In this case, TI agreed to make calcs that were disabled in this special way. Since this student discovered the problem, TI has to fix it, not the school. Party ensues, school and student happy.
If a student cracks a school network, the school has to pay to fix it. School unhappy, studen gets ousted. Sad day.
On a local radio station here in Dallas, one of the morning show guys, a comedian, gave his theory on Wal-Marts... made me laugh my ass off. He said:
"You know, I have a theory about Wal-Marts. I think aliens are running them and using them to clone rednecks under there. Ever notice that when a new Wal-Mart opens, the redneck population shoots up rapidly? Take a look at our president. Doesn't he look like an alien? I mean, he doesn't speak the language very well, makes weird facial expressions..."
I see this a lot in corporate training... our trainer likes to make presentations, and then read them verbatim to us. Someday, I'd like to get up, and walk away, stating simply, "I can read, thank you. Just send me your slides when you're done."
I think your example is kinda flawed in this though...
Let's say someone walks by your room, and sees a bag of what they percieve as weed on your table. They report you, and you summarily are punished. Now, say that bag wasn't weed at all, but basil, or oregano, or just plain grass from the front yard... something that looked almost like weed, but wasn't it. So you were just punished for something you didn't do.
One of the points I took from this is that the RIAA has no REAL proof that the things that were shared were copyrighted materials, just the appearance thereof. The RIAA wants to quickly try people without giving them a chance to fire back...
I think its kinda underhanded myself... whether the person is right or wrong. If they are proven wrong, meaning proven to actually have copyrighted materials and sharing them... then hey, punish them... the law allows it. Now if its proven that nothing was done wrong, then drop it and move on to some other schumck. At least give them the chance to prove themselves.
There's a simple reason why. In any good committed relationship, your partner usually comes in first place on the priority list.
For a scientist to make a great contribution, you have to have 2 things:
(1) Almost fanatical devotion to your field of study.
(2) Luck.
Having a wife and kids to look after doesn't leave much time and attention to a scientific study.
when you run out of power, you lose it all... unless you're dealing with something like Flash-RAM or Flash-ROM, but those would wear out quick with constant flashes to add and remove software, and as I understand, with large data, they'd be slow...
bear in mind, this is based on my limited knowledge of hardware...
I tend to think about Star Trek series the same way I think about Final Fantasy games...
Everyone who's played Final Fantasy (pick one, any one) knows that the games are (A) non linear, and (B) they always throw in references to earlier games, just to tease hangers-on. Trek is the same way... none of the series really agree with each other a whole hell of a lot, just a bunch of refernces to the last series to make us laugh a bit and keep watching..
... but in the end, Dogs will still chase Cats. Lets look at it this way... the information is still out there... I did computer support and now do calculator support and I seem to find that most older people threw their hands up years ago at learning technology. Yes, we young whipper-snappers have a leg up now on the adults, and it does pose a threat... in theory. I am mostly self taught when it comes to PCs but I still had problems getting into a good tech job without certifications. In some ways, the big companies still hold it all over us. Now, the threat comes in with this.... if I am job-hunting, all I need is someone to listen to me and test me, and for the most part, I can get in the door for a good job (with no certs mind you), but even that is far off as most companies want your paperwork before they agree to see your pretty face.
Still, I hear plenty of phone calls daily from 13-17 year olds asking... "Can I put games on this calculator?" Forgive me, but even most young people when presented this awesome information, will turn it away for a simple game... what a sad world we live in.
Try the American version (mmddyyyy). God knows its harder and more complex than it needs to be, but I think it appears to be the standard that the universe works on.... Dijital
If you don't know how to use a computer, please RTFM.
If you don't want to learn how to use a computer, then DON'T BUY A COMPUTER.
There, the demons have been purged. This place is clean. Dijital
This article came so damn close to home. I work in the dregs of second level support (its great because we don't speak with the customers, but the techs aren't that much smarter). I take, on average, 120-170 calls in a 10 hour day. By the end of the day (after my so far 20 months of employment), I don't even wanna hear a phone, much less talk to anyone.
Usually, between customers who are misinformed, techs who are badly trained, stupid loopholes that customers are thrust trough, the impending doom of big brother listening in, and managment decisions that aren't getting better; you can get quite stressed.
Its all the illusion of support... the CrackerJack version of Piece of Mind protection... Dijital
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Gnome is pretty good from this perspective, you can customize much of its behavior and appearance. Windows on the other hand, behaves and looks in a specific way and there is very little the user can do to tweak it to his/her liking.
The problem and tradeoff here is this... if you increase configurability, you usually decrease consistancy. The windows UI is made the way it is to be consistant on a whole. That little X button in the upper right corner always closes the window (unless the program crashes...).
Consistancy is the biggest newbie problem. Although I would love to change the look and feel of my OS (and I do through 3rd party proggies), I don't think I would trust my parents with it... Dijital
Although I don't know about BeOS, I do know that there are some virii for the Mac, they just are a real rearity. This is why there is a version of Norton AV and Disinfect for Mac.
The newer versions of Mac OS are based off of NeXT Step and Unix, so will they have viruses?
I suggest backing everything up, doing a full FDISK and restore of the OS. That's about the only thing that will undo all the damage. My second suggestion is to NOT INSTALL AOL 5.0.
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The difference is on who has to pay to fix it.
In this case, TI agreed to make calcs that were disabled in this special way. Since this student discovered the problem, TI has to fix it, not the school. Party ensues, school and student happy.
If a student cracks a school network, the school has to pay to fix it. School unhappy, studen gets ousted. Sad day.
The sad part is, I think I know exactly what you're talking about, as I had the issue at one point.
On a local radio station here in Dallas, one of the morning show guys, a comedian, gave his theory on Wal-Marts... made me laugh my ass off. He said:
"You know, I have a theory about Wal-Marts. I think aliens are running them and using them to clone rednecks under there. Ever notice that when a new Wal-Mart opens, the redneck population shoots up rapidly? Take a look at our president. Doesn't he look like an alien? I mean, he doesn't speak the language very well, makes weird facial expressions..."
I see this a lot in corporate training... our trainer likes to make presentations, and then read them verbatim to us. Someday, I'd like to get up, and walk away, stating simply, "I can read, thank you. Just send me your slides when you're done."
I think your example is kinda flawed in this though...
Let's say someone walks by your room, and sees a bag of what they percieve as weed on your table. They report you, and you summarily are punished. Now, say that bag wasn't weed at all, but basil, or oregano, or just plain grass from the front yard... something that looked almost like weed, but wasn't it. So you were just punished for something you didn't do.
One of the points I took from this is that the RIAA has no REAL proof that the things that were shared were copyrighted materials, just the appearance thereof. The RIAA wants to quickly try people without giving them a chance to fire back... I think its kinda underhanded myself... whether the person is right or wrong. If they are proven wrong, meaning proven to actually have copyrighted materials and sharing them... then hey, punish them... the law allows it. Now if its proven that nothing was done wrong, then drop it and move on to some other schumck. At least give them the chance to prove themselves.
Why, "Rock me like a Hurricane" or "We're not Gonna Take It" of course.
There's a simple reason why. In any good committed relationship, your partner usually comes in first place on the priority list. For a scientist to make a great contribution, you have to have 2 things: (1) Almost fanatical devotion to your field of study. (2) Luck. Having a wife and kids to look after doesn't leave much time and attention to a scientific study.
Amen.
2.7mb of Flash RAM, but the ceiling on Archive has been lowered to 1mb (so all the kiddies can keep from locking up the mem with archived games...).
when you run out of power, you lose it all... unless you're dealing with something like Flash-RAM or Flash-ROM, but those would wear out quick with constant flashes to add and remove software, and as I understand, with large data, they'd be slow...
bear in mind, this is based on my limited knowledge of hardware...
I tend to think about Star Trek series the same way I think about Final Fantasy games...
Everyone who's played Final Fantasy (pick one, any one) knows that the games are (A) non linear, and (B) they always throw in references to earlier games, just to tease hangers-on. Trek is the same way... none of the series really agree with each other a whole hell of a lot, just a bunch of refernces to the last series to make us laugh a bit and keep watching..
You get less headaches that way.
Right on about the licensing.... but then again, I've been saying this for a while...
Springfield's Action News
"... and there was an EXPLOSION in the price of gas..."
... but in the end, Dogs will still chase Cats. Lets look at it this way... the information is still out there... I did computer support and now do calculator support and I seem to find that most older people threw their hands up years ago at learning technology. Yes, we young whipper-snappers have a leg up now on the adults, and it does pose a threat... in theory. I am mostly self taught when it comes to PCs but I still had problems getting into a good tech job without certifications. In some ways, the big companies still hold it all over us. Now, the threat comes in with this.... if I am job-hunting, all I need is someone to listen to me and test me, and for the most part, I can get in the door for a good job (with no certs mind you), but even that is far off as most companies want your paperwork before they agree to see your pretty face.
Still, I hear plenty of phone calls daily from 13-17 year olds asking... "Can I put games on this calculator?" Forgive me, but even most young people when presented this awesome information, will turn it away for a simple game... what a sad world we live in.
Try the American version (mmddyyyy). God knows its harder and more complex than it needs to be, but I think it appears to be the standard that the universe works on....
Dijital
If you don't know how to use a computer, please RTFM. If you don't want to learn how to use a computer, then DON'T BUY A COMPUTER. There, the demons have been purged. This place is clean.
Dijital
Now we get their progeny...
LT Winmodem
Rockwell HCF Winmodem
HSP Micromodem
and damn the soul who starts the call with
"Just bought this e-machine..."
Dijital
This article came so damn close to home. I work in the dregs of second level support (its great because we don't speak with the customers, but the techs aren't that much smarter). I take, on average, 120-170 calls in a 10 hour day. By the end of the day (after my so far 20 months of employment), I don't even wanna hear a phone, much less talk to anyone.
Usually, between customers who are misinformed, techs who are badly trained, stupid loopholes that customers are thrust trough, the impending doom of big brother listening in, and managment decisions that aren't getting better; you can get quite stressed.
Its all the illusion of support... the CrackerJack version of Piece of Mind protection...
Dijital
Gnome is pretty good from this perspective, you can customize much of its behavior and appearance. Windows on the other hand, behaves and looks in a specific way and there is very little the user can do to tweak it to his/her liking. The problem and tradeoff here is this... if you increase configurability, you usually decrease consistancy. The windows UI is made the way it is to be consistant on a whole. That little X button in the upper right corner always closes the window (unless the program crashes...). Consistancy is the biggest newbie problem. Although I would love to change the look and feel of my OS (and I do through 3rd party proggies), I don't think I would trust my parents with it...
Dijital
My family does this too...
(Dijital ponders starting a support group for this... how American)
Dijital
Actually, Anna Paquin is 18 years old, which is legal in most all states.
Dijital
That has to be the funniest friggin thing I have ever read...
Dijital
Although I don't know about BeOS, I do know that there are some virii for the Mac, they just are a real rearity. This is why there is a version of Norton AV and Disinfect for Mac.
The newer versions of Mac OS are based off of NeXT Step and Unix, so will they have viruses?
Who knows.
And that is virii, according to DIJ
Dijital
And here we are, burning books in the street for all to see....
And that is literature, according to DIJ.
Dijital
I suggest backing everything up, doing a full FDISK and restore of the OS. That's about the only thing that will undo all the damage. My second suggestion is to NOT INSTALL AOL 5.0.
And that is t/s according to DIJ.
Dijital