Comes from my experience at school. My university uses Blackboard to administer tests and quizzes, disseminate documents, track grades, etc. The administration has made a big push to have all the faculty use it, but their has been a big push back because Blackboard has been terrible to work with.
The biggest deal has been its tendency to erase grades, lose testing results, etc. It has been a nightmare for students and teachers a like. That aside, talking with the IT administrative staff, Blackboard has a tendency to defer responsibility to other problems, even though time and time again, blame clearly falls on bugs in their software. This annoyed a lot of people, so much in fact, that the IS department faculty have started an initiative to code a new one, from scratch, in Java.
So what would Blackboard's natural response be to customers deciding that they can create their own CMS? Why not patent it? Then they're locked into using their software! May the patent Gods strike this one down quick!
Yeah they want to be a "a service provider such as a telephone company". Every company wants to be like that. And get regulated into oblivion. No real growth potential. Stagnate. Stale.
Steve and Linus are braggarts in their own regard, but what they *do* speaks much louder than what they *say*. Especially Linus. As a person I think he's just as egotistical as Balmer, but the revolution he has created as an engineer was created not by words, but actions.
I think more than anything this is an indicator of the state of Microsoft. If you've got to send the CEO out on PR all the time, then there's some pretty shaking ground that the company is sitting on. Products and services should be able to speak for themselves without the CEO having to go on a media tour to tell how great they are. He's got to go around evangilizing MS because if people (employees as much as customers) hear it enough, they just might start to believe it.
I would be a bit worried about Microsoft now that Bill is leaving. I would be worried that a 'geek' has left the innovation chair and is now being turned over to a businessman. That's pretty dangerous, not because he *is* a businessman, but because he is no technological visonary, ie. Steve Jobs.
But what if the 'Net's neutrality *is* compromised? Could this not spur the development of a new kind of communications network? It seems to me that there is not a great enough incentive for our civilization to make the next great leap in how communication is sent because we haven't been weaned from the nipple of the telcos.
Doubtful. The WMF flaw was a bigger threat, as far as those affected. I also imagine that the WMF flaw got a lot more press than this one. Those two resons combined made it a high profile patch for someone to show off and crank one out before MS.
because there is so much more to the weather than just analyzing atmospheric trends. For instance, are they taking into consideration the fact that volcano eruptions can play a large part in changing conditions? Maybe their computer will predict eruptions too. Are they taking in considerations of anomolous behaviors from the sun, such as solar flares, etc. that may influence patterns? Or maybe the effect a metorite has while passing through the atmosphere. Now we're predicting things that are independent of anything originating from Earth itself.
Has anyone maybe considered that maybe this isn't an experiment for testing telepathy, but maybe is a psych study on something else? I mean, wouldn't this kinda taint the group by telling them that they are trying to do telepathy. I think its just a cover for some other expermint.
I don't want to sound like I'm trolling, but what relevence does this acutally have? For instance, the sum of everyone's emotions on a particlar spot I would imagine would equal zero. This is because what makes one person happy, may make another sad, etc. How does any of it make sense through all the emotional noise? For example, the sight of a tall sky scraper may seem like an awe inspiring feat of engineering to one, whilst it is a tearful reminder of the potential destructive force of a rag tag band of terrorists to another. How does all the subjectivity produce any meaningful results?
I wanted to get a Media Center 2005 (yes, I got that because of all the UIs I investigated, this one had the best, IMO) but I also wanted to get a new server that was a bit faster than my Duron 1.3 Ghz peice of junk with 128K of L2 cache. However, trying to convince the wife to let me get two whole new computers proved a futile effort. So, to do some testing, I *borrowed* a copy of media center for testing purposes and then installed my server on a VM. I put it through its paces on an AMD64 3500+ processor, with 1GB RAM. It ran very well, and was able to justify getting 1 slightly better machine with a AMD 3800+ X2 (dual core) processor and 1GB RAM. Thanks to VMWare I was able to get 2 computers for the price of one--and more importantly a happy wife.
I know for sure that VMWare can see and use USB 2.0 devices, however, the support for 2.0 speeds is not there--at least in Windows. Fore example, if I plug in a USB 2.0 flash drive, Windows will know that it is a 2.0, but it acts as if it has been plugged into a legacy USB port--which means it will suck for speed.
Right...You remember what happened to WinAmp? Where went WinAmp 2.x??? or 4.x??? For all intents and purposes, WinAmp *ought* to be at 2.x becuase nothing notable has really changed. I think the whole version number issue is more marketing hyperbole than anything. This sort of thing can back-fire on people who know better.
I remember waking up one morning with a splash screen on my browser no matter where I went, stating that I had been in violation of the DMCA because I was sharing Matrix: Reloaded. It was true. I'm not going to profess my innocence. I was caught red handed. I thank my lucky stars, however, that my ISP stood up for my privacy rights and did not hand over my information to the third party acting on behalf of the MPAA. My punishment: my Internet access was shut off for 24 hours and I had to check a box on that splash screen saying that I would not upload copyrighted materials to other people. To say the least, I dropped a load that morning. I knew that if my ISP really wanted to, they could have thrown me to the piranhas.
Did this stop me from leeching? No. I was using Kazaa at the time (hacked version) so I was able to completely cut off my upload capabilities.
But what if the government were to seize these rights on the grounds that no-one else could claim them as their own, and such third party scum would not be able to sue the pants off someone else. They own the rights, which in actuality are held by the public domain.
And here I was thinking that Intel was starting to thwart AMD's gain on its market share. I was even pondering getting an Intel chip. Guess not--to both.
If you want to simplify the language, go to a more standard (as in other languages that use a roman alphabet) way. 'Weigh' would actually be 'we', 'we' (first person plural) would be 'wi' or 'oui'. 'dictionary' would be 'deicxaneri'. 'alphabet' would be aelfebet'. 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' would be 'supercaelefrajeilisteicekspialeidousous';)
Well, let us consider what an identity is, then. Say someone came to your home, took your face, robbed you of your fingerprints, and any other identifying marks on your person. Then they take some clothes typically worn by you. Then, they take your cards and do things in your name. Even the people who see your 'face' at the store see that your perpatrator is you. They do viscious things in your name.
Now, we all know that is pretty far fetched. But taking identifying *information* about you and doing things with that is not that much different. My SS#, my CC#, my PINs, etc. identify who I am in the absence of me being able to be there in person, so yes, it is identity theft.
What if the whole examination is a hoax? Or the real results covered up? What do they stand to gain??? The government (and for that fact humanity) has an ego problem of not wanting to admit mistakes because a mistake of this magnitude merits a major change. If the information is found to have been access/copied/etc., you have insane public outcry. If the results come back negative, you still have people grumble about it, but the status quo doesn't have to change.
I'm glad the policy are out making the city safe from wireless access points. Of course, now that all the drug dealers, rapists, pedophiles, theives, robbers, murderers, prostitutes, and school bullies are off the street, the next logical step is to make sure that the wireless APs are closed up.
I can feel the warm safety of encrypted radio waves already!
That's easy to say when you live in an area where ISPs compete for subscribers, but I live in the 9th largest city in the US, but I still only get one choice. If I decided that my ISP didn't live up to the info disclosure standard set by me, I just can't cut ties with them and go with someone else. You either live with the fact that you're being tracked, or life without access.
Breaking some knees might be more effective. Why? The Internet is the equivalant of the Wild West. Anything goes. Laws are a very sticky thing where virtual territory is concerned. Since the Internet is a vast largely unregualted affair, getting laws in action don't do much since there isn't a white suited sherriff with an ivory handled Colt walking around keeping the bad guys in line.
But then again, we all know what happened when someone tried to take the law in their own hands. Look at Blue Security. They were supposedly sticking up for the common man, but now they've run outta town with their tail between their legs
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Comes from my experience at school. My university uses Blackboard to administer tests and quizzes, disseminate documents, track grades, etc. The administration has made a big push to have all the faculty use it, but their has been a big push back because Blackboard has been terrible to work with.
The biggest deal has been its tendency to erase grades, lose testing results, etc. It has been a nightmare for students and teachers a like. That aside, talking with the IT administrative staff, Blackboard has a tendency to defer responsibility to other problems, even though time and time again, blame clearly falls on bugs in their software. This annoyed a lot of people, so much in fact, that the IS department faculty have started an initiative to code a new one, from scratch, in Java.
So what would Blackboard's natural response be to customers deciding that they can create their own CMS? Why not patent it? Then they're locked into using their software! May the patent Gods strike this one down quick!
Yeah they want to be a "a service provider such as a telephone company". Every company wants to be like that. And get regulated into oblivion. No real growth potential. Stagnate. Stale.
I believe them, don't you?
Steve and Linus are braggarts in their own regard, but what they *do* speaks much louder than what they *say*. Especially Linus. As a person I think he's just as egotistical as Balmer, but the revolution he has created as an engineer was created not by words, but actions.
I think more than anything this is an indicator of the state of Microsoft. If you've got to send the CEO out on PR all the time, then there's some pretty shaking ground that the company is sitting on. Products and services should be able to speak for themselves without the CEO having to go on a media tour to tell how great they are. He's got to go around evangilizing MS because if people (employees as much as customers) hear it enough, they just might start to believe it.
I would be a bit worried about Microsoft now that Bill is leaving. I would be worried that a 'geek' has left the innovation chair and is now being turned over to a businessman. That's pretty dangerous, not because he *is* a businessman, but because he is no technological visonary, ie. Steve Jobs.
I agree with Scott Adams about the whole thing.
This must mean that the /. has made a modifcation to the underlying code...does that mean that Agent Smith is coming???
"The discovery, if confirmed, could open new insights into the higher order control of the genes."
Perhaps this may provide additional information as to the usefullness of the supposed "junk DNA" that fills the human g-nome.
But what if the 'Net's neutrality *is* compromised? Could this not spur the development of a new kind of communications network? It seems to me that there is not a great enough incentive for our civilization to make the next great leap in how communication is sent because we haven't been weaned from the nipple of the telcos.
Doubtful. The WMF flaw was a bigger threat, as far as those affected. I also imagine that the WMF flaw got a lot more press than this one. Those two resons combined made it a high profile patch for someone to show off and crank one out before MS.
because there is so much more to the weather than just analyzing atmospheric trends. For instance, are they taking into consideration the fact that volcano eruptions can play a large part in changing conditions? Maybe their computer will predict eruptions too. Are they taking in considerations of anomolous behaviors from the sun, such as solar flares, etc. that may influence patterns? Or maybe the effect a metorite has while passing through the atmosphere. Now we're predicting things that are independent of anything originating from Earth itself.
Yeah, must be a crystal ball...
Has anyone maybe considered that maybe this isn't an experiment for testing telepathy, but maybe is a psych study on something else? I mean, wouldn't this kinda taint the group by telling them that they are trying to do telepathy. I think its just a cover for some other expermint.
I don't want to sound like I'm trolling, but what relevence does this acutally have? For instance, the sum of everyone's emotions on a particlar spot I would imagine would equal zero. This is because what makes one person happy, may make another sad, etc. How does any of it make sense through all the emotional noise? For example, the sight of a tall sky scraper may seem like an awe inspiring feat of engineering to one, whilst it is a tearful reminder of the potential destructive force of a rag tag band of terrorists to another. How does all the subjectivity produce any meaningful results?
I wanted to get a Media Center 2005 (yes, I got that because of all the UIs I investigated, this one had the best, IMO) but I also wanted to get a new server that was a bit faster than my Duron 1.3 Ghz peice of junk with 128K of L2 cache. However, trying to convince the wife to let me get two whole new computers proved a futile effort. So, to do some testing, I *borrowed* a copy of media center for testing purposes and then installed my server on a VM. I put it through its paces on an AMD64 3500+ processor, with 1GB RAM. It ran very well, and was able to justify getting 1 slightly better machine with a AMD 3800+ X2 (dual core) processor and 1GB RAM. Thanks to VMWare I was able to get 2 computers for the price of one--and more importantly a happy wife.
I know for sure that VMWare can see and use USB 2.0 devices, however, the support for 2.0 speeds is not there--at least in Windows. Fore example, if I plug in a USB 2.0 flash drive, Windows will know that it is a 2.0, but it acts as if it has been plugged into a legacy USB port--which means it will suck for speed.
Right...You remember what happened to WinAmp? Where went WinAmp 2.x??? or 4.x??? For all intents and purposes, WinAmp *ought* to be at 2.x becuase nothing notable has really changed. I think the whole version number issue is more marketing hyperbole than anything. This sort of thing can back-fire on people who know better.
I remember waking up one morning with a splash screen on my browser no matter where I went, stating that I had been in violation of the DMCA because I was sharing Matrix: Reloaded. It was true. I'm not going to profess my innocence. I was caught red handed. I thank my lucky stars, however, that my ISP stood up for my privacy rights and did not hand over my information to the third party acting on behalf of the MPAA. My punishment: my Internet access was shut off for 24 hours and I had to check a box on that splash screen saying that I would not upload copyrighted materials to other people. To say the least, I dropped a load that morning. I knew that if my ISP really wanted to, they could have thrown me to the piranhas.
Did this stop me from leeching? No. I was using Kazaa at the time (hacked version) so I was able to completely cut off my upload capabilities.
But what if the government were to seize these rights on the grounds that no-one else could claim them as their own, and such third party scum would not be able to sue the pants off someone else. They own the rights, which in actuality are held by the public domain.
And here I was thinking that Intel was starting to thwart AMD's gain on its market share. I was even pondering getting an Intel chip. Guess not--to both.
If you want to simplify the language, go to a more standard (as in other languages that use a roman alphabet) way. 'Weigh' would actually be 'we', 'we' (first person plural) would be 'wi' or 'oui'. 'dictionary' would be 'deicxaneri'. 'alphabet' would be aelfebet'. 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' would be 'supercaelefrajeilisteicekspialeidousous' ;)
If you take how many days it has been since the December backdate till today, July 5th, then the total fine is a whopping:
$1,425,680,000
I wish I was a benefactor of that much cash...
Well, let us consider what an identity is, then. Say someone came to your home, took your face, robbed you of your fingerprints, and any other identifying marks on your person. Then they take some clothes typically worn by you. Then, they take your cards and do things in your name. Even the people who see your 'face' at the store see that your perpatrator is you. They do viscious things in your name.
Now, we all know that is pretty far fetched. But taking identifying *information* about you and doing things with that is not that much different. My SS#, my CC#, my PINs, etc. identify who I am in the absence of me being able to be there in person, so yes, it is identity theft.
What if the whole examination is a hoax? Or the real results covered up? What do they stand to gain??? The government (and for that fact humanity) has an ego problem of not wanting to admit mistakes because a mistake of this magnitude merits a major change. If the information is found to have been access/copied/etc., you have insane public outcry. If the results come back negative, you still have people grumble about it, but the status quo doesn't have to change.
I'm glad the policy are out making the city safe from wireless access points. Of course, now that all the drug dealers, rapists, pedophiles, theives, robbers, murderers, prostitutes, and school bullies are off the street, the next logical step is to make sure that the wireless APs are closed up.
I can feel the warm safety of encrypted radio waves already!
That's easy to say when you live in an area where ISPs compete for subscribers, but I live in the 9th largest city in the US, but I still only get one choice. If I decided that my ISP didn't live up to the info disclosure standard set by me, I just can't cut ties with them and go with someone else. You either live with the fact that you're being tracked, or life without access.
Breaking some knees might be more effective. Why? The Internet is the equivalant of the Wild West. Anything goes. Laws are a very sticky thing where virtual territory is concerned. Since the Internet is a vast largely unregualted affair, getting laws in action don't do much since there isn't a white suited sherriff with an ivory handled Colt walking around keeping the bad guys in line.
But then again, we all know what happened when someone tried to take the law in their own hands. Look at Blue Security. They were supposedly sticking up for the common man, but now they've run outta town with their tail between their legs
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