No its not what it takes to get into a good college. Don't take the fact that couple of kids from a couple of school districts pad their resumes as a sign that you have to do it. Nobody from my school district even entered in the Intel or Westinghouse, and we still sent plenty of kids to Ivy League institutions. My school district had the good sense to not offer these nationwide competitions, and let us focus on being students and having real lives. Don't blame the colleges for this. The blame lies with the school districts and the parents for making everything hypercompetitive. The admissions boards know what the standards and opportunities are in each district and adjust expectations to meet those standards. Articles like this just make parents fear that if their kid isn't in one of these hyper-competitive districts, and entering in these hyper-competitive competitions then their kids wont be accepted. Its not true and its not good for the students.
The race of the participants matters because the audience believes it matters. Interracial porn with black men plays on an old and established belief prevalent in the USA that black men were sexual beasts with enormous penises who would rape and defile pure white southern women. It is based on this continuing belief that pornographers use black men on non-black women. Look around on the web and I suspect you will probably find most interracial porn being black men on white or asian women, and very little of white or asian men on black women. This is merely an artifact of the USA's racist past and it would be good for a parent to shield their child from it.
I saw one of those demonstrated and they are really cool. The problem is that they don't have a strong bass range, and the sound bounces off the walls. While its great for open areas where you want to put ads or chirping birds in particular locations, you probably would have a hard time convincing someone who just bought an uberexpensive TV that he should spend that much again on underperforming speakers. I think one pair of noise canceling wireless headphones are probably the ideal solution.
It wasn't that they withheld treatment, but that they provided false treatment.
The Tuskegee men were poor black and southern and like most poor black southerners considered worthless to society. As a result they had not been retrieving treatment, nor were they ever likely to get treatment (at least from their state government). The Doctors involved in the study saw this as an opportunity to study the progress of syphilus without treatment [not that such a study was really needed, but it fit in nicely with the controlled study idea begining to gain favor].
However the men involved were rightly distrustful of the government and the Doctors had to provide incentives for them to come to the hospital to be studied. So they started providing "medical care" but of course there was no budget for real medical care so they provided limited medical care, and of course did not provide the antibiotics that would have cured the syphillus. It was the provision of inadequate medical care disguised as appropriate care which was so clearly unethical.
And yes they are different from the Airmen, who I don't know anything about.
Actually they are very much seperate right now. See Seth's blog today
Which given the/.ing is copied below:
Relation to Metacity
When it has proved itself, Luminocity's compositing manager will probably be moved into Metacity (along with any effects / extra features we consider good and stable). We originally considered doing the work in Metacity itself, but didn't want to destabilize it until various approaches were tested. Luminocity is, effectively, a testbed for Metacity. It provides a smaller/simpler codebase to test interesting rendering code with, and means we don't have to worry about fucking up Metacity in the process. Soeren's computer is (as of tonight, at least, that's the first I saw of it) running a version of Metacity that's apparently using the compositing manager code from Luminocity to render to a GL context.
Relation to xcompmgr
Luminocity has an internal compositing manager that performs the same function as xcompmgr. The compositing manager / window manager integration allows Luminocity to do things that an individual compositing manager or window manager couldn't. Of course, Luminocity composites using OpenGL, unlike xcompmgr. This apparently can be an upside and a downside, but I don't know anything about it so I'll shut my trap.
Relation to Xgl
This is the complicated one:-). I'm loathe to stick my toes in these waters because I'm the wrong person to do it, but I'm also afraid that we're going to end up with two rendering infrastructures down the road and no clarity for application developers as to which (if either) they can use. I don't know if that's where we're headed, I hope not, but I have this vague (probably, hopefully unfounded) fear... The effect will be slow adoption and general suck. I should premise this by saying that I have no direct knowledge of the Xgl codebase. I have knowledgable sources, and I know what Xgl generally is, but I haven't personally used Xgl, let alone looked at its codebase (I've barely looked at the Luminocity codebase either, for that matter).
Xgl is an X server implementation that, rather than directly accessing chip specific hardware drivers, does its low-level drawing using OpenGL calls. That means Xgl is functionally equivalent to a traditional X server, it just uses a different rendering path. Put another way, Xgl is to X11 as Glitz is to Cairo: it provides the same APIs rendered in a much smarter way.
Luminocity, on the other hand, is a compositing manager / window manager fusion that composites using OpenGL. Compositing and Window managing are all about what you do with client-rendered windows. Luminocity doesn't know what's inside windows, and it doesn't care. Xgl, on the other hand, I would characterize as primarily being about how the contents of windows are drawn (in this case: quickly and with less CPU load, *grin*). Xgl can do some other non-inside-window things like drop shadows, but I'm going to argue later those are mostly expedient demos of cool technology and Xgl is probably not the place we want to be doing those things long term. From the perspective that Luminocity is mostly about rendering windows and Xgl is mostly about rendering window contents, they are theoretically complimentary. At the moment, they can not be used in conjuction with one another (since they both want to directly drive the GL hardware), but they're goals are at least compatible.
Neither Xgl nor Luminocity are complete on their own. Xgl provides an X server and requires a window manager (and a compositing manager?) (and an X server for doing GL calls into, but see below, that will hopefully cease to be an issue eventually). Luminocity provides a window manager and a compositing manager but requires an X server (currently using Xfake or Xephyr, though supposedly there's some plan for modifying the core fd.o X server so Luminocity will work using only the host X server?). With some hand waving (in particular there's no way to hand OpenGL textures residing in the video ca
This has very little to do with the "ethics" of the situation and a lot to do with Harvard's control over their admissions process. They don't really care about the ethical issues of looking at your decision early, what they care about is having control who knows what and when. The admissions departments worst nightmare is an admissions process where the applicants have fair access to information because it fraks up the admissions department "numbers". Why do you think undergraduate colleges have been so keen on binding early decision? Why do these seperate institutions work together to enforcing binding admissions-- even when they do not have one themselves -- given that enforcing it only denies them access to good candidates? The same concerns about control of the admissions process are manifested in this decision at the B. school as across the river at the college. These schools don't want to compete with each other for students (outside of US News and World Report Rankings) and would rather lock them in so that they can always get the "numbers" right. You would think that/.'ers concerned about locked in hardware would be equally concerned about locked in wetware, but I guess not.
HDTV is just an mpeg stream. So you can watch it on anything capable of displaying an mpeg stream, that could be your HDTV set, your computer, an NTSC tv attached to a computer, a cellphone. You may have to downgrade the quality but nothing stops you from using it.
The big problem(s) with these broadcast flag ignoring cards are
a) price, the deadline for the broadcast flag may be supporting demand from people like you making the price go up.
b) Air stations only. Think of the card like a modem. Currently these cards (at least within the USA) only decode unencrypted QAM modulated signals, ie airwave, but not the encrypted modulation used for your digital cable from Time Warner or whatever. Will you ever be able to actually get HDTV ESPN off one of these cards? Maybe if someone breaks the encryption but then whatever you will be doing will be illegal, and you will constantly be fighting to keep ahead of the cable companies changing encryption keys.
c) The market will have to change when the NTSC and PAL analog signals and coax connectors disappear. How will consumers respond when their new TV no longer has a plug in the back for their VCR, and when they can no longer record analog cable from their cable line? Will consumers accept the requirement that every TV must have a cable box attached to it? My bet is that something will change during the next 5-10 years so I'm not buying a tuner card that i think will only show its value in 5-10 years.
Since they indicate that this has or is leaving the Galaxy I assume it is already pretty close to the edge of the Galaxy in which case it is probably much to far away to use that technique. It would be like trying to judge the speed of a bullet from the perspective of the individual holding the gun.
"individuals are rarely well advised to get patents"
And yet the patents have to be filed in some individuals name. The problem isn't necessarily the patents but the role that corporations now have in funding individuals to make patents. Without the corrupting influence of the companies this wouldn't be a problem.
I would like to see some legislation giving rights back to the patent holders (the individuals who came up with the thing), and reducing the ability of these non-citizen corporations to manipulate and control their employees. Unfortunately, its more likely that IBM corporation is going to be given full citizenship.
Keep in mind that Qrio is a lot smaller. If you account for the difficulties of the extra weight ASIMO carries around with it I suspect they come out roughly equal.
You should really only play a machine that pays 100% since while you are sitting there you are no doubt getting drinks from the bar and food from the restaurant (and don't forget your penthouse hotel room).
Or they could just replace Ford in the previous three movies with their new actor of the week, and resell that as the original trilogy on DVD (Special Edition Directors Cut Remake of course). Its not like the original fans will notice the change in actors.
What Change?
Is there a simple physics explanation to this. Given that there are no visible control surfaces (although I suspect control surfaces are relatively useless at high speed) and the general shape is comparable to that of a brick (as opposed to the shuttle which is more of a brick with wings), why will this not roll over on reentry?
Cripple isn't the only definition. Gimp is not only a silk, worsted, or cotton twist, but is also slang for courage. Yeah the programs name wasn't the most PC choice, but its hard to imagine it was done in spite. Besides there are other battles to fight which should be a bit easier say libpr0n in mozilla.
CNN's exit polls do correlate very well with the final results. However this is because CNN changed their model as the day went on. The percentages you see are not the actual percent of respondents as you might imagine. To arrive at a proper exit poll one has to take the percentages and then weight them by the number of people from that area who showed up to vote.
So if you have 1 worker in Cleveland, and one in rule ohio then you dont say 90/100 votes for Kerry in Cleveland and 10/50 for Kerry in Rural farmland = 100/150 for Kerry overall if there are 10 Cleveland polling locations and 100 rural voting locations. Once you know that you say there are 900/1000 for Kerry in Cleveland and 1000/5000 for Kerry in farmcountry so there are 1900/6000 for Kerry overall.
As the day progressed and CNN and the networks got better estimates of turnout at their representative polling locations they changed their estimates. You can see this by comparing the exit polls at CNN to those of say CBS (This is the same poll different models) say for the state of Ohio:
CNN (updated 2:06pm) 2,020 Respondents
Male (47%) Bush 52% Kerry 47%
Female (53%) Bush 50% Kerry 50%
To CBS: Sample Size: 2020 Last Polled: 01:01 AM
Kerry Bush
Male 45 48
Female 55 52 CBS CNN
Actually in this case its a good thing since he
wants the data on massive usage to figure out
ways to work around it. Those crazy academics.
Makes me think this whole ``election'' thing may
have been a ruse to get us to all go to his
website.
So why am I a happy camper? We survived an
unprecedented triple flash crowd and logged it
all. As it turns out, two of the faculty members
in my Dept., Maarten van Steen and Guillaume
Pierre, are doing research on coping with flash
crowds. The research issues include how many
replicas to set up, where to place them, how fast
to deploy them, and how to do it automatically, in
real time, and at minimum cost. To simulate
proposed algorithms, you need data about real
flash crowds and real attacks, preferably at the
same time. And boy oh boy do we have data now.
Students interested in this and other areas of
computer systems might want to check out the
English-language Masters program I am running at
the Vrije Universiteit.
"It's not a ton of work either:
Write a LILO bootloader to a partition, use 'dd' to copy that to a file (floppy helps), copy the "file" to Windows, and edit boot.ini to point to it."
You don't consider that much work?
Slashdot Mirror
No its not what it takes to get into a good college. Don't take the fact that couple of kids from a couple of school districts pad their resumes as a sign that you have to do it. Nobody from my school district even entered in the Intel or Westinghouse, and we still sent plenty of kids to Ivy League institutions. My school district had the good sense to not offer these nationwide competitions, and let us focus on being students and having real lives. Don't blame the colleges for this. The blame lies with the school districts and the parents for making everything hypercompetitive. The admissions boards know what the standards and opportunities are in each district and adjust expectations to meet those standards. Articles like this just make parents fear that if their kid isn't in one of these hyper-competitive districts, and entering in these hyper-competitive competitions then their kids wont be accepted. Its not true and its not good for the students.
The race of the participants matters because the audience believes it matters. Interracial porn with black men plays on an old and established belief prevalent in the USA that black men were sexual beasts with enormous penises who would rape and defile pure white southern women. It is based on this continuing belief that pornographers use black men on non-black women. Look around on the web and I suspect you will probably find most interracial porn being black men on white or asian women, and very little of white or asian men on black women. This is merely an artifact of the USA's racist past and it would be good for a parent to shield their child from it.
I saw one of those demonstrated and they are really cool. The problem is that they don't have a strong bass range, and the sound bounces off the walls. While its great for open areas where you want to put ads or chirping birds in particular locations, you probably would have a hard time convincing someone who just bought an uberexpensive TV that he should spend that much again on underperforming speakers. I think one pair of noise canceling wireless headphones are probably the ideal solution.
It wasn't that they withheld treatment, but that they provided false treatment.
The Tuskegee men were poor black and southern and like most poor black southerners considered worthless to society. As a result they had not been retrieving treatment, nor were they ever likely to get treatment (at least from their state government). The Doctors involved in the study saw this as an opportunity to study the progress of syphilus without treatment [not that such a study was really needed, but it fit in nicely with the controlled study idea begining to gain favor].
However the men involved were rightly distrustful of the government and the Doctors had to provide incentives for them to come to the hospital to be studied. So they started providing "medical care" but of course there was no budget for real medical care so they provided limited medical care, and of course did not provide the antibiotics that would have cured the syphillus. It was the provision of inadequate medical care disguised as appropriate care which was so clearly unethical.
And yes they are different from the Airmen, who I don't know anything about.
Actually they are very much seperate right now. See Seth's blog today Which given the /.ing is copied below:
Relation to Metacity
When it has proved itself, Luminocity's compositing manager will probably be moved into Metacity (along with any effects / extra features we consider good and stable). We originally considered doing the work in Metacity itself, but didn't want to destabilize it until various approaches were tested. Luminocity is, effectively, a testbed for Metacity. It provides a smaller/simpler codebase to test interesting rendering code with, and means we don't have to worry about fucking up Metacity in the process. Soeren's computer is (as of tonight, at least, that's the first I saw of it) running a version of Metacity that's apparently using the compositing manager code from Luminocity to render to a GL context.
Relation to xcompmgr
Luminocity has an internal compositing manager that performs the same function as xcompmgr. The compositing manager / window manager integration allows Luminocity to do things that an individual compositing manager or window manager couldn't. Of course, Luminocity composites using OpenGL, unlike xcompmgr. This apparently can be an upside and a downside, but I don't know anything about it so I'll shut my trap.
Relation to Xgl
This is the complicated one :-). I'm loathe to stick my toes in these waters because I'm the wrong person to do it, but I'm also afraid that we're going to end up with two rendering infrastructures down the road and no clarity for application developers as to which (if either) they can use. I don't know if that's where we're headed, I hope not, but I have this vague (probably, hopefully unfounded) fear... The effect will be slow adoption and general suck. I should premise this by saying that I have no direct knowledge of the Xgl codebase. I have knowledgable sources, and I know what Xgl generally is, but I haven't personally used Xgl, let alone looked at its codebase (I've barely looked at the Luminocity codebase either, for that matter).
Xgl is an X server implementation that, rather than directly accessing chip specific hardware drivers, does its low-level drawing using OpenGL calls. That means Xgl is functionally equivalent to a traditional X server, it just uses a different rendering path. Put another way, Xgl is to X11 as Glitz is to Cairo: it provides the same APIs rendered in a much smarter way.
Luminocity, on the other hand, is a compositing manager / window manager fusion that composites using OpenGL. Compositing and Window managing are all about what you do with client-rendered windows. Luminocity doesn't know what's inside windows, and it doesn't care. Xgl, on the other hand, I would characterize as primarily being about how the contents of windows are drawn (in this case: quickly and with less CPU load, *grin*). Xgl can do some other non-inside-window things like drop shadows, but I'm going to argue later those are mostly expedient demos of cool technology and Xgl is probably not the place we want to be doing those things long term. From the perspective that Luminocity is mostly about rendering windows and Xgl is mostly about rendering window contents, they are theoretically complimentary. At the moment, they can not be used in conjuction with one another (since they both want to directly drive the GL hardware), but they're goals are at least compatible.
Neither Xgl nor Luminocity are complete on their own. Xgl provides an X server and requires a window manager (and a compositing manager?) (and an X server for doing GL calls into, but see below, that will hopefully cease to be an issue eventually). Luminocity provides a window manager and a compositing manager but requires an X server (currently using Xfake or Xephyr, though supposedly there's some plan for modifying the core fd.o X server so Luminocity will work using only the host X server?). With some hand waving (in particular there's no way to hand OpenGL textures residing in the video ca
This has very little to do with the "ethics" of the situation and a lot to do with Harvard's control over their admissions process. They don't really care about the ethical issues of looking at your decision early, what they care about is having control who knows what and when. The admissions departments worst nightmare is an admissions process where the applicants have fair access to information because it fraks up the admissions department "numbers". Why do you think undergraduate colleges have been so keen on binding early decision? Why do these seperate institutions work together to enforcing binding admissions-- even when they do not have one themselves -- given that enforcing it only denies them access to good candidates? The same concerns about control of the admissions process are manifested in this decision at the B. school as across the river at the college. These schools don't want to compete with each other for students (outside of US News and World Report Rankings) and would rather lock them in so that they can always get the "numbers" right. You would think that /.'ers concerned about locked in hardware would be equally concerned about locked in wetware, but I guess not.
HDTV is just an mpeg stream. So you can watch it on anything capable of displaying an mpeg stream, that could be your HDTV set, your computer, an NTSC tv attached to a computer, a cellphone. You may have to downgrade the quality but nothing stops you from using it.
The big problem(s) with these broadcast flag ignoring cards are
a) price, the deadline for the broadcast flag may be supporting demand from people like you making the price go up.
b) Air stations only. Think of the card like a modem. Currently these cards (at least within the USA) only decode unencrypted QAM modulated signals, ie airwave, but not the encrypted modulation used for your digital cable from Time Warner or whatever. Will you ever be able to actually get HDTV ESPN off one of these cards? Maybe if someone breaks the encryption but then whatever you will be doing will be illegal, and you will constantly be fighting to keep ahead of the cable companies changing encryption keys.
c) The market will have to change when the NTSC and PAL analog signals and coax connectors disappear. How will consumers respond when their new TV no longer has a plug in the back for their VCR, and when they can no longer record analog cable from their cable line? Will consumers accept the requirement that every TV must have a cable box attached to it? My bet is that something will change during the next 5-10 years so I'm not buying a tuner card that i think will only show its value in 5-10 years.
Since they indicate that this has or is leaving the Galaxy I assume it is already pretty close to the edge of the Galaxy in which case it is probably much to far away to use that technique. It would be like trying to judge the speed of a bullet from the perspective of the individual holding the gun.
"individuals are rarely well advised to get patents"
And yet the patents have to be filed in some individuals name. The problem isn't necessarily the patents but the role that corporations now have in funding individuals to make patents. Without the corrupting influence of the companies this wouldn't be a problem.
I would like to see some legislation giving rights back to the patent holders (the individuals who came up with the thing), and reducing the ability of these non-citizen corporations to manipulate and control their employees. Unfortunately, its more likely that IBM corporation is going to be given full citizenship.
I take it you use windows.
Add a canon and you could have a good shot at winning.
Keep in mind that Qrio is a lot smaller. If you account for the difficulties of the extra weight ASIMO carries around with it I suspect they come out roughly equal.
You should really only play a machine that pays 100% since while you are sitting there you are no doubt getting drinks from the bar and food from the restaurant (and don't forget your penthouse hotel room).
Or they could just replace Ford in the previous three movies with their new actor of the week, and resell that as the original trilogy on DVD (Special Edition Directors Cut Remake of course). Its not like the original fans will notice the change in actors. What Change?
Is there a simple physics explanation to this. Given that there are no visible control surfaces (although I suspect control surfaces are relatively useless at high speed) and the general shape is comparable to that of a brick (as opposed to the shuttle which is more of a brick with wings), why will this not roll over on reentry?
Yeah like that whole death of TCP/IP thing.
. html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20021226
Yes it is in the public domain. The government cannot hold copyrights (although they can make things ultra super top secret).
Cripple isn't the only definition. Gimp is not only a silk, worsted, or cotton twist, but is also slang for courage. Yeah the programs name wasn't the most PC choice, but its hard to imagine it was done in spite. Besides there are other battles to fight which should be a bit easier say libpr0n in mozilla.
CNN's exit polls do correlate very well with the final results. However this is because CNN changed their model as the day went on. The percentages you see are not the actual percent of respondents as you might imagine. To arrive at a proper exit poll one has to take the percentages and then weight them by the number of people from that area who showed up to vote.
So if you have 1 worker in Cleveland, and one in rule ohio then you dont say 90/100 votes for Kerry in Cleveland and 10/50 for Kerry in Rural farmland = 100/150 for Kerry overall if there are 10 Cleveland polling locations and 100 rural voting locations. Once you know that you say there are 900/1000 for Kerry in Cleveland and 1000/5000 for Kerry in farmcountry so there are 1900/6000 for Kerry overall.
As the day progressed and CNN and the networks got better estimates of turnout at their representative polling locations they changed their estimates. You can see this by comparing the exit polls at CNN to those of say CBS (This is the same poll different models) say for the state of Ohio:
CNN (updated 2:06pm) 2,020 Respondents
Male (47%) Bush 52% Kerry 47%
Female (53%) Bush 50% Kerry 50%
To CBS: Sample Size: 2020 Last Polled: 01:01 AM
Kerry Bush
Male 45 48
Female 55 52
CBS
CNN
This is slashdot. Here when a real world discovery is made there are a million references to fantasy not the other way around.
Actually in this case its a good thing since he wants the data on massive usage to figure out ways to work around it. Those crazy academics. Makes me think this whole ``election'' thing may have been a ruse to get us to all go to his website.
So why am I a happy camper? We survived an unprecedented triple flash crowd and logged it all. As it turns out, two of the faculty members in my Dept., Maarten van Steen and Guillaume Pierre, are doing research on coping with flash crowds. The research issues include how many replicas to set up, where to place them, how fast to deploy them, and how to do it automatically, in real time, and at minimum cost. To simulate proposed algorithms, you need data about real flash crowds and real attacks, preferably at the same time. And boy oh boy do we have data now. Students interested in this and other areas of computer systems might want to check out the English-language Masters program I am running at the Vrije Universiteit.
Easier solution-- nueter or spay before delivery.
wouldn't Intel be the first group to break ``The 6GHz barrier''
Yes, Virginia, there is -- Shit, Crap come to mind.
"It's not a ton of work either: Write a LILO bootloader to a partition, use 'dd' to copy that to a file (floppy helps), copy the "file" to Windows, and edit boot.ini to point to it." You don't consider that much work?