There are too many accredited diploma mills out there it seems.
On the other hand, a bachelor's from, say, MIT is not going to look like a diploma mill...wouldn't that be more valuable than a master's from UPhoenix?
(Assuming you get in. But there are a lot of places that aren't as hard as MIT that still are quite well known and won't look like any-old-bachelor's.)
Metcalfe's Law as misused by dot-bombers: N^2 * V = 100,000 -- "Proves" selling frozen mud on the net is a winner
As restated by the authors: n log (n) * v = 2000 -- no business case, but better than a flat linear
Um. That's not how Big-O notation works. O(n(n+1)/2) is the same as O(n^2). Constant terms don't matter. So your n log n might as well be 10n log n. Or n ln n. Or whatever. You can't plug in your n into the function and expect a useful number out of it. Big-O growth terms describe how quickly it grows, not what a particular value is.
The point Metcalfe was making is that after a certain point, the cost of the network grows linearly but the value grows more than linearly (he suggested O(n^2), this paper says O(n log n), same difference). These functions all start under linear growth, cross it, and continue to grow faster. So until you meet that crossing point, there is no business case. But your functions tell you nothing about where that crossing point is - that's real-world data.
Otherwise we'll see articles about "Metcalfe's Law Disproven! It actually grows at 2n^2 - 4n + C" or whatever hyperaccurate nonsense.
Homeschooling is awesome. Every time I've heard someone mention homeschooling, it has turned out well.
What we don't hear is the silent majority of parents who either don't have the time to homeschool their children (e.g., single-parent family or even two-parent families where both parents must work to make a decent living), or are unqualified to. If your parents barely graduated high school, how can they properly teach you? You'll have better luck hiring current high-schoolers as tutors.
And until recently iChat didn't support auto-replies because of some asinine theory that a messaging PRESENCE application does not need to handle the AWAY situation. Somewhere in my comment history is an Apple dev replying to me that they won't ever support it because it's not a chatting feature. Same with buddy profiles - it's chatting, not hosting profiles!
They support it now. Someone finally realized that if they're going to make an AIM client, they'd better support almost all of the AIM featureset. I suspect the same thing will happen with Safari once Writely and co. get popular. Your personal philosophy does not override a published standard.
Certainly the UK has a version of RICO? Isn't it very mob-esque for one organisation to unilaterally tell many companies who they can and cannot serve - and then pressure them to follow that?
And why do you think it's on the www server as opposed to somewhere else on the domain? Oh, that's right, you don't care about the point that Ubuntu themselves don't provide kernel sources in an obvious location, or won't even think that perhaps he paraphrased, because you're too busy attacking him.
It's simple free-market economics. Supply and demand. If there aren't people buying guns to defend themselves, then there isn't enough profit for the gun makers and criminals will have nowhere to buy guns.
Kent doesn't exactly have an "image". They are just another college in the Midwest that no one cares about.
I think of Kent State the same way as I think of Little Rock Central : a school that's only important because it figures into recent US history. I can't hear "Kent State" without my mind filling in "...shootings" any more than I can hear "Little Rock Central" without filling in "...Nine".
The situation is university administrators not wanting athletes to spoil their image. It has nothing to do with Facebook or anybody else "pushing content".
How is this different from the high school programming competition I participated in? 30 teams in the university's student union, given up to 3 hours to finish 7 programs (and in the advanced division, the 5th through 7th programs are much harder than the sample problems on the website). If you submit something and get it wrong, they don't tell you why. Even if it gives the right results on your test data. If you submit something and get it right, you get a colored balloon tied to your table - so while you're in the midst of programming and finding a obscure error under time pressure, you can see the other teams getting balloons.
So what's special about this "real time" competition other than the silly names and the nightclub?
Let me be the first of many, I'm sure, to point out the Wikipedia article on the historicity of Jesus.
And consider how much record there was of most people at the time. Consider Caesar himself: "Caesar's military campaigns are known in detail from his own written Commentaries (Commentarii), and many details of his life are recorded by later historians such as Suetonius, Plutarch, Cassius Dio, and Strabo. It is by these accounts, and these only, of which we know the clearest details of his life" (from the Wikipedia). Caesar, of course, died in 44 BC. Suetonius was born c. 75 AD, Plutarch in 46, and Dio Cassius c. 165. Strabo was born around 64 BC, but his History is lost and only known through quotes. For Caesar being such an important figure in Roman society, and Jesus being crucified as a common criminal (with an anti-imperial cult soon arising from his legend), how much better are the Roman sources for Caesar's life than the gospels about Jesus'?
I'm sorry, I don't mean to attack you, but I always had this extraordinary fascination with people who thought holding onto faith was the most important thing and that faith itself was the most sanctimonius and unassailable of emotions
He's not talking about holding on to your faith for the sake of being faithful. He's talking about holding on to your faith because you believe it stronger than the rest. And if you hear another faith and believe it to be stronger than yours, and go to it, more power to you. But if you hide your ears from other faiths because you're worried you might be swayed, then your "faith" is just head-in-the-sand, I-can't-hear-you-nanny-nanny-boo-boo stubbornness.
If you're listening to other faiths just to say "I listened so I must be strong in my faith," and you don't actually open your mind to the possibility of converting, then it means nothing.
Actually, not really. Researcher's at MIT's CSAIL and Media Lab have determined that a regular tinfoil hat improves reception of government-allocated frequencies.
I would say this is a problem of half-simplification. If an FTP folder is to look like a real folder, then it should work like one too. Or at least like a network share. Same with those "compressed folders." What is the point of having an Explorer-looking window where you can't so much as Open With a file inside it?
And for your Excel sheet, any action that requires serializing a filtered or partially-hidden file (be it Excel filtering or Word hidden text or whatever) should pop up a dialog "Would you like to serialize [send, save, print, whatever] the entire file or only the visible parts?" - just like they do with printing a document with a selection on it.
And if the PDF editor doesn't make it clear that the text remains under the black rectangle, then the distiller should optimize that text away.
if he lose his hardware again, then he can switch to a linux box.
A who? Who is this hardware manufacturer "Linux" and why hasn't Linus sued them for trademark dilution?
Oh wait, that's right. A Linux box is any old PC box, reformatted to run Linux. That means the same bad capacitors that contaminated the entire computer industry are as likely to be found in a Linux box as in your friend's eMac.
Not to mention that there is no hardware difference between your regular Windows box and your regular Linux box. (Unless, of course, you're buying Linspire PCs.)
Reminds me of the enforced Google SafeSearch at my school (thanks to CIPA). You search for something like "naked boobies" and it says "The word 'naked' has been removed from your search. The word 'boobies' has been removed from your search." and proceeds to give a list of the top-ranked sites. Such as the United Nations and CNN and the W3 Validator so forth.
But it's not just the.NET framework. What about the scaffolding code that the compiler "wizards" auto-generate? You have to practically never use VS's code-generation features if you're writing OSS.
Slashdot Mirror
So a couple of people are walking in New Haven, and they come across this guy.
"Where are you from?", they ask.
"Yale."
"And what's your name?"
"Yonathan Yones."
There are too many accredited diploma mills out there it seems.
On the other hand, a bachelor's from, say, MIT is not going to look like a diploma mill...wouldn't that be more valuable than a master's from UPhoenix?
(Assuming you get in. But there are a lot of places that aren't as hard as MIT that still are quite well known and won't look like any-old-bachelor's.)
Um. That's not how Big-O notation works. O(n(n+1)/2) is the same as O(n^2). Constant terms don't matter. So your n log n might as well be 10n log n. Or n ln n. Or whatever. You can't plug in your n into the function and expect a useful number out of it. Big-O growth terms describe how quickly it grows, not what a particular value is.
The point Metcalfe was making is that after a certain point, the cost of the network grows linearly but the value grows more than linearly (he suggested O(n^2), this paper says O(n log n), same difference). These functions all start under linear growth, cross it, and continue to grow faster. So until you meet that crossing point, there is no business case. But your functions tell you nothing about where that crossing point is - that's real-world data.
Otherwise we'll see articles about "Metcalfe's Law Disproven! It actually grows at 2n^2 - 4n + C" or whatever hyperaccurate nonsense.
Homeschooling is awesome. Every time I've heard someone mention homeschooling, it has turned out well.
What we don't hear is the silent majority of parents who either don't have the time to homeschool their children (e.g., single-parent family or even two-parent families where both parents must work to make a decent living), or are unqualified to. If your parents barely graduated high school, how can they properly teach you? You'll have better luck hiring current high-schoolers as tutors.
Airports with frickin' lasers on their heads!
And until recently iChat didn't support auto-replies because of some asinine theory that a messaging PRESENCE application does not need to handle the AWAY situation. Somewhere in my comment history is an Apple dev replying to me that they won't ever support it because it's not a chatting feature. Same with buddy profiles - it's chatting, not hosting profiles!
They support it now. Someone finally realized that if they're going to make an AIM client, they'd better support almost all of the AIM featureset. I suspect the same thing will happen with Safari once Writely and co. get popular. Your personal philosophy does not override a published standard.
Yes. He did limit it. The Patriot Act bypassed that, according to the article.
Remember, only use in moderation.
(Windows, that is, not just Bud Light.)
Certainly the UK has a version of RICO? Isn't it very mob-esque for one organisation to unilaterally tell many companies who they can and cannot serve - and then pressure them to follow that?
What's that, a Beowulf cluster of Guinness?
Hm, your comparison might not be so bad after all. Guinness just works and helps you think different....
And why do you think it's on the www server as opposed to somewhere else on the domain? Oh, that's right, you don't care about the point that Ubuntu themselves don't provide kernel sources in an obvious location, or won't even think that perhaps he paraphrased, because you're too busy attacking him.
It's simple free-market economics. Supply and demand. If there aren't people buying guns to defend themselves, then there isn't enough profit for the gun makers and criminals will have nowhere to buy guns.
</sarcasm>
Kent doesn't exactly have an "image". They are just another college in the Midwest that no one cares about.
I think of Kent State the same way as I think of Little Rock Central : a school that's only important because it figures into recent US history. I can't hear "Kent State" without my mind filling in "...shootings" any more than I can hear "Little Rock Central" without filling in "...Nine".
WTF knee-jerk. That makes no sense.
The situation is university administrators not wanting athletes to spoil their image. It has nothing to do with Facebook or anybody else "pushing content".
How is this different from the high school programming competition I participated in? 30 teams in the university's student union, given up to 3 hours to finish 7 programs (and in the advanced division, the 5th through 7th programs are much harder than the sample problems on the website). If you submit something and get it wrong, they don't tell you why. Even if it gives the right results on your test data. If you submit something and get it right, you get a colored balloon tied to your table - so while you're in the midst of programming and finding a obscure error under time pressure, you can see the other teams getting balloons.
So what's special about this "real time" competition other than the silly names and the nightclub?
Let me be the first of many, I'm sure, to point out the Wikipedia article on the historicity of Jesus.
And consider how much record there was of most people at the time. Consider Caesar himself: "Caesar's military campaigns are known in detail from his own written Commentaries (Commentarii), and many details of his life are recorded by later historians such as Suetonius, Plutarch, Cassius Dio, and Strabo. It is by these accounts, and these only, of which we know the clearest details of his life" (from the Wikipedia). Caesar, of course, died in 44 BC. Suetonius was born c. 75 AD, Plutarch in 46, and Dio Cassius c. 165. Strabo was born around 64 BC, but his History is lost and only known through quotes. For Caesar being such an important figure in Roman society, and Jesus being crucified as a common criminal (with an anti-imperial cult soon arising from his legend), how much better are the Roman sources for Caesar's life than the gospels about Jesus'?
He's not talking about holding on to your faith for the sake of being faithful. He's talking about holding on to your faith because you believe it stronger than the rest. And if you hear another faith and believe it to be stronger than yours, and go to it, more power to you. But if you hide your ears from other faiths because you're worried you might be swayed, then your "faith" is just head-in-the-sand, I-can't-hear-you-nanny-nanny-boo-boo stubbornness.
If you're listening to other faiths just to say "I listened so I must be strong in my faith," and you don't actually open your mind to the possibility of converting, then it means nothing.
Actually, not really. Researcher's at MIT's CSAIL and Media Lab have determined that a regular tinfoil hat improves reception of government-allocated frequencies.
I think a button saying LIBeRtARIAN would work as well.
I would say this is a problem of half-simplification. If an FTP folder is to look like a real folder, then it should work like one too. Or at least like a network share. Same with those "compressed folders." What is the point of having an Explorer-looking window where you can't so much as Open With a file inside it?
And for your Excel sheet, any action that requires serializing a filtered or partially-hidden file (be it Excel filtering or Word hidden text or whatever) should pop up a dialog "Would you like to serialize [send, save, print, whatever] the entire file or only the visible parts?" - just like they do with printing a document with a selection on it.
And if the PDF editor doesn't make it clear that the text remains under the black rectangle, then the distiller should optimize that text away.
if he lose his hardware again, then he can switch to a linux box.
A who? Who is this hardware manufacturer "Linux" and why hasn't Linus sued them for trademark dilution?
Oh wait, that's right. A Linux box is any old PC box, reformatted to run Linux. That means the same bad capacitors that contaminated the entire computer industry are as likely to be found in a Linux box as in your friend's eMac.
Not to mention that there is no hardware difference between your regular Windows box and your regular Linux box. (Unless, of course, you're buying Linspire PCs.)
Ad revenue, schmad revenue. All they have to do is tell the advertisers who's online - not who's using the official client.
No, no you don't. Did you check their website?
I was about to pull up a link and prove it to you, but I think you can type in the website and go see for yourself.
And I've been making free calls from Skype to US phones for about a month now. I'd know if I were being charged.
Reminds me of the enforced Google SafeSearch at my school (thanks to CIPA). You search for something like "naked boobies" and it says "The word 'naked' has been removed from your search. The word 'boobies' has been removed from your search." and proceeds to give a list of the top-ranked sites. Such as the United Nations and CNN and the W3 Validator so forth.
But it's not just the .NET framework. What about the scaffolding code that the compiler "wizards" auto-generate? You have to practically never use VS's code-generation features if you're writing OSS.