Since this is a new, proprietary format, only MS really knows what it is, and therefor can strip it out. Notice how Exchange is mentioned as "a" possible server that will have this option . . .
Other mail servers shouldn't be forced to update their code because some child didn't want to play nice . ..
IP == Designation for service (like phone number).
URL == property. They have become so valuable in today's world that they can easily be considered similar to a great big sign signifying who you are and/or what you do.
Students (alumni): it's RPI (I guess that's been shown already)
(sad thing is that a rather large number, at least claim, to have trouble spelling 'Rensselaer')
Admin (but not most of the other faculty, eg. profs): Rensselaer. Just like they are called "Residence Halls" and not "Dorms". Look at the website, 'Rensselaer', the course book? 'Rensselaer Catalog.' I don't know, they think it sounds more prestigious?
You're right though, they have tried to get everyone to call it 'Rensselaer' instead of 'RPI' with little luck (much like the GNU/Linux 'problem'). I can't see it ever catching on though, as everything is referred to by an acronym (eg. CII, VCC). It's just easier to write and say. 'Sides, it's tradition
Soon they'll cost $125k. For another $20k you can get virtual machine software to run multiple copies of Linux on the same box. David Boyes, a consultant who works with the S/390, managed to boot 41,500 Linux servers on one mainframe.
$125,000 + $20,000 = $145,000 (so far, no $45 server) $145,000 / 41,500 = $3.50 (lot less than $45)
For the ''server'' to cost $45, that would imply running 3222 (.2 repeating) servers. Is this to be the expected number in that case? I couldn't find this anywhere.
First off, our school had no AP CS class. A friend and I took the AB test without much (any?) real knowledge of what was to be on it (quick glimpses the day before). We took the test May, 2000.
The test is insanely easy. The only way to get a number of the multiple choice questions wrong is if you just brease through it without paying attention (easily done), the so-called ''case-study'' doesn't need to be read before hand (though you might want to, I guess).
The ''free-response'' isn't. They tell you exactly what they want you to do, step-by-step, and you just write code. It is basically a C++ test, with little to do with any ''science.''
Both my friend and I finished part II (free response) with well over 30 minutes remaining. The worst part of the test is not that it focuses more on C++ than the underlying concpets at times (I guess it does a decent job over all), but that uses a bastardized version of the STL. They AP library was supposedly written by a grad student who later stated that he really didn't do that good of a job, and that they were not completely compatible with the STL.
Anyway, to the initial question: group project desiging a game. Keeps 'em interested, helps them work in groups. I've never taken any course other than PascalII, where we basically had a study hall (all six of us). Eh.
The 'Classical Music Bug' that appears all to often in searches on ms' site, and in/. user comments
Search for the others yourself. I don't expect the posters to remember every/. story, but you think that they could run a search for at least the most recent stories for the topic they're posting?
Some random person in a Mozilla newsgroup said "hey, wouldn't it be cool to build Office-like functionality on top of Mozilla", and CNET decided this means a MozOffice project is happening (WRONG), and that millions of people need to know about this. Naturally, many readers believe them and are now flaming away because "Mozilla hasn't shipped a browser and now they're doing THIS!" . . . Flame/sue the people who screw up? What?"
MozOffice is happening, or at least the ''random person'' is trying to make it happen. It is a very interesting project, and comes after people have succeded in using it to program games and otherwise try and create a cross-platform Web browser/OS suite. CNET didn't get anything wrong--they are very clear that it was another entity apart from Netscape and Mozilla proper that was working on this project, and it appears that the only entity mistaken (before millions of/. readers read only the quoted paragraph on the home page), was the submitter.
Unfortunately, I tend to agree that Mozilla is nigh death, failing under the burden of its own bloat. However, I have high hopes for Galeon. If it succeeds, Good Things are ahead. The largest problem still remains: combating the Win/IE monopoly on the desktopm which is only worsended by the fact that many sites are now optimized for IE (causing more people to use it, and here we have a Catch-22 for ya').
Only time will tell if a combination of an MS break-up and a ''Best of Netscape'' browser can turn the tides in the browser world. Then again, one wonders if netscape/aol is the answer we want.
FBI will only use Carnivore to sift through e-mail only with a valid court order
Then why do they need it? The system has been set up to allow these searches if necessary. There are numerous alternatives to a "mysterious black box" that they can use that are already in place.
If they want to defend it, let the public know how it works. If there is nothing wrong with it, what's the harm?
The 1GHz PIII was announced as a knee-jerk reaction to the Athlon announced only day(s?) before, and to no one's surpirse, there was a huge supply problem. To many people's surprise, AMD didn't have a huge problem with supply and has been the only contender in the x86 world selling actual GHz machines.
Will we ever see this new PIII? I don't know. Chances are, it was just a smoke screen to keep their market value up while whispering about the slipping release date of their next processor.
As we've seen from experience, Intel loves to throw out a few extra mHz (or a 100+ of them) and the market will buy them as they see their PC is now obsolete. Frankly? I have a 350 mHz K6/2 in my desktop and have no problem running most tasks.
I've always had an advantage in Quake 3 because of a slight z-buffering problem with my video card (Real 3D Starfighter, 8MB AGP on a socket7 mobo, intel's initial graphics chipset). It allows me to see where people are through walls and floors without disrupting gameplay.
I've since switched to Unreal, where I don't have the problem (just a problem with OpenGL?). But people would always ask me why I still had that old thing in there:)
This actually is adding a additional chromosome. Basically they made a copy of a normal chromosome, gutted it, added in multiple copies of their own specified gene and inserted it into the mouse.
Right, sorry. Re-read the article. Guess I missed that part: extra chromosomes. They should have mentioned it at the end, not the beginning;)
Down's syndrome is a very specific disorder caused by anomalies with the 21st chromosome pair. It is not a general result of having more than the normal number of chromosomes (for example having XXY sex chromosomes).
I guess I shouldn't have named a specific example like that. I meant to leave it in more general terms but forgot to preview it (actually, I was going to mention Klinefelter's syndrome as another example . ..).
How you tell a human now? chromosome count will be useless.
From article:
"The researchers started with a natural chromosome gutted of all its functional genes but retaining other key elements "
There are still the same number of chromosomes, they simply changed one (from what I gather). Therefore, the chromosome count is still the same and won't result in Down's syndrome. Of course, plants have been genetically engineered to have more chromosomes for a long time now, resulting in larger and seedless fruits, not to mention those that are resistant to famine and pests. Of course, the effects on humans is questionable . ..
Companies have money, they have lots of highly paid lawyers. They have massive PR machines churning out propaganda ("We need to be allowed to inovate . ..")
Individuals are worthless. Heck, once you're in jail you can't even vote anymore in the US, so politicians don't have to worry about one, already insignificant vote, going to 'the other guy'.
Individual privacy is, unfortunately, not expressly guaranteed in the US (except in some state constitutions). Only relatively recently has any privacy been afforded by (weak) laws against corporations.
Then again, back when we were a bunch of agrarian farmers, nobody really had the ability to amass large databases of your daily actions. Good thing the Constitution is a living document . . . too bad government is stuck playing catch-up.
It's a bit pointless to point to the Sun as an example of functioning fusion, except to state that it is possible.
Here on Earth, fusion does work, but it isn't a feasible energy source as it currently takes more power to start the ephemeral reaction than the reaction ends up producing. Cold fusion (somebody else has probably made a better joke, or will, so I won't even try) is not possible yet, and with major cuts in funding will be harder to produce.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (Princeton, NJ) was one such lab that had set a number of records in the field with its aging Tocamack (sp?), but as the public, and the post-cold war government has lost interest, they have lost funding. Unfortunately, many view their research as lots of money in, no useful technology out. People expect immediate results. It's a shame really; if we could get functioning cold fusion, we would have a lot less problems to deal with.
The best thing about Xbox is that it won't change. Ever. Judging by other consoles, Xbox should have a four or five year run
Indrema has stated that their product will be ungradable, without sacrificing the consistency necessary for a console system.
If this does turn out to work, their system definitely would seem to be the best option of those out there. Has anyone seen any of these articles for it?
I believe it all has a lot with what parents encourage in their children when they are very young.
Certainly. The problem is that much of society still has this sexist/romantic view that, when the going gets tough, the men come and save their "weaker" companions . . .
There have been studies (I personally hate studies, as well as benchmarks) that support the idea that females, in general, learn best in a classroom or other formal setting. The studies show that males, on the other hand, learn best by trial and error (reason we usually don't read the directions?).
If this were true, it would certainly help explain the discrepancy in the ratio of females to males. The computer industry in general needs people who can relate their lego building skills to solving Real World problems, and not just run to Ken when something more than the normal classroom situation comes about.
Think about how you first learned to program, use an operating system, or whatever. Chances are you didn't go out and get some stupid yellow covered book (most of the people here not talking about Beer, Grits, and Portman at least).
The wiretap archives (after the opening page) are still accessible via gopher.
Kinda makes one long for the olden days, no? Before cookies, pop-ups, censorship, and cease and desist orders . . .
The days when Usenet was big, everyone was on Prodigy "Classic" and SPAM as we fear it today was still limited to the snail mail variety . . . ah . ..an Internet sin Corporations . . . those were the days . ..
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Since this is a new, proprietary format, only MS really knows what it is, and therefor can strip it out. Notice how Exchange is mentioned as "a" possible server that will have this option . . .
Other mail servers shouldn't be forced to update their code because some child didn't want to play nice . . .
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I've been using the betas now for several weeks, and I was a little surprised when I did a logic proof (submitted via email). . .
I got three chilli peppers (on fire) . . .
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Are we going to get this every year?
This isn't the first time the competition has been held, and it's been getting a couple postings to the front page on /.
I guess it's not as bad has getting three stories linking to a dot matrix symphony, but . . .
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IP == Designation for service (like phone number).
URL == property. They have become so valuable in today's world that they can easily be considered similar to a great big sign signifying who you are and/or what you do.
Btw. . . this is a pretty old case . . .
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I'll elucidate my statement.
Students (alumni): it's RPI (I guess that's been shown already)
(sad thing is that a rather large number, at least claim, to have trouble spelling 'Rensselaer')
Admin (but not most of the other faculty, eg. profs): Rensselaer. Just like they are called "Residence Halls" and not "Dorms". Look at the website, 'Rensselaer', the course book? 'Rensselaer Catalog.' I don't know, they think it sounds more prestigious?
You're right though, they have tried to get everyone to call it 'Rensselaer' instead of 'RPI' with little luck (much like the GNU/Linux 'problem'). I can't see it ever catching on though, as everything is referred to by an acronym (eg. CII, VCC). It's just easier to write and say. 'Sides, it's tradition
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Probably one of those EMAC people.
(and as stated in first reply, it stands for Master of Fine Arts).
And we prefer "Rensselaer", the same as they preferred "Digital" to 'DEC'. Don't ask why . . .
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Slashdot Article Lots of info.
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Oh yeah, Harrison Ford didn't like it either (though it made him who he is today.)
Someone else can respond to the idea that he never would have been Indy had he not been Han.
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Soon they'll cost $125k. For another $20k you can get virtual machine software to run multiple copies of Linux on the same box. David Boyes, a consultant who works with the S/390, managed to boot 41,500 Linux servers on one mainframe.
$125,000 + $20,000 = $145,000 (so far, no $45 server)
$145,000 / 41,500 = $3.50 (lot less than $45)
For the ''server'' to cost $45, that would imply running 3222 (.2 repeating) servers. Is this to be the expected number in that case? I couldn't find this anywhere.
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First off, our school had no AP CS class. A friend and I took the AB test without much (any?) real knowledge of what was to be on it (quick glimpses the day before). We took the test May, 2000.
The test is insanely easy. The only way to get a number of the multiple choice questions wrong is if you just brease through it without paying attention (easily done), the so-called ''case-study'' doesn't need to be read before hand (though you might want to, I guess).
The ''free-response'' isn't. They tell you exactly what they want you to do, step-by-step, and you just write code. It is basically a C++ test, with little to do with any ''science.''
Both my friend and I finished part II (free response) with well over 30 minutes remaining. The worst part of the test is not that it focuses more on C++ than the underlying concpets at times (I guess it does a decent job over all), but that uses a bastardized version of the STL. They AP library was supposedly written by a grad student who later stated that he really didn't do that good of a job, and that they were not completely compatible with the STL.
Anyway, to the initial question: group project desiging a game. Keeps 'em interested, helps them work in groups. I've never taken any course other than PascalII, where we basically had a study hall (all six of us). Eh.
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The most recent quickies contain a lot of repeats.
Search for the others yourself. I don't expect the posters to remember every /. story, but you think that they could run a search for at least the most recent stories for the topic they're posting?
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MozOffice is happening, or at least the ''random person'' is trying to make it happen. It is a very interesting project, and comes after people have succeded in using it to program games and otherwise try and create a cross-platform Web browser/OS suite. CNET didn't get anything wrong--they are very clear that it was another entity apart from Netscape and Mozilla proper that was working on this project, and it appears that the only entity mistaken (before millions of /. readers read only the quoted paragraph on the home page), was the submitter.
Unfortunately, I tend to agree that Mozilla is nigh death, failing under the burden of its own bloat. However, I have high hopes for Galeon. If it succeeds, Good Things are ahead. The largest problem still remains: combating the Win/IE monopoly on the desktopm which is only worsended by the fact that many sites are now optimized for IE (causing more people to use it, and here we have a Catch-22 for ya').
Only time will tell if a combination of an MS break-up and a ''Best of Netscape'' browser can turn the tides in the browser world. Then again, one wonders if netscape/aol is the answer we want.
Closing comment: It worked for Emacs!
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FBI will only use Carnivore to sift through e-mail only with a valid court order
Then why do they need it? The system has been set up to allow these searches if necessary. There are numerous alternatives to a "mysterious black box" that they can use that are already in place.
If they want to defend it, let the public know how it works. If there is nothing wrong with it, what's the harm?
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The 1GHz PIII was announced as a knee-jerk reaction to the Athlon announced only day(s?) before, and to no one's surpirse, there was a huge supply problem. To many people's surprise, AMD didn't have a huge problem with supply and has been the only contender in the x86 world selling actual GHz machines.
Will we ever see this new PIII? I don't know. Chances are, it was just a smoke screen to keep their market value up while whispering about the slipping release date of their next processor.
As we've seen from experience, Intel loves to throw out a few extra mHz (or a 100+ of them) and the market will buy them as they see their PC is now obsolete. Frankly? I have a 350 mHz K6/2 in my desktop and have no problem running most tasks.
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I've always had an advantage in Quake 3 because of a slight z-buffering problem with my video card (Real 3D Starfighter, 8MB AGP on a socket7 mobo, intel's initial graphics chipset). It allows me to see where people are through walls and floors without disrupting gameplay.
I've since switched to Unreal, where I don't have the problem (just a problem with OpenGL?). But people would always ask me why I still had that old thing in there :)
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This actually is adding a additional chromosome. Basically they made a copy of a normal chromosome, gutted it, added in multiple copies of their own specified gene and inserted it into the mouse.
Right, sorry. Re-read the article. Guess I missed that part: extra chromosomes. They should have mentioned it at the end, not the beginning ;)
Down's syndrome is a very specific disorder caused by anomalies with the 21st chromosome pair. It is not a general result of having more than the normal number of chromosomes (for example having XXY sex chromosomes).
I guess I shouldn't have named a specific example like that. I meant to leave it in more general terms but forgot to preview it (actually, I was going to mention Klinefelter's syndrome as another example . . .).
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How you tell a human now? chromosome count will be useless.
There are still the same number of chromosomes, they simply changed one (from what I gather). Therefore, the chromosome count is still the same and won't result in Down's syndrome. Of course, plants have been genetically engineered to have more chromosomes for a long time now, resulting in larger and seedless fruits, not to mention those that are resistant to famine and pests. Of course, the effects on humans is questionable . . .
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Remember Bait and Switch?
Companies have money, they have lots of highly paid lawyers. They have massive PR machines churning out propaganda ("We need to be allowed to inovate . . .")
Individuals are worthless. Heck, once you're in jail you can't even vote anymore in the US, so politicians don't have to worry about one, already insignificant vote, going to 'the other guy'.
Individual privacy is, unfortunately, not expressly guaranteed in the US (except in some state constitutions). Only relatively recently has any privacy been afforded by (weak) laws against corporations.
Then again, back when we were a bunch of agrarian farmers, nobody really had the ability to amass large databases of your daily actions. Good thing the Constitution is a living document . . . too bad government is stuck playing catch-up.
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It's a bit pointless to point to the Sun as an example of functioning fusion, except to state that it is possible.
Here on Earth, fusion does work, but it isn't a feasible energy source as it currently takes more power to start the ephemeral reaction than the reaction ends up producing. Cold fusion (somebody else has probably made a better joke, or will, so I won't even try) is not possible yet, and with major cuts in funding will be harder to produce.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (Princeton, NJ) was one such lab that had set a number of records in the field with its aging Tocamack (sp?), but as the public, and the post-cold war government has lost interest, they have lost funding. Unfortunately, many view their research as lots of money in, no useful technology out. People expect immediate results. It's a shame really; if we could get functioning cold fusion, we would have a lot less problems to deal with.
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Why was there a three month difference (April/June) in the testing?
And how come the NT machine had a DELL disk controller while the RH machine had an Adaptec? You think they could have standardized on the Adaptec . . .
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That's about all I got from that.
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For those who prefer OpenGL, NVIDIA will provide a fully Xbox-enhanced version.
Gotta love the word enhanced ;)
Plus, it offers and "extended" version of Dirext-X.
And you'll learn it all through plenty of sample code and documentation--just like the Windows API!
Wonderful.
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Indrema has stated that their product will be ungradable, without sacrificing the consistency necessary for a console system.
If this does turn out to work, their system definitely would seem to be the best option of those out there. Has anyone seen any of these articles for it?
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Certainly. The problem is that much of society still has this sexist/romantic view that, when the going gets tough, the men come and save their "weaker" companions . . .
There have been studies (I personally hate studies, as well as benchmarks) that support the idea that females, in general, learn best in a classroom or other formal setting. The studies show that males, on the other hand, learn best by trial and error (reason we usually don't read the directions?).
If this were true, it would certainly help explain the discrepancy in the ratio of females to males. The computer industry in general needs people who can relate their lego building skills to solving Real World problems, and not just run to Ken when something more than the normal classroom situation comes about.
Think about how you first learned to program, use an operating system, or whatever. Chances are you didn't go out and get some stupid yellow covered book (most of the people here not talking about Beer, Grits, and Portman at least).
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The wiretap archives (after the opening page) are still accessible via gopher.
Kinda makes one long for the olden days, no? Before cookies, pop-ups, censorship, and cease and desist orders . . .
The days when Usenet was big, everyone was on Prodigy "Classic" and SPAM as we fear it today was still limited to the snail mail variety . . . ah . . .an Internet sin Corporations . . . those were the days . . .
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