While I like DVI and have a monitor that uses it, going HDMI only is not a big deal. HDMI is just DVI plus a little extra, for audio, and the cost of that "little extra" is already negligible.
This means that a DVI-DVI, HDMI-HDMI, and DVI-HDMI cable are the same price. I spent $5 on one a few years back.
While I'm sympathetic to your situation... did you have a FCC license for your SCADA system? If you didn't, that sucks but there's not really anything to complain about. But I'm assuming you did, in which case they should've asked you, and any other potentially-interefered parties. If they didn't ask, you probably had grounds for a lawsuit.
An unpleasant situation that never should've happened... but it's hard to imagine a situation in which you had no recourse.
Actually, it was pretty easy. I use a small Linux box as a NAT box and router, which admittedly made it easier. It was pretty much as simple as establishing a tunnel and requesting a subnet, then assigning the subnet to the internal Ethernet network and firing up radvd. No sweat. iDevices and Android devices work out of the box, as do Macs and Linux. The Wii does not, but I haven't turned off v4 so that's no big deal. A few clicks on XP and v6 works fine, it's out of the box on Vista+
You seem to think I turned off v4. I see no reason to do that, but when the time is right, it'll be dirt-simple. I know most of my stuff will work with v6, because it's currently working with v6. Plus, I get the added benefits right now for things like P2P.
That's without dealing with the fact that women tend to have tighter deviations from the norm in various areas, which means that any group that is selected from extreme outliers is going to be disproportionately male. This is true whether you are selecting politicians that reach Federal office, people that are extremely interested in programming to pursue as a hobby, moving to America as a day laboring immigrant, or criminally oriented men to form a gang. The outliers are predominately (but not exclusively) male.
This. A hundred thousand times this. Any genetically-influenced trait is going to show a wider bell curve for males. Biologically, it seems to be due to the fact that men with an extraordinary (for better or worse) X chromosome have it expressed, while women have two. Since the second is probably normal, this tempers the effects of the first (it has to do with X-deactivation happening basically at random in each cell). Hence, there are more male geniuses than female - but equally more male retards (in the technical, not perjorative, sense) than females.
Brains are staggeringly different in structure, male vs. female. There's substantial evidence that on the balance they each come to the same level of intelligence in nearly everything, but through surprisingly different ways. Given the genetic differences, coupled with hormones, upbringing, society, and history - it's really shocking that sex differences are as small as they are (3-5 IQ points on average, which is well within the noise of measurement). However, when talking about rather subtle differences, it seems preposterous to suggest that there couldn't be rather enormous differences across sexes in specific areas.
There is sexism everywhere. Mostly misogyny, but an increasing amount of misandry. Neither is acceptable, and most of it is due to nonexposure. If there were more female programmers, there'd be less sexism. I suspect there was quite a lot of sexism in medicine and law as well, before women became dominant.
It's worth noting that the text of your post could have been paraphrased from a speech given by one Larry Summers. They fired him for saying pretty much what you did (time commitment issues due to family raising, combined with variance differences)
I can't tell if you're joking. He tweeted: "So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery."
That doesn't even make sense. I can't tell if he's crazy, or cynically trying to manipulate people.
Can't tell if you're being snarky. A memory leak is a very specific thing (pointer lost before free'd). If this happens in a loop or some other repeated code, memory usage grows out of hand with no recourse. Accidental memory usage is a much less concerning problem, because it's relatively straightforward to deal with during execution. It's also less likely to grow unbounded.
Was waiting for one of the inevitable "Beck/Hannity/Limbaugh" lovers coughing up his vomit all over the forum, and lookee here, I wasn't disappointed.. Hey Bozo! We understand you bat-s$$t insane conservatives can't live without actively hating people who disagree with them, but why don't you just go over there in the corner and love these gentleman privately.. Just another datapoint on conservatives.. They absolutely CANNOT tolerate ANYBODY who disagrees with them and rather than simply saying "I disagree with you, so we'll just have to agree-to-disagree on where this country is going", conservatives feel the need to actively HATE these people, using terms that would be classed as "Hate Speech" by the same conservatives IF these liberal voices were to use the same terms to describe conservatives. Dr Michael Savage has the modern conservative classified perfectly as being afflicted with a mental illness...
Taking all bets as to which sounds more realistic. Almost overwhelmingly the people calling to tone it down a bit are liberal. Well, as liberal as the current Democratic party is, which is center-right. Meanwhile, the conservatives are calling on their base to get their guns and electrocute Mexicans.
You completely miss the point. California, and most of the "blue" states, are "giver" states - their citizens and businesses pay more in federal tax (income and otherwise) than they receive back as services. California receives $0.78 (in things like highway dollars and education) per dollar of tax paid. source. For fun, compare "red" states with "blue" states. About 75% of Bush and Gore's electoral votes came from taker and giver states, respectively.
The GP's point was that if those 25c no longer "left" the state, California would be better off.
The best part was you complaining about ignorance and being "factually wrong".
I like cool toys as much as the next nerd, but I can't come up with anyone who needs this kind of storage but can't carry around a small external HDD. Do they exist, or is this a "because we can" thing?
What the hell are you talking about? Python is a near perfect beginner's language - teaching someone about scoping and blocks is much easier when they're easily visible. Yes, I have taught people how to program using Python, and it went much better than Java or even Visual Basic (which, I must admit, is a decent beginners' language)
I've never heard any other serious complaint about Python, and since the likes of Google haven't managed to find any big ones, which have you found?
To be fair, that's not merely Randian nonsense. It's a well-established fact that the biggest proponents of the FDA were the (big) meatpackers since they knew that if they could and did meet the cost of complying with the regulation, they'd be one of the only players left. Couple that with a little regulatory capture, (which is distinct from corruption) and you've got a chance at some real money.
That's not a reason to avoid regulation, but it's definitely something to realize. If you don't, you can fall subject to it.
Can you post a link with details about that? My understanding of the law was that any site with user-uploaded content got safe harbor, on the condition that they complied with takedown requests.
It's very simple. Net neutrality isn't regulating the Internet, it's regulating providers. Furthermore, it doesn't change what's on the internet, just how it gets to you. Fiddling with the DNS servers is 100% different. The analogy (not even an analogy...) is requiring the telephone company to let you call their competitors without an additional charge, vs blocking you from saying particular things.
The only thing the two have in common is the word 'internet'. Even a cursory glance shows that "don't throttle for profit" and "turn off this site" are completely different.
Hey, I know it's fun to hate on banks, and with good reason, but JPM was on the right, or at least neutral, side of this mess. They didn't do subprime loans, and they only took federal money by request (so taking federal money wouldn't become a scarlet letter) and paid it back as soon as they were allowed.
Let's hate on the irresponsible folks. It's not like there's a shortage.
But that's the point. If the mail system is functioning properly, they get the email. If it's not, it's not the students' problem. Since it's all internal, there's no real room for debate. The IT department does actually provide a service where they check the logs to make sure your email did actually get delivered to its recipient. It comes in handy if a student says they never were told about a test, and the professor can give the timestamp of the email he sent out and they verify receipt, or a student had an email exchange with a professor regarding grades or something which months later the professor denies.
Such a service would be impossible if people had their own addresses because the whole chain can't be traced. Like I said, we do allow forwarding, but the onus is then on the student to make sure the forwarded address can receive all email sent to it. A copy is still placed in the inbox, and they're still advised to check it in case there was a problem. In practice, most people don't, but then there's still no excuse. This is why important emails are advised to be sent from a school account to a school account, and it's why I don't forward. If I didn't get an email, it's because there was a fault in the system - and nothing else.
As a student, it's been great. Occasionally professors forget email conversations, and have since deleted them. Having IT verify that you did actually send the email you're re-sending them is a good thing. As a TA, it's been great. We occasionally email announcements with important information; invariably, they don't get read. But when the complaints come, we can show demonstrably that it was only because they hadn't actually read the email before deleting it. Saves a lot of strife if they get a 0 for something they didn't check their email about, since there's no fallback to "but but the email was broken".
It's not adversarial, just good sense. People lie or forget all the time - but that's no way to run (or take) a class.
Mail has been a public service almost since this country was founded
Which is why it's one of the very specifically enumerated responsibilities of the federal government as set out in the Constitution. They didn't say much in black-and-white, but this is one of them:
The Congress shall have Power... To establish Post Offices and post Roads
Students need school email addresses because that way all students have an email address.
At my school, students are expected to check their university email at least once every 24 hours. Many people forward it to a personal account, and obviously most people check it more frequently than that, but if the university issues an account to everyone, then there can be no debate about how they didn't get the email. The school takes responsibility for the email system (and any failures), and then professors can be assured that if they send an email out to the class, it will be (or should have been) read, leaving the onus on the student to actually do it. It's similar to why we provide computer labs - that way, each student unequivocally has a way to do electronic assignments, even if nearly everyone has their own machine.
No idea. I was trying to avoid angering the Android fanbois. I say that as someone who's not an Apple fanboi by any stretch - the Android fanbois can't seem to wrap their head around an area where Android doesn't "beat" Apple.
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I don't stretch my cords to the limit. That's a great way to make connectors fail, regardless of screws.
While I like DVI and have a monitor that uses it, going HDMI only is not a big deal. HDMI is just DVI plus a little extra, for audio, and the cost of that "little extra" is already negligible.
This means that a DVI-DVI, HDMI-HDMI, and DVI-HDMI cable are the same price. I spent $5 on one a few years back.
No difference! Unbunch your panties
While I'm sympathetic to your situation... did you have a FCC license for your SCADA system? If you didn't, that sucks but there's not really anything to complain about. But I'm assuming you did, in which case they should've asked you, and any other potentially-interefered parties. If they didn't ask, you probably had grounds for a lawsuit.
An unpleasant situation that never should've happened... but it's hard to imagine a situation in which you had no recourse.
Actually, it was pretty easy. I use a small Linux box as a NAT box and router, which admittedly made it easier. It was pretty much as simple as establishing a tunnel and requesting a subnet, then assigning the subnet to the internal Ethernet network and firing up radvd. No sweat. iDevices and Android devices work out of the box, as do Macs and Linux. The Wii does not, but I haven't turned off v4 so that's no big deal. A few clicks on XP and v6 works fine, it's out of the box on Vista+
You seem to think I turned off v4. I see no reason to do that, but when the time is right, it'll be dirt-simple. I know most of my stuff will work with v6, because it's currently working with v6. Plus, I get the added benefits right now for things like P2P.
Me too! Instead, I did it on a random day where I was bored, about 4 years ago. Took about 2 hours and I haven't thought about it since.
Oh, did you mean "I'm not going to use IPv6"?
Good catch. Guess I shouldn't comment before I've had my coffee.
That's without dealing with the fact that women tend to have tighter deviations from the norm in various areas, which means that any group that is selected from extreme outliers is going to be disproportionately male. This is true whether you are selecting politicians that reach Federal office, people that are extremely interested in programming to pursue as a hobby, moving to America as a day laboring immigrant, or criminally oriented men to form a gang. The outliers are predominately (but not exclusively) male.
This. A hundred thousand times this. Any genetically-influenced trait is going to show a wider bell curve for males. Biologically, it seems to be due to the fact that men with an extraordinary (for better or worse) X chromosome have it expressed, while women have two. Since the second is probably normal, this tempers the effects of the first (it has to do with X-deactivation happening basically at random in each cell). Hence, there are more male geniuses than female - but equally more male retards (in the technical, not perjorative, sense) than females.
Brains are staggeringly different in structure, male vs. female. There's substantial evidence that on the balance they each come to the same level of intelligence in nearly everything, but through surprisingly different ways. Given the genetic differences, coupled with hormones, upbringing, society, and history - it's really shocking that sex differences are as small as they are (3-5 IQ points on average, which is well within the noise of measurement). However, when talking about rather subtle differences, it seems preposterous to suggest that there couldn't be rather enormous differences across sexes in specific areas.
There is sexism everywhere. Mostly misogyny, but an increasing amount of misandry. Neither is acceptable, and most of it is due to nonexposure. If there were more female programmers, there'd be less sexism. I suspect there was quite a lot of sexism in medicine and law as well, before women became dominant.
It's worth noting that the text of your post could have been paraphrased from a speech given by one Larry Summers. They fired him for saying pretty much what you did (time commitment issues due to family raising, combined with variance differences)
I can't tell if you're joking. He tweeted: "So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery."
That doesn't even make sense. I can't tell if he's crazy, or cynically trying to manipulate people.
Can't tell if you're being snarky. A memory leak is a very specific thing (pointer lost before free'd). If this happens in a loop or some other repeated code, memory usage grows out of hand with no recourse. Accidental memory usage is a much less concerning problem, because it's relatively straightforward to deal with during execution. It's also less likely to grow unbounded.
Was waiting for one of the inevitable "Beck/Hannity/Limbaugh" lovers coughing up his vomit all over the forum, and lookee here, I wasn't disappointed.. Hey Bozo! We understand you bat-s$$t insane conservatives can't live without actively hating people who disagree with them, but why don't you just go over there in the corner and love these gentleman privately.. Just another datapoint on conservatives.. They absolutely CANNOT tolerate ANYBODY who disagrees with them and rather than simply saying "I disagree with you, so we'll just have to agree-to-disagree on where this country is going", conservatives feel the need to actively HATE these people, using terms that would be classed as "Hate Speech" by the same conservatives IF these liberal voices were to use the same terms to describe conservatives. Dr Michael Savage has the modern conservative classified perfectly as being afflicted with a mental illness...
Taking all bets as to which sounds more realistic. Almost overwhelmingly the people calling to tone it down a bit are liberal. Well, as liberal as the current Democratic party is, which is center-right. Meanwhile, the conservatives are calling on their base to get their guns and electrocute Mexicans.
You completely miss the point. California, and most of the "blue" states, are "giver" states - their citizens and businesses pay more in federal tax (income and otherwise) than they receive back as services. California receives $0.78 (in things like highway dollars and education) per dollar of tax paid. source. For fun, compare "red" states with "blue" states. About 75% of Bush and Gore's electoral votes came from taker and giver states, respectively.
The GP's point was that if those 25c no longer "left" the state, California would be better off.
The best part was you complaining about ignorance and being "factually wrong".
Not as bad as queue and cue. I see that used incorrectly more frequently than correctly. And I die a little inside each time
GP: "Now if you want to speak of the "overuse" or preventative use of antibiotics, then go ahead."
I like cool toys as much as the next nerd, but I can't come up with anyone who needs this kind of storage but can't carry around a small external HDD. Do they exist, or is this a "because we can" thing?
Good thing we've got it then.
What the hell are you talking about? Python is a near perfect beginner's language - teaching someone about scoping and blocks is much easier when they're easily visible. Yes, I have taught people how to program using Python, and it went much better than Java or even Visual Basic (which, I must admit, is a decent beginners' language)
I've never heard any other serious complaint about Python, and since the likes of Google haven't managed to find any big ones, which have you found?
To be fair, that's not merely Randian nonsense. It's a well-established fact that the biggest proponents of the FDA were the (big) meatpackers since they knew that if they could and did meet the cost of complying with the regulation, they'd be one of the only players left. Couple that with a little regulatory capture, (which is distinct from corruption) and you've got a chance at some real money.
That's not a reason to avoid regulation, but it's definitely something to realize. If you don't, you can fall subject to it.
S/MIME works just dandy on iPhones.
Can you post a link with details about that? My understanding of the law was that any site with user-uploaded content got safe harbor, on the condition that they complied with takedown requests.
Can't tell if you're trolling or just dim.
It's very simple. Net neutrality isn't regulating the Internet, it's regulating providers. Furthermore, it doesn't change what's on the internet, just how it gets to you. Fiddling with the DNS servers is 100% different. The analogy (not even an analogy...) is requiring the telephone company to let you call their competitors without an additional charge, vs blocking you from saying particular things.
The only thing the two have in common is the word 'internet'. Even a cursory glance shows that "don't throttle for profit" and "turn off this site" are completely different.
Hey, I know it's fun to hate on banks, and with good reason, but JPM was on the right, or at least neutral, side of this mess. They didn't do subprime loans, and they only took federal money by request (so taking federal money wouldn't become a scarlet letter) and paid it back as soon as they were allowed.
Let's hate on the irresponsible folks. It's not like there's a shortage.
But that's the point. If the mail system is functioning properly, they get the email. If it's not, it's not the students' problem. Since it's all internal, there's no real room for debate. The IT department does actually provide a service where they check the logs to make sure your email did actually get delivered to its recipient. It comes in handy if a student says they never were told about a test, and the professor can give the timestamp of the email he sent out and they verify receipt, or a student had an email exchange with a professor regarding grades or something which months later the professor denies.
Such a service would be impossible if people had their own addresses because the whole chain can't be traced. Like I said, we do allow forwarding, but the onus is then on the student to make sure the forwarded address can receive all email sent to it. A copy is still placed in the inbox, and they're still advised to check it in case there was a problem. In practice, most people don't, but then there's still no excuse. This is why important emails are advised to be sent from a school account to a school account, and it's why I don't forward. If I didn't get an email, it's because there was a fault in the system - and nothing else.
As a student, it's been great. Occasionally professors forget email conversations, and have since deleted them. Having IT verify that you did actually send the email you're re-sending them is a good thing.
As a TA, it's been great. We occasionally email announcements with important information; invariably, they don't get read. But when the complaints come, we can show demonstrably that it was only because they hadn't actually read the email before deleting it. Saves a lot of strife if they get a 0 for something they didn't check their email about, since there's no fallback to "but but the email was broken".
It's not adversarial, just good sense. People lie or forget all the time - but that's no way to run (or take) a class.
Mail has been a public service almost since this country was founded
Which is why it's one of the very specifically enumerated responsibilities of the federal government as set out in the Constitution. They didn't say much in black-and-white, but this is one of them:
The Congress shall have Power ... To establish Post Offices and post Roads
Students need school email addresses because that way all students have an email address.
At my school, students are expected to check their university email at least once every 24 hours. Many people forward it to a personal account, and obviously most people check it more frequently than that, but if the university issues an account to everyone, then there can be no debate about how they didn't get the email. The school takes responsibility for the email system (and any failures), and then professors can be assured that if they send an email out to the class, it will be (or should have been) read, leaving the onus on the student to actually do it. It's similar to why we provide computer labs - that way, each student unequivocally has a way to do electronic assignments, even if nearly everyone has their own machine.
No idea. I was trying to avoid angering the Android fanbois. I say that as someone who's not an Apple fanboi by any stretch - the Android fanbois can't seem to wrap their head around an area where Android doesn't "beat" Apple.