He's not saying that disabled kids should be denied education. He's saying that school districts should not have to pay for special needs out of the same "general fund" that funds education for all of the students. The disproportionately greater resources needed for the disabled students means that such a funding strategy shortchanges everyone. The mainline kids get shafted because the disabled kids take a disproportionate share. The disabled kids get shafted, because the school is now expected to meet extraordinary needs with ordinary resources. Much of this issue would go away if Congress simply funded the education and testing mandates that they pass down.
Does Australia have some kind of extra funding for special education? If so, is it calculated on a per-student basis, or is there a set amount that each school gets?
Its true. But it doesn't just apply to businesspeople. Everyone's in favor of more free trade and globalization when it means lower prices at the big-box retailer down the street. However, that support seems to disappear rather quickly when people see their jobs being outsourced to cheaper countries, or when they start being replaced with immigrant workers. Yet no one seems to realize that support of the first implies support of the second. So what you see is a lot of people whining about job losses while they support the same business practices that cause them.
That is a very legitimate concern. Where I study, all of the Matlab copies verify with a single keyserver. When that keyserver goes down, no one can start Matlab. Its true that the server is never down for more than a few minutes, but that's because the senior researchers get on the phone and starts yelling whenever that happens. If loss of Matlab (an application) can cause so much disruption, imagine what'll happen when the entire OS is denied to you.
Actually, the Mars Global Surveyor finished its mission, and had long outlasted its original mission scope when the failure occurred. While unfortunate, this failure isn't wholly unanticipated as the craft was "out of warranty" as it were.
This is somewhat off-topic, but IT has a "worker shortage" for the same reason nursing homes have a "worker shortage". Companies are demanding more workers, but aren't necessarily willing to pay more for them. Companies fail to recognize that these two professions are fairly skilled and instead treat their practitioners as line workers which can be switched like interchangeable parts.
Both professions also require constant training to maintain skills and keep in touch with best practices. And in both, companies are notoriously reluctant to compensate workers for the costs of that training. Its changing somewhat in nursing. The IT industry, however, has yet to recognize that its a bad strategy to allow your most experience workers to become obsolete.
You think corporations will stand for a copy of Vista that calls home every time its installed? I don't think so. I'm thinking that that Vista will have a corporate version (just like with XP) that won't have activation.
I don't know about IBM, but if you're compiling for x86, you have to specifically state what extensions (SSE, SIMD, etc.) you want to use. This is why most software is compiled for i586. That instruction set is guaranteed to be present in most every desktop CPU, so your application is guaranteed to run.
On the other end, you can use an optimizing compiler and specify which processor you need to use. A lot of games do this, and specify that you need a certain CPU (or better) to run.
Its different because of the sheer volume of information being created today. Ancient cultures were not creating millions of pages of information every day.
Your Rosetta Stone analogy is inappropriate. We have not discovered any sort of Rosetta Stone for the ancient Maya hieroglyphs but we have had success in deciphering them because we can apply linguistic analysis techniques to figure out what words correspond to what actions/things. Its a little more complicated for abstract concepts, but you can figure out a surprising amount from basic language knowledge.
As far as multidisciplinary degrees go, I'd suggest double-majoring in Computer and Electrical Engineering if you're coming to the UM Twin Cities. If you take Transmission Lines and one other EE class (not sure which) in addition to choosing your electives carefully, you'll be able to fulfill both Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees within 4 or 5 years.
You can be valuable as a "jack of all trades". However, you'll be even more valuable if you have a specialized degree in addition to your "jack" degree. In this case, there are only a few classes separating the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering programs, so the vast majority of people in CE are doing a double major with Electrical Engineering as well.
Thousands of Microsoft patents, or thousands of valid Microsoft patents?
It doesn't matter. The patent is valid until you prove otherwise in court. Given Microsoft's huge legal defense fund, its going to be a long time before any of their patents are thrown out. Microsoft probably makes enough money to defend its patents indefinitely
Given that Zune only uses WiFi in peer-to-peer mode for sharing songs, I don't think it'll benefit much from having an infrastructure WiFi network. However, having a stake in WiFi adoption may persuade Microsoft to decripple the WiFi in the Zune.
The fact is, most people are completely unaware of the track record regarding Microsoft's intellectual property claims. And, as for lenient, you have to be lenient when you're locked into a proprietary platform with increasingly steep costs for switching.
Most people dislike Windows. They dislike that its an insecure platform. They dislike that its hardware requirements seem to increase dramatically with every iteration. They dislike the fact that the install slows down over time to the point that a system takes nearly twice as long to boot at 1 year old, versus when it was new. However, Windows is what comes on the computer and what's supported by the retailers and computer support shops. Linux? Its fine for us geeks who are accustomed to having to support our own hardware. However, the average consumer is going to be turned off by Linux when they hear that it isn't supported by <large computer store> or when they find that <tax/accounting program> doesn't work.
What about Apple? Looking at Apple's hardware (especially after the Intel switch) one sees that you could get the same hardware for a lower price when ordering from Dell. The fact that Apple's software is better doesn't help all that much when you need to make a large upfront investment in hardware to get some potential benefit from the software.
I agree. My school (University of Minnesota) has both Computer Science and Computer Engineering as part of the "Institute of Technology" (engineering departments). As you've described, Computer Engineering heavily emphasizes assembler and hardware design. Indeed, the Computer Engineering program covers nearly the entire introductory Electrical Engineering program and has shifts emphasis Computer Science courses in the latter half of the degree. Computer Science covers programming in its introductory phase and shifts more towards mathematics in its later phases.
Both are difficult programs, though many find Computer Science to be somewhat easier as you do not require multivariable calculus to complete a CS degree. Indeed, the only real quibble I have is that Computer Engineering doesn't teach you enough Electrical Engineering to do chip design, but also fails to teach you enough programming for systems programming. You turn out as a "jack of all trades, master of none." This renders the Computer Engineering degree somewhat worthless, unless you're planning on post-graduate studies or are completing a double major.
But its not occurring prior to purchase. The company is going out and buying DVDs, which they then format-shift and sell to consumers. From the MPAA's perspective, the format shifting is occurring after the purchase.
Even from the consumers perspective, the company is little more than a purchasing agent. Its as if I gave you enough money for an iPod and a DVD, and paid you for the service of converting the DVD into an iPod format. All three of the activities are within my rights separately. Why should they be outside my rights when done together?
That's what I don't get about this entire discussion. No one has ever stated any specific examples stating what patents Linux is suspected of infringing. Until Microsoft states which patents Linux infringes, all we have is idle speculation.
When I click on the link in the summary, all I get is a short blog post with hardly any more detail or description. Do we have any other details or coroborration? These are some pretty bold claims which need coroborration.
Not really. The iPod charger outputs a max. of 5v DC. Most laptop chargers output ~9-12v DC. Also, laptop chargers draw significantly more current than iPod chargers.
Kinetic energy is measured as (1/2)mv^2. At orbital speed, your velocity is so high that it really doesn't matter whether you hit paper, golf balls, or stray bolts. Whatever you hit will be going fast enough to cause damage.
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You are correct in that the Zune's wheel is simply 4 buttons arranged in a wheel formation. I don't know about the other stuff, but from the ads, it does appear that the iPod is smaller and certainly thinner than the Zune.
I'm not saying that China as a nation-state will go away. I am saying that, unless they deal with the disparity between urban and rural areas, they'll be looking and severe civil unrest that will greatly diminish their ability to influence other countries in the region.
Like the sibling poster mentions, the US is China's #1 trade partner, and it would be economic suicide for them to try to destroy our economy, as they would be killing off their largest market. Its the economic version of Mutually Assured Destruction.
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He's not saying that disabled kids should be denied education. He's saying that school districts should not have to pay for special needs out of the same "general fund" that funds education for all of the students. The disproportionately greater resources needed for the disabled students means that such a funding strategy shortchanges everyone. The mainline kids get shafted because the disabled kids take a disproportionate share. The disabled kids get shafted, because the school is now expected to meet extraordinary needs with ordinary resources. Much of this issue would go away if Congress simply funded the education and testing mandates that they pass down.
Does Australia have some kind of extra funding for special education? If so, is it calculated on a per-student basis, or is there a set amount that each school gets?
Its true. But it doesn't just apply to businesspeople. Everyone's in favor of more free trade and globalization when it means lower prices at the big-box retailer down the street. However, that support seems to disappear rather quickly when people see their jobs being outsourced to cheaper countries, or when they start being replaced with immigrant workers. Yet no one seems to realize that support of the first implies support of the second. So what you see is a lot of people whining about job losses while they support the same business practices that cause them.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
That is a very legitimate concern. Where I study, all of the Matlab copies verify with a single keyserver. When that keyserver goes down, no one can start Matlab. Its true that the server is never down for more than a few minutes, but that's because the senior researchers get on the phone and starts yelling whenever that happens. If loss of Matlab (an application) can cause so much disruption, imagine what'll happen when the entire OS is denied to you.
Well, that's pretty much what happened with XP. Who's to say that things have changed for Vista?
Actually, the Mars Global Surveyor finished its mission, and had long outlasted its original mission scope when the failure occurred. While unfortunate, this failure isn't wholly unanticipated as the craft was "out of warranty" as it were.
This is somewhat off-topic, but IT has a "worker shortage" for the same reason nursing homes have a "worker shortage". Companies are demanding more workers, but aren't necessarily willing to pay more for them. Companies fail to recognize that these two professions are fairly skilled and instead treat their practitioners as line workers which can be switched like interchangeable parts.
Both professions also require constant training to maintain skills and keep in touch with best practices. And in both, companies are notoriously reluctant to compensate workers for the costs of that training. Its changing somewhat in nursing. The IT industry, however, has yet to recognize that its a bad strategy to allow your most experience workers to become obsolete.
You think corporations will stand for a copy of Vista that calls home every time its installed? I don't think so. I'm thinking that that Vista will have a corporate version (just like with XP) that won't have activation.
I don't know about IBM, but if you're compiling for x86, you have to specifically state what extensions (SSE, SIMD, etc.) you want to use. This is why most software is compiled for i586. That instruction set is guaranteed to be present in most every desktop CPU, so your application is guaranteed to run.
On the other end, you can use an optimizing compiler and specify which processor you need to use. A lot of games do this, and specify that you need a certain CPU (or better) to run.
Its different because of the sheer volume of information being created today. Ancient cultures were not creating millions of pages of information every day.
Your Rosetta Stone analogy is inappropriate. We have not discovered any sort of Rosetta Stone for the ancient Maya hieroglyphs but we have had success in deciphering them because we can apply linguistic analysis techniques to figure out what words correspond to what actions/things. Its a little more complicated for abstract concepts, but you can figure out a surprising amount from basic language knowledge.
This thread is worthless without pictures.
Does anyone have screenshots of the alleged "grey goo"?
As far as multidisciplinary degrees go, I'd suggest double-majoring in Computer and Electrical Engineering if you're coming to the UM Twin Cities. If you take Transmission Lines and one other EE class (not sure which) in addition to choosing your electives carefully, you'll be able to fulfill both Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees within 4 or 5 years.
You can be valuable as a "jack of all trades". However, you'll be even more valuable if you have a specialized degree in addition to your "jack" degree. In this case, there are only a few classes separating the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering programs, so the vast majority of people in CE are doing a double major with Electrical Engineering as well.
Thousands of Microsoft patents, or thousands of valid Microsoft patents?
It doesn't matter. The patent is valid until you prove otherwise in court. Given Microsoft's huge legal defense fund, its going to be a long time before any of their patents are thrown out. Microsoft probably makes enough money to defend its patents indefinitely
Given that Zune only uses WiFi in peer-to-peer mode for sharing songs, I don't think it'll benefit much from having an infrastructure WiFi network. However, having a stake in WiFi adoption may persuade Microsoft to decripple the WiFi in the Zune.
Its a hope at any rate.
What are RAND terms? I don't think I've ever heard of any sort of licensing scheme called RAND. What is this RAND license and how restrictive is it?
The fact is, most people are completely unaware of the track record regarding Microsoft's intellectual property claims. And, as for lenient, you have to be lenient when you're locked into a proprietary platform with increasingly steep costs for switching.
Most people dislike Windows. They dislike that its an insecure platform. They dislike that its hardware requirements seem to increase dramatically with every iteration. They dislike the fact that the install slows down over time to the point that a system takes nearly twice as long to boot at 1 year old, versus when it was new. However, Windows is what comes on the computer and what's supported by the retailers and computer support shops. Linux? Its fine for us geeks who are accustomed to having to support our own hardware. However, the average consumer is going to be turned off by Linux when they hear that it isn't supported by <large computer store> or when they find that <tax/accounting program> doesn't work.
What about Apple? Looking at Apple's hardware (especially after the Intel switch) one sees that you could get the same hardware for a lower price when ordering from Dell. The fact that Apple's software is better doesn't help all that much when you need to make a large upfront investment in hardware to get some potential benefit from the software.
I agree. My school (University of Minnesota) has both Computer Science and Computer Engineering as part of the "Institute of Technology" (engineering departments). As you've described, Computer Engineering heavily emphasizes assembler and hardware design. Indeed, the Computer Engineering program covers nearly the entire introductory Electrical Engineering program and has shifts emphasis Computer Science courses in the latter half of the degree. Computer Science covers programming in its introductory phase and shifts more towards mathematics in its later phases.
Both are difficult programs, though many find Computer Science to be somewhat easier as you do not require multivariable calculus to complete a CS degree. Indeed, the only real quibble I have is that Computer Engineering doesn't teach you enough Electrical Engineering to do chip design, but also fails to teach you enough programming for systems programming. You turn out as a "jack of all trades, master of none." This renders the Computer Engineering degree somewhat worthless, unless you're planning on post-graduate studies or are completing a double major.
But its not occurring prior to purchase. The company is going out and buying DVDs, which they then format-shift and sell to consumers. From the MPAA's perspective, the format shifting is occurring after the purchase.
Even from the consumers perspective, the company is little more than a purchasing agent. Its as if I gave you enough money for an iPod and a DVD, and paid you for the service of converting the DVD into an iPod format. All three of the activities are within my rights separately. Why should they be outside my rights when done together?
What code?
That's what I don't get about this entire discussion. No one has ever stated any specific examples stating what patents Linux is suspected of infringing. Until Microsoft states which patents Linux infringes, all we have is idle speculation.
When I click on the link in the summary, all I get is a short blog post with hardly any more detail or description. Do we have any other details or coroborration? These are some pretty bold claims which need coroborration.
Not really. The iPod charger outputs a max. of 5v DC. Most laptop chargers output ~9-12v DC. Also, laptop chargers draw significantly more current than iPod chargers.
Kinetic energy is measured as (1/2)mv^2. At orbital speed, your velocity is so high that it really doesn't matter whether you hit paper, golf balls, or stray bolts. Whatever you hit will be going fast enough to cause damage.
You are correct in that the Zune's wheel is simply 4 buttons arranged in a wheel formation. I don't know about the other stuff, but from the ads, it does appear that the iPod is smaller and certainly thinner than the Zune.
I'm not saying that China as a nation-state will go away. I am saying that, unless they deal with the disparity between urban and rural areas, they'll be looking and severe civil unrest that will greatly diminish their ability to influence other countries in the region.
Like the sibling poster mentions, the US is China's #1 trade partner, and it would be economic suicide for them to try to destroy our economy, as they would be killing off their largest market. Its the economic version of Mutually Assured Destruction.