I disagree, Geohot is a complete dumb ass if he didn't see the lawsuit coming. If you're going to kick the hornet's nest you're going to get stung, and caving in on something like this is stupid. Geohot made himself a pinata and apparently hasn't the integrity to stand up.
Remember Sony took away the otheros feature in response to that initial crack that he refused to release after posting about it online.
Nobody forced him to do that, he voluntarily made himself a target in all this.
If you can do the math without the calculator you can almost certainly do the math with the calculator. However you cannot say the same about the situation where you learn and practice using a calculator. A common stumbling block for students is when you take nearly all the numbers out and ask them to solve it. A lot of students can't identify if they've got the correct answer without checking against the calculator.
The problem is that calculators are often times treated as crutches. I've seen it myself, a student pulls out a calculator for a simple multiplication problem which is generally expected to be memorized in order to pass 4th grade. If it's only one digit and one digit, then you've no excuse for using a calculator. Likewise if the total number of digits involved in the multiplication is 3 you should be able work that out quicker than with a calculator.
Just because things used to be done a certain way does not mean that it's better, but in this case calculators should not be allowed at least until the student has memorized the multiplication tables to 10x10 and preferably 12x12.
I had a chemistry prof like that in college. We could have as many notes and books as we liked, we could not talk to each other, on the phone or use the internet. He wrote the tests with that in mind because the reality is that for chemists there's a lot of information that you're going to be looking up. It's not like some fields where one can reasonably learn enough to not have to be looking things up constantly, chemistry just isn't that orderly.
Casual piracy generally means people that will pirate a piece of software without really thinking about it. So if they just need to type in the serial that's printed on the CDR to install they'll likely do it without considering the consequences. But if they have to go in search of an involved crack to do it they're less likely to actually go through with it.
You're wrong, DRM is there primarily to prevent people from selling their games used on the second hand market. DRM against pirates is more or less pure fiction. Most games are cracked within a few days of release, if not before. And only a very small number survive for even as long as a month, if any do.
Despite what the publishers might say, pirates are unlikely to pay for a copy, chances are if they were willing to do so they already would have.
Unlikely, the court lacks the jurisdiction to go that far. He may however be barred from writing or talking about the details of what he did or how he did it with respect to the final PS3 cracking.
I'm wondering what the injunction actually covers. It sounds like Geohotz has agreed to make permanent the injunction against his distributing the key and posting details of his work with regards to producing the key. It sounds like he probably agreed on the basis that it's a moot point, that particular horse is already out of the barn and drinking SCEA's milk.
Not releasing it to the W3C isn't as big a deal as it was, they'll just throw it into HTML and people will have to guess whether or not it's supported.
Ah, so this is just another case of Apple abusing its market position to the detriment of the consumers. Which is why I generally avoid them, which is a shame because with all the companies I avoid for doing crap like that I'm running out of hardware suppliers to buy from.
I'm not sure that the DMCA applies, but then again I haven't got a copy of the ROM to compare the code he's released with. The key itself isn't going to have anything to do with the DMCA.
TFA isn't talking about interstellar flight. It's talking about a human flight to Mars. And it ignores so much that I have to believe this was posted to/. just to generate page hits on the article.
Well, the jokes on them because we don't RTFA around here.
Astronauts rarely if ever go beyond the van Allen radiation belt, the only cases I can recall were when we sent astronauts to the moon. And those had to be pretty carefully timed due to the expected radiation exposure.
Up until relatively late in the 20th century, the classic method of language acquisition was the primary way of learning a language. And with that methodology you probably would be able to pass those portions of the test. You also would be completely unable to cope with trying to communicate with an ancient Greek, even if the materials you studied from were accurate.
You'd be conjugating verbs and reciting the declensions, probably studying less useful things like that and if you're lucky you might actually be able to apply it. But since its a dead dialect you'd end up spending all your energy reading and whatever you wrote may or may not actually be correct. And good luck when it comes to listening or speaking it.
That's true of most schools. But not always, I went to TESC and it's very much a liberal arts school, but a lot of teachers, doctors and lawyers go there before going onto grad school. And while we have a reputation around here for being liberal, smoking pot, and being disruptive, we also have a reputation for having a much more developed set of critical thinking skills than most of the population does.
The reason for Latin and Greek being required is that it was believed up until sometime in the 20th that knowing those languages in particular would make a person smarter. Basically the brain would grow strong by having to contort to handle those languages.
We know now, that it's not really the case that the benefits of learning Latin or Greek are not inherent to either of those languages anymore than any other languages a person might learn beyond the first.
Math isn't really universal. I'm taking courses to teach English abroad, and the one thing that keeps coming up is that math is not a universal language. Most people do not study it anywhere near long enough to get to the point where they can genuinely communicate everything they need to about a situation using mathematical symbols. And many people have a diminished capacity for such reasoning anyways.
Things which one takes for granted such as the order of numbers are hardly universal, there isn't an innate sense that 10 is smaller than 12, and for some students if you want them to turn to page 100, the will flip page by page until they get there. Now, with education, that can be changed, but it's hardly innate.
I think ancient Greek is mainly taught at seminary these days. Latin is somewhat more common still, but it can be hard to find anywhere to study it. Which is a shame because it's a really beautiful language, if not the most practical to learn.
That's not basic economics. There is a cost of production and as the supply grows it will eventually approach the marginal cost of production. However for goods that are infinitely reproducible, that doesn't really apply.
The problem is that while it works out for physical goods, with goods that aren't physical you get weird things happening, you can't count on being able to control the supply and as such you've got to price it in a way which actually pays for the production of the first one, otherwise you wouldn't bother producing any such works for financial gain.
Which sounds good until you think about the various works which take a prolonged time to produce.
One of the nice things about Firefox 4 is that the icon of Goatse man on the tab is large enough to identify, but small enough not to actually have any detail at all. Plus you can open and close the tab without actually viewing it.
It depends how they're set up, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was often the case. The computers that they use at the clinic I go to are pretty locked down, they only seem to run one program, and they don't seem to do anything else. It's a lot easier to harden a system if there's only one application that's allowed and it's one that you control.
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I disagree, Geohot is a complete dumb ass if he didn't see the lawsuit coming. If you're going to kick the hornet's nest you're going to get stung, and caving in on something like this is stupid. Geohot made himself a pinata and apparently hasn't the integrity to stand up.
Remember Sony took away the otheros feature in response to that initial crack that he refused to release after posting about it online.
Nobody forced him to do that, he voluntarily made himself a target in all this.
If you can do the math without the calculator you can almost certainly do the math with the calculator. However you cannot say the same about the situation where you learn and practice using a calculator. A common stumbling block for students is when you take nearly all the numbers out and ask them to solve it. A lot of students can't identify if they've got the correct answer without checking against the calculator.
The problem is that calculators are often times treated as crutches. I've seen it myself, a student pulls out a calculator for a simple multiplication problem which is generally expected to be memorized in order to pass 4th grade. If it's only one digit and one digit, then you've no excuse for using a calculator. Likewise if the total number of digits involved in the multiplication is 3 you should be able work that out quicker than with a calculator.
Just because things used to be done a certain way does not mean that it's better, but in this case calculators should not be allowed at least until the student has memorized the multiplication tables to 10x10 and preferably 12x12.
I had a chemistry prof like that in college. We could have as many notes and books as we liked, we could not talk to each other, on the phone or use the internet. He wrote the tests with that in mind because the reality is that for chemists there's a lot of information that you're going to be looking up. It's not like some fields where one can reasonably learn enough to not have to be looking things up constantly, chemistry just isn't that orderly.
Casual piracy generally means people that will pirate a piece of software without really thinking about it. So if they just need to type in the serial that's printed on the CDR to install they'll likely do it without considering the consequences. But if they have to go in search of an involved crack to do it they're less likely to actually go through with it.
You're wrong, DRM is there primarily to prevent people from selling their games used on the second hand market. DRM against pirates is more or less pure fiction. Most games are cracked within a few days of release, if not before. And only a very small number survive for even as long as a month, if any do.
Despite what the publishers might say, pirates are unlikely to pay for a copy, chances are if they were willing to do so they already would have.
The lack of caps is probably the only thing that's good about Qwest. Well, that and it's not Comcast.
Unlikely, the court lacks the jurisdiction to go that far. He may however be barred from writing or talking about the details of what he did or how he did it with respect to the final PS3 cracking.
I'm wondering what the injunction actually covers. It sounds like Geohotz has agreed to make permanent the injunction against his distributing the key and posting details of his work with regards to producing the key. It sounds like he probably agreed on the basis that it's a moot point, that particular horse is already out of the barn and drinking SCEA's milk.
Facebook? Isn't that MySpace with less child porn?
Not releasing it to the W3C isn't as big a deal as it was, they'll just throw it into HTML and people will have to guess whether or not it's supported.
Ah, so this is just another case of Apple abusing its market position to the detriment of the consumers. Which is why I generally avoid them, which is a shame because with all the companies I avoid for doing crap like that I'm running out of hardware suppliers to buy from.
I'm not sure that the DMCA applies, but then again I haven't got a copy of the ROM to compare the code he's released with. The key itself isn't going to have anything to do with the DMCA.
So, that's how my computer got that virus. From now on, I assume it's going to use protection.
TFA isn't talking about interstellar flight. It's talking about a human flight to Mars. And it ignores so much that I have to believe this was posted to /. just to generate page hits on the article.
Well, the jokes on them because we don't RTFA around here.
Astronauts rarely if ever go beyond the van Allen radiation belt, the only cases I can recall were when we sent astronauts to the moon. And those had to be pretty carefully timed due to the expected radiation exposure.
Honest enough mistake, considering that nobody outside of a very select group has ever gotten to use it and likely never will.
Up until relatively late in the 20th century, the classic method of language acquisition was the primary way of learning a language. And with that methodology you probably would be able to pass those portions of the test. You also would be completely unable to cope with trying to communicate with an ancient Greek, even if the materials you studied from were accurate.
You'd be conjugating verbs and reciting the declensions, probably studying less useful things like that and if you're lucky you might actually be able to apply it. But since its a dead dialect you'd end up spending all your energy reading and whatever you wrote may or may not actually be correct. And good luck when it comes to listening or speaking it.
That's true of most schools. But not always, I went to TESC and it's very much a liberal arts school, but a lot of teachers, doctors and lawyers go there before going onto grad school. And while we have a reputation around here for being liberal, smoking pot, and being disruptive, we also have a reputation for having a much more developed set of critical thinking skills than most of the population does.
The reason for Latin and Greek being required is that it was believed up until sometime in the 20th that knowing those languages in particular would make a person smarter. Basically the brain would grow strong by having to contort to handle those languages.
We know now, that it's not really the case that the benefits of learning Latin or Greek are not inherent to either of those languages anymore than any other languages a person might learn beyond the first.
Math isn't really universal. I'm taking courses to teach English abroad, and the one thing that keeps coming up is that math is not a universal language. Most people do not study it anywhere near long enough to get to the point where they can genuinely communicate everything they need to about a situation using mathematical symbols. And many people have a diminished capacity for such reasoning anyways.
Things which one takes for granted such as the order of numbers are hardly universal, there isn't an innate sense that 10 is smaller than 12, and for some students if you want them to turn to page 100, the will flip page by page until they get there. Now, with education, that can be changed, but it's hardly innate.
I think ancient Greek is mainly taught at seminary these days. Latin is somewhat more common still, but it can be hard to find anywhere to study it. Which is a shame because it's a really beautiful language, if not the most practical to learn.
That's not basic economics. There is a cost of production and as the supply grows it will eventually approach the marginal cost of production. However for goods that are infinitely reproducible, that doesn't really apply.
The problem is that while it works out for physical goods, with goods that aren't physical you get weird things happening, you can't count on being able to control the supply and as such you've got to price it in a way which actually pays for the production of the first one, otherwise you wouldn't bother producing any such works for financial gain.
Which sounds good until you think about the various works which take a prolonged time to produce.
One of the nice things about Firefox 4 is that the icon of Goatse man on the tab is large enough to identify, but small enough not to actually have any detail at all. Plus you can open and close the tab without actually viewing it.
It depends how they're set up, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was often the case. The computers that they use at the clinic I go to are pretty locked down, they only seem to run one program, and they don't seem to do anything else. It's a lot easier to harden a system if there's only one application that's allowed and it's one that you control.