The only conclusion that you can reach from this study is that kids spend more time doing what they are naturally good at then what they are bad at... seems like it wouldn't take a sociologist to tell you that!
tall, athletic kids were found to be more likely to play basketball, and unpopular kids were found to be more likely to spend friday nights at home watching TV rather than out on dates...
Exactly. In some localities, 20% of the kids are diagnosed with ADHD and put on drugs... I don't know about you, but if 1/5 of your population exhibits a trait, shouldn't you start wondering if maybe that trait is normal and not a disorder? Remember that until just a few years ago, homosexuality was considered a psychiatric disorder too...
The amazing thing is that what were once considered normal variation in humans are now considered disorders. Does being classified as having ADHD make the kids _better_ at the games? Then maybe it is a beneficial mutation. Were the effects of medication factored out? Obviously none of the kids without ADHD were on medication, so differences in the the ADHD group may be attributable to their medication, not their ADHD.
Yes, Microsoft appears to have patented RPMs... guess anybody installing software on Linux is going to have to check dependencies manually now... the brilliant insight that it's easier to have the computer check for you is obviously one of those "innovations" that Microsoft keeps talkin' about...
It would be trivial to front-end this with a C beautifier or some other method of converting the white space to cannonical form. Renaming entities would be more difficult; in that case, you probably need to parse the C and compare the parse trees -- isn't that what they use to catch plagerizers in college? All my CS lab students were at least smart enough to rename the variables...
Comparing the hashes doesn't give you a definitive answer; it does, however, tell you where to look. Or which submitters to ask for clarification on the origins of potentially infringing code. That's more than we have now!
I believe last i heard, he has spent over 53% of his time in office on vacation. Imagine how much more damage he'd do if he spent 100% of his time working!
Right, so it's great for reference material... but then so is a CD-Rom. I personally can't think of any book that I didn't read just once in serial fashion. However, I have highlighted passages in books in case I wanted to return to them later... does an ebook let me do that?
Paper books have only 3 drawbacks I can think of: 1) Not easily searchable (remember back when books actually had usable indexes?) 2) page breaks in arbitrary locations, e.g. in the middle of a hyphenated word (in others, scrolls are more readable that our current model of books), and 3) somewhere a tree gave it's life so you could read the latest Erica Jong novel (how many trees have died to support all the printings of Rachael Carson's _Silent_Spring_?). On the other hand, until electronic readers are cheaper than digital watches, lighter than paperbacks, and offer a 1200dpi paperwhite display, I'll take my books in dead tree format, thank you!
Wasn't their computer section crap to begin with? Can't make any money? Here's a hint: there is not much market for 2 year old technical books! Yes, it's true! The computer book market is _different_ from the romance novel market!
It school in the late '70s, they purchased a second PDP 11-34, and the sys admins thought "wouldn't it be cool if we could get the two machines to communicate!" So they connected a serial port on one to a serial port on the other. Tried to send a packet... Boom! Both machines immediately crashed. Rebooted, reconnected the serial port, started a send, crashed again. Finally, it dawned on them... they hadn't disabled terminal echo. When the first character was sent, it was immediately echoed by the second machine, then echoed by the first, etc. Comm interrupts were high priority and a lot of overhead on the PDP, so the machines never left the interrupt handler, and essentially were hung.
Methinks I should start sharing songs, then when they catch me, claim my 2-year old snuck into my office whilst I wasn't looking... obviously, if they're holding a grandparent responsible for what their grandchildren did, they're going to hold the mother responsible, not the 12-year old.
Well, I am waiting for them to sue someone who really matters, like Bush Like, I'm sure the President of the United States has lot's of spare time to log on to Kazaa, can't afford to buy CDs, and knows how to use a computer really well...
What route do these kids take home? I could stand to pick up a few new laptops!
As a general rule, giving expensive equipment to kids is a bad idea. They don't know how to take care of it; chances are half of these will be broken, lost or stolen. Who is going to pay for it when that happens? Can every parent afford to shell out $1000 when their child's laptop comes up missing? I predict incidents of child abuse will go way up, as parents find out their kids used a computer as a football or a sled...
The problem is, 1) they're using a legal solution to solve a problem much more easily solved by a technical solution, and 2) they don't care who they hurt in the process. Basically, they're saying: "We designed our products to use off-the-shelf components to make it cheaper. Now how to we legally prevent everybody else in the world from using those same components?"
I'm amazed that they feel the need to resort to legal tactics to fix what is inherently a technical problem. In fact, it appears analogous to a technical problem solved by lock makers over 100 years ago. Problem: people can easily obtain blank "keys" to fit my device, and modify these keys to use for theft. Solution: go to the makers of the blanks (in this case smart card manufacturers) and have them design a non-standard form factor key for you, and promise not to sell said key to anyone else. Bingo! You've suddenly increased the cost of entry for bootlegging cards from $3500 for an off-the-shelf programmer to several hundred thosand dollars for equipment to design and manufacture custom smart cards. Added benefit: you no longer have to associate with all those lawyers!
One of them is controlled by an evil monopoly that refuses to turn control over to an international standards organization, while the other is a Microsoft product!
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Actually, in some European countries, speeding fines ARE based on ability to pay...
The only conclusion that you can reach from this study is that kids spend more time doing what they are naturally good at then what they are bad at... seems like it wouldn't take a sociologist to tell you that!
tall, athletic kids were found to be more likely to play basketball, and unpopular kids were found to be more likely to spend friday nights at home watching TV rather than out on dates...
Exactly. In some localities, 20% of the kids are diagnosed with ADHD and put on drugs... I don't know about you, but if 1/5 of your population exhibits a trait, shouldn't you start wondering if maybe that trait is normal and not a disorder? Remember that until just a few years ago, homosexuality was considered a psychiatric disorder too...
The amazing thing is that what were once considered normal variation in humans are now considered disorders. Does being classified as having ADHD make the kids _better_ at the games? Then maybe it is a beneficial mutation. Were the effects of medication factored out? Obviously none of the kids without ADHD were on medication, so differences in the the ADHD group may be attributable to their medication, not their ADHD.
Yes, Microsoft appears to have patented RPMs... guess anybody installing software on Linux is going to have to check dependencies manually now... the brilliant insight that it's easier to have the computer check for you is obviously one of those "innovations" that Microsoft keeps talkin' about...
It would be trivial to front-end this with a C beautifier or some other method of converting the white space to cannonical form. Renaming entities would be more difficult; in that case, you probably need to parse the C and compare the parse trees -- isn't that what they use to catch plagerizers in college? All my CS lab students were at least smart enough to rename the variables...
Comparing the hashes doesn't give you a definitive answer; it does, however, tell you where to look. Or which submitters to ask for clarification on the origins of potentially infringing code. That's more than we have now!
So if your 17-year old kid shoots you, you should go to jail for attempted murder?
I believe last i heard, he has spent over 53% of his time in office on vacation.
Imagine how much more damage he'd do if he spent 100% of his time working!
Paper books have only 3 drawbacks I can think of: 1) Not easily searchable (remember back when books actually had usable indexes?) 2) page breaks in arbitrary locations, e.g. in the middle of a hyphenated word (in others, scrolls are more readable that our current model of books), and 3) somewhere a tree gave it's life so you could read the latest Erica Jong novel (how many trees have died to support all the printings of Rachael Carson's _Silent_Spring_?). On the other hand, until electronic readers are cheaper than digital watches, lighter than paperbacks, and offer a 1200dpi paperwhite display, I'll take my books in dead tree format, thank you!
Wasn't their computer section crap to begin with? Can't make any money? Here's a hint: there is not much market for 2 year old technical books! Yes, it's true! The computer book market is _different_ from the romance novel market!
It school in the late '70s, they purchased a second PDP 11-34, and the sys admins thought "wouldn't it be cool if we could get the two machines to communicate!" So they connected a serial port on one to a serial port on the other. Tried to send a packet... Boom! Both machines immediately crashed. Rebooted, reconnected the serial port, started a send, crashed again. Finally, it dawned on them... they hadn't disabled terminal echo. When the first character was sent, it was immediately echoed by the second machine, then echoed by the first, etc. Comm interrupts were high priority and a lot of overhead on the PDP, so the machines never left the interrupt handler, and essentially were hung.
You DO work for Micro$oft, then?
Hope is dead, too...
Uh, I've seen him speak in person, and that's what he really looks like!
Methinks I should start sharing songs, then when they catch me, claim my 2-year old snuck into my office whilst I wasn't looking... obviously, if they're holding a grandparent responsible for what their grandchildren did, they're going to hold the mother responsible, not the 12-year old.
Well, I am waiting for them to sue someone who really matters, like Bush
Like, I'm sure the President of the United States has lot's of spare time to log on to Kazaa, can't afford to buy CDs, and knows how to use a computer really well...
As a general rule, giving expensive equipment to kids is a bad idea. They don't know how to take care of it; chances are half of these will be broken, lost or stolen. Who is going to pay for it when that happens? Can every parent afford to shell out $1000 when their child's laptop comes up missing? I predict incidents of child abuse will go way up, as parents find out their kids used a computer as a football or a sled...
The problem is, 1) they're using a legal solution to solve a problem much more easily solved by a technical solution, and 2) they don't care who they hurt in the process. Basically, they're saying: "We designed our products to use off-the-shelf components to make it cheaper. Now how to we legally prevent everybody else in the world from using those same components?"
I'm amazed that they feel the need to resort to legal tactics to fix what is inherently a technical problem. In fact, it appears analogous to a technical problem solved by lock makers over 100 years ago. Problem: people can easily obtain blank "keys" to fit my device, and modify these keys to use for theft. Solution: go to the makers of the blanks (in this case smart card manufacturers) and have them design a non-standard form factor key for you, and promise not to sell said key to anyone else. Bingo! You've suddenly increased the cost of entry for bootlegging cards from $3500 for an off-the-shelf programmer to several hundred thosand dollars for equipment to design and manufacture custom smart cards. Added benefit: you no longer have to associate with all those lawyers!
It's hard enough to find competent programmers at all in Spokane, let alone ones that can write cross-platform 3D games.
I'd be willing to relocate...
Java isn't open source.
One of them is controlled by an evil monopoly that refuses to turn control over to an international standards organization, while the other is a Microsoft product!
Iron oxide occurs naturally. People have been cooking with iron frying pans for years, and studies show it's actually good for you in trace amounts. Eating an entire frying pan in one sitting, however, is most likely bad for you.