Unless there is a lot of jerking-off or running around in underwear going on, I generally don't see how even video is much of an invasion compared to audio...
And it seems that they don't actually need to do anything like that. The registered purpose of the charity is "innovation in the field of architectural and interior design", so I guess just coming with a new sofa design every year they should be covered...
Well, it is not THAT hard if you get cost + contracts... I mean it is not exactly unfeasible to get something to space 60 years after people started accomplishing it. Getting something safely to space for LESS is what is hard right now.
I did my MS in a top-30 US program. It was a state school and roughly half of the students were from India. This also made roughly half the TAs Indian. Although I come from a country where cheating is common (and professors know it so are out to prevent it), I had never seen such mass-scale cheating and collusion before. You see, the Professors did not expect any academic dishonesty - especially large-scale one and trusted their TAs as colleagues. Example: in a database class as homework for one week we were to implement a flight booking system that given departure/arrival airports used sql queries to find the appropriate flights with up to one interim destination. You were given the database contents and the test cases you were to perform to confirm your project works properly. I left it for the last minute (naturally) so in my hurry the java UI had a minor bug. I don't remember exactly, but it was not something of consequence, the point of the exercise was the sql. I got 95% and I thought it was a bit strict, but anyway. A few days later while I was browsing my home direct on the student server, I noticed that many students still had world readable home directories. You were expected to manage it yourself, so if you wanted to put stuff there you were supposed to secure it. One of the accessible ones was of the TA that had given me 95% and I checked it out. Sure enough, he was putting stuff there without bothering to change the permissions , and one of the "stuff" was an excel sheet with the results of the exercise. I opened it and found out that every Indian had 98-100%. You might say the were the great students and it was not that hard of an exercise, but I knew at least some of those 100%s as weak students. So I went back to the home directory list and found one of the 100% people that did not look 100% material with an accessible directory and their homework right there:) I opened her java file and what do I see: no db stuff at all! No connection to the db, no queries, nothing. Hard-coded in java were the test cases... By the time I finished the program I knew very well that Indians considered cheating and plagiarism as the norm, as was helping out each-other with that stuff. Also bullshitting came naturally. For example I was representing an office at the job fair and was accepting CVs from graduate students for a position. I was supposed to give my boss the best candidates for an interview. I was surprised to find out that most of the Indian resumes were almost identical. They had all finished an IIT with a great grade (meanwhile back in my home country the top undergrads could perhaps hope for close to 8.5/10 final grade), had all been placed first in a Mathematical Olympiad of some unknown place (town? village? cricket club? who knows?), had some great professional background in an Indian company, some of them who were in my class had developed a "robust airline reservation system" that was presented as being in line to replace the software at Delta... I could not tell them apart. At all. I mean, I knew we had some Indians who were amazing students. I mean, half of the students were Indian, so about half of the top students were also Indian. But their resumes looked the same, based on them I would either send all of them or none for an interview. In the end, I sent the ones that from our brief interaction seemed to have the best communication/interaction skills, but in any case it is indicative. A year after I finished, an Indian was caught cheating on a test for the second time by a Professor. He told the student he was getting an F. His reply was "why give me an F when all the class submitted the same course project?". The Professor asked the TA for the submitted projects and found out that almost all Indian students in the class (the number was about 20 IIRC) had submitted a copy of the same project, and the TA had dutifully marked all with an "A". There was talk about expelling all of those involved, but in the end they allowed them to continue with an F in that course. Perhaps after that they started checking up on them...
I expected him to go into politics or something like that. But I guess Cisco security chief is not that bad. Not as funny probably, although I do laugh at some of their obscenely overpriced stuff. Quick question, how exactly do they establish these fake identities? It would not be such a good scheme if all it does is flag shipments for NSA "hey, look at this, we don't want you to know where it is going"...
I have been on 1and1 for over 10 years (since they had done a "free 2-year linux hosting" around '04) and I have had zero problems. Very fast shared hosting, tried their virtual hosting, also good, great prices. They don't have such a good reputation, but if you read through the bad reviews, a specific pattern emerges: it always starts with a failed auto-payment. Just be very careful with your credit card, don't let it expire, don't let it go over-limit. 1and1 will not warn you twice and they will suspend your account quickly. While for most uses I recommend 1and1, when I have needed a versatile linux server with 1-click backup, I always go to Linode. It is like you have your own VM server running, as you can make all kinds of Linux images with your custom partitioning and boot the one you want etc. Backup is auto or 1-click. More expensive than 1and1 of course, but you are not getting the same thing.
... which was probably also the problem of the jury. I don't have much musical training, but I can easily pick up parts of songs that are "borrowed". And there was no specific part of this song that was "borrowed", try to identify a specific sequence and tell us which one it is. It is the same "style" so there was obvious inspiration to such songs, but that was the whole point. If you lower the bar for plagiarism that much, then I am afraid at least half of the music production would have to pay for rights to older songs. Increasing the reach of copyright to ridiculous lengths is bad. There have been cases where you can even buy the right to sample a song, but if you are successful the record companies can still go after you ("you sampled too much") and strip you not only of your earnings but even of your credits (that include your original lyrics - as the Verve about "Bitter Sweet Symphony"). Copyright is not bad, but constantly extending its grip is.
You can't tell a person who has a lazy eye from one who does not just by looking at them. You can't even tell by their prescription! For example, I have hyperopia in both eyes, and I correct it with eyeglasses - 3.5 in one eye, 5.5 on the other. The eye that had more hyperopia was used less by my brain, since it was less useful before I started wearing glasses. The doctor when I was young should have patched the good eye for a while, but he was a lousy doctor. So now, with the glasses that correct hyperopia, I have 10/10 vision on one eye and 6/10 vision on the other. I correct the hyperopia, but the brain hasn't learned to use it much. If I did not tell you it is so, you would have no way of knowing. An eye-doctor cannot tell unless you read the letters on the wall - the eye seems normal. In any case, doctors have been telling me it cannot be corrected in adults. TFA though claims this thing does work on adults. If it does, it would be great for many people.
Me and my wife, as well as other couples see it in the same light but interpret it differently. I was sure it can't possibly be interpreted as blue/black, at most I would say it could be thought of as blue/bronze, but I asked my wife in the same room what color it is and she immediately said "blue/black of course". Neither of us could "see" it the other way. Until I opened an image someone made of how the white gold would look in a proper photo. So, after looking at this photo for a bit, I went back to the original and I could finally see it as black/blue!
If it is a supermassive black hole with low tidal forces at the event horizon, how did it create mindbogglingly huge tidal waves on the first planet they visited?
... the heroes would be ripped apart just by approaching the wormhole. But it is a movie, it has to be watchable. I thought they did a great job visually and an OK job story-wise - there were no "hair-pulling" moments. Although I must admit, watching both in IMAX (the giant screen 70mm type) I enjoyed Gravity more.
I have a few iPhone devices for development purposes. The 4S has been a disaster. The first one had its wifi suddenly disabled (greyed out). Apparently it has some sort of temperature sensor for the wifi unit, (which only got enabled with iOS 6 or so IIRC) that tends to malfunction and disable the wifi. The following two units eventually had the same thing happen to them. Of course I had to pay for them because I was out of warranty. It is a quite widespread issue judging from the numerous forum posts, but Apple does not acknowledge it as a hardware failure - their instructions call for resetting network settings or a full restore of the unit which does not work. What does work is, quite interestingly, putting the phone in the freezer, but it does not fix the issue permanently. Apple is a special case though, due to the fact that the average Apple customer behaves like a member of a cult. For example, my boss had his 6-month old Mac Mini warranty voided because they found "dust" inside (it was in a pet-free, smoke-free office in case you are wondering). I told him that they can't do that, even if they did find "dust" it is not in their listed reasons to void a warranty and he simply answered "no, it is official, they told me so at the genius bar and gave me 10% off a new mac mini so I got one". So they usually get away too easily with bad hardware, like the low quality "superdrives" that would fail left and right, the aforementioned wifi module etc. I don't know if they are sleazier than everyone else, they sure are sleazy as hell but the difference is that the majority of their customers thinks they are infallible...
...since I thought you were serious, but then I did read TFA which makes no mention (and apparently Morgan Fairchild is not even married right now and her real name seems to be the much less glamorous "Patsy Ann McClenny").
The notoriously bad and unfair Ebay dispute resolution? I hope they don't just mean "the buyer always wins" (and I am talking as an ebay buyer here - it has affected me too since most sellers have pulled out and I can't find the rare things I could in the past).
That said, a simple online system where you can argue small cases without spending money for lawyers or even traveling to court could be a great thing IF it is implemented well. It would be an interesting challenge for a legal system famous for Bleak House;)
I have a degree in Physics (and not an "easy" one) and I have found that my extensive math is usually a significant advantage over CS guys. So I could see how some things from EE could be useful, especially if you were doing much in the telecom/signal processing etc type of EE stuff. Then again I also have a Master's in CS (good US Uni), so I guess it is different. You can brag if you know more than other people in a field, but you can't do it if you are at least as good in the basics...;)
I have gone through 3 iPhones 4S. Every time the same situation, the wifi option completely disappears (greyed out), and no amount of network reset etc. can bring it back. It is a well known problem with people getting temporary fixes by freezing/heating the device! It does not seem to be just a hardware problem (e.g. like the nVidia soldering), but has to do with firmware as well, since this started happening with the introduction of iOS 6 or 7 (I forget) which added some temperature control functionality.
So your wifi dies completely. It is so widespread and discussed (google for it) that for any other brand this would have probably been a class action lawsuit - or at least an acknowledgement and free fix, but with Apple every time it fails I have to pay out of pocket (it is for development purposes, no I am not a masochist), since the vast majority of Apple users are fine with paying.
That it will go 200 MPH like the equivalent model from other brands like Lamborghini etc but it turns out it goes 175, i.e. slower than those. Sure, you would not have realized it until you actually found a road good enough to test over 175 MPH (if you ever did) and otherwise the car feels good and accelerates as expected, but max speed is something that some people care about especially when comparing one sports car with the other. The excuse is sort of like "yeah, we put in an engine that would theoretically handle 200 MPH so that is what we list, but we sort of skimped on the transmission system on this less high end model so we had to put a limiter at 175 MPH since the transmission cannot address more speed...".
If they had said 3.5GB addressable from the start, nobody would have minded except the 5 people who really wanted those 4GB that other cards might have, so it is sort of a poor decision to not mention it from the start...
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Unless there is a lot of jerking-off or running around in underwear going on, I generally don't see how even video is much of an invasion compared to audio...
And it seems that they don't actually need to do anything like that. The registered purpose of the charity is "innovation in the field of architectural and interior design", so I guess just coming with a new sofa design every year they should be covered...
and convinced them to drop the Beta. This guy is good.
Well, it is not THAT hard if you get cost + contracts... I mean it is not exactly unfeasible to get something to space 60 years after people started accomplishing it. Getting something safely to space for LESS is what is hard right now.
I did my MS in a top-30 US program. It was a state school and roughly half of the students were from India. This also made roughly half the TAs Indian. Although I come from a country where cheating is common (and professors know it so are out to prevent it), I had never seen such mass-scale cheating and collusion before. You see, the Professors did not expect any academic dishonesty - especially large-scale one and trusted their TAs as colleagues. :) I opened her java file and what do I see: no db stuff at all! No connection to the db, no queries, nothing. Hard-coded in java were the test cases...
Example: in a database class as homework for one week we were to implement a flight booking system that given departure/arrival airports used sql queries to find the appropriate flights with up to one interim destination. You were given the database contents and the test cases you were to perform to confirm your project works properly. I left it for the last minute (naturally) so in my hurry the java UI had a minor bug. I don't remember exactly, but it was not something of consequence, the point of the exercise was the sql. I got 95% and I thought it was a bit strict, but anyway. A few days later while I was browsing my home direct on the student server, I noticed that many students still had world readable home directories. You were expected to manage it yourself, so if you wanted to put stuff there you were supposed to secure it. One of the accessible ones was of the TA that had given me 95% and I checked it out. Sure enough, he was putting stuff there without bothering to change the permissions , and one of the "stuff" was an excel sheet with the results of the exercise. I opened it and found out that every Indian had 98-100%. You might say the were the great students and it was not that hard of an exercise, but I knew at least some of those 100%s as weak students. So I went back to the home directory list and found one of the 100% people that did not look 100% material with an accessible directory and their homework right there
By the time I finished the program I knew very well that Indians considered cheating and plagiarism as the norm, as was helping out each-other with that stuff. Also bullshitting came naturally. For example I was representing an office at the job fair and was accepting CVs from graduate students for a position. I was supposed to give my boss the best candidates for an interview. I was surprised to find out that most of the Indian resumes were almost identical. They had all finished an IIT with a great grade (meanwhile back in my home country the top undergrads could perhaps hope for close to 8.5/10 final grade), had all been placed first in a Mathematical Olympiad of some unknown place (town? village? cricket club? who knows?), had some great professional background in an Indian company, some of them who were in my class had developed a "robust airline reservation system" that was presented as being in line to replace the software at Delta... I could not tell them apart. At all. I mean, I knew we had some Indians who were amazing students. I mean, half of the students were Indian, so about half of the top students were also Indian. But their resumes looked the same, based on them I would either send all of them or none for an interview. In the end, I sent the ones that from our brief interaction seemed to have the best communication/interaction skills, but in any case it is indicative.
A year after I finished, an Indian was caught cheating on a test for the second time by a Professor. He told the student he was getting an F. His reply was "why give me an F when all the class submitted the same course project?". The Professor asked the TA for the submitted projects and found out that almost all Indian students in the class (the number was about 20 IIRC) had submitted a copy of the same project, and the TA had dutifully marked all with an "A". There was talk about expelling all of those involved, but in the end they allowed them to continue with an F in that course. Perhaps after that they started checking up on them...
I expected him to go into politics or something like that. But I guess Cisco security chief is not that bad. Not as funny probably, although I do laugh at some of their obscenely overpriced stuff.
Quick question, how exactly do they establish these fake identities? It would not be such a good scheme if all it does is flag shipments for NSA "hey, look at this, we don't want you to know where it is going"...
Haven't you heard about honor among thieves, you insensitive clod?
I have been on 1and1 for over 10 years (since they had done a "free 2-year linux hosting" around '04) and I have had zero problems. Very fast shared hosting, tried their virtual hosting, also good, great prices. They don't have such a good reputation, but if you read through the bad reviews, a specific pattern emerges: it always starts with a failed auto-payment. Just be very careful with your credit card, don't let it expire, don't let it go over-limit. 1and1 will not warn you twice and they will suspend your account quickly.
While for most uses I recommend 1and1, when I have needed a versatile linux server with 1-click backup, I always go to Linode. It is like you have your own VM server running, as you can make all kinds of Linux images with your custom partitioning and boot the one you want etc. Backup is auto or 1-click. More expensive than 1and1 of course, but you are not getting the same thing.
I thought they had at least developed their own thruster - the world's first bullshit-powered thruster that can get you to Mars and beyond!
Hmm, nice of them to ask. Guess it is the Excellent Karma?
Anyway, sure, go ahead, you have my permission.
Close that parenthesis! I can't take it for much longer, it hurts, please!
... which was probably also the problem of the jury. I don't have much musical training, but I can easily pick up parts of songs that are "borrowed". And there was no specific part of this song that was "borrowed", try to identify a specific sequence and tell us which one it is. It is the same "style" so there was obvious inspiration to such songs, but that was the whole point. If you lower the bar for plagiarism that much, then I am afraid at least half of the music production would have to pay for rights to older songs.
Increasing the reach of copyright to ridiculous lengths is bad. There have been cases where you can even buy the right to sample a song, but if you are successful the record companies can still go after you ("you sampled too much") and strip you not only of your earnings but even of your credits (that include your original lyrics - as the Verve about "Bitter Sweet Symphony"). Copyright is not bad, but constantly extending its grip is.
I could call that an "Elite" college...
You can't tell a person who has a lazy eye from one who does not just by looking at them. You can't even tell by their prescription! For example, I have hyperopia in both eyes, and I correct it with eyeglasses - 3.5 in one eye, 5.5 on the other. The eye that had more hyperopia was used less by my brain, since it was less useful before I started wearing glasses. The doctor when I was young should have patched the good eye for a while, but he was a lousy doctor. So now, with the glasses that correct hyperopia, I have 10/10 vision on one eye and 6/10 vision on the other. I correct the hyperopia, but the brain hasn't learned to use it much. If I did not tell you it is so, you would have no way of knowing. An eye-doctor cannot tell unless you read the letters on the wall - the eye seems normal. In any case, doctors have been telling me it cannot be corrected in adults. TFA though claims this thing does work on adults. If it does, it would be great for many people.
Me and my wife, as well as other couples see it in the same light but interpret it differently. I was sure it can't possibly be interpreted as blue/black, at most I would say it could be thought of as blue/bronze, but I asked my wife in the same room what color it is and she immediately said "blue/black of course". Neither of us could "see" it the other way. Until I opened an image someone made of how the white gold would look in a proper photo. So, after looking at this photo for a bit, I went back to the original and I could finally see it as black/blue!
If it is a supermassive black hole with low tidal forces at the event horizon, how did it create mindbogglingly huge tidal waves on the first planet they visited?
... the heroes would be ripped apart just by approaching the wormhole. But it is a movie, it has to be watchable. I thought they did a great job visually and an OK job story-wise - there were no "hair-pulling" moments. Although I must admit, watching both in IMAX (the giant screen 70mm type) I enjoyed Gravity more.
I have a few iPhone devices for development purposes. The 4S has been a disaster. The first one had its wifi suddenly disabled (greyed out). Apparently it has some sort of temperature sensor for the wifi unit, (which only got enabled with iOS 6 or so IIRC) that tends to malfunction and disable the wifi. The following two units eventually had the same thing happen to them. Of course I had to pay for them because I was out of warranty. It is a quite widespread issue judging from the numerous forum posts, but Apple does not acknowledge it as a hardware failure - their instructions call for resetting network settings or a full restore of the unit which does not work. What does work is, quite interestingly, putting the phone in the freezer, but it does not fix the issue permanently. Apple is a special case though, due to the fact that the average Apple customer behaves like a member of a cult. For example, my boss had his 6-month old Mac Mini warranty voided because they found "dust" inside (it was in a pet-free, smoke-free office in case you are wondering). I told him that they can't do that, even if they did find "dust" it is not in their listed reasons to void a warranty and he simply answered "no, it is official, they told me so at the genius bar and gave me 10% off a new mac mini so I got one". So they usually get away too easily with bad hardware, like the low quality "superdrives" that would fail left and right, the aforementioned wifi module etc. I don't know if they are sleazier than everyone else, they sure are sleazy as hell but the difference is that the majority of their customers thinks they are infallible...
...since I thought you were serious, but then I did read TFA which makes no mention (and apparently Morgan Fairchild is not even married right now and her real name seems to be the much less glamorous "Patsy Ann McClenny").
The notoriously bad and unfair Ebay dispute resolution? I hope they don't just mean "the buyer always wins" (and I am talking as an ebay buyer here - it has affected me too since most sellers have pulled out and I can't find the rare things I could in the past).
That said, a simple online system where you can argue small cases without spending money for lawyers or even traveling to court could be a great thing IF it is implemented well. It would be an interesting challenge for a legal system famous for Bleak House ;)
I have a degree in Physics (and not an "easy" one) and I have found that my extensive math is usually a significant advantage over CS guys. So I could see how some things from EE could be useful, especially if you were doing much in the telecom/signal processing etc type of EE stuff. Then again I also have a Master's in CS (good US Uni), so I guess it is different. You can brag if you know more than other people in a field, but you can't do it if you are at least as good in the basics... ;)
The review scores are like a broken pencil...
A couple of hours ago I read that it was delayed for Wednesday due to the weather conditions (wind).
I have gone through 3 iPhones 4S. Every time the same situation, the wifi option completely disappears (greyed out), and no amount of network reset etc. can bring it back. It is a well known problem with people getting temporary fixes by freezing/heating the device! It does not seem to be just a hardware problem (e.g. like the nVidia soldering), but has to do with firmware as well, since this started happening with the introduction of iOS 6 or 7 (I forget) which added some temperature control functionality.
So your wifi dies completely. It is so widespread and discussed (google for it) that for any other brand this would have probably been a class action lawsuit - or at least an acknowledgement and free fix, but with Apple every time it fails I have to pay out of pocket (it is for development purposes, no I am not a masochist), since the vast majority of Apple users are fine with paying.
That it will go 200 MPH like the equivalent model from other brands like Lamborghini etc but it turns out it goes 175, i.e. slower than those. Sure, you would not have realized it until you actually found a road good enough to test over 175 MPH (if you ever did) and otherwise the car feels good and accelerates as expected, but max speed is something that some people care about especially when comparing one sports car with the other. The excuse is sort of like "yeah, we put in an engine that would theoretically handle 200 MPH so that is what we list, but we sort of skimped on the transmission system on this less high end model so we had to put a limiter at 175 MPH since the transmission cannot address more speed...". If they had said 3.5GB addressable from the start, nobody would have minded except the 5 people who really wanted those 4GB that other cards might have, so it is sort of a poor decision to not mention it from the start...