Depending on the structure and wording of the sentences and paragraphs, different readers can draw different conclusions about the author. I know I have read articles and short stories in which I drew a particular conclusion about the author's ideas, only to later find I was mistaken. The mistake was not made by poor wording or ambiguity on the authors part. Instead, it was largely made by my choice of what written things I placed the most importance. If I feel strongly about a certain topic, I am more likely to place a lot of emphasis on a sentence in the paragraph that deals with that topic than I will on a topic on which I am neutral. If I place more emphasis on an idea than the author does, I am more likely to draw a misconceived conclusion about the views and points the author is trying to convey.
What they are seeing is not being emmitted by the black hole. It is energy close to the event horizon (aka the point of no return) of the black hole. The concept of nothing escaping a black hole or the warped space around it is not broken. They are just happy because they are actually observing something that supports a theory they had, but not observed before this.
There were a couple times that I turned in old papers for a different class, or modified old papers that I wrote and submited the modified versions to the teacher/prof. It was my work, so plagerism was not a concern. However, if my schools used this system, I would have been accused of plagerizing my own work and wouldn't have any way or proving I used my own work, unless the original papers at turnitin.com retain information on the original authors and allow the teacher access to that data. The possibility of that situation combined with the fact that they are using my work to make money, without compensating me, makes me strongly disagree with the use of this service.
Just go with Windows XP. It is the most common OS for the average user. Assuming the kid is not a computer geek, he is not going to be incredibly interested in how to do *neat stuff* on the computer. He will most likely be using it for web browsing, email, chatting, and the occasional paper for school. Let him learn to use (or stick to) what he is most likely going to use any other place. If the kid is a geek and wants to toy with something else, then maybe linux or something else will be worth it. But it would be more valuable for him to be familiar with what he is going to use other places. If that means you have to do some occasional parenting and see what he is doing from time to time, then so be it.
Did you consider wind chill? That is the apparent temperature felt on exposed skin, or in this case, equipment. It is paticularly important at colder temperatures because its affects become more and more obvious as temperatures drop. Wind chill is always lower than the temperature because it combines the air temperature with the affects of wind speed (because more heat is removed with higher wind speeds because more moisture and/or sweat evaporates, carrying heat with it). Equipment may not sweat like human skin, however, if it is in the sea with waves and wind, then moisture and water will fall on the equipment. As the water evaporates off of the equipment, heat is carried away. To complicate matters a bit more, the calculated chill index one sees in a weather forcast is based on a formula used to calculated the chill on the human face. Different materials such as metals can radiate heat much more efficiently. This means that the chill index on the metal electronics will be even lower than what you percieve on your own skin. So when you take into account the natural wind, the moving air felt as the boat moves, the water and humidity from the sea, and the heat dispursing properties of the equipment, -5 will not be enough.
All of what he seemed to be describing seemed to be application based 'solutions,' not OS based
On the second monitor, you discover a virtual palette of all the editing tools you use the most. No longer are you being forced to locate the editing tools you need from some arcane menu. No, instead your PC has done the work for you with no interaction on your part whatsoever.
Assuming an application has a learning algorithm that works (and well), then the video editing application that it speaks of is what handles the creation of the extra palletes, not the operating system. I don't see why the OS would even be involved in the analysis of what tools I use in application XYZ. The article also refers to situations in which the user is alerted to emails. Once again, that would be application based, not OS. If someone developed learning algorithms that worked well enough, then many of the examples he described could be done with our current operating systems..... just different apps.
What is the deal with people never changing their minds, or letting in new information?
Simple. Changing your mind about a belief or theory requires you to admit that you might have been wrong (or there is a better way than your own). Few want to do that. Letting new information in might lead to new beliefs which contradict your current views. If two things contradict each other, it means one (or both) are incorrect or incomplete. Instead of admitting that they might have been wrong, they just say the new idea is wrong. So they can either ignore the new ideas all together to avoid that possibility, or listen to the new idea and then dismiss it.
You might ask why do people find it so hard to admit they are wrong? Well on some things it is a matter of simple ego, pride, and arrogance. That is common on relatively small things. While those apply to larger things, larger ideas/beliefs have another factor. Time. Would you find it easy to change one of your core beliefs (such as religion) after closely following it for 40+ years? If it was a core belief, it would not only hurt your pride, but it could cause you to doubt and question many other of your beliefs that you took for granted. That is why many dismiss various aspects of science when dealing with things related to religion. Well, that is my $0.02. -Kruton
Microsoft make a lousy OS, but nice applications. Why are they not selling proprietary software on Linux? They could have killed OpenOffice and ODF years ago if there had been a nice, decently-priced MSOffice for Linux.
I can think of a couple reasons. First, if they were to create software for Linux, at least some of it would need to be heavily modified or rewritten. This is because many MS apps rely heavily on libriaries made specifically for windows and are not available in Linux. That could be expensive.
Second there is the idea of the applications's target audience and how likely they are to use their software. From what I have seen, Linux is usually used by one of 4 groups.
1) The computer enthusiast experimenting Linux - These people aren't always against Microsoft (as they usually either dual boot with Windows, or have it running on another machine). But because they are only toying around with it, they are not going to spend a significant amount of money on proprietary software.
2) The computer geek that only uses Linux - Now, this may not be always the case, but the people that seen fall into this category often despise Microsoft. Sometimes they have just cause, and sometimes they don't. Many times they take pride in the fact that linux has so much OSS and will use that, even if it means sacrificing using applications of lesser quality. Whether its because they despise MS or they insist on OSS, they aren't going to buy MS apps.
3) Servers - Companies (or individuals) often use linux for servers. It is stable and has many free, high quality options available for use with much documentation. Because companies are fitting the bill (instead of coming out of an individual's personal pocket) and MS is likely to provide support, it is possible that some software might get sold in this category. However, Most sysadmins, if using linux, would stick to software (such as apache) that has been proven to work in the past time and time again.
4 Technical workstations - Used for research, development, scientific or engineering applications, etc. If MS made appropriate software, then they could make money here. From what I have seen, I don't think MS word with it's well known paperclip would be very useful here. However a Visual Studio type application might be useful. They would have to make quality, appropriate software to compete in this field.
Maybe I am over simplifying things above or I don't have any clue about the way the world really is and should shut up. But I believe the idea behind points is still correct --that is, they would have a hard time placing their apps in the linux community while make a profit in doing so. But that is just my $0.02
Also - just because you own a particular brand of car stereo doesn't mean you can go out and steal it too.
Poor analogy. In stealing a stereo, you are dealing with a physical item. You are taking it away from someone and the owner no longer has it for his own use. When dealing with things such as mp3s and movies, this is not the case. You are making a COPY; you are not stealing or taking anything away from anyone. To my knowledge, which I admit may be totally wrong, different laws apply to theft and to the downloading/sharing of copyrighted material.
I wonder if because of how nature of bittorrent works, they were able to possibly establish that he was not only downloading but also assisting in the distribution.
Good point. I belive this is where their case may focus. Where as they may have difficulty in showing that he was wrong to download something that he supposedly already owned, the MPAA will have no problem in showing that he was wrong in sharing the data he supposedly downloaded. That is assuming that they can show he uploaded data and didn't use something like a firewall to block uploads.
Does anyone else see a similarity between the SCO/IBM battle and Monty Python's Black Knight/Arthor battle? They both have seeming antagonists that refuse to let the battle end.
This isn't analogous to releasing diffs or modified code. If you want to use your linux code analogy, it would be similar to someone writing a lot of non-technical comments and opinions about the code and releasing the comments, but not any actual code. Because the person wrote all of the comments himself and did not include any of the code (modified or unmodified), I don't think he isn't breaking any licensing agreements.
My university allowed on-campus students to download music to their systems for free from CTrax. However, they dropped it during the spring. The reason is that nobody used it. It is not because they did not want free music, far from it. But when the service is much more trouble than it's worth, the people will just turn to other sources. I didn't use it for three reasons. A) The interface was poorly designed and implemented in my opinion. A poor interface will stop a lot of people. B) It forced the use of Internet Explorer on its site. I refuse to use IE. It is not because I am anti-MS, but it is because I have had serious problems in windows created by security flaws in IE. Furthermore, this dependency on IE screwed users of other OS's. C) All of the music was wma format with DRM. I don't like DRM. Not only that, I fairly frequently reinstall windows on my machine because I frequently change hardware and/or toy with my system in various ways. Those files don't like being used after windows has been reinstalled due to previously stated hw changes.
Because of these problems, I found other sources for music.
The victim might release it if they did not have to worry about maintaining a public image. But if it was a company dealing with the personal information of many people, do you think it would wish the public to know its security is poor? Would you think highly of a medical company that had private information infected or some company that could not access their own data? Do you think giving in and paying money to criminals portrays a strong business image? Unless the company is willing to let the public assume they are insecure and weak, they will not publically admit to paying for it.
Throwing the college campus dragnet may result in catching file-sharing but it sets the tone for how these students perceive the industry for the rest of their lives, and it's going to be adversarial in this light.
I think you are giving students too much credit. Sure, the geeks and nerds that pay attention to filesharing info will get frustrated with the RIAA, but I don't think the average student even knows what the RIAA is. These students will blame any changes reguarding file sharing on the university--not the RIAA.
I am not sure about this new treatment, but I would say that you are too old. The reason current treatments work is because they force the developing brain and eye to work together. But after one reaches a certain age and development completes, this cannot be done.
Yes, optimization is very tricky when writing a compiler. However, when it is only made to run on one single architecture, or one single type of car, then some optimizations can be done. You make the optimizations based on chip. To put it in terms of your analogy, you 'write the driving' to be optimized for the car and not so much the driving conditions. A minivan is not made for racing, so you would not write code for a minivan that accelerates and turns on a dime. Similarly, a stockcar would not be written to drive off road. These vehicles would be 'written' to optimize and take advantage of what they were designed to do.
For most users, a partition is something that's between them and the guy in the next cubicle. They don't want to know what a computer partition is, they don't care, and they don't even want to see it
Yes, but most users aren't going to be installing windows from scratch either. As they said, that is your job. If a reinstall is needed at home, the average home user will either use a system restore disk provided by their favorite computer manufacturer (Dell, Gateway, etc), or they will tell someone else to fix it for them. So, for the most part, it is the experienced people that actually install Windows from scratch. Computer illiterate people should not (and usually do not) install operating systems. The people that do install operating systems usually know a fair ammount about computers and would often appreciate extra flexibility in their endeavors. I would.
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Depending on the structure and wording of the sentences and paragraphs, different readers can draw different conclusions about the author. I know I have read articles and short stories in which I drew a particular conclusion about the author's ideas, only to later find I was mistaken. The mistake was not made by poor wording or ambiguity on the authors part. Instead, it was largely made by my choice of what written things I placed the most importance. If I feel strongly about a certain topic, I am more likely to place a lot of emphasis on a sentence in the paragraph that deals with that topic than I will on a topic on which I am neutral. If I place more emphasis on an idea than the author does, I am more likely to draw a misconceived conclusion about the views and points the author is trying to convey.
No, really! Its true!!!
Create a nuclear winter.
What they are seeing is not being emmitted by the black hole. It is energy close to the event horizon (aka the point of no return) of the black hole. The concept of nothing escaping a black hole or the warped space around it is not broken. They are just happy because they are actually observing something that supports a theory they had, but not observed before this.
There were a couple times that I turned in old papers for a different class, or modified old papers that I wrote and submited the modified versions to the teacher/prof. It was my work, so plagerism was not a concern. However, if my schools used this system, I would have been accused of plagerizing my own work and wouldn't have any way or proving I used my own work, unless the original papers at turnitin.com retain information on the original authors and allow the teacher access to that data. The possibility of that situation combined with the fact that they are using my work to make money, without compensating me, makes me strongly disagree with the use of this service.
Just go with Windows XP. It is the most common OS for the average user. Assuming the kid is not a computer geek, he is not going to be incredibly interested in how to do *neat stuff* on the computer. He will most likely be using it for web browsing, email, chatting, and the occasional paper for school. Let him learn to use (or stick to) what he is most likely going to use any other place. If the kid is a geek and wants to toy with something else, then maybe linux or something else will be worth it. But it would be more valuable for him to be familiar with what he is going to use other places. If that means you have to do some occasional parenting and see what he is doing from time to time, then so be it.
Did you consider wind chill? That is the apparent temperature felt on exposed skin, or in this case, equipment. It is paticularly important at colder temperatures because its affects become more and more obvious as temperatures drop. Wind chill is always lower than the temperature because it combines the air temperature with the affects of wind speed (because more heat is removed with higher wind speeds because more moisture and/or sweat evaporates, carrying heat with it). Equipment may not sweat like human skin, however, if it is in the sea with waves and wind, then moisture and water will fall on the equipment. As the water evaporates off of the equipment, heat is carried away. To complicate matters a bit more, the calculated chill index one sees in a weather forcast is based on a formula used to calculated the chill on the human face. Different materials such as metals can radiate heat much more efficiently. This means that the chill index on the metal electronics will be even lower than what you percieve on your own skin. So when you take into account the natural wind, the moving air felt as the boat moves, the water and humidity from the sea, and the heat dispursing properties of the equipment, -5 will not be enough.
Simple. Changing your mind about a belief or theory requires you to admit that you might have been wrong (or there is a better way than your own). Few want to do that. Letting new information in might lead to new beliefs which contradict your current views. If two things contradict each other, it means one (or both) are incorrect or incomplete. Instead of admitting that they might have been wrong, they just say the new idea is wrong. So they can either ignore the new ideas all together to avoid that possibility, or listen to the new idea and then dismiss it.
You might ask why do people find it so hard to admit they are wrong? Well on some things it is a matter of simple ego, pride, and arrogance. That is common on relatively small things. While those apply to larger things, larger ideas/beliefs have another factor. Time. Would you find it easy to change one of your core beliefs (such as religion) after closely following it for 40+ years? If it was a core belief, it would not only hurt your pride, but it could cause you to doubt and question many other of your beliefs that you took for granted. That is why many dismiss various aspects of science when dealing with things related to religion. Well, that is my $0.02.
-Kruton
I can think of a couple reasons. First, if they were to create software for Linux, at least some of it would need to be heavily modified or rewritten. This is because many MS apps rely heavily on libriaries made specifically for windows and are not available in Linux. That could be expensive.
Second there is the idea of the applications's target audience and how likely they are to use their software. From what I have seen, Linux is usually used by one of 4 groups.
1) The computer enthusiast experimenting Linux - These people aren't always against Microsoft (as they usually either dual boot with Windows, or have it running on another machine). But because they are only toying around with it, they are not going to spend a significant amount of money on proprietary software.
2) The computer geek that only uses Linux - Now, this may not be always the case, but the people that seen fall into this category often despise Microsoft. Sometimes they have just cause, and sometimes they don't. Many times they take pride in the fact that linux has so much OSS and will use that, even if it means sacrificing using applications of lesser quality. Whether its because they despise MS or they insist on OSS, they aren't going to buy MS apps.
3) Servers - Companies (or individuals) often use linux for servers. It is stable and has many free, high quality options available for use with much documentation. Because companies are fitting the bill (instead of coming out of an individual's personal pocket) and MS is likely to provide support, it is possible that some software might get sold in this category. However, Most sysadmins, if using linux, would stick to software (such as apache) that has been proven to work in the past time and time again.
4 Technical workstations - Used for research, development, scientific or engineering applications, etc. If MS made appropriate software, then they could make money here. From what I have seen, I don't think MS word with it's well known paperclip would be very useful here. However a Visual Studio type application might be useful. They would have to make quality, appropriate software to compete in this field.
Maybe I am over simplifying things above or I don't have any clue about the way the world really is and should shut up. But I believe the idea behind points is still correct --that is, they would have a hard time placing their apps in the linux community while make a profit in doing so. But that is just my $0.02
Does anyone else see a similarity between the SCO/IBM battle and Monty Python's Black Knight/Arthor battle? They both have seeming antagonists that refuse to let the battle end.
This isn't analogous to releasing diffs or modified code. If you want to use your linux code analogy, it would be similar to someone writing a lot of non-technical comments and opinions about the code and releasing the comments, but not any actual code. Because the person wrote all of the comments himself and did not include any of the code (modified or unmodified), I don't think he isn't breaking any licensing agreements.
No.
My university allowed on-campus students to download music to their systems for free from CTrax. However, they dropped it during the spring. The reason is that nobody used it. It is not because they did not want free music, far from it. But when the service is much more trouble than it's worth, the people will just turn to other sources. I didn't use it for three reasons.
A) The interface was poorly designed and implemented in my opinion. A poor interface will stop a lot of people.
B) It forced the use of Internet Explorer on its site. I refuse to use IE. It is not because I am anti-MS, but it is because I have had serious problems in windows created by security flaws in IE. Furthermore, this dependency on IE screwed users of other OS's.
C) All of the music was wma format with DRM. I don't like DRM. Not only that, I fairly frequently reinstall windows on my machine because I frequently change hardware and/or toy with my system in various ways. Those files don't like being used after windows has been reinstalled due to previously stated hw changes.
Because of these problems, I found other sources for music.
The victim might release it if they did not have to worry about maintaining a public image. But if it was a company dealing with the personal information of many people, do you think it would wish the public to know its security is poor? Would you think highly of a medical company that had private information infected or some company that could not access their own data? Do you think giving in and paying money to criminals portrays a strong business image? Unless the company is willing to let the public assume they are insecure and weak, they will not publically admit to paying for it.
I think you are giving students too much credit. Sure, the geeks and nerds that pay attention to filesharing info will get frustrated with the RIAA, but I don't think the average student even knows what the RIAA is. These students will blame any changes reguarding file sharing on the university--not the RIAA.
But eliminating the Rascals gets rid of the old guy's best pickup line.... "Hey baby, wanna ride my rascal?"
Neutrinos have mass? I didn't know they were Catholic.
I am not sure about this new treatment, but I would say that you are too old. The reason current treatments work is because they force the developing brain and eye to work together. But after one reaches a certain age and development completes, this cannot be done.
-my $0.02
In other words, they are the Borg. Resistance is futile.
to go into safe mode and uninstall the damage done by the update.