Have you every tried to come up with an *intelligent* original question? For that matter I'm sure if you Googled even the dumb question you can come up with you would not only find others asking very similar questions but many suitable answers. I don't remember the exact quote or who said it but basically we have reached the critical mass where there is not an original unique idea out there. Yes there are many with the same or similar original ideas developing them in parallel.
Who cares if it's intelligent? You could feed gibberish questions to the students and then grade up the cute/funny essays. Skilled bullshitters go far in the professional world anyway, so it's not like the grades are not useful to future employers. Other teachers will probably teach them the basics of solving real problems, or at least Googling the answers.
You have a bunch of students, few of whom can string together a sentence. If others cheat, and you post your uninspired original work, you'll get graded down in comparison to them. A few people may actually be able to write literate and original work and hand it in on time, but a skilled choice of university (or a healthy social life at school, and the resulting dire exam results and very limited choice of university) should keep their numbers a minimum.
So you need inform on all your cheating friends once you've scraped by the deadline and get them kicked out of university, so your awful but undeniably original work will get graded higher. Maybe you can scrape a pass.
So I'd stay academically honest, but shop my mates, at least the ones naive enough to confide in me. Result, high paid job.
I'm against animal cruelty, but I've heard some damning things about Peta. Watch the Penn and Teller bullshit episode on them for example, and do some of your own research.
Peta have links to the ALF for example, and the ALF have come close to killing humans involved in animal research. They gave over $100,000 in non repayable loans to Rod Coronado who firebombed laboratories for example. Ingrid Newkirk, President of Peta was has been accused of having prior knowledge of ALF actions. She was also quoted as saying "no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'". Note militarism, not militant.
Seems to me you're better off joining the RSPCA / ASPCA which are against both animal cruelty and the terrorists of the ALF.
I have no problem with eating beef, but chimps are much smarter than cows. Actually, I'd say being able to recognize themselves in the mirror is as a good a litmus test for self awareness in non human animals as any.
I.e. all humans have human rights. Chimps, dolphins, whales have Great Ape Project style rights based on behavioural complexity. Elephants have Great Ape Project style rights too because they pass the mirror test.
Try to see it from their point of view. Lots of anonymous people are pirating music. The record labels have given the RIAA the responsibility for stopping this. The only information they have about the pirates is an IP address. Only when they start legal proceedings they get other information from the ISP.
It's not possible for them to 'choose their battles carefully'. And what's the point - the idea is to sue people en masse, seek vast damages from the ones you're able to convict, and the publicise that as a deterrent to pirates. You may not like it, but I can't see that it's a bad strategy, given what information they have and what their goals are.
I think the artistic merit of something is only apparent long, long after it is made. E.g. Van Gogh and Mozart's work only became famous after they were dead. Now whilst Serenity maybe like a leaf on the wind now with a very particular demographic, I suspect it won't be remembered after Whedon is dead. Then again, neither will Star Wars. Or any Sci Fi films for that matter.
I hope Philip K Dick's books get some sort of immortality though, since they're different thing altogether.
Well look at it this way. You can market a movie to two groups.
One group is 30 something Sci Fi fans. Admittedly, they're are fanatically loyal and will spend hundreds of dollars but they are not very numerous and are the sort of people who get refused access to Chuck-E-Cheese. Soccer moms don't want to get near them, and they sure as hell don't want their kids near them. So targetting them gets in the way of targetting the other group, basically kids worldwide and their parents. Interestingly, that was the demographic that the original Star Wars films were aimed at, and they made a fortune too.
So if you want to make a lot of money which the Star Wars prequels did, you make sure that you do a few things to alienate the first group which the second group won't notice much. Like Ewoks or better Jar Jar Binks. That's not to say that loyal, older fans don't exist both, just that they are an irritant to George Lucas but essential to Joss Whedon, and both sets of fans know this.
So we have Serenity aimed at nerds vs Star Wars aimed at kids. It's not surprising that when you poll nerds, Serenity comes out on top. They were the target market for it, and they were explicitly excluded from the target market for the Star Wars Prequels. And most nerds tend to be skeptical of mainstream things anyway. When you poll the population at large however, for example by seeing how many of them want to buy a movie ticket, Star Wars comes out on top by a huge margin.
Let's be realistic. Star Wars is popular to the point of becoming a cultural phenomenon, and there are more Star Wars fans that are completely obsessed with the franchise than there are people who even saw Serenity. Heck, more people dressed up as Wookies last Halloween than saw Serenity.
Most of the people dressed as 'Wookies' are actually just furries though. Seriously, talk to a few of them.
I think if they were operating systems Serenity would be Linux (small market share in general, but popularised in geek circles by very loyal fans/users). Star Wars would be Windows (huge market share, almost no loyalty). This being a nerd poll, Serenity will win by a huge margin.
Postscript is dumb these days. Look at a typical Windows machine. When you print, the GDI can easily turn the page into a bitmap at the device resolution, quickly too since the PC has a faster processor and memory than the printer and the GDI is pretty well optimized. The easiest thing is to send the bitmap to the device. Otherwise, you need to do font substitution and the like, since Postscript has different fonts from the PC. My idea is a sort of open WinPrinter standard, so that the device characteristics can be described in descriptor, just like HID class device characteristics can be. Then just stream a possibly compressed bitmap down to the device. The printer can have a very cheap controller compared to Postscript, possibly just decompressing the bitmap in hardware and sending it off to the printhead. Over USB 2.0, the compressed bitmap can be send really fast. The printer manufacturer doesn't need to write a driver either, all printers like this could share one.
It works for Linux too, since you'd have a bunch of cheap inkjets and lasers which can all use the same driver. More intelligence in the printer just slows things down anyway.
I thought the same thing about printers - the USB printer class should be something like "I'm a 300dpi inkjet. I need a CMYK bitmap at 300dpi, I support zlib and G3 encoding. I have an interrupt end point for status reports, see the standard for details". Actually, USB printers look like a Centronics port, and use a proprietary page description language. Combi printer/scanners are even worse and need a custom driver.
True, but I still think for robustness reasons you should skip devices with an array of interfaces with bDeviceSubClass=PANSEXUAL_VEGAN_FURRY and bDeviceSubClass=LOOK_AT_ME.
theres this girl I like and I really want to eat her out. I could spend hours pleasuring her. How do I ask her?
Register for callbacks on device enumeration.
Once she has enumerated, check her device descriptor bDeviceClass for class USB_HUMAN and bDeviceSubClass for HETEROSEXUAL_WOMAN. These steps are very important, do not omit them. If these are zeros in the Device Descriptor, iterate through all the Interface Descriptors. Note, if there is more than one Interface Descriptor, it may be best to skip the device.
Now send a class request, SET_FEATURE ( HUMAN_ORAL_SEX ). If she doesn't stall the request, you are good to go. Some targets have a bug where the request are stalled incorrectly a few times. In this case, you should retry a few times, but not too many, unless BUILD_OPTION_EMO_LOSER is defined in which case you should retry an unlimited number of times until the OS bugchecks. Actually, if that is defined, you can skip the class and subclass post enumeration checks too.
like offloading work from the cpu as the older and slower fire wire 400 bus is faster then the usb 2 bus and it can be used to link 2 systems together with out a special cable
I don't think USB will ever support peer to peer. USB 1.0 was designed to have a smart host and dumb devices, to make sure that low end Asian manufacturers could make mice and keyboards with a couple of man-weeks of labour, probably only a few man hours once they get up to speed. Later on people started to use it for storage, and USB 2.0 was needed to up the speed. But it was never designed to do firewire type things like peer to peer networking, because Intel thought that Firewire would always do those. Theoretically, you could have two USB OTG hosts linked together, one as "device" and one as "host", but support for OTG is non existant on desktops.
But remember that USB is popular because every PC has it, and there are loads of sub $30 USB peripherals. If it had started off like Firewire, that wouldn't have happened.
Buggy-whip manufacturers probably said the same thing when Henry Ford came out with the automobile. Meanwhile, some guy whose business was making wheels for horse-drawn carriages decided to make stronger wheels that could be bolted onto automobiles.
You realise that there's a difference between people stopping buying buggy whips because buggies become obsolete, and people downloading illegally music rather than buying it, right? In one case, the government is under no obligation to do anything. But in the other, an existing law is being broken, that against copyright infringement. The fact that technology has changed to make copying easier doesn't alter that fact.
Work on the GPL is very hard. It's not as if the Gnu debugger even supports English properly, so all work must be done in assembler. Whereas on something trivial like an OS kernel, you can debug in a high level language.
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I think you could learn a lot from Thong Daeng
Have you every tried to come up with an *intelligent* original question? For that matter I'm sure if you Googled even the dumb question you can come up with you would not only find others asking very similar questions but many suitable answers. I don't remember the exact quote or who said it but basically we have reached the critical mass where there is not an original unique idea out there. Yes there are many with the same or similar original ideas developing them in parallel.
Who cares if it's intelligent? You could feed gibberish questions to the students and then grade up the cute/funny essays. Skilled bullshitters go far in the professional world anyway, so it's not like the grades are not useful to future employers. Other teachers will probably teach them the basics of solving real problems, or at least Googling the answers.
I'm not sure I'd put in such high minded terms.
You have a bunch of students, few of whom can string together a sentence. If others cheat, and you post your uninspired original work, you'll get graded down in comparison to them. A few people may actually be able to write literate and original work and hand it in on time, but a skilled choice of university (or a healthy social life at school, and the resulting dire exam results and very limited choice of university) should keep their numbers a minimum.
So you need inform on all your cheating friends once you've scraped by the deadline and get them kicked out of university, so your awful but undeniably original work will get graded higher. Maybe you can scrape a pass.
So I'd stay academically honest, but shop my mates, at least the ones naive enough to confide in me. Result, high paid job.
I'm against animal cruelty, but I've heard some damning things about Peta. Watch the Penn and Teller bullshit episode on them for example, and do some of your own research.
Peta have links to the ALF for example, and the ALF have come close to killing humans involved in animal research. They gave over $100,000 in non repayable loans to Rod Coronado who firebombed laboratories for example. Ingrid Newkirk, President of Peta was has been accused of having prior knowledge of ALF actions. She was also quoted as saying "no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'". Note militarism, not militant.
Seems to me you're better off joining the RSPCA / ASPCA which are against both animal cruelty and the terrorists of the ALF.
IMO, Yeah.
I have no problem with eating beef, but chimps are much smarter than cows. Actually, I'd say being able to recognize themselves in the mirror is as a good a litmus test for self awareness in non human animals as any.
I.e. all humans have human rights. Chimps, dolphins, whales have Great Ape Project style rights based on behavioural complexity. Elephants have Great Ape Project style rights too because they pass the mirror test.
Try to see it from their point of view. Lots of anonymous people are pirating music. The record labels have given the RIAA the responsibility for stopping this. The only information they have about the pirates is an IP address. Only when they start legal proceedings they get other information from the ISP.
It's not possible for them to 'choose their battles carefully'. And what's the point - the idea is to sue people en masse, seek vast damages from the ones you're able to convict, and the publicise that as a deterrent to pirates. You may not like it, but I can't see that it's a bad strategy, given what information they have and what their goals are.
Fucking pwned!
I think the artistic merit of something is only apparent long, long after it is made. E.g. Van Gogh and Mozart's work only became famous after they were dead. Now whilst Serenity maybe like a leaf on the wind now with a very particular demographic, I suspect it won't be remembered after Whedon is dead. Then again, neither will Star Wars. Or any Sci Fi films for that matter.
I hope Philip K Dick's books get some sort of immortality though, since they're different thing altogether.
I think the GP is making a somewhat tastless allusion to this
Well look at it this way. You can market a movie to two groups.
One group is 30 something Sci Fi fans. Admittedly, they're are fanatically loyal and will spend hundreds of dollars but they are not very numerous and are the sort of people who get refused access to Chuck-E-Cheese. Soccer moms don't want to get near them, and they sure as hell don't want their kids near them. So targetting them gets in the way of targetting the other group, basically kids worldwide and their parents. Interestingly, that was the demographic that the original Star Wars films were aimed at, and they made a fortune too.
So if you want to make a lot of money which the Star Wars prequels did, you make sure that you do a few things to alienate the first group which the second group won't notice much. Like Ewoks or better Jar Jar Binks. That's not to say that loyal, older fans don't exist both, just that they are an irritant to George Lucas but essential to Joss Whedon, and both sets of fans know this.
So we have Serenity aimed at nerds vs Star Wars aimed at kids. It's not surprising that when you poll nerds, Serenity comes out on top. They were the target market for it, and they were explicitly excluded from the target market for the Star Wars Prequels. And most nerds tend to be skeptical of mainstream things anyway. When you poll the population at large however, for example by seeing how many of them want to buy a movie ticket, Star Wars comes out on top by a huge margin.
Let's be realistic. Star Wars is popular to the point of becoming a cultural phenomenon, and there are more Star Wars fans that are completely obsessed with the franchise than there are people who even saw Serenity. Heck, more people dressed up as Wookies last Halloween than saw Serenity.
Most of the people dressed as 'Wookies' are actually just furries though. Seriously, talk to a few of them.
I think if they were operating systems Serenity would be Linux (small market share in general, but popularised in geek circles by very loyal fans/users). Star Wars would be Windows (huge market share, almost no loyalty). This being a nerd poll, Serenity will win by a huge margin.
But IEC, IEEE, GNAA, CIPM, the Magnetic Disk Manufacturers Association all recommend Kibi-Mebi-Gibi prefixes for binary.
Anyhow, Mebibytes sounds whimsically Scottish to me
"Darnt tooch tha dawggie"
"Why?"
"He Mebibytes"
More to the point, it's good to move the goalposts now that the damn Neurotypicals have finally learnt Kilo-Mega-Giga as the prefix.
I have typed many mebibytes of text on Usenet arguing that point.
Postscript is dumb these days. Look at a typical Windows machine. When you print, the GDI can easily turn the page into a bitmap at the device resolution, quickly too since the PC has a faster processor and memory than the printer and the GDI is pretty well optimized. The easiest thing is to send the bitmap to the device. Otherwise, you need to do font substitution and the like, since Postscript has different fonts from the PC. My idea is a sort of open WinPrinter standard, so that the device characteristics can be described in descriptor, just like HID class device characteristics can be. Then just stream a possibly compressed bitmap down to the device. The printer can have a very cheap controller compared to Postscript, possibly just decompressing the bitmap in hardware and sending it off to the printhead. Over USB 2.0, the compressed bitmap can be send really fast. The printer manufacturer doesn't need to write a driver either, all printers like this could share one.
It works for Linux too, since you'd have a bunch of cheap inkjets and lasers which can all use the same driver. More intelligence in the printer just slows things down anyway.
I thought the same thing about printers - the USB printer class should be something like "I'm a 300dpi inkjet. I need a CMYK bitmap at 300dpi, I support zlib and G3 encoding. I have an interrupt end point for status reports, see the standard for details". Actually, USB printers look like a Centronics port, and use a proprietary page description language. Combi printer/scanners are even worse and need a custom driver.
True, but I still think for robustness reasons you should skip devices with an array of interfaces with bDeviceSubClass=PANSEXUAL_VEGAN_FURRY and bDeviceSubClass=LOOK_AT_ME.
theres this girl I like and I really want to eat her out. I could spend hours pleasuring her. How do I ask her?
Register for callbacks on device enumeration.
Once she has enumerated, check her device descriptor bDeviceClass for class USB_HUMAN and bDeviceSubClass for HETEROSEXUAL_WOMAN. These steps are very important, do not omit them. If these are zeros in the Device Descriptor, iterate through all the Interface Descriptors. Note, if there is more than one Interface Descriptor, it may be best to skip the device.
Now send a class request, SET_FEATURE ( HUMAN_ORAL_SEX ). If she doesn't stall the request, you are good to go. Some targets have a bug where the request are stalled incorrectly a few times. In this case, you should retry a few times, but not too many, unless BUILD_OPTION_EMO_LOSER is defined in which case you should retry an unlimited number of times until the OS bugchecks. Actually, if that is defined, you can skip the class and subclass post enumeration checks too.
like offloading work from the cpu as the older and slower fire wire 400 bus is faster then the usb 2 bus and it can be used to link 2 systems together with out a special cable
I don't think USB will ever support peer to peer. USB 1.0 was designed to have a smart host and dumb devices, to make sure that low end Asian manufacturers could make mice and keyboards with a couple of man-weeks of labour, probably only a few man hours once they get up to speed. Later on people started to use it for storage, and USB 2.0 was needed to up the speed. But it was never designed to do firewire type things like peer to peer networking, because Intel thought that Firewire would always do those. Theoretically, you could have two USB OTG hosts linked together, one as "device" and one as "host", but support for OTG is non existant on desktops.
But remember that USB is popular because every PC has it, and there are loads of sub $30 USB peripherals. If it had started off like Firewire, that wouldn't have happened.
Buggy-whip manufacturers probably said the same thing when Henry Ford came out with the automobile. Meanwhile, some guy whose business was making wheels for horse-drawn carriages decided to make stronger wheels that could be bolted onto automobiles.
You realise that there's a difference between people stopping buying buggy whips because buggies become obsolete, and people downloading illegally music rather than buying it, right? In one case, the government is under no obligation to do anything. But in the other, an existing law is being broken, that against copyright infringement. The fact that technology has changed to make copying easier doesn't alter that fact.
I'm absolutely sure he was pro British, since I invented him for satirical purposes.
Sounds like a good metric to me! ;)
/days earlier, you could have got id 2600.
You know, if you'd have registered a few hours
Work on the GPL is very hard. It's not as if the Gnu debugger even supports English properly, so all work must be done in assembler. Whereas on something trivial like an OS kernel, you can debug in a high level language.
The RIAA calls them Artists. I guess it's like private prisons call the prisoners 'inmates' or (shudder) 'guests'.
Yeah, but it's the Elite Sku. If you're satisfied with the newbie Sku or more likely you can't afford the Elite Sku, I guess that's fine.