Is such differentiated pay the right way to attract science graduates who can make much more in industry, or is it simply going to breed discontent among teachers?
More competitive pay may attract science grads who could make more elsewhere, but I'd argue that it's worthwhile to avoid breeding discontent by giving all teachers that same raise. They certainly deserve it for all the extra hours a teacher puts in grading, preparing lessons, and other "homework." Counting all that, my teacher friends put in more hours in a nine-month school year than I do in a twelve-month sysadmin's year, but they make half the money. Besides, if extra money will improve the applicant pool for science teachers, won't it do the same for english or history teachers too?
How will they be able to tell if you've bought a song from ITMS? I doubt Apple will be willing to set up a system that lets a competitor query customer data.
If you want Japanese cartoons before they're released in English, learn Japanese.
Okay. So now I understand Japanese. But the Japanese cartoon hasn't been released where I live, in English or Japanese or anything else. So tell me again how learning Japanese meant I wouldn't have to download an unofficial copy?
They should be like "hell, download all you wish and trade them with your friends...as long as the commercials are still there we're still making our money...and we could also target advertising better for people that download and that could generate even more money blah blah blah..."
Until someone fires up VirtualDub and cuts out the commercials, even if they use some sort of futile DRM.
Settlers of Catan, Fluxx, just about anything from Cheapass Games, Taboo, Balderdash, Trivial Pursuit and Apples to Apples. Fluxx, in particular, is fast, easy, often funny and unpredictable. Another favorite for music lovers is a game called Encore. Two teams, and yout team's turn consists of moving and taking a card with a word on it. Then you and the other team have to sing songs with the word until one team can't come up with any more. The other team gets the next turn.
I always wonder, when I hear that East Slobovia has better math scores than the US, whether they are really testing all their schoolkids, or only reporting the average of the top 5%. The US is pretty egalitarian in our education system, compared to your typical poor country.
I doubt they're reporting the average of the top 5% of their schools. But, not every country requires kids to go to school to age 17 like the US does. It's possible, especially in poorer countries, that by age 15 the only students left are either smart, rich or both, and the others have already gone to work. That could explain a test-score discrepancy and is a little more believable than a country misreporting stats like that on purpose.
Sorry, you must have Javascript turned on to view this ad. It's probably worth it to google to give up a few valid clicks by the vast minority of users who have javascript turned off, in return for getting rid of most of the fraudulent clicks.
The same principle behind the anti-spam uses of hashcash could be used here. Google throws some javascript into the page, that calculates a hashcash stamp and add it to the requested URL whenever an ad link is clicked. URLs without a stamp are considered fraudulent and ignored. Javascript runs on the client side, so you take a few milliseconds or a second of their processing time. Barely noticeable to a person actually clicking the link, but it will put a dent in someone who's trying to perform thousands or millions of clicks per hour.
I stand corrected. So clicking google ad links to cost companies money won't work.
What's illegal about a program that automatically requests links found in messages that are filtered by your spam filter? I guess you could claim it's a DDoS attack. But no single participant will seiously hurt a server by itself, and each one chooses to participate independently. You'd have to claim that every person is conspiring to commit the attack. That's a bit iffy, and is a judge really going to be favorable toward a spammer?
What I want to know is: basically, this is an indexing server that will allow torrents to be searchable. What happens with multiple versions of the same torrent? For instance, let's say there are 2 torrent distributions of Gentoo, identical files within the torrents. It would seem this server would ideally be able to recognize the similarities and kind of 'merge' the files - is this possible?
Theoretically yes. If two sources publish the same torrent, clients could join both swarms at the same time, and ul/dl pieces to/from both.
I'm not familiar with the inner workings of BitTorrent protocol, but it seems it should be possible to report to one swarm that you're getting pieces from the other one, so you don't need them any more but you can share them now.
The easiest way to make this happen is to have the search function check for and combine results with the same name, size and hash. Then you click on the result and it joins all the torrents it found for that file.
Shouldn't be that hard to write a program that uses spare time/bandwidth to request google searches for phrases like "bulk email software", parse the result and send requests for the ad links. Same result, on a bigger scale, and IANAL but I can't see anything illegal about it.
Similarly, one could make a plugin to work with different email clients, that either integrates with existing spam filters or has its own. Anything judged to be spam would be searched for links that can then be requested during spare time. Nothing illegal about this, and it will only hit actual spammers, modulo the occasional false positive on the spam filter.
Can users add content to the network, or are we just talking about using out bittorrent-style p2p, where I donate my upload bandwidth to help keep the load off of a server?
In other words, is this just gonna be iTunes-clone + p2p-cause-it-sounds-sexy or is it a real file-SHARING network, where I can share MY files?
My other question is will there be DRM, but the answer to both is probably the same. If there is DRM, they wouldn't want users publishing un-DRM'd versions of things.
Uhh... how bout Winamp? There likely won't be further development, but that doesn't mean you can't use it any more. As of now Winamp is still available from both winamp.com and download.com, and probably other sources as well.
Nothing will come of accusations of election fraud, errors, etc. Even if there is incontrovertible evidence that it happened. Why? Because most of the country doesn't want to believe that these things could happen in America. It's just like when a teacher tells a mother her son misbehaved in class and the mother replies, "Never! Not my sweet little angel!" Most Americans will assume that America is immune to election fraud because America is the world's greatest democracy, just like they were taught in fourth grade.
Whistleblowers: "Someone screwed with the election!" American Public: "No way! This is America! Maybe it's like that in China but that could never happen here!"
The predictor isn't a rivalry with Green Bay; Washington doesn't necessarily play against Green Bay every year anyway. The Redskins' biggest rivals right now would be the teams in their division: Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles. They play each of those teams twice a year.
Anyway the supposed "predictor" is actually this: In any election year in which the Redskins have won their last home game before election day, regardless of the opponent, the incumbent has won the presidency. Of course it's just a cioncidence.
What if I add a line between P8 and P9? Your solution no longer works.
Notice that all the additional lines in the problem intersect either P0 or P1. Adding a line between P8 and P9 significantly changes the problem.
You are correct though, in saying that x^y is not the solution. A few of the solutions did work out general formulae, the simplest I saw being (1/2)*(m*n)*(m+n)
tit for tat works by imitating previous moves by its opponents. its success depends totally on which opponent it imitates in this case (S/M master = win, S/M slave = lose)
So in ten years I'll have to wear a lead apron and protective glasses when I turn on my new computer? New fashion trend for geeks that never shut their boxes off.
If this becomes law, and a piece of spyware is found to be illegal, who exactly goes to jail? The programmers who wrote it? The stockholders of the company that paid the programmers to write it? The owners of the web site from which a user unwittingly downloaded and installed it? Suppose I determine that I got a piece of spyware from IP address X... is the ISP on the hook for criminal charges too?
Give Congress credit for trying, but I don't see you can realistically make installing spyware a jailable offense.
how long until they patent "A process for breaking down and degrading proteins" and send cease-and-desist letters telling everyone to stop digesting ny meat they eat this instant.
I would like to see an online music store that is also a true file-sharing network. Monthly payment for unlimited downloads and the ability to publish/share my own music on the network. User reviews, all sorts of search capabilities, including things like "Users who liked this song also liked..." and "Users who liked this artist are sharing..."
Realizing that it isn't always contractually possible, I would still like to see the artist paid directly (bypassing the record companies) as often as possible.
Preferably open, unencumbered formats such as wav, mp3 or ogg. Of course once the users can share, getting the format and bitrate you want is just a matter of looking hard enough.
Basically what I'd want is a true peer-to-peer network, governed by a collective licensing agreement whereby all the users get to keep doing what they've been doing anyway, for the price of a few bucks a month. Said monies are collected, placed in a large sack with a dollar sign on it, and sent in the direction of those who brought us the music.
The greatest thing about the P2P networks isn't that the music is easily accessible, or that you aren't paying for it, it's that anyone can reach a worldwide audience!
I'm perfectly willing to pay for music, but I won't pay for a restricted distribution channel. The whole point of the web is that anyone can produce content, that's the crucial aspect that needs to be preserved in an online music store.
This sounds a little like SiteFinder from Verisign. Click a broken link and isntead of a helpful error message you get whatever content IBM thinks is appropriate. Certainly this could be useful, but it could also end up as just another vehicle for advertising.
The CDs are still going to have regular audio tracks, so they can play in regular CD players. Longhorn will still read regular audio tracks, so it can still play old CDs that don't have a DRMed copy of their content. Even if Longhorn checks for a mixed-mode CD and restricts access to the music portion, that breaks older mixed-mode CDs that have the music on the audio portion only, and other content on the data portion. Bottom line, it sounds to me like I'll still be able to just hold shift.
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Is such differentiated pay the right way to attract science graduates who can make much more in industry, or is it simply going to breed discontent among teachers?
More competitive pay may attract science grads who could make more elsewhere, but I'd argue that it's worthwhile to avoid breeding discontent by giving all teachers that same raise. They certainly deserve it for all the extra hours a teacher puts in grading, preparing lessons, and other "homework." Counting all that, my teacher friends put in more hours in a nine-month school year than I do in a twelve-month sysadmin's year, but they make half the money. Besides, if extra money will improve the applicant pool for science teachers, won't it do the same for english or history teachers too?
It has an ethernet port... perhaps it can map a shared drive (SMB, etc) and record straight to your PC. If not, that'd be a very cool feature to add.
How will they be able to tell if you've bought a song from ITMS? I doubt Apple will be willing to set up a system that lets a competitor query customer data.
If you want Japanese cartoons before they're released in English, learn Japanese.
Okay. So now I understand Japanese. But the Japanese cartoon hasn't been released where I live, in English or Japanese or anything else. So tell me again how learning Japanese meant I wouldn't have to download an unofficial copy?
They should be like "hell, download all you wish and trade them with your friends...as long as the commercials are still there we're still making our money...and we could also target advertising better for people that download and that could generate even more money blah blah blah..."
Until someone fires up VirtualDub and cuts out the commercials, even if they use some sort of futile DRM.
Settlers of Catan, Fluxx, just about anything from Cheapass Games, Taboo, Balderdash, Trivial Pursuit and Apples to Apples.
Fluxx, in particular, is fast, easy, often funny and unpredictable.
Another favorite for music lovers is a game called Encore. Two teams, and yout team's turn consists of moving and taking a card with a word on it. Then you and the other team have to sing songs with the word until one team can't come up with any more. The other team gets the next turn.
I always wonder, when I hear that East Slobovia has better math scores than the US, whether they are really testing all their schoolkids, or only reporting the average of the top 5%. The US is pretty egalitarian in our education system, compared to your typical poor country.
I doubt they're reporting the average of the top 5% of their schools. But, not every country requires kids to go to school to age 17 like the US does. It's possible, especially in poorer countries, that by age 15 the only students left are either smart, rich or both, and the others have already gone to work. That could explain a test-score discrepancy and is a little more believable than a country misreporting stats like that on purpose.
Sorry, you must have Javascript turned on to view this ad. It's probably worth it to google to give up a few valid clicks by the vast minority of users who have javascript turned off, in return for getting rid of most of the fraudulent clicks.
The same principle behind the anti-spam uses of hashcash could be used here. Google throws some javascript into the page, that calculates a hashcash stamp and add it to the requested URL whenever an ad link is clicked. URLs without a stamp are considered fraudulent and ignored. Javascript runs on the client side, so you take a few milliseconds or a second of their processing time. Barely noticeable to a person actually clicking the link, but it will put a dent in someone who's trying to perform thousands or millions of clicks per hour.
You fake a click by writing a program that automatically requests the URL over and over and throws out the returned page.
I stand corrected. So clicking google ad links to cost companies money won't work.
What's illegal about a program that automatically requests links found in messages that are filtered by your spam filter? I guess you could claim it's a DDoS attack. But no single participant will seiously hurt a server by itself, and each one chooses to participate independently. You'd have to claim that every person is conspiring to commit the attack. That's a bit iffy, and is a judge really going to be favorable toward a spammer?
What I want to know is: basically, this is an indexing server that will allow torrents to be searchable. What happens with multiple versions of the same torrent? For instance, let's say there are 2 torrent distributions of Gentoo, identical files within the torrents. It would seem this server would ideally be able to recognize the similarities and kind of 'merge' the files - is this possible?
Theoretically yes. If two sources publish the same torrent, clients could join both swarms at the same time, and ul/dl pieces to/from both.
I'm not familiar with the inner workings of BitTorrent protocol, but it seems it should be possible to report to one swarm that you're getting pieces from the other one, so you don't need them any more but you can share them now.
The easiest way to make this happen is to have the search function check for and combine results with the same name, size and hash. Then you click on the result and it joins all the torrents it found for that file.
Shouldn't be that hard to write a program that uses spare time/bandwidth to request google searches for phrases like "bulk email software", parse the result and send requests for the ad links. Same result, on a bigger scale, and IANAL but I can't see anything illegal about it.
Similarly, one could make a plugin to work with different email clients, that either integrates with existing spam filters or has its own. Anything judged to be spam would be searched for links that can then be requested during spare time. Nothing illegal about this, and it will only hit actual spammers, modulo the occasional false positive on the spam filter.
Can users add content to the network, or are we just talking about using out bittorrent-style p2p, where I donate my upload bandwidth to help keep the load off of a server?
In other words, is this just gonna be iTunes-clone + p2p-cause-it-sounds-sexy or is it a real file-SHARING network, where I can share MY files?
My other question is will there be DRM, but the answer to both is probably the same. If there is DRM, they wouldn't want users publishing un-DRM'd versions of things.
Uhh... how bout Winamp? There likely won't be further development, but that doesn't mean you can't use it any more. As of now Winamp is still available from both winamp.com and download.com, and probably other sources as well.
Nothing will come of accusations of election fraud, errors, etc. Even if there is incontrovertible evidence that it happened. Why? Because most of the country doesn't want to believe that these things could happen in America. It's just like when a teacher tells a mother her son misbehaved in class and the mother replies, "Never! Not my sweet little angel!" Most Americans will assume that America is immune to election fraud because America is the world's greatest democracy, just like they were taught in fourth grade.
Whistleblowers: "Someone screwed with the election!"
American Public: "No way! This is America! Maybe it's like that in China but that could never happen here!"
The predictor isn't a rivalry with Green Bay; Washington doesn't necessarily play against Green Bay every year anyway. The Redskins' biggest rivals right now would be the teams in their division: Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles. They play each of those teams twice a year.
Anyway the supposed "predictor" is actually this: In any election year in which the Redskins have won their last home game before election day, regardless of the opponent, the incumbent has won the presidency. Of course it's just a cioncidence.
What if I add a line between P8 and P9? Your solution no longer works.
Notice that all the additional lines in the problem intersect either P0 or P1. Adding a line between P8 and P9 significantly changes the problem.
You are correct though, in saying that x^y is not the solution. A few of the solutions did work out general formulae, the simplest I saw being (1/2)*(m*n)*(m+n)
tit for tat works by imitating previous moves by its opponents. its success depends totally on which opponent it imitates in this case (S/M master = win, S/M slave = lose)
So in ten years I'll have to wear a lead apron and protective glasses when I turn on my new computer? New fashion trend for geeks that never shut their boxes off.
If this becomes law, and a piece of spyware is found to be illegal, who exactly goes to jail? The programmers who wrote it? The stockholders of the company that paid the programmers to write it? The owners of the web site from which a user unwittingly downloaded and installed it? Suppose I determine that I got a piece of spyware from IP address X... is the ISP on the hook for criminal charges too?
Give Congress credit for trying, but I don't see you can realistically make installing spyware a jailable offense.
how long until they patent "A process for breaking down and degrading proteins" and send cease-and-desist letters telling everyone to stop digesting ny meat they eat this instant.
I would like to see an online music store that is also a true file-sharing network. Monthly payment for unlimited downloads and the ability to publish/share my own music on the network. User reviews, all sorts of search capabilities, including things like "Users who liked this song also liked..." and "Users who liked this artist are sharing..."
Realizing that it isn't always contractually possible, I would still like to see the artist paid directly (bypassing the record companies) as often as possible.
Preferably open, unencumbered formats such as wav, mp3 or ogg. Of course once the users can share, getting the format and bitrate you want is just a matter of looking hard enough.
Basically what I'd want is a true peer-to-peer network, governed by a collective licensing agreement whereby all the users get to keep doing what they've been doing anyway, for the price of a few bucks a month. Said monies are collected, placed in a large sack with a dollar sign on it, and sent in the direction of those who brought us the music.
The greatest thing about the P2P networks isn't that the music is easily accessible, or that you aren't paying for it, it's that anyone can reach a worldwide audience!
I'm perfectly willing to pay for music, but I won't pay for a restricted distribution channel. The whole point of the web is that anyone can produce content, that's the crucial aspect that needs to be preserved in an online music store.
This sounds a little like SiteFinder from Verisign. Click a broken link and isntead of a helpful error message you get whatever content IBM thinks is appropriate. Certainly this could be useful, but it could also end up as just another vehicle for advertising.
The CDs are still going to have regular audio tracks, so they can play in regular CD players. Longhorn will still read regular audio tracks, so it can still play old CDs that don't have a DRMed copy of their content. Even if Longhorn checks for a mixed-mode CD and restricts access to the music portion, that breaks older mixed-mode CDs that have the music on the audio portion only, and other content on the data portion. Bottom line, it sounds to me like I'll still be able to just hold shift.