In junior high, my school's computers were set up so that they would refuse to run any program except for a select few. But this was done based on filename, so it wasn't difficult to circumvent.
I needed to FTP some stuff, but the shell FTP wasn't on the list of approved programs. So I renamed it to iexplore.exe (somebody else had already used my usual first choice, "winword.exe", put a prank program called winword in that directory - it was just a fake dialog that said "formatting C:" and a non-functioning "Cancel" button).
Some other students walked by and saw the black screen with the off-white text, panicked and ran to the teacher, who made fun of them and then told them to go away.
I have a test account of lastname+firstinit (6 characters). Similarly, I've barely acknowledged the existence of the account, but it's only gotten 29 spam since November 30, and they were all the same type of subject line: "[random user name similar to mine] ['get first post every time!' or other sales pitch]"
6 of the 29 actually have my username in there, and most of the others are seemingly valid usernames that are close to mine in the alphabet. I suppose that since my username is short, and I've used it other places (although not here), that it shouldn't be surprising that spammers are trying it.
The MIT network is much less restrictive (oddly, MIT didn't make top 25). There is no firewall, so students have to take care of their security themselves. There are Athena clusters (i.e. "computer labs") all over the place, you can hardly walk anywhere on main campus without seeing one. Really the only rules regarding the network are (1) no switches, routers or hubs, and (2) please refrain from DOS'ing entire countries.
You can always try the old "My number is ninety-one fourteen thirty-six seven." And if they ask you why you're saying it like that, claim you're European or something.
Unfortunately, this strategy doesn't work often, since most people realize when writing it down that something isn't quite right. It has a much higher success rate when you're reading it off to somebody who is dialing the number as you say it.
Benefiting how? Would you really make more use of 100 GB than 1 GB? What they do is just increasing "the number that matters" to sell their product. Notice how they aren't at all adding any other of Gmail's features. That's because it was only the account size that got attention when Gmail was introduced, so they ignore other things, because they don't really care for their customers, just to sell their product.
This sounds rather like AOL with its free hours, doesn't it? When they realized they couldn't legitimately give out more than 744 free hours per month, they extended the free trial to 45 days. Never mind that internet access is rarely charged hourly these days, it's the big number that really counts.
1099 hours of free Internet access? Whoohoo, how can I lose!?
No, she asked a series of stupid questions. She had no idea what was going on.
Often it seems that way, and no doubt it's often true that the reporter doesn't know what's going on. I don't doubt that that's the case here. But in a lot of cases the reporter will intentionally ask stupid questions - the same questions that a typical viewer sitting at home would ask, and wants to know the answers to.
In the media, you always have to play to your audience... even if your audience is stupid.
I'm not sure it was delayed, per se. The high winds were anticipated as typical conditions of the Mojave - usually when the sun comes up in the Mojave, the winds die down for a while. This makes it a popular place for test flights, because the conditions right after sunrise are pretty predictable.
White Knight took off a little under 5 minutes ago, but it has to reach an altitude of 48,000 feet before detaching from SpaceShipOne. The NASA TV coverage says that will take about an hour.
I would consider skipping class for this but I have a test.
This isn't the first time they've missed a release date - Phantom at one point had a release date of mid-to-late March, 2004.
At that time I don't think anybody had seen a prototype. If a prototype even existed, Infinium had probably misplaced it somewhere among the flim-flam and deceit.
The IOI is for secondary school students rather than college students. But that's really only a minor difference.
Also, IOI is an individual event (although each country sends a "team" of up to 4 students, they do not work together).
As far as I know, the problem types are pretty similar. The big difference, however, is that ACM ICPC rewards fast coding (score is kept based on problems solved as well as time taken), whereas IOI is scored solely on correctness. The scoring is typically done based on the number and difficulty of test cases correctly solved for each problem, then each problem is weighted based on its relative difficulty.
If you're an American high school or middle school student and are interested in participating in IOI in the future, you should refer to the USACO website. The American IOI team is picked from among the best performers on USACO.
If you're not an American student, USACO is probably still worth checking out, as it permits all pre-university students to compete (although only Americans can be considered for the team), and anybody in the world can enter as an observer. In fact, the vast majority of USACO participants are not American.
USACO is also working on making contest divisions that are more friendly to beginners, if you're worried about difficulty.
TFA states the programs will be automatically scored on characteristics including 'elegance'. How can one program judge the elegance of another?
Usually, a complicated, non-elegant solution won't be fast enough to solve all the test cases within the time limit. Of course, beyond this it's pretty much impossible to determine "elegance" without having a human judge look at the actual code. Most likely whoever wrote this up thought "elegance" was a nice-sounding word and so decided to throw it in there.
On a somewhat related note, the USAMO (USA Math Olympiad) solutions are graded manually, and are given points based only on the correctness of the solution. But, the rules state that elegance of proof may play a role in a tiebreaker (since the top 12 are recognized as the "winners"). This system is almost certainly not used at IOI since it would be harder to find "elegance," and since the scoring system is not conducive to ties.
POP3 support would destroy the entire reason google provides the service, the ads that are displayed.
Well, there's the ads, and then there's also the brand name exposure. Not that Google isn't a popular enough brand as it is, but if they can win your trust even more by providing a top-of-the-line e-mail service, all the better for their future business plan.
Besides, in the help pages they have: "Does Gmail support automatic forwarding and POP3 access? "Not at the moment, but Google believes in helping people access information whenever and however they want to do so. In the future you will be able to access Gmail messages from non-Gmail accounts for free or at a nominal fee."
That "nominal fee" would cover the potential revenue lost from ads, if they care enough to charge it.
Doesn't it seem like a somewhat bad idea for HL2 Fallout to reveal Gabe's password to everybody? If he is the type of person to use the password "gaben" on one account, he is probably the type of person to use the same password "gaben" on all his accounts. Somebody should really advise him that the whole world now knows his password, and that he should change it immediately (preferably not to "gnewell").
Insightfull????? More like TROLL! I think you will find there are many journals dedicated to publishing new "discoveries" in mathematics. You argument smacks of ignorance.
Plenty of things are being discovered in mathematics, but they are all at a high enough level that nobody writes widely-distributed textbooks about them. There haven't been a whole lot of advancements that have radically changed the way Calculus I is taught.
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So the teachers commit copyright infringement by submitting their students' works to turnitin and turnitin commits grand scale copyright infringement by copying, preserving and capitalising on "millions of student papers" without the students' permission. Great business!
By submitting their papers to Turnitin, the students agree to allow Turnitin to use their papers in such a manner.
Furthermore, you can't view any papers submitted to Turnitin unless you are the author, you are the author's teacher, or you have obtained written permission from the author. I know this because I submitted a rough draft and a final draft to Turnitin, and it flagged my final as being 67% identical to another submitted paper (the rough draft), but wouldn't let me view the other paper until I could prove that I had permission. I thought that was kind of strange, considering that I was using the same account for both papers, but it's nice to know that not just anybody can read what you submit.
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In junior high, my school's computers were set up so that they would refuse to run any program except for a select few. But this was done based on filename, so it wasn't difficult to circumvent.
I needed to FTP some stuff, but the shell FTP wasn't on the list of approved programs. So I renamed it to iexplore.exe (somebody else had already used my usual first choice, "winword.exe", put a prank program called winword in that directory - it was just a fake dialog that said "formatting C:" and a non-functioning "Cancel" button).
Some other students walked by and saw the black screen with the off-white text, panicked and ran to the teacher, who made fun of them and then told them to go away.
You should challenge him to another contest ... this time, to memorize pi backwards.
I have a test account of lastname+firstinit (6 characters). Similarly, I've barely acknowledged the existence of the account, but it's only gotten 29 spam since November 30, and they were all the same type of subject line: "[random user name similar to mine] ['get first post every time!' or other sales pitch]"
6 of the 29 actually have my username in there, and most of the others are seemingly valid usernames that are close to mine in the alphabet. I suppose that since my username is short, and I've used it other places (although not here), that it shouldn't be surprising that spammers are trying it.
3, for extremely large values of 2.
... Schröder, Chirac, Blair, Sharon and Berlusconi on the second trip?
You forgot Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland!
Hooray! Now those 15 channels are actually doing something instead of just being empty and displaying an apology message.
MIT Cable, channels 63-77.
http://lamp.mit.edu/ to start playing music if you have MIT certificates.
Right now it says "You are welcome to use this beta-test before we re-open."
And it does work beautifully, I've got New World Symphony playing right now on channel 64.
The MIT network is much less restrictive (oddly, MIT didn't make top 25). There is no firewall, so students have to take care of their security themselves. There are Athena clusters (i.e. "computer labs") all over the place, you can hardly walk anywhere on main campus without seeing one. Really the only rules regarding the network are (1) no switches, routers or hubs, and (2) please refrain from DOS'ing entire countries.
You can always try the old "My number is ninety-one fourteen thirty-six seven." And if they ask you why you're saying it like that, claim you're European or something.
Unfortunately, this strategy doesn't work often, since most people realize when writing it down that something isn't quite right. It has a much higher success rate when you're reading it off to somebody who is dialing the number as you say it.
Benefiting how? Would you really make more use of 100 GB than 1 GB? What they do is just increasing "the number that matters" to sell their product. Notice how they aren't at all adding any other of Gmail's features. That's because it was only the account size that got attention when Gmail was introduced, so they ignore other things, because they don't really care for their customers, just to sell their product.
This sounds rather like AOL with its free hours, doesn't it? When they realized they couldn't legitimately give out more than 744 free hours per month, they extended the free trial to 45 days. Never mind that internet access is rarely charged hourly these days, it's the big number that really counts.
1099 hours of free Internet access? Whoohoo, how can I lose!?
No, she asked a series of stupid questions. She had no idea what was going on.
Often it seems that way, and no doubt it's often true that the reporter doesn't know what's going on. I don't doubt that that's the case here. But in a lot of cases the reporter will intentionally ask stupid questions - the same questions that a typical viewer sitting at home would ask, and wants to know the answers to.
In the media, you always have to play to your audience... even if your audience is stupid.
but it appears it was delayed due to high wind.
I'm not sure it was delayed, per se. The high winds were anticipated as typical conditions of the Mojave - usually when the sun comes up in the Mojave, the winds die down for a while. This makes it a popular place for test flights, because the conditions right after sunrise are pretty predictable.
White Knight took off a little under 5 minutes ago, but it has to reach an altitude of 48,000 feet before detaching from SpaceShipOne. The NASA TV coverage says that will take about an hour.
I would consider skipping class for this but I have a test.
"Sanjay Kumar Goes to White Collar Prison"
Where's my movie deal?
Judge: "Sanjay Kumar? What is that, like five O's, or two U's?"
This isn't the first time they've missed a release date - Phantom at one point had a release date of mid-to-late March, 2004.
At that time I don't think anybody had seen a prototype. If a prototype even existed, Infinium had probably misplaced it somewhere among the flim-flam and deceit.
These people score a 9.8 out of 10 in the Buzzword Bingo game.
How can you score points in Buzzword Bingo? Don't you either win or not win?
The IOI is for secondary school students rather than college students. But that's really only a minor difference.
Also, IOI is an individual event (although each country sends a "team" of up to 4 students, they do not work together).
As far as I know, the problem types are pretty similar. The big difference, however, is that ACM ICPC rewards fast coding (score is kept based on problems solved as well as time taken), whereas IOI is scored solely on correctness. The scoring is typically done based on the number and difficulty of test cases correctly solved for each problem, then each problem is weighted based on its relative difficulty.
If you're an American high school or middle school student and are interested in participating in IOI in the future, you should refer to the USACO website. The American IOI team is picked from among the best performers on USACO.
If you're not an American student, USACO is probably still worth checking out, as it permits all pre-university students to compete (although only Americans can be considered for the team), and anybody in the world can enter as an observer. In fact, the vast majority of USACO participants are not American.
USACO is also working on making contest divisions that are more friendly to beginners, if you're worried about difficulty.
TFA states the programs will be automatically scored on characteristics including 'elegance'. How can one program judge the elegance of another?
Usually, a complicated, non-elegant solution won't be fast enough to solve all the test cases within the time limit. Of course, beyond this it's pretty much impossible to determine "elegance" without having a human judge look at the actual code. Most likely whoever wrote this up thought "elegance" was a nice-sounding word and so decided to throw it in there.
On a somewhat related note, the USAMO (USA Math Olympiad) solutions are graded manually, and are given points based only on the correctness of the solution. But, the rules state that elegance of proof may play a role in a tiebreaker (since the top 12 are recognized as the "winners"). This system is almost certainly not used at IOI since it would be harder to find "elegance," and since the scoring system is not conducive to ties.
POP3 support would destroy the entire reason google provides the service, the ads that are displayed.
Well, there's the ads, and then there's also the brand name exposure. Not that Google isn't a popular enough brand as it is, but if they can win your trust even more by providing a top-of-the-line e-mail service, all the better for their future business plan.
Besides, in the help pages they have:
"Does Gmail support automatic forwarding and POP3 access?
"Not at the moment, but Google believes in helping people access information whenever and however they want to do so. In the future you will be able to access Gmail messages from non-Gmail accounts for free or at a nominal fee."
That "nominal fee" would cover the potential revenue lost from ads, if they care enough to charge it.
Doesn't it seem like a somewhat bad idea for HL2 Fallout to reveal Gabe's password to everybody? If he is the type of person to use the password "gaben" on one account, he is probably the type of person to use the same password "gaben" on all his accounts. Somebody should really advise him that the whole world now knows his password, and that he should change it immediately (preferably not to "gnewell").
So I can give them my money, and not worry about actually losing it until 2010! :D
Well, you'll lose it right away. You'll have to wait until 2010 before abandoning all hope of getting it back.
But you can still sell the games back in order to cut your losses, which is probably what the poster meant.
Insightfull????? More like TROLL! I think you will find there are many journals dedicated to publishing new "discoveries" in mathematics. You argument smacks of ignorance.
Plenty of things are being discovered in mathematics, but they are all at a high enough level that nobody writes widely-distributed textbooks about them. There haven't been a whole lot of advancements that have radically changed the way Calculus I is taught.
So the teachers commit copyright infringement by submitting their students' works to turnitin and turnitin commits grand scale copyright infringement by copying, preserving and capitalising on "millions of student papers" without the students' permission. Great business!
By submitting their papers to Turnitin, the students agree to allow Turnitin to use their papers in such a manner.
Furthermore, you can't view any papers submitted to Turnitin unless you are the author, you are the author's teacher, or you have obtained written permission from the author. I know this because I submitted a rough draft and a final draft to Turnitin, and it flagged my final as being 67% identical to another submitted paper (the rough draft), but wouldn't let me view the other paper until I could prove that I had permission. I thought that was kind of strange, considering that I was using the same account for both papers, but it's nice to know that not just anybody can read what you submit.
Shouldn't that be "weTunes" in order to use the pronoun in the subjective case?