Thousands of other students will have broken this rule in the past sitting around a library table or a kitchen counter - why did the university let them get away with it?
A LIBRARY? WTF??? Are you people crazy letting stucents go to the LIBRARY? God, people, there are BOOKS in there. Some of them even have information that pertains to the homework assignment!
Clearly, anyone who goes within a hundred feet of a library should be expelled.
Actually "Deep Thought" was a play on "deep throat", which was the code name for Deputy Director of the FBI William Mark Felt, Sr., the guy that narked on Nixon. Oddly, the term originated in the name of a porn movie starring Linda Lovelace, and the very first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace, who wrote programs for Charles Babbage's Anylitical Engine, the world's first programmable computer that wasn't actually built until late in the 20th century.
I've read that England spent so much money on the thing that wags quipped that the only thing it would be good for was computing its own cost.
Babbage's engines were among the first mechanical computers, although they were not actually completed, largely because of funding problems and personality issues. He directed the building of some steam-powered machines that achieved some success, suggesting that calculations could be mechanized. Although Babbage's machines were mechanical and unwieldy, their basic architecture was very similar to a modern computer. The data and program memory were separated, operation was instruction based, the control unit could make conditional jumps and the machine had a separate I/O unit.
No you don't. You can do 3D graphics with a pencil and a ream of paper, which is how it was done before computers.
You have to do math to do ANYTHING on a computer. That's how computers work and why they're called computers - they compute. All they CAN do is compute.
Moore's Law Moore's Law was enacted by the Florida legislature in 1999. This law makes it a felony to posess or sell any film or documentary produced by Michael Moore. Moore's Law had its beginnings when a Florida Legislator heard some old Geezer complain about the damned kids on his lawn saying "there ought to be a law" and told his fellow congressthings that the old guy had said "we need more laws." As all the legislators are hearing aid wearing geezers themselves, they took this to mean that Michael Moore should be outlawed. Florida Governor Jeb Clampett, President George Clampett's brother, signed the law so quickly that the friction of the pen caught the paper on fire and the law had to be passed again.
Many slashdot nerds believe that Moore's law has something to do with computers, but this is patently false.
Until now, the received wisdom has been that GNU/Linux will never take off with general users because it's too complicated
I think you meant "perceived" wisdom. But in fact, I've installed Linux on several friend's PCs who had never used a computer before (Mandriva 8 IIRC). None of them have had any trouble whatever using it. In fact, I get fewer "how do I" phone calls from them with Linux/KDE than I did when their new machines were running Windows.
Gnu/Linux/KDE (and most likely Gnome as well, although since I haven't used it I can't say) is easier to use than Windows for a variety of reasons, the first being that stuff is put in logical places (at least with Suse and Mandriva) as opposed to Microsoft's way of putting stuff any old place. At least that's what it seems like; I can't see the logic of where Windows' stuff goes at all.
So please stop spreading this this FUD. It's simply not true. Windows is NOT easier to use than Linux.
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I'm familiar with Word, Word Perfect (we have both at work), and Star Office. Of the three I like Word Perfect the best, and absolutely HATE Word.
You may know that I am personally an opponent of software patents
Software is the only thing you can have both a patent AND a copyright on.
Everybody my age hates rap. From folks I talk to, black people my age hate rap even more than I do.
Thousands of other students will have broken this rule in the past sitting around a library table or a kitchen counter - why did the university let them get away with it?
A LIBRARY? WTF??? Are you people crazy letting stucents go to the LIBRARY? God, people, there are BOOKS in there. Some of them even have information that pertains to the homework assignment!
Clearly, anyone who goes within a hundred feet of a library should be expelled.
Uncyclopedia says you're wrong.
is there a more practical way to interface emergent technology with our legal system while retaining civil rights over corporate rights?"
No.
Longer answer: We don't need more knowlegable judges, we need more intelligent ones.
I wear KDEs shoes. Don't all Linux users?
My unreasoning hatred for Java blinds me to any semblance of logic.
I'm like that with C, which is unfortunately what everything is written in these days. Damn kids. Give me plain old assembly any day.
here's a picture of the guy's platforms. I say ditch 'em NOW!
You'll change your mind after you see FORTRAN on Rails.
Dude, smoking pure heroin through a Kool cigarette (a "rail") is so 1970s. These days FORTRAN smokes crack.
We train monkeys to Write fiction.
In COBOL. Using Hollerith cards because keyboards are for pussies.
Am I done yet? Can I go home now?
I've read that England spent so much money on the thing that wags quipped that the only thing it would be good for was computing its own cost.
Wow, and I thought back when I was playing Quake MY lag was bad!
At least in cuba you don't get slashdotted...
And how do you answer when they call up and ask how to run Word and Excel?
I tell them to open Star Office.
What's the Excel formula for getting laid?
=6X7. At least that's the computation Deep Thought came up with.
You people that ask why on posts like this need to turn in your geek card. Geeks do this kind of stuff because we can.
No, more like "because we HAVE TO. We can't help ourselves.
1. You have to do math to do 3D graphics
No you don't. You can do 3D graphics with a pencil and a ream of paper, which is how it was done before computers.
You have to do math to do ANYTHING on a computer. That's how computers work and why they're called computers - they compute. All they CAN do is compute.
What if your only tool is a condom? With a hole?
There's no such thing as "too much free time". My seventy six year old retired dad says he doesn't know how he ever found the time to work!
They can't install software on Windows, either.
Until now, the received wisdom has been that GNU/Linux will never take off with general users because it's too complicated
I think you meant "perceived" wisdom. But in fact, I've installed Linux on several friend's PCs who had never used a computer before (Mandriva 8 IIRC). None of them have had any trouble whatever using it. In fact, I get fewer "how do I" phone calls from them with Linux/KDE than I did when their new machines were running Windows.
Gnu/Linux/KDE (and most likely Gnome as well, although since I haven't used it I can't say) is easier to use than Windows for a variety of reasons, the first being that stuff is put in logical places (at least with Suse and Mandriva) as opposed to Microsoft's way of putting stuff any old place. At least that's what it seems like; I can't see the logic of where Windows' stuff goes at all.
So please stop spreading this this FUD. It's simply not true. Windows is NOT easier to use than Linux.
She's dead, Jim.
I'm pretty sure an Evangelical Christian's idea of what it means to be a moral person differ a bit from my own.
And mine. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests on slashdot combined.
That's true, people do have personal codes of ethics. But you are no more bound by my code of ethics than I'm bound by medical ethics.