Would you care to bet on that? An MIT, Harvard, Cal-Tech, Stanford, RPI, or other leading school helps you get contacts in your field, alumni who can help you get work, and access to leading edge projects to write your thesis about to help land that job. And yes, a degree from a world-class school does help your resume get noticed.
The study I have seen (which of course I cannot find in a quick search now) compared the success of people who were accepted to Ivy League institutions and attended cheaper places compared to those who attended the Ivys. They found no difference in starting salaries or later success in a number of fields (other than the fact that the people who went to the Ivys spent a whole bunch more money for their degree). The conclusion was that the Ivys were very good at selecting people who would be "successful", as opposed to actually imparting anything in particular into those students that came to their institutions. Thus, the original poster might want to think about what value is being offered by a MIT or CalTec degree in comparison with other options.
Various Carbon (and other?) applications do not have a.app extension, instead relying on the type/creator codes to indicate that they are applications. I don't know if something like that could be renamed as, for example, Dangerous-trojan.doc
Of course, anti-virus software is never going to protect you completely from social engineering attacks such as this - if I bundle my malware along with an installer for something that is actually desired - it will get installed without a glitch. Thus we have the attack vector of "install this fancy porn viewer, with super-duper-video encoding that needs to be added to the system" which will always have some success.
"Forced taxation is a violation of the inalienable right to your productivity. Voluntary taxation, on the other hand, would not be, nor would be freely donating some percentage of your income to a charity of your choosing, and persuading your friends, family, and community to do the same. "
There is a strong argument however that the benefits of living and working within the framework of a society that has all sorts of infrastructure and legal protections is measurably of greater value than the "lost" productivity. Thus the arguments against such "forced taxation" become much weaker since benefit has accrued.
"Hmm, were you not affected by the Fall update which apparently broke this completely?"
I just upgraded my TiVo's HD (via Instacake), so it is possible that I am using an older set of TiVo software until updates make their way to my system, but I do not seem to have been having any problems - I am NOT using Toast, and my Mac is still running 10.4.11.
"I tried TDM just recently, and although the files can be played happily by MPlayer, I have yet to find the right mechanism for re-encoding without audio sync problems. The scripts in TDM for converting to MPEG-4 did not seem to work."
The files that TDM downloads do seem to play nicely in VLC, but I have not any transcoding, just loading them back to the TiVo or watching them through VLC.
The Mac OS X software from TiVo has limited functionality - it allows sharing of photos and music from your Mac to the TiVo, but not videos. However, the makers of VisualHub (http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/) do provide a little hack (that enables the sharing of videos via the TiVo supplied Mac software) freely available when you download a trial of the VisualHub software. Combined with "TiVoDecode Manager" (http://tdm.sourceforge.net/), one can move video files to and from the TiVo relatively painlessly. If one does not want to pay for VisualHub (which is a great value in my opinion if only for the simplicity of transcoding and burning files to DVDs) I think that there are free methods for transcoding computer video files to the format that the TiVo needs them to be to play them, probably by using FFMpeg, but I stopped researching that when I poneyed up for VisualHub.
Alternatively, I think that Roxio's Toast for Mac OS X is what TiVo recommends Mac OS X users purchase - which seems like a bit of overkill for my needs.
In the mid 1980s I was informed that the Canadian Space Agency (if it was called that back then) had a 6'2" hight limit due to constraints of the space suits - since the Canadians were just hitching rides on the US shuttle, I imagine the restrictions were being applied at the US end of things. Since the number of applicants is significantly larger than the number of spots available, I doubt there has been much pressure to relax requirements since then.
I see that at the highest magnification on http://maps.google.com/ Vancouver does provide transit information - it seems to be schedule info rather than real-time-traffic though.
I would think it's a tough job for anyone to memorize that much published info, far easier to learn it.
I would have though so too, until I got a group of students having made the significant effort of going thorough old exams and writing solutions (short paragraph answers to basic questions about physical systems like parallel and series circuits) and then memorizing those answers and applying them to similar questions in the final exam. Thus I ended up with exam booklets with virtually identical answers to significant numbers of the questions (often subtly incorrect answers since the questions were at least slightly different from previous exams, and/or the students didn't really understand the things that they made the effort to memorize). It is possible that they brought in papers that they copied from rather than memorized - but I didn't notice anything suspicious during the exam. There were two or three different groups of three or four students who did this independently that one year. I was amazed that anyone would think that this amount of effort was better than trying to learn the material. For one group of international students, I could imagine that their language skills might have made them feel safer memorizing some English answers rather than creating new sentences under exam stresses, but the others were all native speakers. Since then I do a much more careful job of explaining to students what I feel is the most effective ways to prepare for the final exam, as well as make seating and record keeping arrangements much more conducive to preventing and catching people cheating on exams, but I am still amazed at what people will do to avoid what they think of as "hard work" in learning certain material.
Ah, Sparkle is a technology that each individual application needs to implement, but doesn't seem to have any way to cause every application to check for updates at a regular interval or manually at one time - it needs to be done on a application-by-application basis. I wonder if it would be easy to write a program that polls every application and sees if the Sparkle part of it can find an available update?
I hadn't seen Sparkle, I'll check it out - it could be very useful. I have been using the Widget "App Update" from http://gkaindl.com/software/app-update which scans installed programs and checks against versiontracker - it is very useful in running periodic updates and checking client machines when performing service calls.
I'm not so certain. If shelf life is anything like for DVDs, I suspect that the HD will in general win on that front - just remember to copy your archives over to the new interface format when SATA is put to pasture and you will probably be fine.
There is no such feature. I can understand why it might be desired though.
You can simulate it by naming all folders starting with a character that gets sorted to the top, such as a space " " or a dash "-". Similarly if you want them at the bottom, start their names with "zz" or something similar.
But you probably already figured this out on your own....
Unless you are thinking about some other way of renaming files - clicking on a file name and hitting the enter key selects the whole filename, including the extension.
When we look at being able to breed, we don't look at their willingness or physical handicaps stopping it. We look at the genetic abilities for the eggs to get fertilized and start dividing to product a life. Otherwise, we could breed something sterile and call it a new species. We have done this with Bees to control populations of unwanted bees but they are still bees. I think a lot of the confusion goes with Species being used generically to describe breeds or subspecies. In the case of dogs, the genus is canis (or something like that) and then there is a species which differs. In order for speciation to occur, a species would in effect become a genus for another species.
Actually, we DO look at their willingness to breed and physical handicaps stopping it - we do no look at the egg level. There are a variety of plant species that can be "forced" to breed by various manipulations, but do not do so in the wild. They are still classified as separate species. If I make a group of dogs that can only interbreed with each other due to penis and vagina shapes, of course everyone would still call them dogs, but since this new "sub-species" cannot interbreed with the rest of the dogs, any micro-evolution that occurs in the group will tend to make them even more distinct from "dogs" in general.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species for lots of info on how species are defined, and note how much a human construct is the whole idea of a "species" in the first place.
A bit of searching turns up http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=143 which claims studies showing creation of new non-interpbreding populations of yeast - thus new yeast species. It can also be argued that Triticale is also one example of a man made new species (see: Triticale, a Man-Made Species of a Crop Plant V. T. Sapra, E. G. Heyne, H. D. Wilkins, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Vol. 74, pp. 52-58).
If you start claiming that "they are all yeast", or it is still "grain", you would be correct, but they are different species of yeast/grain, just like we have different species of deer. If we ever created non-interbreeding strains of cows, we could have to stop using "cow" as a species and start talking about cow-a and cow-b species.
we haven't produced a Cow that cannot breed with another cow
I don't know that modern corn can interbreed with wild corn. I suspect that the offspring of a Chiwawa and a Grate Dane might not be viable. At what point are "Darwin's Finches" classified as different species?
And it isn't for lack of trying, we have been attempting to do this in one way or another for centuries.
I disagree that we have been trying to produce cows that cannot interbreed. For the most part we have been trying to create cows that make lots of milk, or cows that taste good (not to be confused with cows that have good taste, Charlie). Considering how few generations it takes to breed some pretty wild looking dogs out of a general "mongrel", I wonder if anyone has every tried breeding a new "dog" population that was incapable of interbreeding with the "regular" dog population? Selecting for weird sexual organ shape or something like that would seem to be a possible pathway.
Of course, using "unnatural selection" to create a new "species" would not prove that it occurs in nature, but it would help to silence the "speciation can't occur" argument.
"A Catholics"? I am sure there are many INDIVIDUALS of a variety of faiths that believe in various forms of ID, but the current Roman Catholic position is more in line with Theistic evolution - a position more akin to "Of course God made it all happen, and science allows us to figure out some of the details of how it was done" rather than the ID position of "There are some things we just can never explain, so a wizard did it."
Holding down the mouse button does in fact do squat for all the icons in the dock, not only the trashbin.
Click-and-hold on the dock icons (in 10.4 at least) does in fact bring up the contextual menu just like a control-click or a right-click does. This behaviour is also present in man other places of the Finder and other applications (Safari I think, but not Firefox it seems).
The one sticking point might be e-mail... there is no Exchange client for the Mac; there's Outlook Express, which works okay for some people but I've heard people having trouble with it. If it were me, I'd try to switch her to Apple Mail, because it's pretty intuitive; I'm sure others here will disagree and recommend Eudora or something else. Of course, if she's got a web-based e-mail service like gMail, then that's not going to be an issue anyway.
There is no "Outlook Express" for Mac OS X - "Entourage" is Microsoft's Mac OS X email client - I think it speaks "Exchange" quite well, but calendaring is an issue. It comes as part of MS Office for Mac.
If you can get her using Apple Mail, then you don't have to spend any more money and you are pretty future-proof in terms of future support, upgrades, etc.
gMail always has IMAP, so Apple Mail and many others can talk to it fine.
I don't think that theologians spend much time talking about the origin of God, since the Abramatic traditions (Isalm, Judasim and Christianity) all start from the foundation of God as being eternal and without beginning - it is classified as one of those unknowable mysteries. "Scholars of religion" generally concern themselves with how human religion is expressed and formed (and dare I say it, "evolved"?) and might be interested in how various traditions describe the origins of their God or Gods, but their research is more on the people-part of the religions in question rather than the God-part. Offhand, I cannot think of any group of thinkers that accepts the existence of a creator and then further is striving to understand the origins of that creator (other than perhaps scholar/priests of the FSM of course....)
We shouldn't have seen Vader at all. We're not supposed to know he's Annakin until ESB. George forgot he was writing prequels, here.
It would have been very cool to have had the prequels somehow give added depth to the story while at the same time not completely removing all of the surprises from the iv-vi trio, but it would have been very challenging to, for example, come up with some way of having "Vader killed your father" be in any way plausible.
Really, a "prequel" is designed to be seen AFTER the chronologically later work, so as long as LUKE doesn't see pops turn into Vadar, there really isn't any problem (at least in that respect).
Whether it was the midichlorians or the Christ-like conception of Anakin, it just came off as shallow rip-offs of both science and mythology, without any real attempt at proper integration.
If done correctly the line about "he had no father" could have been played more like "I'm a slave you moron - do you think I have much control over who fucks me?"
To be fair, lightsabers should be swung as if the only weight is in the handle. Lightsabers don't have a heavy blade...
I always figured that they were difficult to swing due to effects similar to gyroscopic inertia. This would also explain why they would be such a difficult weapon to master - if ever application of torgue also tended to change their orientation at right angles to the applied torque as well as their "moment of inertia", you would see a lot of self-inflected wounds by the inexperienced.
Maybe that's what makes the "buzz" sound as you swing it around?
Canada does not care what you tell some yahoo from the USA - in order to renounce your Canadian citizenship you have to do some pretty specific things in front of a Canadian official.
In the other direction, the US State Department maintains that taking out foreign citizenship is enough to lose your USA citizenship, but court rulings have repeatedly said that for any of the "forbidden" actions the the SD claims will cause a loss of citizenship, there has to be a clear intent on the part of the citizen to give up that citizenship.
Thus, you are probably both safe in taking out citizenship in the other's country and retaining your citizenship in your own.
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The study I have seen (which of course I cannot find in a quick search now) compared the success of people who were accepted to Ivy League institutions and attended cheaper places compared to those who attended the Ivys. They found no difference in starting salaries or later success in a number of fields (other than the fact that the people who went to the Ivys spent a whole bunch more money for their degree). The conclusion was that the Ivys were very good at selecting people who would be "successful", as opposed to actually imparting anything in particular into those students that came to their institutions. Thus, the original poster might want to think about what value is being offered by a MIT or CalTec degree in comparison with other options.
In any case, here are some links to research proporting to show both sides of the issue: http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/20/pf/expert/ask_expert/ or http://www.jobpundit.com/2006/01/do-ivy-league-colleges-really-pay.html
It looks like it is about about $1.1 - 1.35 billion per year according to http://money.canoe.ca/News/Sectors/Entertainment/2008/02/28/4883040-cp.html Still not free, but considering the radio as well as tv coverage, not so bad. 22 minutes alone might be worth it...
Of course, anti-virus software is never going to protect you completely from social engineering attacks such as this - if I bundle my malware along with an installer for something that is actually desired - it will get installed without a glitch. Thus we have the attack vector of "install this fancy porn viewer, with super-duper-video encoding that needs to be added to the system" which will always have some success.
There is a strong argument however that the benefits of living and working within the framework of a society that has all sorts of infrastructure and legal protections is measurably of greater value than the "lost" productivity. Thus the arguments against such "forced taxation" become much weaker since benefit has accrued.
I just upgraded my TiVo's HD (via Instacake), so it is possible that I am using an older set of TiVo software until updates make their way to my system, but I do not seem to have been having any problems - I am NOT using Toast, and my Mac is still running 10.4.11.
"I tried TDM just recently, and although the files can be played happily by MPlayer, I have yet to find the right mechanism for re-encoding without audio sync problems. The scripts in TDM for converting to MPEG-4 did not seem to work."
The files that TDM downloads do seem to play nicely in VLC, but I have not any transcoding, just loading them back to the TiVo or watching them through VLC.
The Mac OS X software from TiVo has limited functionality - it allows sharing of photos and music from your Mac to the TiVo, but not videos. However, the makers of VisualHub (http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/) do provide a little hack (that enables the sharing of videos via the TiVo supplied Mac software) freely available when you download a trial of the VisualHub software. Combined with "TiVoDecode Manager" (http://tdm.sourceforge.net/), one can move video files to and from the TiVo relatively painlessly. If one does not want to pay for VisualHub (which is a great value in my opinion if only for the simplicity of transcoding and burning files to DVDs) I think that there are free methods for transcoding computer video files to the format that the TiVo needs them to be to play them, probably by using FFMpeg, but I stopped researching that when I poneyed up for VisualHub. Alternatively, I think that Roxio's Toast for Mac OS X is what TiVo recommends Mac OS X users purchase - which seems like a bit of overkill for my needs.
In the mid 1980s I was informed that the Canadian Space Agency (if it was called that back then) had a 6'2" hight limit due to constraints of the space suits - since the Canadians were just hitching rides on the US shuttle, I imagine the restrictions were being applied at the US end of things. Since the number of applicants is significantly larger than the number of spots available, I doubt there has been much pressure to relax requirements since then.
I see that at the highest magnification on http://maps.google.com/ Vancouver does provide transit information - it seems to be schedule info rather than real-time-traffic though.
I would have though so too, until I got a group of students having made the significant effort of going thorough old exams and writing solutions (short paragraph answers to basic questions about physical systems like parallel and series circuits) and then memorizing those answers and applying them to similar questions in the final exam. Thus I ended up with exam booklets with virtually identical answers to significant numbers of the questions (often subtly incorrect answers since the questions were at least slightly different from previous exams, and/or the students didn't really understand the things that they made the effort to memorize). It is possible that they brought in papers that they copied from rather than memorized - but I didn't notice anything suspicious during the exam. There were two or three different groups of three or four students who did this independently that one year. I was amazed that anyone would think that this amount of effort was better than trying to learn the material. For one group of international students, I could imagine that their language skills might have made them feel safer memorizing some English answers rather than creating new sentences under exam stresses, but the others were all native speakers. Since then I do a much more careful job of explaining to students what I feel is the most effective ways to prepare for the final exam, as well as make seating and record keeping arrangements much more conducive to preventing and catching people cheating on exams, but I am still amazed at what people will do to avoid what they think of as "hard work" in learning certain material.
Ah, Sparkle is a technology that each individual application needs to implement, but doesn't seem to have any way to cause every application to check for updates at a regular interval or manually at one time - it needs to be done on a application-by-application basis. I wonder if it would be easy to write a program that polls every application and sees if the Sparkle part of it can find an available update?
I hadn't seen Sparkle, I'll check it out - it could be very useful. I have been using the Widget "App Update" from http://gkaindl.com/software/app-update which scans installed programs and checks against versiontracker - it is very useful in running periodic updates and checking client machines when performing service calls.
I'm not so certain. If shelf life is anything like for DVDs, I suspect that the HD will in general win on that front - just remember to copy your archives over to the new interface format when SATA is put to pasture and you will probably be fine.
There is no such feature. I can understand why it might be desired though. You can simulate it by naming all folders starting with a character that gets sorted to the top, such as a space " " or a dash "-". Similarly if you want them at the bottom, start their names with "zz" or something similar. But you probably already figured this out on your own....
Not on my systems. It was introduced with 10.5.
Unless you are thinking about some other way of renaming files - clicking on a file name and hitting the enter key selects the whole filename, including the extension.
Actually, we DO look at their willingness to breed and physical handicaps stopping it - we do no look at the egg level. There are a variety of plant species that can be "forced" to breed by various manipulations, but do not do so in the wild. They are still classified as separate species. If I make a group of dogs that can only interbreed with each other due to penis and vagina shapes, of course everyone would still call them dogs, but since this new "sub-species" cannot interbreed with the rest of the dogs, any micro-evolution that occurs in the group will tend to make them even more distinct from "dogs" in general.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species for lots of info on how species are defined, and note how much a human construct is the whole idea of a "species" in the first place.
A bit of searching turns up http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=143 which claims studies showing creation of new non-interpbreding populations of yeast - thus new yeast species. It can also be argued that Triticale is also one example of a man made new species (see: Triticale, a Man-Made Species of a Crop Plant V. T. Sapra, E. G. Heyne, H. D. Wilkins, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Vol. 74, pp. 52-58).
If you start claiming that "they are all yeast", or it is still "grain", you would be correct, but they are different species of yeast/grain, just like we have different species of deer. If we ever created non-interbreeding strains of cows, we could have to stop using "cow" as a species and start talking about cow-a and cow-b species.
I don't know that modern corn can interbreed with wild corn. I suspect that the offspring of a Chiwawa and a Grate Dane might not be viable. At what point are "Darwin's Finches" classified as different species?
And it isn't for lack of trying, we have been attempting to do this in one way or another for centuries.
I disagree that we have been trying to produce cows that cannot interbreed. For the most part we have been trying to create cows that make lots of milk, or cows that taste good (not to be confused with cows that have good taste, Charlie). Considering how few generations it takes to breed some pretty wild looking dogs out of a general "mongrel", I wonder if anyone has every tried breeding a new "dog" population that was incapable of interbreeding with the "regular" dog population? Selecting for weird sexual organ shape or something like that would seem to be a possible pathway.
Of course, using "unnatural selection" to create a new "species" would not prove that it occurs in nature, but it would help to silence the "speciation can't occur" argument.
"A Catholics"? I am sure there are many INDIVIDUALS of a variety of faiths that believe in various forms of ID, but the current Roman Catholic position is more in line with Theistic evolution - a position more akin to "Of course God made it all happen, and science allows us to figure out some of the details of how it was done" rather than the ID position of "There are some things we just can never explain, so a wizard did it."
Holding down the mouse button does in fact do squat for all the icons in the dock, not only the trashbin.
Click-and-hold on the dock icons (in 10.4 at least) does in fact bring up the contextual menu just like a control-click or a right-click does. This behaviour is also present in man other places of the Finder and other applications (Safari I think, but not Firefox it seems).
No doubt. Someone might find http://www.macattorney.com/ useful - the author has been around the Mac platform for a long time.
There is no "Outlook Express" for Mac OS X - "Entourage" is Microsoft's Mac OS X email client - I think it speaks "Exchange" quite well, but calendaring is an issue. It comes as part of MS Office for Mac.
If you can get her using Apple Mail, then you don't have to spend any more money and you are pretty future-proof in terms of future support, upgrades, etc.
gMail always has IMAP, so Apple Mail and many others can talk to it fine.
I don't think that theologians spend much time talking about the origin of God, since the Abramatic traditions (Isalm, Judasim and Christianity) all start from the foundation of God as being eternal and without beginning - it is classified as one of those unknowable mysteries. "Scholars of religion" generally concern themselves with how human religion is expressed and formed (and dare I say it, "evolved"?) and might be interested in how various traditions describe the origins of their God or Gods, but their research is more on the people-part of the religions in question rather than the God-part. Offhand, I cannot think of any group of thinkers that accepts the existence of a creator and then further is striving to understand the origins of that creator (other than perhaps scholar/priests of the FSM of course....)
It would have been very cool to have had the prequels somehow give added depth to the story while at the same time not completely removing all of the surprises from the iv-vi trio, but it would have been very challenging to, for example, come up with some way of having "Vader killed your father" be in any way plausible.
Really, a "prequel" is designed to be seen AFTER the chronologically later work, so as long as LUKE doesn't see pops turn into Vadar, there really isn't any problem (at least in that respect).
If done correctly the line about "he had no father" could have been played more like "I'm a slave you moron - do you think I have much control over who fucks me?"
I always figured that they were difficult to swing due to effects similar to gyroscopic inertia. This would also explain why they would be such a difficult weapon to master - if ever application of torgue also tended to change their orientation at right angles to the applied torque as well as their "moment of inertia", you would see a lot of self-inflected wounds by the inexperienced. Maybe that's what makes the "buzz" sound as you swing it around?
Canada does not care what you tell some yahoo from the USA - in order to renounce your Canadian citizenship you have to do some pretty specific things in front of a Canadian official. In the other direction, the US State Department maintains that taking out foreign citizenship is enough to lose your USA citizenship, but court rulings have repeatedly said that for any of the "forbidden" actions the the SD claims will cause a loss of citizenship, there has to be a clear intent on the part of the citizen to give up that citizenship. Thus, you are probably both safe in taking out citizenship in the other's country and retaining your citizenship in your own.