortly become a thing of the past for Aunt Millie.
Sorry, I guess I must've confused it with DriverLoader by Linuxant, which does charge.
I was under the impression (told by others) that it works for 30 days, after which it doesn't work, or you get limited features, etc.
Don't even try to say that Maya is not an "industry standard"
802.11x is a real problem. Chances are that you were lucky enough to have a card that has a chipset that has a Linux driver. I know that the newer Prism chipsets (almost every Linksys in existence for the last 2 years) don't have linux drivers. It really, truly is a 50-50 proposition on if it works or not. To know if it will work, I use Knoppix, which has all the hardware detection, and every wireless driver built in. If wireless works with it, then you're ready to rock, otherwise, you will need the windows driver, and a pay-ware program known as ndiswrapper. So, there are options, but it is probably the area where things are the furthese from being perfect. I know we had a TON of hurdles to clear at our last install-fest, where we had about 30 laptops, they all wanted linux, and we pulled our hair out trying to get them to work. And this was all back in May, and a lot has not changed since then. Until the companies release specs or drivers, or until someone reverse engineers it, then it won't work quite right.
I was gonna make the same point. Kernel recompiles happen once-in-a-great while. Also, I wouldn't expect a novice Windows user to know how to recompile anything at all, and I don't expect a novice linux user to do the same. When you want a new kernel, just upgrade your distro and you'll be set.
Nearly every digital cammera that you plug in will be recognized as an external, USB storage device. When you realize this, you simply mount it, copy the files, and you are done. You don't need any kind of "special" software. Hell, that's how I do it in Windows.