As soon as I hit submit, I ran the numbers and got the same. Damn the lack of edit. I forget the exact %s, honestly. Gimme a break, it was 7-8 years ago. (I don't even recall the year!)
I think that it would've taken me from a solid A to a low B or B-. There are no A+'s given out at that University, an A is the highest possible.
So, ignore my math and take a look at my point, which wasn't meant to be about me, but about a possible option for the students in this class.
What a piss poor assignment this was though. Esp considering that the submitter says he went into the "final" with an A and expects to fail.
Hope for a curve on that assignment. Even with tenure, the dept. won't like the fact that 50%+ of the class fails, unless that's the norm. Furthermore, go speak to the prof, esp since you're one who found one of the sec.holes. Explain that one failed assignment shouldn't completely outweigh a semester's worth of A-work. And don't speak only for yourself if able, speak for the class as a whole. Also, remember that there's safety in numbers. Gather as many classmates together and collectively approach him during his office hours.
I recall taking a course and I'd a 98.5% going into the final. The final was 33% of the grade, and I proceeded to completely bomb it (72% or so.) I went and talked to the prof, who knew me from the class of ~150 students. I clearly and calmly explained that I obviously knew the material as demonstrated throughout the semester, and that a single 2-hour exam shouldn't penalize me like it was about to. He agreed, and I got my A in the class as a final grade.
The thing is, the torrent-linker above could have been the initial seed, in which case he very easily could've made a 4GB file of goatse, and just called it "Halo 2 Xbox DVD" or some such.
For example, just because a torrent is called "WinXP ISO" doesn't mean that its really WinXP with complementary spyware included. Or that "Harry Potter 3 DVD" isn't gay-animal-porn.
But what happens if a nasty worm/virus starts disrupting food transport, shredding hospital documents, places trains on the same track, open the doors in the CDC, route airplanes into skyscrapers?
A properly designed infection could wreak havoc, and kill hundreds, thousands?
I realize that I'm being overly dramatic, but there's probably a point where capital punishment WOULD be a justifiable answer.
I don't consider a single speaker as a stero, nor would I a pair ~ Its just a speaker! Where's the driver (amp) hack?
Much like the Commodore hack people have mentioned, we did one of our own:
In our (underfunded university ElecEng) research lab, we needed a simple (ok, cheap) device to position an NQR sample and move it back and forth through a few inches of travel. Eventually, we settled upon using the drive from a dot-matrix printer. What we had tried before that though, was indeed a hard drive.
We found a massive old (platter?) drive. The thing used 15inch disks or something. (Sorry, I don't have better info than that.) The read/write head was controlled by a pretty heavy magnet and coil.
Basically, we hooked the thing up to a power op-amp. DC offset was used to center the thing on its travel length, input was a sine wave from a function generator.
Well, a careless undergrad was setting this up one day, and instead of using sub-Hertz, set the function generator to something like 200 Hz. (3 orders of magnitude higher than we intended.) Well, damn if that drive didn't moan, and loudly.
Playing around with it, it turned out that it had a relatively decent frequency response (considering it was a disk drive!) It was only a few days before I HAD to bring in a PoS Casio keyboard to hook up to that thing.
Since people from down the hallway came to ask us to turn down the music, I think it was sufficiently loud. >:) Of course, once they realized what was producing the sound, they wanted to play!
That thing should still be laying around here somewhere. It makes for a neat demonstration for the Intro to ElecEng freshmen, and even the tenured profs get a kick out of it. And, OK, the speaker built in the linked article is good as well, would make for a nice reachout program. (4h, boyscouts, etc. given some magnets and magnet wire.)
Depending on the field of study, your point seems insubstantial.
For example : What about the English major? How much "lab time" are they going to need? Nearly ALL instruction will be either in the class or from reading. Free eBooks could save them a load of cash vs buying all the texts.
As for out of class assistance, tutoring is optional. For answering questions about the coursework or assignments, etc., that's part of the instructor's job!! As an undergrad (elec eng,) I learned to approach my prof's during their REQUIRED office hours. Not enough students do this, as I found out by TA'ing.
The value that a book has in a course varies not only per course, but on the instructor as well. I've witnessed instructors who just could NOT teach, and a good textbook was the only thing that got me through a class. I've also been privledged enough to have been taught by a few who give lecture notes that are more informative than the course text!
Tuition is a fixed fee that you cannot get around. Text books, on the other hand, can vary dramatically. Think $500+ a semester for new texts, $400+ for USED ones. You can usually get some of the cost reimbursed, IF that text version will be used again. Personally, I've kept my old texts as reference material. Having a Chemistry or Calc book lying around, that I'm already familiar with, has saved me time on many occasions. So I've several thousand invested in reference materials now. Some through choice, some because they couldn't be sold back.
It IS naive to think that because a student can't afford $500 a semester on texts that they'd not be able to "access a computer." One or two semesters of Free texts IS $$ saved for a computer. Not to mention that Universities have COMPUTER LABS, designed for people WITHOUT computers!!
Sorry for the little rant here, since we do seem to agree that free texts is a GoodThing! =)
NASA has used an airplane to snag sounding rocket payloads on descent for years. Affectionately named the "Happy Hooker" because that's just what it did, latched a big hook onto the parachute.
As part of a university program that launched a joint venture sounding rocket from Wallops Island, this wasn't an available option for us. We constructed the payload to be watertight and boyant, and hired a tuna-boat to go out and pick the thing out of the Atlantic.
*cheers* to all SPIRIT teammates if they happen to read this. It was an outstanding success.
I hoped that G.W. would've proposed stepping stone constructions first. Like a Space Elevator!
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_elevator_020327-1.html
http://flightprojects.msfc.nasa.gov/fd02_elev.html
Spend $40billion now, make future exploration easier/cheaper, recoup costs by doing the world's heavy lifting.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't see it in the post, nor in the cursory read I gave the replies.
Anyhews, they do have a site for the movie:
http://www.beowulfandgrendel.com/
I'm hoping for great things from the Gaiman / Zemeckis duo here.
Looks like there's no dragon in it, "yet." YET? Uhhh... epic epic? Not another Trilogy?!! Time will tell, I suppose.
If you enjoyed the Lambert movie called "Beowulf," great!
Unfortunately, about the only similarity with the epic poem it had was the title...
Oh, they work. The links just weren't readily available from their main page.
Any news on the development of the Qonos?i les.jsp
http://www.hydrix.com/pages/body/products/qonos_t
are available there http://www.etfgame.com/shots/ for the classes http://www.etfgame.com/shots/classes/index.shtml, weapons http://www.etfgame.com/shots/weapons/index.shtml, and levels http://www.etfgame.com/shots/levels/index.shtml.
It looks like etfgame.com took these links off of the homepage, probably because they're serving the 200MB mod as well.
Cripes! Jump all over me will you, please?!
As soon as I hit submit, I ran the numbers and got the same. Damn the lack of edit. I forget the exact %s, honestly. Gimme a break, it was 7-8 years ago. (I don't even recall the year!)
I think that it would've taken me from a solid A to a low B or B-. There are no A+'s given out at that University, an A is the highest possible.
So, ignore my math and take a look at my point, which wasn't meant to be about me, but about a possible option for the students in this class.
happen to look at any of the software here?
http://cr.yp.to/software.html
What a piss poor assignment this was though. Esp considering that the submitter says he went into the "final" with an A and expects to fail.
Hope for a curve on that assignment. Even with tenure, the dept. won't like the fact that 50%+ of the class fails, unless that's the norm. Furthermore, go speak to the prof, esp since you're one who found one of the sec.holes. Explain that one failed assignment shouldn't completely outweigh a semester's worth of A-work. And don't speak only for yourself if able, speak for the class as a whole. Also, remember that there's safety in numbers. Gather as many classmates together and collectively approach him during his office hours.
I recall taking a course and I'd a 98.5% going into the final. The final was 33% of the grade, and I proceeded to completely bomb it (72% or so.) I went and talked to the prof, who knew me from the class of ~150 students. I clearly and calmly explained that I obviously knew the material as demonstrated throughout the semester, and that a single 2-hour exam shouldn't penalize me like it was about to. He agreed, and I got my A in the class as a final grade.
Something to consider! GL to you.
doesn't this follow directly from the DMCA?
You actually consider Starbucks to be "coffee goodness"?!
It's only ubiquitous, if that's good.
That's the gist of a torrent.
The thing is, the torrent-linker above could have been the initial seed, in which case he very easily could've made a 4GB file of goatse, and just called it "Halo 2 Xbox DVD" or some such.
For example, just because a torrent is called "WinXP ISO" doesn't mean that its really WinXP with complementary spyware included. Or that "Harry Potter 3 DVD" isn't gay-animal-porn.
And the year after that?
"Retrieve a 3-man team from mars!"
Nope, but someone does care about Gnome!
d) all of the above.
it helps when looking for funding.
Why should taxpayers have to pocket the bounties?
Most of the problems have their basis for what comes out of Redmond. I say encourage Microsoft to put out more bounties!
Here in the US, that's the beginning of a TV show: "MS's Most Wanted"
depends on the life insurance policy.
I first laughed at the simple concept of it.
But what happens if a nasty worm/virus starts disrupting food transport, shredding hospital documents, places trains on the same track, open the doors in the CDC, route airplanes into skyscrapers?
A properly designed infection could wreak havoc, and kill hundreds, thousands?
I realize that I'm being overly dramatic, but there's probably a point where capital punishment WOULD be a justifiable answer.
Hehe, I was thinking just about the same thing.
...
71m3 53f/\r1 1|\|c.
53f/\r15 2 |\|3 y33r 1|\| 73h p/\57.
Please forgive me, that I've attempted such a poor elite-speak rendidtion. For those of you who can do better, I'm sorry that you can.
I don't consider a single speaker as a stero, nor would I a pair ~ Its just a speaker! Where's the driver (amp) hack?
Much like the Commodore hack people have mentioned, we did one of our own:
In our (underfunded university ElecEng) research lab, we needed a simple (ok, cheap) device to position an NQR sample and move it back and forth through a few inches of travel. Eventually, we settled upon using the drive from a dot-matrix printer. What we had tried before that though, was indeed a hard drive.
We found a massive old (platter?) drive. The thing used 15inch disks or something. (Sorry, I don't have better info than that.) The read/write head was controlled by a pretty heavy magnet and coil.
Basically, we hooked the thing up to a power op-amp. DC offset was used to center the thing on its travel length, input was a sine wave from a function generator.
Well, a careless undergrad was setting this up one day, and instead of using sub-Hertz, set the function generator to something like 200 Hz. (3 orders of magnitude higher than we intended.) Well, damn if that drive didn't moan, and loudly.
Playing around with it, it turned out that it had a relatively decent frequency response (considering it was a disk drive!) It was only a few days before I HAD to bring in a PoS Casio keyboard to hook up to that thing.
Since people from down the hallway came to ask us to turn down the music, I think it was sufficiently loud. >:) Of course, once they realized what was producing the sound, they wanted to play!
That thing should still be laying around here somewhere. It makes for a neat demonstration for the Intro to ElecEng freshmen, and even the tenured profs get a kick out of it. And, OK, the speaker built in the linked article is good as well, would make for a nice reachout program. (4h, boyscouts, etc. given some magnets and magnet wire.)
Depending on the field of study, your point seems insubstantial.
For example : What about the English major? How much "lab time" are they going to need? Nearly ALL instruction will be either in the class or from reading. Free eBooks could save them a load of cash vs buying all the texts.
As for out of class assistance, tutoring is optional. For answering questions about the coursework or assignments, etc., that's part of the instructor's job!! As an undergrad (elec eng,) I learned to approach my prof's during their REQUIRED office hours. Not enough students do this, as I found out by TA'ing.
The value that a book has in a course varies not only per course, but on the instructor as well. I've witnessed instructors who just could NOT teach, and a good textbook was the only thing that got me through a class. I've also been privledged enough to have been taught by a few who give lecture notes that are more informative than the course text!
Tuition is a fixed fee that you cannot get around. Text books, on the other hand, can vary dramatically. Think $500+ a semester for new texts, $400+ for USED ones. You can usually get some of the cost reimbursed, IF that text version will be used again. Personally, I've kept my old texts as reference material. Having a Chemistry or Calc book lying around, that I'm already familiar with, has saved me time on many occasions. So I've several thousand invested in reference materials now. Some through choice, some because they couldn't be sold back.
It IS naive to think that because a student can't afford $500 a semester on texts that they'd not be able to "access a computer." One or two semesters of Free texts IS $$ saved for a computer. Not to mention that Universities have COMPUTER LABS, designed for people WITHOUT computers!!
Sorry for the little rant here, since we do seem to agree that free texts is a GoodThing! =)
NASA has used an airplane to snag sounding rocket payloads on descent for years. Affectionately named the "Happy Hooker" because that's just what it did, latched a big hook onto the parachute.
As part of a university program that launched a joint venture sounding rocket from Wallops Island, this wasn't an available option for us. We constructed the payload to be watertight and boyant, and hired a tuna-boat to go out and pick the thing out of the Atlantic.
*cheers* to all SPIRIT teammates if they happen to read this. It was an outstanding success.
LONG range durations:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3387919.stm
Farewell, you beauty Hubble.
Thanks, G.W. At least we had one more amazing glimpse into the deep past.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3387919.stm
(sorry, forgot how to link stuff. eep!)
I'll take that one-way ticket.
y /space_elevator_020327-1.htmll
I hoped that G.W. would've proposed stepping stone constructions first. Like a Space Elevator!
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technolog
http://flightprojects.msfc.nasa.gov/fd02_elev.htm
Spend $40billion now, make future exploration easier/cheaper, recoup costs by doing the world's heavy lifting.
Sorry, no room to mirror 23M of pdfs. blast! In $ news, http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOX&t=5d