If you shout something from the rooftops, don't bitch when somebody overhears it.
They're not bitching because someone is overhearing it.
They're bitching because someone is carefully recording it, cataloging it, pinning your name on it, and selling the information to anyone who wants it.
Classrooms today that are equipped with computers, smartboards, and whatnot don't seem to be doing much better in terms of basic literacy and reasoning than schools equipped with little more than slates and chalk a hundred years ago.
I'm not saying that there isn't something positive that we could do with more tech in the classroom, but the current tech doesn't seem to be helping all that much. Tech for the sake of tech is just another expense.
These are two different things: one is a feature that (presumably) you, as the owner, could enable or disable, as you feel is most appropriate. The second is a limitation that the government legislators might impose on your use of your phone, whether you like it or not.
I'm leery of educational programs that focus on a specific set of tools and methodologies and don't include a solid grounding in the theory behind computer science and the philosophy (for lack of a better word) of software engineering. Languages, frameworks, and programming paradigms come and go, and many have the shelf-life of cheese. The theory and basic problem-solving skills are eternal.
For example: the local equivalent of CS1 used Pascal, but only as a notation for expressing ideas. I never used Pascal again (and I don't think you could pay me enough to...), but I use the concepts of functional decomposition and top-down design every day.
Learn the basics and learn them well, and your skills will translate to new areas easily and you'll find it easy to keep up-to-date. Focus too deeply on the current technology, and new technology will be your constant foe.
Although very generous, I think it's a bit of a stretch to call Google's grant to SMU a "collaboration", or to only mention Google and omit any mention of USDOE and other entities that have been funding this research at SMU and elsewhere for many years. For example, this this report from 2006, which points out the potential of the thermal hotspot in West Virginia...
It doesn't have the cool Google Earth graphics, however.
I think the author might not fully understand who most admins are. They're people who couldn't write a shell script if their lives depended on it, because they've never had to. GUI-dependent users become GUI-dependent admins.
As a percentage of computer users, people who can actually navigate a CLI are an ever-diminishing group.
The thing the article doesn't tell you in detail is that the agreement precludes the use of open source software, which could have saved the taxpayers millions of dollars.
Before I saddle up the war horses, can you provide a citation?
This is a serious allegation; tying arrangements are dangerously prosecutable under antitrust laws, as Microsoft should remember.
I have a hard time remembering to pull my transaction history down every three months
A suggestion:
1. Find a calendar program that will remind you when it's time to do things. For example, the google calendar. 2. Program it to nag you every few weeks to download the transaction info from your bank. Make the interval short enough so that you can afford to miss one or two if you're on vacation or utterly absent-minded. 3. When it nags you to do so, download the transaction info... and back it up, of course.
Problem solved, without changing banks, or breaking a sweat.
As the earlier commenter pointed out, the plants might be poisonous as crops if they aggregate the radioactive materials, so maybe the health of the plants is nothing to be overjoyed about. However, one of the points is that the forests around Chernobyl never died off. There wasn't a period when the area around the reactor completely died. The plants didn't "adapt" to the radiation; they were already adapted to tolerate quite a bit of it.
Maybe stunning is the wrong word, but interesting.
Back in the day, the USA did a bunch of experiments on the effects of radiation on plants, particularly plants of interest to agriculture. The results were dismaying, at least to anyone planning to grow crops after a nuclear war or a major containment accident. This study suggests that maybe the effects are not as terrible as first believed.
I don't know anyone who sends that many texts in a week, let alone a day, and I know a lot of students.
I suspect that this is a case where the average is not terribly meaningful and a histogram or boxplot would be more useful. There must be a few people texting their thumbs off to offset all the people who don't spend their days looking at their phones.
The military (U.S. or otherwise) is constantly developing plans to do almost anything imaginable. It's very handy to have a plan ready to pull off the shelf when something unexpected happens. Having a plan for how to do something is not the same as planning to do that thing.
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If you shout something from the rooftops, don't bitch when somebody overhears it.
They're not bitching because someone is overhearing it.
They're bitching because someone is carefully recording it, cataloging it, pinning your name on it, and selling the information to anyone who wants it.
Shucks; now I'll have to RTFA.
Such a waste! For that price, he could have gotten 5M one-£ hooker-bots.
Classrooms today that are equipped with computers, smartboards, and whatnot don't seem to be doing much better in terms of basic literacy and reasoning than schools equipped with little more than slates and chalk a hundred years ago.
I'm not saying that there isn't something positive that we could do with more tech in the classroom, but the current tech doesn't seem to be helping all that much. Tech for the sake of tech is just another expense.
When will the first North Korean porn site open?
And how long after that will it be taken down?
And how long after that will its proprietors be executed?
These are two different things: one is a feature that (presumably) you, as the owner, could enable or disable, as you feel is most appropriate. The second is a limitation that the government legislators might impose on your use of your phone, whether you like it or not.
I'm worried that this sort of thing would lead to phones that won't allow me to answer when they detect that I might be driving.
Sure; we've tried every other fad that's come along, might as well try this one also.
I'm leery of educational programs that focus on a specific set of tools and methodologies and don't include a solid grounding in the theory behind computer science and the philosophy (for lack of a better word) of software engineering. Languages, frameworks, and programming paradigms come and go, and many have the shelf-life of cheese. The theory and basic problem-solving skills are eternal.
For example: the local equivalent of CS1 used Pascal, but only as a notation for expressing ideas. I never used Pascal again (and I don't think you could pay me enough to...), but I use the concepts of functional decomposition and top-down design every day.
Learn the basics and learn them well, and your skills will translate to new areas easily and you'll find it easy to keep up-to-date. Focus too deeply on the current technology, and new technology will be your constant foe.
Although very generous, I think it's a bit of a stretch to call Google's grant to SMU a "collaboration", or to only mention Google and omit any mention of USDOE and other entities that have been funding this research at SMU and elsewhere for many years. For example, this this report from 2006, which points out the potential of the thermal hotspot in West Virginia...
It doesn't have the cool Google Earth graphics, however.
I think the author might not fully understand who most admins are. They're people who couldn't write a shell script if their lives depended on it, because they've never had to. GUI-dependent users become GUI-dependent admins.
As a percentage of computer users, people who can actually navigate a CLI are an ever-diminishing group.
The thing the article doesn't tell you in detail is that the agreement precludes the use of open source software, which could have saved the taxpayers millions of dollars.
Before I saddle up the war horses, can you provide a citation?
This is a serious allegation; tying arrangements are dangerously prosecutable under antitrust laws, as Microsoft should remember.
People have been making movies without help from Hollywood for years.
And point 4 is exactly what Schmidt is doing.
I'm not familiar with the numbering system you're using; clearly by "point 4" you are referring to the third point.
You may feel differently, of course, but I'm not inclined to leave my banking credentials in the hands of a cron job.
I have a hard time remembering to pull my transaction history down every three months
A suggestion:
1. Find a calendar program that will remind you when it's time to do things. For example, the google calendar.
2. Program it to nag you every few weeks to download the transaction info from your bank. Make the interval short enough so that you can afford to miss one or two if you're on vacation or utterly absent-minded.
3. When it nags you to do so, download the transaction info... and back it up, of course.
Problem solved, without changing banks, or breaking a sweat.
Despite rumors to the contrary, Toronto is not part of the USA, and they have some sort of baseball team there.
I don't think 237 votes would have increased the Pirate Party's tally to any significant degree... How many millions of voters does Sweden have?
Down in the noise is down in the noise.
As the earlier commenter pointed out, the plants might be poisonous as crops if they aggregate the radioactive materials, so maybe the health of the plants is nothing to be overjoyed about. However, one of the points is that the forests around Chernobyl never died off. There wasn't a period when the area around the reactor completely died. The plants didn't "adapt" to the radiation; they were already adapted to tolerate quite a bit of it.
Maybe stunning is the wrong word, but interesting.
Back in the day, the USA did a bunch of experiments on the effects of radiation on plants, particularly plants of interest to agriculture. The results were dismaying, at least to anyone planning to grow crops after a nuclear war or a major containment accident. This study suggests that maybe the effects are not as terrible as first believed.
Now that would have been a title.
I don't know anyone who sends that many texts in a week, let alone a day, and I know a lot of students.
I suspect that this is a case where the average is not terribly meaningful and a histogram or boxplot would be more useful. There must be a few people texting their thumbs off to offset all the people who don't spend their days looking at their phones.
The military (U.S. or otherwise) is constantly developing plans to do almost anything imaginable. It's very handy to have a plan ready to pull off the shelf when something unexpected happens. Having a plan for how to do something is not the same as planning to do that thing.
Edgar Allan Poe made a similar point in The Purloined Letter. It's probably been around even longer than that.
If you use AES in ECB mode, then the answer is that it's usually painfully obvious that the original data was structured.
If you do use chaining (CBC, or something similar), then it will look quite random.
Excellent example here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation#Electronic_codebook_.28ECB.29