Um. Head parking is not a permanent state requiring a reboot to get out of!
In fact you can have an unsaved text document open and after some inactivity the head in the laptop drive will get parked automatically. With modern mobile hard drives this is likely to happen in as little as 30sec of idling. This does not in any way mean that your data is lost. Once you have the need to use the hard drive heads (for purposes such as saving data) they will be unparked promptly.
i/o systems generally have some notion of buffering and can also cope with latencies (just think of a network socket) so that even in the case of a blocking write operation no data is lost even if the said blocking will take any measurable period of time.
Ideas are not patentable!!! Only implementations are patentable! Hence, Microsoft making a specific non-obvious implementation of an already known idea does actually qualify as patentable.
That said, now supposing that the patent is too broad and the clauses encompass prior art then there is a case of stricking out the clauses in question and perhaps invalidating the whole patent.
Yeh. A professor I know at mit has a top secret clearance with sci access.
To quote a us-military site: TOP SECRET: Applied to information or material the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
In addition to the above, some classified information is so sensitive that even the extra protection measures applied to Top Secret information are not sufficient. This information is known as "Sensitive Compartmented Information" (SCI) or Special Access Programs (SAP), and one needs special "SCI Access" or SAP approval to be given access to this information.
To bring a long story short. I was not allowed to do a writeup on this person and mention his name and the fact that he has top secret/sci clearance (don't ask how i got this information in first place).
USENET a) isn't free b) has a crapy signal to noise ratio, except maybe if you are looking for porn.
Well.. a) actually it is. but because of b) you pretty much have to pay for it to actually get anything more complex downloaded. At the current volume it is pretty much impossible for anyone to capture the whole feed without substantial investments and that costs money. There are lots of free servers and even as close as 5-6 years ago most of them were carrying the binary groups too but it just doesn't make sense anymore.
That is how some of these studies work. They take violent kids and ask them what they were doing, what they were watching, what influenced them, etc. Invariably these kids come back with violent movies, games, etc. They take that as a indication that these movies and games caused the violence. I'd be more surprised if these kids came out and said they were reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
These studies have the same problem as an other misconducted type of study, namely does playing improve your reaction time etc.. Invariably we find out that people who have played a lot of, say first person shooters, have good reaction times. However, more often than not these people are predisposed with natural abilities and thus they enjoy playing such games because they are good at them! People with bad reaction times don't like to play such games (and probably don't) and thus we falsely conclude that playing these games improve your reaction time.
Now take violent tendencies. Wouldn't people who have deep underlying predispositions for violence be likely to commit violent acts? The fact that they also happen to like, say violent games, is a consequence of their predispositions and as such shouldn't be thought of as the source of their violence but as a natural consequence. Like with people with good reaction times who enjoy playing games that require such abilities.
It is my opinion that people who go around killing shooting other people have their reasons rooted deeper than some game. In part due to these reasons they also liked the game but they could have manifested their insanity some other way also.
Note. I do not mean that everybody who plays violent games is likely to snap. Most of us do not have the above mentioned problems and simply enjoy the action in a normal way. We'd probably be just as happy doing something else.
VOIP done some other way than P2P would not make much sense (unless you're a telco)! P2P in this case just means connecting the two end points directly (peer-2-peer) instead of going through some central server. This has nothing(!) to do with p2p filesharing.
If you click on the bottom of the google screen to view the dmca-notice you can check out exactly which sites were blocked out. So instead of clicking you're going to have to cut-n-paste.
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More than likely so. If you already got a bachelors degree you will not get into their undergraduate program.
As an amusing sidenote, they did pretty much do away with triple majoring few years back. You can only double nowadays. Still, the nice thing with doing that is that you actually get separate diplomas and not just a mention of both majors on one.
If you have no surviving parents you need to explain (and possibly prove) this and they will consider your personal wealth only. In my case my parents got divorced when I was very young and I've had no contact with one of them for 15+ years. Even though generally both parents' information is required, they did make an exception in my case and only required one of them to submit.
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They can take pretty much anyone once admitted back in! Contact admissions and ask.
I was talking with mit's financial aid and something like this came up. The downside is that you still need your parents income tax returns if you want any support. They mentioned as an example from few years back someone 30+ who was coming back to finish off their bachelors that got interrupted and he still had to go through the same procedure as fresh out of high-school kids to get any financial support. It is a good thing, however, that they can be very flexible and adapt to individual situations in deciding how to support.
I think that Boston globe mixed up downloading and uploading. My impression is that RIAA can only really track users that are actively sharing files and only after a requesting that file and successfully downloading at least parts of it can they conclude that the person in other end is engaging in copyright infringing activities.
Now, being an MIT student I've heard of people who had been sharing files and were contacted by the IT department and asked to stop doing so (or they'd cut them off). They don't really care about downloading but uploading is bad. Generally they can only detect major bandwidth hoggers (of course easier to notice upstream peaks) so it might be a case of just some isolated kazaa-client used by a summer school student (not regular mit material) who was dum enough to not switch sharing off.
MIT's network btw. is completely open to the internet. Each dorm room computer is hooked directly on net without any firewalls. Students can get their own static ip addresses and dns entries in the form whatever.mit.edu. You can also use dhcp around campus and I'll bet that none of the addresses are logged. Alternatively you could also just pick an address in the right subnetwork and hope that nobody else is using it (not a good idea, unless you know what you're doing - any problems could get your net access revoked).
After some deliberation MIT could also say: sorry, ip address 1.2.3.4 was dynamically allocated and we don't hold records of the dynamic allocations. Better luck next time. Then again, the above is mostly just my impressions and I could be wrong in some of them.
Not necessarily the most well known brand, but definitely high quality and an excellent price/performance ratio. Have been using one for about a month now and really have no complaints.
Besides, Where else can you get a brand new centrino for a base price of 1300usd? And did I mention that it does 1400x1050..
Try their website here. I think that at least www.rjtech.com sells them in usa and you can configure it to be pretty much what you want.
Sir, you obviously have no idea as to how mit financing works..
The keywords are need blind admission, need based aid.
On an average, MIT financial aid packages are over 20kusd/year. Parental contribution is determined by their ability to pay out of actual income (not by their ability to take debt). If your parents are totally poor you will get full financial aid. Nothing to do with academic performance, etc.
Yes, in general you'll accumulate something like 4000usd/year debt and your parents are not really going to have much spare money (they'll happily take your savings for college too) but considering the starting salaries of mit graduates, that's just not a big deal. You can finance your part not by working at mcdonald's but by doing research on campus (for which there is more availability than takers), which is not such a bad thing to have on your resume.
I recall from my econ classes that the biggest expense with going to school like mit is the lost income that you could've accumulated during those years. At undergraduate level the actual tuition expenses are almost negligible in comparison unless your family can actually afford them (in which they carry little relative value).
Having a superposition of states is really the exciting thing about quantum computing but as a concept there is really nothing new for any cs-majors.
Abstractions of this concept can be pretty well cooked up by nondeterministic programming and lazy evaluation but should one actually be able to run these on a quantum computer the speed-ups could be enormous.
The point being that with the above two concepts you can create even more general problem solving strategies than quantum computers would allow for, however in the same spirit, and use them with current computers. Having a language does not mean that you can really run it with any quantum computers. That's more of a job for a compiler.
Other determining factors are the shapes of supply and demand curves, monopoly power of suppliers, use of price discrimination and the actual cost scale of the industry.
As long as the manufacturers employ somewhat decent economic analysts they are trying to extract the maximum profits with respect to the producation capabilities and probably succeeding at it fairly well. A good indication of that is this ongoing discussion right here..
Slashdot Mirror
Okay. So somebody just come up with a similiar system not using HTML. Poof, this patent's relevance shattered.
I'll admit to not reading anything more than your comment before writing this.
Yes. Mod parent up. Kerberos is exactly what this person is looking for.
Um. Head parking is not a permanent state requiring a reboot to get out of!
In fact you can have an unsaved text document open and after some inactivity the head in the laptop drive will get parked automatically. With modern mobile hard drives this is likely to happen in as little as 30sec of idling. This does not in any way mean that your data is lost. Once you have the need to use the hard drive heads (for purposes such as saving data) they will be unparked promptly.
i/o systems generally have some notion of buffering and can also cope with latencies (just think of a network socket) so that even in the case of a blocking write operation no data is lost even if the said blocking will take any measurable period of time.
You got it all backwards!
Ideas are not patentable!!! Only implementations are patentable! Hence, Microsoft making a specific non-obvious implementation of an already known idea does actually qualify as patentable.
That said, now supposing that the patent is too broad and the clauses encompass prior art then there is a case of stricking out the clauses in question and perhaps invalidating the whole patent.
Uh. try a different mirror. Mine did it at 300KB/s just 5 min ago.. Took a whole 3 minutes to download too.
I think that it is about time to start a moderation system for articles displayed on front page.
Yeh. A professor I know at mit has a top secret clearance with sci access.
To quote a us-military site:
TOP SECRET: Applied to information or material the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
In addition to the above, some classified information is so sensitive that even the extra protection measures applied to Top Secret information are not sufficient. This information is known as "Sensitive Compartmented Information" (SCI) or Special Access Programs (SAP), and one needs special "SCI Access" or SAP approval to be given access to this information.
To bring a long story short. I was not allowed to do a writeup on this person and mention his name and the fact that he has top secret/sci clearance (don't ask how i got this information in first place).
USENET a) isn't free b) has a crapy signal to noise ratio, except maybe if you are looking for porn.
Well.. a) actually it is. but because of b) you pretty much have to pay for it to actually get anything more complex downloaded. At the current volume it is pretty much impossible for anyone to capture the whole feed without substantial investments and that costs money. There are lots of free servers and even as close as 5-6 years ago most of them were carrying the binary groups too but it just doesn't make sense anymore.
That is how some of these studies work. They take violent kids and ask them what they were doing, what they were watching, what influenced them, etc. Invariably these kids come back with violent movies, games, etc. They take that as a indication that these movies and games caused the violence. I'd be more surprised if these kids came out and said they were reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
These studies have the same problem as an other misconducted type of study, namely does playing improve your reaction time etc.. Invariably we find out that people who have played a lot of, say first person shooters, have good reaction times. However, more often than not these people are predisposed with natural abilities and thus they enjoy playing such games because they are good at them! People with bad reaction times don't like to play such games (and probably don't) and thus we falsely conclude that playing these games improve your reaction time.
Now take violent tendencies. Wouldn't people who have deep underlying predispositions for violence be likely to commit violent acts? The fact that they also happen to like, say violent games, is a consequence of their predispositions and as such shouldn't be thought of as the source of their violence but as a natural consequence. Like with people with good reaction times who enjoy playing games that require such abilities.
It is my opinion that people who go around killing shooting other people have their reasons rooted deeper than some game. In part due to these reasons they also liked the game but they could have manifested their insanity some other way also.
Note. I do not mean that everybody who plays violent games is likely to snap. Most of us do not have the above mentioned problems and simply enjoy the action in a normal way. We'd probably be just as happy doing something else.
VOIP done some other way than P2P would not make much sense (unless you're a telco)! P2P in this case just means connecting the two end points directly (peer-2-peer) instead of going through some central server. This has nothing(!) to do with p2p filesharing.
If you click on the bottom of the google screen to view the dmca-notice you can check out exactly which sites were blocked out. So instead of clicking you're going to have to cut-n-paste.
More than likely so. If you already got a bachelors degree you will not get into their undergraduate program.
As an amusing sidenote, they did pretty much do away with triple majoring few years back. You can only double nowadays. Still, the nice thing with doing that is that you actually get separate diplomas and not just a mention of both majors on one.
If you have no surviving parents you need to explain (and possibly prove) this and they will consider your personal wealth only. In my case my parents got divorced when I was very young and I've had no contact with one of them for 15+ years. Even though generally both parents' information is required, they did make an exception in my case and only required one of them to submit.
They can take pretty much anyone once admitted back in! Contact admissions and ask.
I was talking with mit's financial aid and something like this came up. The downside is that you still need your parents income tax returns if you want any support. They mentioned as an example from few years back someone 30+ who was coming back to finish off their bachelors that got interrupted and he still had to go through the same procedure as fresh out of high-school kids to get any financial support. It is a good thing, however, that they can be very flexible and adapt to individual situations in deciding how to support.
Yes.. "Farewell" is much more appropriate.
I suppose these humanoid robots also maintain themselves for free... Or maybe it is still cheaper to pay mimimum wage.
How about the official mit news release here.
It better explains what they are really doing.
I think that Boston globe mixed up downloading and uploading. My impression is that RIAA can only really track users that are actively sharing files and only after a requesting that file and successfully downloading at least parts of it can they conclude that the person in other end is engaging in copyright infringing activities.
Now, being an MIT student I've heard of people who had been sharing files and were contacted by the IT department and asked to stop doing so (or they'd cut them off). They don't really care about downloading but uploading is bad. Generally they can only detect major bandwidth hoggers (of course easier to notice upstream peaks) so it might be a case of just some isolated kazaa-client used by a summer school student (not regular mit material) who was dum enough to not switch sharing off.
MIT's network btw. is completely open to the internet. Each dorm room computer is hooked directly on net without any firewalls. Students can get their own static ip addresses and dns entries in the form whatever.mit.edu. You can also use dhcp around campus and I'll bet that none of the addresses are logged. Alternatively you could also just pick an address in the right subnetwork and hope that nobody else is using it (not a good idea, unless you know what you're doing - any problems could get your net access revoked).
After some deliberation MIT could also say: sorry, ip address 1.2.3.4 was dynamically allocated and we don't hold records of the dynamic allocations. Better luck next time. Then again, the above is mostly just my impressions and I could be wrong in some of them.
Mmm.. Dutch law. If it is anything like mainland it should be all good. (Think amsterdam)
Not necessarily the most well known brand, but definitely high quality and an excellent price/performance ratio. Have been using one for about a month now and really have no complaints.
Besides, Where else can you get a brand new centrino for a base price of 1300usd? And did I mention that it does 1400x1050..
Try their website here. I think that at least www.rjtech.com sells them in usa and you can configure it to be pretty much what you want.
It just so happens that the mit undergraduate admissions committee keeps the ratio of women to men at roughly 1:1.
Sir, you obviously have no idea as to how mit financing works..
The keywords are need blind admission, need based aid.
On an average, MIT financial aid packages are over 20kusd/year. Parental contribution is determined by their ability to pay out of actual income (not by their ability to take debt). If your parents are totally poor you will get full financial aid. Nothing to do with academic performance, etc.
Yes, in general you'll accumulate something like 4000usd/year debt and your parents are not really going to have much spare money (they'll happily take your savings for college too) but considering the starting salaries of mit graduates, that's just not a big deal. You can finance your part not by working at mcdonald's but by doing research on campus (for which there is more availability than takers), which is not such a bad thing to have on your resume.
I recall from my econ classes that the biggest expense with going to school like mit is the lost income that you could've accumulated during those years. At undergraduate level the actual tuition expenses are almost negligible in comparison unless your family can actually afford them (in which they carry little relative value).
Real men edit movies with scissors and scotch-tape. Anything else is just fancy gimmicks.
Having a superposition of states is really the exciting thing about quantum computing but as a concept there is really nothing new for any cs-majors.
Abstractions of this concept can be pretty well cooked up by nondeterministic programming and lazy evaluation but should one actually be able to run these on a quantum computer the speed-ups could be enormous.
The point being that with the above two concepts you can create even more general problem solving strategies than quantum computers would allow for, however in the same spirit, and use them with current computers. Having a language does not mean that you can really run it with any quantum computers. That's more of a job for a compiler.
Its not quite that simple either.
Other determining factors are the shapes of supply and demand curves, monopoly power of suppliers, use of price discrimination and the actual cost scale of the industry.
As long as the manufacturers employ somewhat decent economic analysts they are trying to extract the maximum profits with respect to the producation capabilities and probably succeeding at it fairly well. A good indication of that is this ongoing discussion right here..