Yeah, but unfortunately this was government data, and the individuals represented by it had no choice nor say in the matter. So your advice is useless in this instance.
While I do support equal opportunities/emancipation issues, has MIT selected this woman because she is female and very good in her area of expertise, or has MIT selected her because she was the best irrespective of gender?
Here's the first paragraph of the announcement sent to alumni.
"I am delighted to announce that the MIT Corporation voted this morning to appoint Dr. Susan Hockfield to succeed Charles M. Vest HM as our 16th president. Dr. Hockfield is currently provost at Yale University and will take office in early December. Dana G. Mead PO '67, chair of the Corporation, said of Hockfield's appointment, "She represents the kind of dynamic, visionary leadership that is vital to MIT's continued success as one of the world's leading research universities. She will be a worthy successor to Chuck Vest, and my colleagues on the Corporation and I will do all that we can to assist and support her. I'm sure we can count on our alumni to do the same.""
Note, nothing about "first woman" or anything like that.
Tracing the ancestry of a bacterial strain that affected hundreds of people is relatively easy compared to tracking down the sites that affected millions
Bullshit. Most of the very high-profile worms/viruses of recent years were traced back to specific individuals fairly quickly. It's a lot easier than forensic microbiology.
Cisco was obviously not responsive to him, so he goes out and does it on his own
Not responsive in what way? In not publishing the CCNA coursework for free? This is not some revolutionary text where none ever existed, it's a CCNA study manual. There are literally dozens of these, from every technical publishing house known to man, including Cisco Press. His is just cheaper than the others.
I don't get what Cisco is supposed to be contrite about. They publish and print textbooks for courses they design. They don't want to give them away for free. That's their choice.
In my mind I try to imagine just where we would be if we still only had large main frames. The power of the PC is truely amazing
Isn't revisionist history wonderful? You're obviously unaware that computerized spreadsheets were running on mainframes nearly 15 years before VisiCalc. Look here, for instance. Supercomp-Twenty was a strong mainframe-based spreadsheet at about the same time as VisiCalc. To suggest progress would not have been made without the PC is specious at best.
...what we used to call, way back when I was in college, a "hand-waving argument" -- which just meant putting a poorly documented line of reasoning up on the board and hoping nobody noticed that the logic to tie it together just wasn't there.
The New York Times Magazine has an interesting editorial
It's an interesting piece, but it's not an editorial. An editorial states the opinion of the newspaper as a whole (actually of the Editorial Board, if you're feeling pedantic) and as such carries a fair amount of weight, as in saying, for example, "The New York Times has endorsed Kerry for President." This is just an opinion piece by one of the paper's writers, and is a lot lower on the food chain than an editorial.
Anyone remember the Grateful Dead's policy on bootlegging
It's called "taping", not "bootlegging". Nothing bootleg about it, ever. Bootlegging is making a live recording of an act that does not permit live recording and then selling that product to make a profit for yourself.
And with the Dead, anyway, this taping has been going on for 30 years, not 20.
So for once a Slashdot headline is actually factually accurate. Fusion is "in the future", as it has been for the last 30 years and will be for the next 30 and the 30 after that. Who remembers Tokamak?
Xerox Docutechs, which scan in many hundreds of sheets at once to print copies of documents. The scanning takes barely a second a page, and it wouldn't surprise me if the document format being stored inside the docutech is something that can be used for this purpose.
Truly, ignorance is bliss. This is clearly written by someone who has seen a DocuTech only from a distance.
We have three of them where I work, and I have worked very very closely with them on a number of projects. Sure, they scan quickly, but you can't get the data out of them. They are copiers, essentially.
For too many teachers I've encountered over the years, it is precisely a 6.5 hour/day job.
I bring work home, too, and I'm at the office more than 8 hours. I work 48 weeks per year, not 36, and I don't get free health insurance. Just getting teachers in my district to contribute 5% to their Blue Cross was a major struggle.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not "anti-teacher". On the contrary -- my daughter is planning to become a high school teacher after she graduates next week, with my encouragement and support. Just don't cry me that story about "poor underpaid teachers". The pay's pretty good, the work isn't that hard, and nobody held a gun to your head to make you do it.
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Only the government really needs it.
Yeah, but unfortunately this was government data, and the individuals represented by it had no choice nor say in the matter. So your advice is useless in this instance.
Now I know I'm old. I didn't get a single one of the references in your post. That's scary. Thundercats? Planeteers? Not a damn clue.
Here's the first paragraph of the announcement sent to alumni.
"I am delighted to announce that the MIT Corporation voted this morning to appoint Dr. Susan Hockfield to succeed Charles M. Vest HM as our 16th president. Dr. Hockfield is currently provost at Yale University and will take office in early December. Dana G. Mead PO '67, chair of the Corporation, said of Hockfield's appointment, "She represents the kind of dynamic, visionary leadership that is vital to MIT's continued success as one of the world's leading research universities. She will be a worthy successor to Chuck Vest, and my colleagues on the Corporation and I will do all that we can to assist and support her. I'm sure we can count on our alumni to do the same.""
Note, nothing about "first woman" or anything like that.
'Can a rodent generate enough electricity to power a light by running on it's wheel?'"
Or maybe CowboyNeal does. "Editing"? Whatever for?
At least this one doesn't have the same horrid "IT" color scheme as the Nokia press release did.
Bullshit. Most of the very high-profile worms/viruses of recent years were traced back to specific individuals fairly quickly. It's a lot easier than forensic microbiology.
Do you have any verifiable data at all, or are you just making this up?
Poor schmuck probably already got that e-mail, and this "coding error" was a last-ditch attempt to generate the FOURTHY-THOUSAND DOLLARS he needed.
Not responsive in what way? In not publishing the CCNA coursework for free? This is not some revolutionary text where none ever existed, it's a CCNA study manual. There are literally dozens of these, from every technical publishing house known to man, including Cisco Press. His is just cheaper than the others.
I don't get what Cisco is supposed to be contrite about. They publish and print textbooks for courses they design. They don't want to give them away for free. That's their choice.
Except for the 99% of the population who doesn't know what the hell IRC is and has never heard a word of, or about, this "reaction".
up off the damn couch?
MIT, yes. Negroponte, no. The Media Lab was/is mostly fluff. Serious research goes on in other corridors.
Isn't revisionist history wonderful? You're obviously unaware that computerized spreadsheets were running on mainframes nearly 15 years before VisiCalc. Look here, for instance. Supercomp-Twenty was a strong mainframe-based spreadsheet at about the same time as VisiCalc. To suggest progress would not have been made without the PC is specious at best.
...what we used to call, way back when I was in college, a "hand-waving argument" -- which just meant putting a poorly documented line of reasoning up on the board and hoping nobody noticed that the logic to tie it together just wasn't there.
It's an interesting piece, but it's not an editorial. An editorial states the opinion of the newspaper as a whole (actually of the Editorial Board, if you're feeling pedantic) and as such carries a fair amount of weight, as in saying, for example, "The New York Times has endorsed Kerry for President." This is just an opinion piece by one of the paper's writers, and is a lot lower on the food chain than an editorial.
It's called "taping", not "bootlegging". Nothing bootleg about it, ever. Bootlegging is making a live recording of an act that does not permit live recording and then selling that product to make a profit for yourself.
And with the Dead, anyway, this taping has been going on for 30 years, not 20.
Which, in the 1970's, was widely promised to be commercially viable before the turn of the century. That's what I meant.
So for once a Slashdot headline is actually factually accurate. Fusion is "in the future", as it has been for the last 30 years and will be for the next 30 and the 30 after that. Who remembers Tokamak?
Truly, ignorance is bliss. This is clearly written by someone who has seen a DocuTech only from a distance.
We have three of them where I work, and I have worked very very closely with them on a number of projects. Sure, they scan quickly, but you can't get the data out of them. They are copiers, essentially.
Raise your hand if you have any recollection of this swill (or any recollection the day after comsuming it).
Why is this modded "informative"? He wasn't growing wheat, but canola, aka rapeseed. "Uninformed" would be a more appropriate mod.
You live near Lake Baikal? That's pretty remote.
Yep.
Couldn't agree more that if this leads to fewer blogs, it's a Good Thing. They should raise the price even more.
For too many teachers I've encountered over the years, it is precisely a 6.5 hour/day job.
I bring work home, too, and I'm at the office more than 8 hours. I work 48 weeks per year, not 36, and I don't get free health insurance. Just getting teachers in my district to contribute 5% to their Blue Cross was a major struggle.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not "anti-teacher". On the contrary -- my daughter is planning to become a high school teacher after she graduates next week, with my encouragement and support. Just don't cry me that story about "poor underpaid teachers". The pay's pretty good, the work isn't that hard, and nobody held a gun to your head to make you do it.