There have been a number of comments here saying that you are not obligated to host what you don't want to. Makes some sense. But...
Are you obligated to route stuff you don't want to? If I'm Quest or Verizon or somebody, and my router sees a packet coming in that contains the plaintext "Verizon sucks," am I obligated to route that?
What if I have routers and I'm the Chinese government?
I'm pleased that the college is switching from Quicktime to MPEG. Standards are good.
I also want to counter some common misconceptions. I go to Dartmouth. The wireless isn't new. At long as I've been there, I've found wireless coverage to be ubiquitous but slow.
Also realize that "wireless" is just a marketing buzzword. Most of this video will be traveling down CAT-5. The wired infrastructure is quite good, and that's how I normally connect to the network. It's how I expect most people will use these videos.
I'm not typical, but this is how I use the Dartmouth network: I don't use wireless on the green. I leave my laptop in my room running sshd on Cygwin, and just use public terminals. Carrying a laptop is OK, but just carrying a hostname and password around in your head is even easier!
That said, some of the other things said about Dartmouth here are in fact true:
Keystone Light might as well be the official student beverege.
One-night-stands are in fact the preferred form of socialization.
The US has a great deal of anti-intellectualism. In Eastern Europe, you can be proud to study math. People respect it. In China, working hard is seen for what it is: a way to the top.
In the US, a math PhD is an egghead, and someone who studies too much is a workaholic and a nerd.
We start to move beyond this backwards line of thought, maybe a tiny bit, when we're older - particularly when we're among intelligent people. But generally adults are nearly as silly and superficial as adolescents, and less changes than you'd like: By the time you're 18, you've already been socialized with society's values.
Americans respect beer and money. What would happen if insted we respected thought?
I sympathise with your point, but the things that offend people, particularly when they have to do with race and ethnicity, are almost never logical. I just take it as a standalone fact that, nowadays, "Jap" is generally a slur not to be used. There's no logic to it.
And if you DO try to use logic even though it's got nothing to do with what people choose to be offended by, yours here doesn't work. If you say, "It's not a slur; it's just short for 'Japanese,'" then, what might you call a Nigerian?
And actually, "Yankee" has negative connotations all over the place too; Americans have just embraced the word.
So, the words that people choose to get knotted up over simply don't make sense, but it's just the way things are. That's what Monty Python's Knights Who Say 'Ni' were about. People ran away aghast when they used the word 'Ni.' If you substitute 'fuck' for 'ni,' then you've got real life. Same with 'Jap.' It needn't make sense.
Common myth. People don't need to respect each other to get naked (If anything, respect is an obstacle). A lot of the time, sex is actually about mutual disrespect. You have the most sex with the people you care least about. Happens all the time, mon ami. And if you're the manager and your secretary starts to suck you off expecting a raise, she really must think very little of you.
I must politely disagree. Many geeks are sexually nonthreatening, but being a "metrosexual" also requires adopting "feminine" mannerisms which, really, are entirely superficial. To be a geek is, hopefully, to be interested in something other than the mindless superficiality that society expects of women - and of those men who would try to act like them.
You said: "Fission energy, fancy as it may be, is still about just making water hot. For that matter, if they get there, so will fusion energy be."
That's true about fission. And although that's one obvious way to generate electricity from a fusion reactor, a lot of fusion research has also gone into magnetohydrodynamic generators. I won't try to explain them (because I can't; I don't really understand them myself) but google might be able to get you started if you're interested.
It was also mentioned in a thermodynamics class I took that research has gone into using magnetohydrodynamic generators in conventional fuel-burning plants, because they can operate at much higher temperatures (and so, higher efficiencies) than conventional machinery like turbines and generators. But apparently the energy producers have pretty much given up on the technology, choosing to go with incremental improvements like higher pressures for the working fluid, more topping cycles, and ceramics for things like turbine blades. I guess plasma physics is difficult. Who'd have guessed?
One of my favorites has always been Pathfinder. It looks a little like Battleship, but instead of shooting at invisible battleships, you're trying to navigate through an invisible maze.
Each player has two grids - one orange, and one green. Each player makes "his" maze on his orange grid, and this one is hidden by a partition from his opponent. Each player's green grid IS visible to his oponnent, and this is where he keeps track of where he has been in his opponent's maze, and what where he knows walls exist.
Each player's maze hides a pawn. When you find your opponent's, you win!
Simple: Most algorithms are not easily split into independant parallel threads. If they could be, then previous (smaller) attempts to integrate vector processing (like MMX and SSE) would have had larger impacts than they did. Plus, many of the obvious vector operations have in fact been offloaded - to the GPU.
> See, the advertisers defer some of the cost of the movie, be it at the production level, distribution or showing.
...Because we all know movie tickets are sold at cost, right? God knows the studios are just trying to pay their bills.[/sarcasm]
It's called profit. It's what a corporation is legally obligated to pursue above all other, nobler goals. They show ads because it makes them more money, plain and simple. Don't take out the violin yet.
I was looking for the rough chemical composition of petroleum jelly: Something like "CnH(2n+2) where n ~= 15." Instead, the article on Wikpedia discussed its medical applications and its use in anal sex.
Its author was a medical professional whose primary interest was sex. I wanted an article written by a chemist with a primary interest in mixing deflagrants.
I found the descrepency between what I sought and what I found amusing.
You said: "[They told me] 'Well, OK, but that's because you're Chinese'... I got the racism as well."
I thought it was funny: I've heard stuff like that too, and the implication I always got from it was, "See, unlike white people, you Asians are actually smart." Or: "You're allowed to be interested in those things, because you're Asian."
When I would hear things like that, I'd actually feel a little jealous: I'm white. I'm NOT "allowed to be interested in those things" - (and still be normal.)
"Can you copyright/trademark a number?"
Of course! Isn't that what happened with some of the primes used for RSA? And isn't that what the RIAA is doing when they claim the rights to an MP3 - which is, face it, just a very big number?
Ever seen the search log on a college DirectConnect hub? Well, imagine the same thing, but replace "students-over-the-voting-age" with "kids with raging hormones undergoing puberty."
Ah, the joys of learning.
This has been around since the '20s. A while back PopSci covered a design for an extra set of wheels that jack down and allow you to slide into a spot, then jack back up. I think they were lowered mechanically (levers, worm gears, etc) without hydraulics, but aside from that they're exactly what you describe.
...radiation is this green ooze stuff that they store in barrels. Really. Its this gunk, and you can pick it up and carry it around.
Yeah, that was sarcasm. I wish people understood, oh, I dunno, the electromagnetic spectrum.
Zero violations?! Is that why not just foreign nationals but even US citizens are being held in Cuba at camp X-Ray as "enemy combatants?" Is that why they're being tied up and interrogated? Is that why they can't have a lawyer? Is that why they can't speak to their families? Is that why they are waiting there, indefinately, without a trial in sight? Where's due process?
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There have been a number of comments here saying that you are not obligated to host what you don't want to. Makes some sense. But...
Are you obligated to route stuff you don't want to? If I'm Quest or Verizon or somebody, and my router sees a packet coming in that contains the plaintext "Verizon sucks," am I obligated to route that?
What if I have routers and I'm the Chinese government?
I'm pleased that the college is switching from Quicktime to MPEG. Standards are good.
I also want to counter some common misconceptions. I go to Dartmouth. The wireless isn't new. At long as I've been there, I've found wireless coverage to be ubiquitous but slow.
Also realize that "wireless" is just a marketing buzzword. Most of this video will be traveling down CAT-5. The wired infrastructure is quite good, and that's how I normally connect to the network. It's how I expect most people will use these videos.
I'm not typical, but this is how I use the Dartmouth network: I don't use wireless on the green. I leave my laptop in my room running sshd on Cygwin, and just use public terminals. Carrying a laptop is OK, but just carrying a hostname and password around in your head is even easier!
That said, some of the other things said about Dartmouth here are in fact true:
But hey, you can't have everything!
The US has a great deal of anti-intellectualism. In Eastern Europe, you can be proud to study math. People respect it. In China, working hard is seen for what it is: a way to the top.
In the US, a math PhD is an egghead, and someone who studies too much is a workaholic and a nerd.
We start to move beyond this backwards line of thought, maybe a tiny bit, when we're older - particularly when we're among intelligent people. But generally adults are nearly as silly and superficial as adolescents, and less changes than you'd like: By the time you're 18, you've already been socialized with society's values.
Americans respect beer and money. What would happen if insted we respected thought?
Point: Frogbert.
Maybe. But it's not some-woman-on-Canal-Street-in-New-York-City-shouti ng-"DVD! DVD! Two dollar!" piracy.
Using C++ is a bit like bowling without bumpers: You can bowl a gutterball, but when you do, is it the lane's fault?/0
There's a simple way to avoid product activation: Use the "Enterprise Edition." Of course, the only way Joe Average can get it is by pirating it.
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that you can only avoid antipiracy features by being a pirate?
I sympathise with your point, but the things that offend people, particularly when they have to do with race and ethnicity, are almost never logical. I just take it as a standalone fact that, nowadays, "Jap" is generally a slur not to be used. There's no logic to it.
And if you DO try to use logic even though it's got nothing to do with what people choose to be offended by, yours here doesn't work. If you say, "It's not a slur; it's just short for 'Japanese,'" then, what might you call a Nigerian?
And actually, "Yankee" has negative connotations all over the place too; Americans have just embraced the word.
So, the words that people choose to get knotted up over simply don't make sense, but it's just the way things are. That's what Monty Python's Knights Who Say 'Ni' were about. People ran away aghast when they used the word 'Ni.' If you substitute 'fuck' for 'ni,' then you've got real life. Same with 'Jap.' It needn't make sense.
Common myth. People don't need to respect each other to get naked (If anything, respect is an obstacle). A lot of the time, sex is actually about mutual disrespect. You have the most sex with the people you care least about. Happens all the time, mon ami. And if you're the manager and your secretary starts to suck you off expecting a raise, she really must think very little of you.
I must politely disagree. Many geeks are sexually nonthreatening, but being a "metrosexual" also requires adopting "feminine" mannerisms which, really, are entirely superficial. To be a geek is, hopefully, to be interested in something other than the mindless superficiality that society expects of women - and of those men who would try to act like them.
You said: "Fission energy, fancy as it may be, is still about just making water hot. For that matter, if they get there, so will fusion energy be."
That's true about fission. And although that's one obvious way to generate electricity from a fusion reactor, a lot of fusion research has also gone into magnetohydrodynamic generators. I won't try to explain them (because I can't; I don't really understand them myself) but google might be able to get you started if you're interested.
It was also mentioned in a thermodynamics class I took that research has gone into using magnetohydrodynamic generators in conventional fuel-burning plants, because they can operate at much higher temperatures (and so, higher efficiencies) than conventional machinery like turbines and generators. But apparently the energy producers have pretty much given up on the technology, choosing to go with incremental improvements like higher pressures for the working fluid, more topping cycles, and ceramics for things like turbine blades. I guess plasma physics is difficult. Who'd have guessed?
Anyway, that's all. I thought it was cool.
One of my favorites has always been Pathfinder. It looks a little like Battleship, but instead of shooting at invisible battleships, you're trying to navigate through an invisible maze.
Each player has two grids - one orange, and one green. Each player makes "his" maze on his orange grid, and this one is hidden by a partition from his opponent. Each player's green grid IS visible to his oponnent, and this is where he keeps track of where he has been in his opponent's maze, and what where he knows walls exist.
Each player's maze hides a pawn. When you find your opponent's, you win!
There's an easy way around that one. Just RAR the files. As Slashdot readers learned recently, BAD PEOPLE spread VIRUSES that way too!
Simple: Most algorithms are not easily split into independant parallel threads. If they could be, then previous (smaller) attempts to integrate vector processing (like MMX and SSE) would have had larger impacts than they did. Plus, many of the obvious vector operations have in fact been offloaded - to the GPU.
> Who even knew geeks got laid?
That, mon ami, is an outdated stereotype. Times change.
> Good sex is art, not math.
Common misconception: Math is art. The rest is calculation.
> See, the advertisers defer some of the cost of the movie, be it at the production level, distribution or showing.
...Because we all know movie tickets are sold at cost, right? God knows the studios are just trying to pay their bills.[/sarcasm]
It's called profit. It's what a corporation is legally obligated to pursue above all other, nobler goals. They show ads because it makes them more money, plain and simple. Don't take out the violin yet.
I was looking for the rough chemical composition of petroleum jelly: Something like "CnH(2n+2) where n ~= 15." Instead, the article on Wikpedia discussed its medical applications and its use in anal sex. Its author was a medical professional whose primary interest was sex. I wanted an article written by a chemist with a primary interest in mixing deflagrants. I found the descrepency between what I sought and what I found amusing.
You said: "[They told me] 'Well, OK, but that's because you're Chinese' ... I got the racism as well."
:-)
I thought it was funny: I've heard stuff like that too, and the implication I always got from it was, "See, unlike white people, you Asians are actually smart." Or: "You're allowed to be interested in those things, because you're Asian."
When I would hear things like that, I'd actually feel a little jealous: I'm white. I'm NOT "allowed to be interested in those things" - (and still be normal.)
Guess it's always greener on the other side.
"Can you copyright/trademark a number?" Of course! Isn't that what happened with some of the primes used for RSA? And isn't that what the RIAA is doing when they claim the rights to an MP3 - which is, face it, just a very big number?
Ever seen the search log on a college DirectConnect hub? Well, imagine the same thing, but replace "students-over-the-voting-age" with "kids with raging hormones undergoing puberty." Ah, the joys of learning.
This has been around since the '20s. A while back PopSci covered a design for an extra set of wheels that jack down and allow you to slide into a spot, then jack back up. I think they were lowered mechanically (levers, worm gears, etc) without hydraulics, but aside from that they're exactly what you describe.
...radiation is this green ooze stuff that they store in barrels. Really. Its this gunk, and you can pick it up and carry it around. Yeah, that was sarcasm. I wish people understood, oh, I dunno, the electromagnetic spectrum.
"If voting really changed anything, they would have made it illegal by now"
Zero violations?! Is that why not just foreign nationals but even US citizens are being held in Cuba at camp X-Ray as "enemy combatants?" Is that why they're being tied up and interrogated? Is that why they can't have a lawyer? Is that why they can't speak to their families? Is that why they are waiting there, indefinately, without a trial in sight? Where's due process?