I don't know if it's what you were getting at, but using javascript "ads" to do distributed computing doesn't actually seem like a terrible idea. As long as it isn't disruptive, I'd actually welcome it as a way of supporting the sites I visit. I really don't want to see distracting ads while I'm reading (or worse, those goddamn video ads that rape my download quota and then start playing in a background tab so I have to flip through all my tabs to find it and mute it), but I wouldn't mind giving up a share of my CPU while I'm visiting your site - just don't bog down my machine or my network connection, and don't let it get in the way of your content.
I don't think it really matters. In my maths C ("very hard" maths) class, it was about 50/50 bright lazy kids and hard-working slower kids. The slower kids might have slowed us down sometimes, but they always made sure we got a good explanation for everything we covered. But then again, we had a very good teacher and I doubt the class would have fared so well without him. In physics, the class ran the gamut from very bright hard-working to goofing-off I'll-pass-somehow. Yet thanks to a skilled teacher, I know I learnt a lot more in that class than many of my peers at uni did in theirs.
In the two classes I didn't at uni that weren't considered "hard" or "academic" (read: mandatory) - English and Religious Education - the classes were full of students who didn't give a crap and/or had fundamental misunderstandings as to how the world worked. So the teachers didn't give a crap, and we learnt nothing. I literally spent more time in RE listening to my ipod than my teacher and yet only one student in the class did better than me.
In chemistry, the class was full of students who were trying hard to do well to get into uni, with a few bright-and-lazys who were there because it was a pre-req for their degree. Yet a useless teacher managed to confuse everyone to the point that ignoring him and reading the textbook was easier and set such poor exams that the major hurdle was understanding the questions rather than the chemistry.
So I think the teacher matters more than anything else. I know my maths teacher got good results out of one of the remedial maths classes as well. My physics teacher is now lecturing at the local university. My chemistry teacher... well, I think some poor boarding school has him now. But the problem is, all the metrics are geared towards measuring the students, rather than the teachers. And even if we could easily say Mr A is a much better teacher than Mr B, the unions are very much against any sort of performance bonuses or differential pay. A bad teacher hurts a weak student much more than they hurt a strong student, but a good teacher can take a strong student much further than a weak student./Everyone/ needs better teachers, and crap like No Child Left Behind is disguising the problem.
Couple this with the ridiculous "integrated math" fad that plagued countless districts (at least in California). We barely covered trig functions, factoring, and other critical topics. (Anyone else have a thought about integrated math?) High school physical science courses did a poor job of incorporating math. I didn't do anything but integrated maths in school, at least until year 10 where we had a choice between "core", "normal" and "advanced" maths, and then in senior the choice between "Trade and business maths" (solving such problems as "I am going 100km/h, how long will it take me to travel 50km?), Maths A (easy maths) or Maths B ("hard" maths) with an option of doing Maths C ("you're crazy") as well. This is in Australia. Even as a bright student and wanting to study Engineering at uni, I was advised by some teachers not to take Maths C. Out of a year of nearly 200 students, there were 7 in my Maths C class. Strangely, some of them were NOT very bright, but we had a very good teacher who got us all through.
When I got to high school, I was painfully aware that I had learnt more maths than most in primary school - other students had trouble with things like fractions, percentages, division etc. When I got to uni, I was painfully aware that I had learnt more maths the most in high school - even among those who had done Maths C. I can now see that I was very lucky to get as much maths as I did in school, and to have some good teachers who pushed me towards Maths C. Some of my fellow engineering students have troubles with change of base, cancelling units, algebra, set theory, matrices and basic calculus. Interestingly, the one student who graduated my high school with a higher exit score than me didn't do Maths C - but she was the one person beating me in physics class.
When the internet became practically a necessity for getting by (try going offline for a week, I bet you can't), "doing without" stopped being a market force. You could say the same for phone service, power - hell, even water and sewage; but it's just not true. "Doing without" is just not a valid option any more.
Fluids are good. Sex doesn't really work without them, they lubricate things. If you're worried about the exchange of fluids in particular, use a condom. Hair can be fixed - many girls shave or wax, and not just the slutty ones.
The rest of your post is pretty valid. Finding someone to have sex with seems like a backward way of going about it anyway - in my (albeit limited) experience they way it works is you find someone you like, build a relationship and then decide you want to have sex with each other.
Changing major to get laid would be pretty stupid. Aside from not being at uni to get laid, while you might meet less girls doing engineering, you're more likely to like the ones you do meet.
Given that we're conversing in English rather than Indian, I'd expect he'd be using the English numbering system. No one tolerates people posting in other languages on here (except for humour), why would we tolerate other numbering systems (except for humour)? It's just confusing (though it can be funny).
If I say there are 1000 people in my Computer Science degree program, no-one assumes that's binary 1000 just because I'm doing a Com Sci degree.
Also, I wasn't trying to flame him, I was seeking clarification because grouping every two digits after the first three is/not/ the norm and it is common to see that sort of thing mistyped (it's easy to miss a 0, which is why we group them in the first place).
Don't they charge for that? And aren't there pretty draconian size limits on MMS messages?
Would you buy a DSLR that you had to pay for every picture that you wanted to transfer to your PC and/or could only transfer pictures after shrinking them to 640x480?
I know I'm way off-topic but this is something that really annoys me too.
IANAL, but I don't think that actually works. From the GPL (v2):
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
Somehow I don't think your main.c would count as the "preferred form the work for making modifications to it", and your modified compiler isn't normally distributed with the major components of the operating system on which the executable runs, is it?
Screw that. Up means up in whatever context I'm using the phone. Having two up buttons (as I have on my phone) would be more confusing. On a call, why would up mean anything but turn up the volume? In a menu, why would up mean anything but "go up one option"? What about reading text messages? Would you have a third up button for scrolling up a line? The buttons that annoy me most on my phone are the ones that only have one function - play/pause, the internet button, and the buttons above the screen that are only used for some of the camera features.
And do NOT take away my shortcuts. Nothing annoys me more than having to go though 3 or 4 menus to get to a function that I use every day.
This is what's wrong with copyright law: it is supposed to encourage the creation of new works, but in situations like this it actually prevents the very thing it was created for.
Telstra has had a monopoly on Australian telecommunications for 14 years (longer if you count before it was called Telstra)! No-one in power wants to admit that we fucked ourselves over by creating the monster and the best thing we could do for broadband in this country is break it up.
But this situation is more like them selling you a car with an engine that will generate 400HP if and only if you're driving down a street that they like.
Most people want features AND stability. However a lot of people *need* stability (and often don't realize how much they need it). Apple will only set ZFS as the default file system for OS X if they are damn sure people won't be losing data left and right.
Have you read your employment contract? Check.
Your rental agreement? Your credit card agreement? I have neither, though I have carefully read my mobile phone contract and my ISP's SOFA and TOS. I even read the GPLv2 once. I am not a lawyer, I am an engineering student.
I don't read EULAs though. Why? Because even if a company that I had "wronged" under the agreement knew who I was, they have absolutely no evidence that I read and agreed to the the damn thing. My computer could have glitched. My cat could've jumped on the keyboard. I could have gotten my sister to click the button for me. I could have written a script to click the button for me.
I am in favor of ZFS and I recommend that others look into it to see if it meets their needs, because I had and it seems like it would.
Anyone who would make a decision based on what somebody said on slashdot deserves whatever they get. Then again, anyone who needs a slashdot story to answer some basic questions about RAID probably needs all the help they can get.
I'll also put my voice behind ZFS. It's the coolest storage-related thing I've heard of in ages, and makes me wish I had a spare file server to install Solaris on.
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If you don't like Stallman or the GPL then the answer is simple: don't release your code under the GPL! If you like the BSD licence better, use it for your code. If you want to release your code into the public domain, then guess what? You can do that too!
But there are thousands of developers who DO like the GPL (and may or may not like Stallman) and happily use it, to everyone's benefit. Don't try to pretend that you haven't benifited from code released under the GPL.
Sounds similar to RoboLab (the "programming language" that comes with lego mindstorms). And I couldn't stand it. I can't really remember exactly what I hated about it (it was a while ago), but I do remember that it was messy as hell unless you spend more time making sure your blocks lined up than actually thinking about your program and that I remember often thinking how much easier it would be to do things with a normal programming language.
My teachers wouldn't let me use NQC either, so I was stuck with the damm thing. My friends referred to it as "robogay". Yeah, mod me -1, politically incorrect.
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I don't know if it's what you were getting at, but using javascript "ads" to do distributed computing doesn't actually seem like a terrible idea. As long as it isn't disruptive, I'd actually welcome it as a way of supporting the sites I visit. I really don't want to see distracting ads while I'm reading (or worse, those goddamn video ads that rape my download quota and then start playing in a background tab so I have to flip through all my tabs to find it and mute it), but I wouldn't mind giving up a share of my CPU while I'm visiting your site - just don't bog down my machine or my network connection, and don't let it get in the way of your content.
I don't think it really matters. In my maths C ("very hard" maths) class, it was about 50/50 bright lazy kids and hard-working slower kids. The slower kids might have slowed us down sometimes, but they always made sure we got a good explanation for everything we covered. But then again, we had a very good teacher and I doubt the class would have fared so well without him. In physics, the class ran the gamut from very bright hard-working to goofing-off I'll-pass-somehow. Yet thanks to a skilled teacher, I know I learnt a lot more in that class than many of my peers at uni did in theirs.
/Everyone/ needs better teachers, and crap like No Child Left Behind is disguising the problem.
In the two classes I didn't at uni that weren't considered "hard" or "academic" (read: mandatory) - English and Religious Education - the classes were full of students who didn't give a crap and/or had fundamental misunderstandings as to how the world worked. So the teachers didn't give a crap, and we learnt nothing. I literally spent more time in RE listening to my ipod than my teacher and yet only one student in the class did better than me.
In chemistry, the class was full of students who were trying hard to do well to get into uni, with a few bright-and-lazys who were there because it was a pre-req for their degree. Yet a useless teacher managed to confuse everyone to the point that ignoring him and reading the textbook was easier and set such poor exams that the major hurdle was understanding the questions rather than the chemistry.
So I think the teacher matters more than anything else. I know my maths teacher got good results out of one of the remedial maths classes as well. My physics teacher is now lecturing at the local university. My chemistry teacher... well, I think some poor boarding school has him now. But the problem is, all the metrics are geared towards measuring the students, rather than the teachers. And even if we could easily say Mr A is a much better teacher than Mr B, the unions are very much against any sort of performance bonuses or differential pay. A bad teacher hurts a weak student much more than they hurt a strong student, but a good teacher can take a strong student much further than a weak student.
When I got to high school, I was painfully aware that I had learnt more maths than most in primary school - other students had trouble with things like fractions, percentages, division etc. When I got to uni, I was painfully aware that I had learnt more maths the most in high school - even among those who had done Maths C. I can now see that I was very lucky to get as much maths as I did in school, and to have some good teachers who pushed me towards Maths C. Some of my fellow engineering students have troubles with change of base, cancelling units, algebra, set theory, matrices and basic calculus. Interestingly, the one student who graduated my high school with a higher exit score than me didn't do Maths C - but she was the one person beating me in physics class.
When the internet became practically a necessity for getting by (try going offline for a week, I bet you can't), "doing without" stopped being a market force. You could say the same for phone service, power - hell, even water and sewage; but it's just not true. "Doing without" is just not a valid option any more.
Fluids are good. Sex doesn't really work without them, they lubricate things. If you're worried about the exchange of fluids in particular, use a condom. Hair can be fixed - many girls shave or wax, and not just the slutty ones.
The rest of your post is pretty valid. Finding someone to have sex with seems like a backward way of going about it anyway - in my (albeit limited) experience they way it works is you find someone you like, build a relationship and then decide you want to have sex with each other.
Changing major to get laid would be pretty stupid. Aside from not being at uni to get laid, while you might meet less girls doing engineering, you're more likely to like the ones you do meet.
Given that we're conversing in English rather than Indian, I'd expect he'd be using the English numbering system. No one tolerates people posting in other languages on here (except for humour), why would we tolerate other numbering systems (except for humour)? It's just confusing (though it can be funny).
/not/ the norm and it is common to see that sort of thing mistyped (it's easy to miss a 0, which is why we group them in the first place).
If I say there are 1000 people in my Computer Science degree program, no-one assumes that's binary 1000 just because I'm doing a Com Sci degree.
Also, I wasn't trying to flame him, I was seeking clarification because grouping every two digits after the first three is
Don't they charge for that? And aren't there pretty draconian size limits on MMS messages?
Would you buy a DSLR that you had to pay for every picture that you wanted to transfer to your PC and/or could only transfer pictures after shrinking them to 640x480?
I know I'm way off-topic but this is something that really annoys me too.
150,000 or 1,500,000? Normally people put the comma every three digits.
Somehow I don't think your main.c would count as the "preferred form the work for making modifications to it", and your modified compiler isn't normally distributed with the major components of the operating system on which the executable runs, is it?
Screw that. Up means up in whatever context I'm using the phone. Having two up buttons (as I have on my phone) would be more confusing. On a call, why would up mean anything but turn up the volume? In a menu, why would up mean anything but "go up one option"? What about reading text messages? Would you have a third up button for scrolling up a line? The buttons that annoy me most on my phone are the ones that only have one function - play/pause, the internet button, and the buttons above the screen that are only used for some of the camera features.
And do NOT take away my shortcuts. Nothing annoys me more than having to go though 3 or 4 menus to get to a function that I use every day.
You didn't buy a low-end CPU. Intel's low-end CPUs are labeled "Celeron", and they do indeed suck.
Yeah but it's kinda like "inflammable" meaning the same thing as "flammable". Which also annoys me.
This is what's wrong with copyright law: it is supposed to encourage the creation of new works, but in situations like this it actually prevents the very thing it was created for.
Telstra has had a monopoly on Australian telecommunications for 14 years (longer if you count before it was called Telstra)! No-one in power wants to admit that we fucked ourselves over by creating the monster and the best thing we could do for broadband in this country is break it up.
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Or if everyone used SPF, it wouldn't be a problem. And it's not like it's very hard to set up either...
But this situation is more like them selling you a car with an engine that will generate 400HP if and only if you're driving down a street that they like.
"No one ever got fired for buying IBM" has become "no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft".
Most people want features AND stability. However a lot of people *need* stability (and often don't realize how much they need it). Apple will only set ZFS as the default file system for OS X if they are damn sure people won't be losing data left and right.
I don't read EULAs though. Why? Because even if a company that I had "wronged" under the agreement knew who I was, they have absolutely no evidence that I read and agreed to the the damn thing. My computer could have glitched. My cat could've jumped on the keyboard. I could have gotten my sister to click the button for me. I could have written a script to click the button for me.
I am in favor of ZFS and I recommend that others look into it to see if it meets their needs, because I had and it seems like it would.
Anyone who would make a decision based on what somebody said on slashdot deserves whatever they get. Then again, anyone who needs a slashdot story to answer some basic questions about RAID probably needs all the help they can get.
I'll also put my voice behind ZFS. It's the coolest storage-related thing I've heard of in ages, and makes me wish I had a spare file server to install Solaris on.
If you don't like Stallman or the GPL then the answer is simple: don't release your code under the GPL! If you like the BSD licence better, use it for your code. If you want to release your code into the public domain, then guess what? You can do that too!
But there are thousands of developers who DO like the GPL (and may or may not like Stallman) and happily use it, to everyone's benefit. Don't try to pretend that you haven't benifited from code released under the GPL.
Sounds similar to RoboLab (the "programming language" that comes with lego mindstorms). And I couldn't stand it. I can't really remember exactly what I hated about it (it was a while ago), but I do remember that it was messy as hell unless you spend more time making sure your blocks lined up than actually thinking about your program and that I remember often thinking how much easier it would be to do things with a normal programming language.
My teachers wouldn't let me use NQC either, so I was stuck with the damm thing. My friends referred to it as "robogay". Yeah, mod me -1, politically incorrect.