They would love to. However the airlines do not control the tower, the FCC does. Any controller who gets mad at one airline can easily make planes late without it being obvious. Luggage is mostly controlled by the airport. Oh, and when you become an experienced traveler you will start to hope they lose your luggage on the trip home so you don't have to take it through customs!
Then there is the all inclusive weather. The location of the jet stream can make a large difference, and while general trends are easy to perdict, we can't know in advance enough details to really get it right.
If you look close, the airlines with the best on time ratings have just put more room in the schedule. They are not doing anything to make the planes arrive on time other than give the plane more time to arrive. (Note that this means planes that serve snowy/icy areas are more likely to be one time because more room is allowed)
Its open source. By definition that means the source code is there and waiting for you to do the work. The Rosegarden developers don't care about MS Windows, because that have linux. If you care, either do it yourself, or hire someone to do it for you. For $250,000 I'll port it for you. (It should be easy for you to find someone willing to do it for less, I hate Windows development so I'm charging a lot extra for the pain of doing something I don't like to do)
Start at grass roots and work it. Right now just start conversations with people around you (in line at the store, whatever). Once you have convinced them that you are a reasonable person mention copyright. Best is if they bring up politics. Make your message short, and make sure you seem like a nice guy. Appearances count, often more than the message so don't be some "long haired hippie freak", or today the tattooed and pierced freak. Dress nicely, and spread the word as a reasonable person. Give the others no reason to suspect that you don't go to church every sunday. (What you do is your business)
In a year politics will start picking up again. Attend the local caucuses. Pick one that mostly agrees with you and try to get copyright reform on the platform. Just by attending you automatically can represent the party at the state level, and so you get to pick who gets on the ballot! Remember it doesn't matter who the people vote for so long as you control who is on the ballot!
It is important to start now. One person is nothing if you start too late. Start now, learn what the process is in your area (every state is different!). Learn how the parties work. Get the process working.
Sure it is, so long as you only have a couple files (20), all in your home directory. If you have several thousand, scattered deep in several projects it is much more difficult. Particularly if you have an intelligent name scheme that is both easy to remember, and quick to type. When you have several sub-directories to descend into, each with many other files and directories, a good tab completion (wild card or rebex) command line is easier to you.
I've tried, but you can't follow them. Betweem being written in some language that doesn't exist. Sure it looks like English, but even in the most slang versions English doesn't allow the grammar used. As a native English speaker I'm often unable to figure out what is intended.
That above assumes that the step is there. In most cases the instructions go from step 4 to step 6 without any indication. (that is the numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6..., but there is a step 4.5) Often I notice this because I can figure out step 4 myself, and I know I need to get to step 6, but I'm not sure how to get there.
Fine the most conservative girl in your office, and tip her off about when he is looking at these sites. One sexual harassment lawsuit latter and the company won't have that problem again. Come to think of it, if you are a big company just go to HR and mention that logs have shown some people are looking at these sites and ask how you should procede. HR will take it seriously because it is their job to know what can happen if it isn't.
An engine is most efficient when running at close to wide open throttle at (relatively) low RPMs. Most people like to accelerate harder than an engine that at achieves this at highway speed will allow. Combine that with varying loads, (Most cars have just one person in them, but the engine is sized for all seats full, luggage, and a trailer) and it would be an advantage to use induction to pull energy from most cars - IF you can control the amount gathered from each car.
I don't if this makes up for all the losses involved in pulling energy from cars. Nor am I sure that a car engine pushed to maximun efficiency (~40%) from normal (~30%) is a better use of resources (it is burning more gas to do this), than a large power plant (~60% efficient). Its something to consider though.
Anytime there are flashing lights, or people by the side of the road you need to slow down. Doesn't matter that it is on the other side, slow down. You never know when an emergency vehicle is going to be doing a Uie and coming out in front of you, or up behind you. You never know (until you are there) that there isn't a car that skidded across your side.
For that matter, you never know what the car next to you is really gawking, and will run into you - you need the extra reaction time a slow speed allows. (not to mention less energy involved if you are hit) So slow down for safety's sake when there is an incident.
Uh, you are wrong. Nevada is not the only state that got the election technology right. They are the only ones who got touch screen voting right, but many states didn't not use touch screen voting.
There is a difference between a platter that fits in a 3.5 inch drive space, and a container large enough to contain human living quarters. We can make a 3 inch turbine spin at 100,000 rpm, (I'd say no problem, but the engineering isn't exactly easy) but I could live in a 3 inch turbine. Scale everything up house size and we can no longer spin that fast.
I'm not sure, since I've never heard any of those songs. I'm into bluegrass myself. Free play music has some stuff that might be interesting. A google search for band might result in stuff.
Heres an idea: go to local band concerts. I'm sure there is a listing of concerts in your area someplace. (ticketmaster has one, but they might be too much to the RIAA side of things, in any case they are a monopoly so it is hard to say they are any more moral) Many bars have live music, and most of the bands playing have CDs.
Your local high school has band and choir concerts, the quality varies greatly, but it is worth checking out for an evening. Some will sell you a CD if you like the music, if they won't odds are the directory will make you a copy of their tape (or let you tape yourself!).
Or get an instrument and stay playing yourself. Piano or guitar as the good places to start because you can find instructors everywhere. (I recommend guitar just because piano tends to go for the 10 year track, which is better in 10 years, but few adults will stand for it) There is a good chance that other interment's are taught in your area too. If nothing else, the penny whistle is cheap, and easy to play. Everyone should play something, though few have the talent to become good.
Here a hint: don't bother to investigate me. All my use for BitTorrent is legal. (or at least I can convince a judge I was defrauded, someone posting FreeBSD_5.3.ISO when it is really some music CD for instance) You will find a significant number of slashdot readers who likewise only use BitTorrent for legal content, of which there is plenty.
Here is a better idea: get some taste in music. Now I don't know if the selections are any good, but if you don't listen, how will you know. There are plenty of good musicians that you have never heard of. Most don't even bother looking for the big deals (other than in dreams). Start looking for them. Let your friends call your tastes eccentric, who cares, you get good music.
Now I agree 1000 songs isn't much, but if they are good songs it is enough, it will take you several years to enjoy them all.
Unless you are going to hit number 1 one the pop or country chart (Or one of a few others) there is no point in going for the major labels. You won't get a deal that is worth it. If you are going for the number one on the pop chart hits, then you need a major label (and lots of sex appeal, talent optional). The tiny labels are better for the little guy in areas like jazz because they take just enough off the top to get by (with a one man operation this isn't much), do a little promotion (copies to public radio), and leave any other promotion to you. Big labels do the same in this area, but they take much more off the top, and are more likely to forget to send the promotional copies to radio.
No, actually we can't. At least so far we don't even have leads on a material that can stand the centripital force[1] involved when you start spinning that fast. In short: it would fly apart before you got close to 15,000 rpm.
Given that I can't get good working 3d drivers for FreeBSD (by which I mean I can upgrade my kernel from time to time without worry), or Linux; on any fast 3d video card, I'm looking for anything that will give me good 3d graphics without hasstle.
No human would bet against humans in an extinction race. You can't win, by definition if you win the bet, you are dead and the money does no good, while if you lose the bet you lose your money.
I was going to put some religious exception in the above, but I can't think a a single religion that would allow you to collect on a bet made on earth in the afterlife.
I've heard that story more than once. It wouldn't surprise me, though I'd also guess that for most troops with civilian units SA wouldn't matter to them because 100m is still close enough. (You wouldn't bomb a building based only on 100m, but you would be close enough to use other means to identify if that building is the one to bomb)
Note that SA was never intended to affect the man on the ground. The use is for ICBMs where being off by just a few cm at launch can quickly result in completely missing the target city several thousand km away. "The Russians" have always had maps and compasses that were good enough to get ground troops to within a few feet of a target. SA just prevented "the evil Russians" from using a cheap American system to attack the US. (remember that when GPS was first considered the cold war was still active and an attack was considered possible)
Note that I was very careful to specify tenured professors. For those who do not have tenure there are more teaching duties, and they have less experience teaching, both of which lead to far more work. Once you have been teaching for a while, you have a good handle on what works, a good drawer full of tests that you used last time (Good professors will modify this old tests), and experience on grading tests fairly.
Of course as a tenured professor you are expected to spend most of your time in research, but you have a lot a self direction in where you research. Being a professor isn't easy, but it should be a case of the very smartest people spending a little time teach and a lot of time researching what they love enough to research even if they had to work a different job. Many of the research expenses are paid out of a budget other than the pay check, so the money goes farther.
Well yes, but in the corporate world most people are not that high, for them what IT says goes unless things are really really bad. In the university world you have a larger number of people with senior management clout. Worse, in the corporate world there is likely a CIO who is about as high as the others who should (but often won't) back you up, while in the university world the CIO doesn't have as much political power.
And how long will that law stand once the media finds a juicy story? It won't be long when every politician is getting quoted on editorial pages on "why it is a good thing that the media can't example this case against an innocent man". The facts won't even matter. What will matter is that it is a slow news week and the media is looking for a big evil government story to sell. I'm sure there are a number of reporters and editors who are holding this story up for a time to release it when they can do maximun damage.
Roaming in the US is not that bad. Sure you don't give coverage off the freeway in North Dakota, but then nobody lives there anyway. (3 people per square mile is a crowd) Go to any airport though and your cell phone will have coverage. I'll bet you don't have much coverage in the deserts of Australia either. (Unless I looked at the wrong web site, you have a lot of uncovered areas)
All the major cities have coverage. All the major airports have coverage.
There is a reason assignments are often graded on a curve. Sometimes things end up being a lot harder than you thought. I recall a physics test where I was in the top half of the class and I only get 19 out of 120! The professors doubled everyones score, before they entered it into the book. (so I was credited for 38/120, still not good, but better overall)
That is also why they say show your work. On that physics test above I didn't get the right answer for any problem, but I was able to prove I knew the first step to take in solving the problem). For this homework, the grade shouldn't be finding holes, it should be finding areas where a hole could exist, and trying to exploit it. Everyone in the class should be giving the same program and told to exploit it. The professor should already know where the hole is.
Finding holes in random software should be extra credit. If the assignment is for random software it needs to give full credit for doing the work on an area where there is no exploit.
In short, the assignment turned out to be more difficult than expected. The professor should go back and re-do the grading system to make the assignment fair.
For your own sake you need to fight this! You do not take enough classes on your way to the degree to make up for losses here. Just this one class is enough to prevent you from graduating with top honors! Just a couple Bs are all it will take to drop you out of any honors program. In the real world GPA is looked at, so you can't afford to lose any points that you can get.
If you maintain the machines, they do not get admin access. Install a lot of useful software on these machines, and be responsive to requests for more software.
If they maintain the machines, you don't have a copy of the admin password. They get access to your servers (which you back up of course) as a user. If they want their local machine backed up they have to do it themselves. If your normal network monitoring reveals this machine has a problem (often meaning it is running a spam bot), you turn it off at the network connection, and refuse to turn it on until it has been re-imaged. Once in a while you could check for illegal software (child porn, or anything else illegal), and turn anyone with it into the police, but do it via documented procedures.
In a typical business you are correct. However this is a university where the professors are boss. If the CEO of a big company gets mad at you personally, then your job is on the line no matter how much your boss likes you. At best your boss will suggest you send out resumes, and take any offers.
Professors have a lot of power in a university. If they really hate your IT department, they will hire their own IT guys to run things how they want it. Doesn't matter if how they want it is wrong, they directly bring a lot of money into the university so they word goes.
10 years ago when I was in school tenured professors got as much as $80,000 per year, and less than half of that is spent teaching. (note that the first years they spend a lot of time preparing for class, but once you have taught physics a few times you know how to do it, and this time is all spent before they get tenure). No they are not rich, but they are making double what the average person makes, at least in the US.
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They would love to. However the airlines do not control the tower, the FCC does. Any controller who gets mad at one airline can easily make planes late without it being obvious. Luggage is mostly controlled by the airport. Oh, and when you become an experienced traveler you will start to hope they lose your luggage on the trip home so you don't have to take it through customs!
Then there is the all inclusive weather. The location of the jet stream can make a large difference, and while general trends are easy to perdict, we can't know in advance enough details to really get it right.
If you look close, the airlines with the best on time ratings have just put more room in the schedule. They are not doing anything to make the planes arrive on time other than give the plane more time to arrive. (Note that this means planes that serve snowy/icy areas are more likely to be one time because more room is allowed)
Its open source. By definition that means the source code is there and waiting for you to do the work. The Rosegarden developers don't care about MS Windows, because that have linux. If you care, either do it yourself, or hire someone to do it for you. For $250,000 I'll port it for you. (It should be easy for you to find someone willing to do it for less, I hate Windows development so I'm charging a lot extra for the pain of doing something I don't like to do)
Start at grass roots and work it. Right now just start conversations with people around you (in line at the store, whatever). Once you have convinced them that you are a reasonable person mention copyright. Best is if they bring up politics. Make your message short, and make sure you seem like a nice guy. Appearances count, often more than the message so don't be some "long haired hippie freak", or today the tattooed and pierced freak. Dress nicely, and spread the word as a reasonable person. Give the others no reason to suspect that you don't go to church every sunday. (What you do is your business)
In a year politics will start picking up again. Attend the local caucuses. Pick one that mostly agrees with you and try to get copyright reform on the platform. Just by attending you automatically can represent the party at the state level, and so you get to pick who gets on the ballot! Remember it doesn't matter who the people vote for so long as you control who is on the ballot!
It is important to start now. One person is nothing if you start too late. Start now, learn what the process is in your area (every state is different!). Learn how the parties work. Get the process working.
Sure it is, so long as you only have a couple files (20), all in your home directory. If you have several thousand, scattered deep in several projects it is much more difficult. Particularly if you have an intelligent name scheme that is both easy to remember, and quick to type. When you have several sub-directories to descend into, each with many other files and directories, a good tab completion (wild card or rebex) command line is easier to you.
I've tried, but you can't follow them. Betweem being written in some language that doesn't exist. Sure it looks like English, but even in the most slang versions English doesn't allow the grammar used. As a native English speaker I'm often unable to figure out what is intended.
That above assumes that the step is there. In most cases the instructions go from step 4 to step 6 without any indication. (that is the numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6..., but there is a step 4.5) Often I notice this because I can figure out step 4 myself, and I know I need to get to step 6, but I'm not sure how to get there.
Fine the most conservative girl in your office, and tip her off about when he is looking at these sites. One sexual harassment lawsuit latter and the company won't have that problem again. Come to think of it, if you are a big company just go to HR and mention that logs have shown some people are looking at these sites and ask how you should procede. HR will take it seriously because it is their job to know what can happen if it isn't.
An engine is most efficient when running at close to wide open throttle at (relatively) low RPMs. Most people like to accelerate harder than an engine that at achieves this at highway speed will allow. Combine that with varying loads, (Most cars have just one person in them, but the engine is sized for all seats full, luggage, and a trailer) and it would be an advantage to use induction to pull energy from most cars - IF you can control the amount gathered from each car.
I don't if this makes up for all the losses involved in pulling energy from cars. Nor am I sure that a car engine pushed to maximun efficiency (~40%) from normal (~30%) is a better use of resources (it is burning more gas to do this), than a large power plant (~60% efficient). Its something to consider though.
Anytime there are flashing lights, or people by the side of the road you need to slow down. Doesn't matter that it is on the other side, slow down. You never know when an emergency vehicle is going to be doing a Uie and coming out in front of you, or up behind you. You never know (until you are there) that there isn't a car that skidded across your side.
For that matter, you never know what the car next to you is really gawking, and will run into you - you need the extra reaction time a slow speed allows. (not to mention less energy involved if you are hit) So slow down for safety's sake when there is an incident.
Uh, you are wrong. Nevada is not the only state that got the election technology right. They are the only ones who got touch screen voting right, but many states didn't not use touch screen voting.
There is a difference between a platter that fits in a 3.5 inch drive space, and a container large enough to contain human living quarters. We can make a 3 inch turbine spin at 100,000 rpm, (I'd say no problem, but the engineering isn't exactly easy) but I could live in a 3 inch turbine. Scale everything up house size and we can no longer spin that fast.
I'm not sure, since I've never heard any of those songs. I'm into bluegrass myself. Free play music has some stuff that might be interesting. A google search for band might result in stuff.
Heres an idea: go to local band concerts. I'm sure there is a listing of concerts in your area someplace. (ticketmaster has one, but they might be too much to the RIAA side of things, in any case they are a monopoly so it is hard to say they are any more moral) Many bars have live music, and most of the bands playing have CDs.
Your local high school has band and choir concerts, the quality varies greatly, but it is worth checking out for an evening. Some will sell you a CD if you like the music, if they won't odds are the directory will make you a copy of their tape (or let you tape yourself!).
Or get an instrument and stay playing yourself. Piano or guitar as the good places to start because you can find instructors everywhere. (I recommend guitar just because piano tends to go for the 10 year track, which is better in 10 years, but few adults will stand for it) There is a good chance that other interment's are taught in your area too. If nothing else, the penny whistle is cheap, and easy to play. Everyone should play something, though few have the talent to become good.
Here a hint: don't bother to investigate me. All my use for BitTorrent is legal. (or at least I can convince a judge I was defrauded, someone posting FreeBSD_5.3.ISO when it is really some music CD for instance) You will find a significant number of slashdot readers who likewise only use BitTorrent for legal content, of which there is plenty.
Here is a better idea: get some taste in music. Now I don't know if the selections are any good, but if you don't listen, how will you know. There are plenty of good musicians that you have never heard of. Most don't even bother looking for the big deals (other than in dreams). Start looking for them. Let your friends call your tastes eccentric, who cares, you get good music.
Now I agree 1000 songs isn't much, but if they are good songs it is enough, it will take you several years to enjoy them all.
Unless you are going to hit number 1 one the pop or country chart (Or one of a few others) there is no point in going for the major labels. You won't get a deal that is worth it. If you are going for the number one on the pop chart hits, then you need a major label (and lots of sex appeal, talent optional). The tiny labels are better for the little guy in areas like jazz because they take just enough off the top to get by (with a one man operation this isn't much), do a little promotion (copies to public radio), and leave any other promotion to you. Big labels do the same in this area, but they take much more off the top, and are more likely to forget to send the promotional copies to radio.
No, actually we can't. At least so far we don't even have leads on a material that can stand the centripital force[1] involved when you start spinning that fast. In short: it would fly apart before you got close to 15,000 rpm.
[1] All together now physics students: HA HA HA
Given that I can't get good working 3d drivers for FreeBSD (by which I mean I can upgrade my kernel from time to time without worry), or Linux; on any fast 3d video card, I'm looking for anything that will give me good 3d graphics without hasstle.
No human would bet against humans in an extinction race. You can't win, by definition if you win the bet, you are dead and the money does no good, while if you lose the bet you lose your money.
I was going to put some religious exception in the above, but I can't think a a single religion that would allow you to collect on a bet made on earth in the afterlife.
I've heard that story more than once. It wouldn't surprise me, though I'd also guess that for most troops with civilian units SA wouldn't matter to them because 100m is still close enough. (You wouldn't bomb a building based only on 100m, but you would be close enough to use other means to identify if that building is the one to bomb)
Note that SA was never intended to affect the man on the ground. The use is for ICBMs where being off by just a few cm at launch can quickly result in completely missing the target city several thousand km away. "The Russians" have always had maps and compasses that were good enough to get ground troops to within a few feet of a target. SA just prevented "the evil Russians" from using a cheap American system to attack the US. (remember that when GPS was first considered the cold war was still active and an attack was considered possible)
Note that I was very careful to specify tenured professors. For those who do not have tenure there are more teaching duties, and they have less experience teaching, both of which lead to far more work. Once you have been teaching for a while, you have a good handle on what works, a good drawer full of tests that you used last time (Good professors will modify this old tests), and experience on grading tests fairly.
Of course as a tenured professor you are expected to spend most of your time in research, but you have a lot a self direction in where you research. Being a professor isn't easy, but it should be a case of the very smartest people spending a little time teach and a lot of time researching what they love enough to research even if they had to work a different job. Many of the research expenses are paid out of a budget other than the pay check, so the money goes farther.
Well yes, but in the corporate world most people are not that high, for them what IT says goes unless things are really really bad. In the university world you have a larger number of people with senior management clout. Worse, in the corporate world there is likely a CIO who is about as high as the others who should (but often won't) back you up, while in the university world the CIO doesn't have as much political power.
And how long will that law stand once the media finds a juicy story? It won't be long when every politician is getting quoted on editorial pages on "why it is a good thing that the media can't example this case against an innocent man". The facts won't even matter. What will matter is that it is a slow news week and the media is looking for a big evil government story to sell. I'm sure there are a number of reporters and editors who are holding this story up for a time to release it when they can do maximun damage.
Roaming in the US is not that bad. Sure you don't give coverage off the freeway in North Dakota, but then nobody lives there anyway. (3 people per square mile is a crowd) Go to any airport though and your cell phone will have coverage. I'll bet you don't have much coverage in the deserts of Australia either. (Unless I looked at the wrong web site, you have a lot of uncovered areas)
All the major cities have coverage. All the major airports have coverage.
There is a reason assignments are often graded on a curve. Sometimes things end up being a lot harder than you thought. I recall a physics test where I was in the top half of the class and I only get 19 out of 120! The professors doubled everyones score, before they entered it into the book. (so I was credited for 38/120, still not good, but better overall)
That is also why they say show your work. On that physics test above I didn't get the right answer for any problem, but I was able to prove I knew the first step to take in solving the problem). For this homework, the grade shouldn't be finding holes, it should be finding areas where a hole could exist, and trying to exploit it. Everyone in the class should be giving the same program and told to exploit it. The professor should already know where the hole is.
Finding holes in random software should be extra credit. If the assignment is for random software it needs to give full credit for doing the work on an area where there is no exploit.
In short, the assignment turned out to be more difficult than expected. The professor should go back and re-do the grading system to make the assignment fair.
For your own sake you need to fight this! You do not take enough classes on your way to the degree to make up for losses here. Just this one class is enough to prevent you from graduating with top honors! Just a couple Bs are all it will take to drop you out of any honors program. In the real world GPA is looked at, so you can't afford to lose any points that you can get.
If you maintain the machines, they do not get admin access. Install a lot of useful software on these machines, and be responsive to requests for more software.
If they maintain the machines, you don't have a copy of the admin password. They get access to your servers (which you back up of course) as a user. If they want their local machine backed up they have to do it themselves. If your normal network monitoring reveals this machine has a problem (often meaning it is running a spam bot), you turn it off at the network connection, and refuse to turn it on until it has been re-imaged. Once in a while you could check for illegal software (child porn, or anything else illegal), and turn anyone with it into the police, but do it via documented procedures.
In a typical business you are correct. However this is a university where the professors are boss. If the CEO of a big company gets mad at you personally, then your job is on the line no matter how much your boss likes you. At best your boss will suggest you send out resumes, and take any offers.
Professors have a lot of power in a university. If they really hate your IT department, they will hire their own IT guys to run things how they want it. Doesn't matter if how they want it is wrong, they directly bring a lot of money into the university so they word goes.
10 years ago when I was in school tenured professors got as much as $80,000 per year, and less than half of that is spent teaching. (note that the first years they spend a lot of time preparing for class, but once you have taught physics a few times you know how to do it, and this time is all spent before they get tenure). No they are not rich, but they are making double what the average person makes, at least in the US.