Thank you for the welcome! I, for one, welcome the swarming robotic overlord bits below me. Hopefully we can figure out how to build a petrified, robotic Natalie Portman and cover her in naked robotic grits. (Is this possible, considering we can only talk to our neighbors?)
So it's somehow wrong to criticize somebody who does something stupid because he believes it to be a good course of action? Man. Where are you from, again? Either you're completely complacent or completely ignorant. If what MS does has negative consequences for those who choose not to use MS software, then they've crossed the line and we have every right to criticize them for causing problems. There's certainly more to the world than money. Quite a few (most?) of us don't give a damn how much profit or loss some corporation gains or suffers. I'd also be hard-pressed to find anybody who enjoys dealing with spam or daily port scans from infected Windows boxes. MS should be held at fault for botnets arising from compromised pirated copies of Windows as long as they actively refuse to fix their own flaws that lead to intrusion.
(As an aside, maybe MS is afraid they'll inadvertently introduce a bug in one of the security fixes that allows someone clever to disable the "New and Improved! BSOD(tm)." Easy solution: turn off all updates that come anywhere near that mechanism.)
Therefore I would be tempted to say that because of the hard-wiring in the brain, certain individuals will swing towards liberal viewpoints and some towards conservative viewpoints. Not the other way around.
Criminals are people who break laws. One has to ask, then, which of the two groups has passed more bad laws that a large number of people don't respect enough to obey when nobody's watching.
The physics department at my university has started using "clickers." They are small handheld devices resembling calculators that students can use to wirelessly answer multiple-choice questions an instructor poses via e.g. a slide on a presentation. After everyone answers the question and the timer ticks down to zero, the instructor can display a histogram of counts/answer.
Individual devices are tied to students in that only one id number is allowed per device, so these are also useful for taking attendence in large classes. Students enter their id upon connecting to the instructor's master node at the beginning of the class. Their utility for teaching depends largely on the questions the instructor asks, of course. If two answers receive similar amounts of support from students, individuals could be called on to explain their reasoning, helping the instructor to highlight where their weaknesses in understanding lie.
The devices are sort of a mixed blessing. I found that the best problems for them were those with two very similar answers that differed only conceptually, rather than mathematically.
Here's a link to one kind of clicker that's being used this semester (XP software via Parallels on OS X:) http://telr.osu.edu/clickers/ (I am not affiliated with OSU at this time)
The oil company knows all about oil pipelines, right? So Stevens enlisted their help in his remodeling project: he wants more and bigger intertubes going to his house, so that the internets that he sends to his secretaries get there faster. The problem is, terrorists could be hiding in these tubes -- oh noes! Cue the FBI.
Oh, and the IRS got involved for the hell of it. [sarcasm]Might as well, he can probably afford to pay more taxes, just like everyone else.[/sarcasm]
Have you tried to buy Sudafed (not the new fake adrenaline precursor crap, but the kind that's actually pseudoephedrine) in the last year or so? The newest version of the Patriot Act includes a section intended to cut down on meth production by placing restrictions on this *unscheduled* and rather effective sinus medicine. How does the regulation of pseudoephedrine have anything to do with national security? It's Title VII of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2006, and here's a link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp1 09&sid=cp109WUZzm&refer=&r_n=hr333.109&item=&sel=T OC_218802&
Jose Padilla was a Chicago street gang member originally from Brooklyn who converted to Islam while in prison. He was arrested, declared an "enemy combatant," and transferred to a military brig in South Carolina. He was denied due process, and he's an American citizen. The wikipedia article agrees with what I've read elsewhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_(al leged_terrorist)
These are just two examples. There are many more (the domestic wiretapping?) but these are the two that come to mind readily.
Yeah, just like the American government only uses the Patriot Act for national security purposes and not to fight ordinary crime, like drug dealers and street gangs... *cough*
Perhaps each 80-char line was one card because the line length standard was in place before the card length standard came about? Maybe cards were 80 chars long as a consequence of lines already having been standardized at 80 chars.
I did this for about two weeks, but every time my girlfriend wanted to use my computer, I had to unblock some site she cared about that I didn't. Same thing with NoScript. I wish there were easy-to-find blacklists for these things too, like with AdBlock, that only let through known trusted sites and blocked tracking cookies.
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But it's not about rotating an electron at all. We're talking about spin angular momentum, which is a quantum mechanical property of particles like electrons and cannot really be related back to any sort of classical quantity. The only reason we call it 'spin' is because it's what gives the electron angular momentum. As far as we (physicists) know, electrons lack any sort of high-level structure, so it doesn't even make sense to talk about rotating them.
The idea is that instead of moving charges around, it would be much more efficient to harness intrinsic properties of 'stationary' particles -- spin up and spin down, instead of plus and minus charges. If we can figure out some way to easily flip the spin on an electron, then it could conceivably be used as a bit to store information.
That's actually what I thought the article was about after reading the headline: gifted teenagers experiencing life-changing epiphanies after eating lead paint.
What I did in when I was staying at hostels in Japan was to take my backpack with me and leave it in a locker at a nearby train station for the day, carrying only what I needed in my pockets. It was cold at that time, so I had a heavy coat with lots of room. Granted, I was studying at a school where I had my own room, so I was never really out for more than a week at a time, but those lockers are handy.
But since corporations are NOT people (whatever they may be legally), they need people in order to break the law. People who break the law are punished under the law. Therefore, those in charge of corrupt corporations are behaving corruptly themselves, and this corruption is something that should be punished.
If drinkypoo does not know anything about how to run a computer, then why do you have such trouble with your Windows boxen and drinkypoo does not? It seems that perhaps he is more capable of maintaining at least one class of machines than you, as you admitted yourself.
People have different preferences, use computers in different ways, and demand different things from their machines. I've had a sort of "magic touch" with every Linux box I've used and have yet to come across a problem I can't solve with time and google, but my experiences with Windows have usually ended with a reinstall or a Linux CD. I have mixed feelings about Macs.
I'm no newbie, but I also have some complaints about trying to be productive on OS X. Most of what could be termed "usability" issues seem to stem from how accustomed I am to my Linux desktops, laptop, and servers that anything else feels restrictive or frustrating to me. I moved to Linux exclusively on my own machines 7 years ago (before that, I was doing the dual-boot thing) out of frustration with Windows, invested lots of time learning it, and now I'd much rather use Linux with all its sometimes equally-frustrating quirks than a pretty OS X or Vista box. Rearrange "Linux," "Windows," and "OS X" any way you like in my statements and I suspect you'll get out something very familiar to the vast majority of users.
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Thank you for the welcome! I, for one, welcome the swarming robotic overlord bits below me. Hopefully we can figure out how to build a petrified, robotic Natalie Portman and cover her in naked robotic grits. (Is this possible, considering we can only talk to our neighbors?)
So it's somehow wrong to criticize somebody who does something stupid because he believes it to be a good course of action? Man. Where are you from, again? Either you're completely complacent or completely ignorant. If what MS does has negative consequences for those who choose not to use MS software, then they've crossed the line and we have every right to criticize them for causing problems. There's certainly more to the world than money. Quite a few (most?) of us don't give a damn how much profit or loss some corporation gains or suffers. I'd also be hard-pressed to find anybody who enjoys dealing with spam or daily port scans from infected Windows boxes. MS should be held at fault for botnets arising from compromised pirated copies of Windows as long as they actively refuse to fix their own flaws that lead to intrusion.
(As an aside, maybe MS is afraid they'll inadvertently introduce a bug in one of the security fixes that allows someone clever to disable the "New and Improved! BSOD(tm)." Easy solution: turn off all updates that come anywhere near that mechanism.)
Therefore I would be tempted to say that because of the hard-wiring in the brain, certain individuals will swing towards liberal viewpoints and some towards conservative viewpoints. Not the other way around.
I agree wholeheartedly with this statement.
Criminals are people who break laws. One has to ask, then, which of the two groups has passed more bad laws that a large number of people don't respect enough to obey when nobody's watching.
The best part is, when the story was first posted, it was "engouh" until it was corrected to read "enouhh."
The physics department at my university has started using "clickers." They are small handheld devices resembling calculators that students can use to wirelessly answer multiple-choice questions an instructor poses via e.g. a slide on a presentation. After everyone answers the question and the timer ticks down to zero, the instructor can display a histogram of counts/answer.
:) http://telr.osu.edu/clickers/ (I am not affiliated with OSU at this time)
Individual devices are tied to students in that only one id number is allowed per device, so these are also useful for taking attendence in large classes. Students enter their id upon connecting to the instructor's master node at the beginning of the class. Their utility for teaching depends largely on the questions the instructor asks, of course. If two answers receive similar amounts of support from students, individuals could be called on to explain their reasoning, helping the instructor to highlight where their weaknesses in understanding lie.
The devices are sort of a mixed blessing. I found that the best problems for them were those with two very similar answers that differed only conceptually, rather than mathematically.
Here's a link to one kind of clicker that's being used this semester (XP software via Parallels on OS X
Well, I laughed, so that makes at least two of us who thought it was funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVJOP1RdHC4 Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean?
Why is this a troll? I laughed!
The oil company knows all about oil pipelines, right? So Stevens enlisted their help in his remodeling project: he wants more and bigger intertubes going to his house, so that the internets that he sends to his secretaries get there faster. The problem is, terrorists could be hiding in these tubes -- oh noes! Cue the FBI.
Oh, and the IRS got involved for the hell of it. [sarcasm]Might as well, he can probably afford to pay more taxes, just like everyone else.[/sarcasm]
Have you tried to buy Sudafed (not the new fake adrenaline precursor crap, but the kind that's actually pseudoephedrine) in the last year or so? The newest version of the Patriot Act includes a section intended to cut down on meth production by placing restrictions on this *unscheduled* and rather effective sinus medicine. How does the regulation of pseudoephedrine have anything to do with national security? It's Title VII of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2006, and here's a link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp1 09&sid=cp109WUZzm&refer=&r_n=hr333.109&item=&sel=T OC_218802&
l leged_terrorist)
Jose Padilla was a Chicago street gang member originally from Brooklyn who converted to Islam while in prison. He was arrested, declared an "enemy combatant," and transferred to a military brig in South Carolina. He was denied due process, and he's an American citizen. The wikipedia article agrees with what I've read elsewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_(a
These are just two examples. There are many more (the domestic wiretapping?) but these are the two that come to mind readily.
Yeah, just like the American government only uses the Patriot Act for national security purposes and not to fight ordinary crime, like drug dealers and street gangs... *cough*
Perhaps each 80-char line was one card because the line length standard was in place before the card length standard came about? Maybe cards were 80 chars long as a consequence of lines already having been standardized at 80 chars.
I did this for about two weeks, but every time my girlfriend wanted to use my computer, I had to unblock some site she cared about that I didn't. Same thing with NoScript. I wish there were easy-to-find blacklists for these things too, like with AdBlock, that only let through known trusted sites and blocked tracking cookies.
I switched a moment ago after looking it up in response to your comment. Thanks. :)
Thanks for the tip; I'll experiment with that.
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Or become a cop.
But it's not about rotating an electron at all. We're talking about spin angular momentum, which is a quantum mechanical property of particles like electrons and cannot really be related back to any sort of classical quantity. The only reason we call it 'spin' is because it's what gives the electron angular momentum. As far as we (physicists) know, electrons lack any sort of high-level structure, so it doesn't even make sense to talk about rotating them.
The idea is that instead of moving charges around, it would be much more efficient to harness intrinsic properties of 'stationary' particles -- spin up and spin down, instead of plus and minus charges. If we can figure out some way to easily flip the spin on an electron, then it could conceivably be used as a bit to store information.
That's actually what I thought the article was about after reading the headline: gifted teenagers experiencing life-changing epiphanies after eating lead paint.
What I did in when I was staying at hostels in Japan was to take my backpack with me and leave it in a locker at a nearby train station for the day, carrying only what I needed in my pockets. It was cold at that time, so I had a heavy coat with lots of room. Granted, I was studying at a school where I had my own room, so I was never really out for more than a week at a time, but those lockers are handy.
But since corporations are NOT people (whatever they may be legally), they need people in order to break the law. People who break the law are punished under the law. Therefore, those in charge of corrupt corporations are behaving corruptly themselves, and this corruption is something that should be punished.
If drinkypoo does not know anything about how to run a computer, then why do you have such trouble with your Windows boxen and drinkypoo does not? It seems that perhaps he is more capable of maintaining at least one class of machines than you, as you admitted yourself.
People have different preferences, use computers in different ways, and demand different things from their machines. I've had a sort of "magic touch" with every Linux box I've used and have yet to come across a problem I can't solve with time and google, but my experiences with Windows have usually ended with a reinstall or a Linux CD. I have mixed feelings about Macs.
I'm no newbie, but I also have some complaints about trying to be productive on OS X. Most of what could be termed "usability" issues seem to stem from how accustomed I am to my Linux desktops, laptop, and servers that anything else feels restrictive or frustrating to me. I moved to Linux exclusively on my own machines 7 years ago (before that, I was doing the dual-boot thing) out of frustration with Windows, invested lots of time learning it, and now I'd much rather use Linux with all its sometimes equally-frustrating quirks than a pretty OS X or Vista box. Rearrange "Linux," "Windows," and "OS X" any way you like in my statements and I suspect you'll get out something very familiar to the vast majority of users.