Sure, the boosts in efficiency and stability will be welcome, but I for one am very excited about full Exchange support in iCal and Address Book. Heck, the Exchange support in Mail is a bit spotty as well, so touching that up would be great as well.
But what would really be great (and very much in line with the whole "embracing enterprise" thing) would be native support for Cisco IPsec VPN connections. As it stands, you have to use Cisco's own clunky client; if you could use the built-in client you could connect via a menubar icon. (Shimo does this pretty nicely, but it just became crippleware.)
It seems like an obvious addition, given the iPhone 2.0 OS is supposed to have it. Anyone know if it's on the docket for Snow Leopard?
I tried creating a font and the typeset downloaded only included the following characters:
S L A H O T E D
What words can I compose with that... dunno. I'm curious... why did you wait until the end to make the D? I would have designed it after finishing the H, but that's just me.
Don't forget proprioception... this would be easier with a huge machine (i.e. a centrifuge or something) but if we're avoiding direct neural interfaces then this is going to be thing that prevents iPod-sized devices (or, more likely, body-suit sized, to account for Touch)...
I think that the parent is saying what I agree with: that leaving your wireless router unsecured is essentially the same as giving permission.
Maybe this guy should propose a law that forces all wireless routers to be sold in a secured state, requiring the user to take action to turn off the security if he/she wishes?
y'all - singular subject or object. "Y'all bring a truck?" = "Good sir, did you bring your cargo vehicle?" y'alls - singular possessive. "Is that y'alls truck?" = "Does this vehicle belong to you, my good man?" all y'all - plural subject or object. "All y'all git yer guns?" = "Gentlemen, did each of you bring a sidearm?" all y'alls - plural possessive. "Are all y'alls guns in the truck?" = "Sirs, are your firearms all stowed in the vehicle?"
It was all a matter of time before this happened naturally anyways.
No kidding! In fact, when I read the headline my first thought is that these guys were experimenting with ways to put a stop to the rampant cow/whale breeding that has been taking place in cities like mine. It's really transformed my neighborhood in such a way that I'm no longer comfortable letting my kids play out front, at least not unsupervised.
The article says that he is charged with "running an online study group on Facebook"; if that is true, then by extension Ryerson should outlaw any form of study group, because it's just as easy to share answers when you're meeting with others in the library or talking about it at a party with an upperclassman who took the class three years ago. If they are charging him with "posting answers on Facebook," or even "soliciting answers on Facebook," that would be more understandably punishable.
As a college prof, I can attest to the fact that catching plagiarism is necessary and one of the few crappy aspects of my job. There is a fine line between someone (tutor, friend, Facebook buddy, etc.) helping the student and giving him/her the answers, but the line is there nonetheless. It's impossible and inappropriate to police the students every minute; I've seen other profs burn themselves out with the paranoia that there are cheaters out there and they must catch every last one of them.
The answer, in my mind, is to make the students want to learn the material: make the lectures interesting and informative, show them why the information is important for them to know in the long-term, give tests which require the assimilation of the material and not just memorization of the answers. If a student in my class is cheating, I take some responsibility for it.
So could someone enlighten me as to how I could design a PC to die in exactly one or two years so I can make a fortune in warranty repair costs?
I always understood it to be the other way around: company designs a product, tests it to figure out how long it tends to last before going south, and then sets the warranty for just under that amount of time.
And there's good reason. I grew up in Los Alamos, NM, and the best part about doing our swimming merit badges at the county pool was having the dad of one of the scouts -- a LANL physicist -- come early to pick up his son. He'd have all of us at the shallow end of the pool, and he'd be standing there holding a pendulum. Based on the pendulum's swing, he'd either yell "jump in!" and we'd all jump in simultaneously, or "get out" and we'd all get out simultaneously. After doing this for four or five minutes, the entire pool was sloshing back and forth, spilling over onto the deck on each end, getting everyone's towels wet if they weren't on the bleachers.
Yeah, and Smart Rubber also promised it'd return my Criminal Minds Season 2 DVDs and stop eating all the Grape Nuts. And we know how well THAT panned out...
I had never heard of Dresden Codak before this post but am now getting hooked while going through the archive. I think it's hilarious, but then I grew up in Los Alamos...
The linked comic is funny in a postmodern way (wondertwins vs. historical quantum theory) and the art is fantastic. A lot better than I could ever do.
And therein lies the true wonder... not only did he quote from Star Trek, and not only did he quote Shatner during that intermediate period when he was not cool, but he quoted from ST V, which most consider the worst one ever made.
That's no nerd, that's an übernerd. We are not worthy.
I'm just assuming that everyone here knows this already, but for the one or two of you who don't know, the Heisenberg Compensator is the part of the ST transporter that deals with the pesky quantum issue of not being able to pin down the exact location of the subatomic particles whizzing around in Picard's body.
Of course it's physically impossible to make such a compensation, and when one of the technical guys on the show's staff (Okuda?) was asked how the Heisenberg Compensator worked, he replied, "Very well, thank you."
When I was in driver's ed, one of the instructors was reading from the textbook (this was in the 80s, and the textbook was probably 25 years old at that point) where it said to give quick beeps on your horn to signal to other drivers as you are passing them, and at some other innocuous times. He then told us that he had tried this, and even when he also smiled and waved, the reaction from other drivers was... well, less than friendly.
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Sure, the boosts in efficiency and stability will be welcome, but I for one am very excited about full Exchange support in iCal and Address Book. Heck, the Exchange support in Mail is a bit spotty as well, so touching that up would be great as well.
But what would really be great (and very much in line with the whole "embracing enterprise" thing) would be native support for Cisco IPsec VPN connections. As it stands, you have to use Cisco's own clunky client; if you could use the built-in client you could connect via a menubar icon. (Shimo does this pretty nicely, but it just became crippleware.)
It seems like an obvious addition, given the iPhone 2.0 OS is supposed to have it. Anyone know if it's on the docket for Snow Leopard?
Uh, like this ubiquitous?
Actually, when I read the summary, I thought, "Wait, when did "whitehouse" become one word?"
Don't forget proprioception... this would be easier with a huge machine (i.e. a centrifuge or something) but if we're avoiding direct neural interfaces then this is going to be thing that prevents iPod-sized devices (or, more likely, body-suit sized, to account for Touch)...
MySpace in bed with the Recording Industry? What could possibly go wrong?
I think that the parent is saying what I agree with: that leaving your wireless router unsecured is essentially the same as giving permission.
Maybe this guy should propose a law that forces all wireless routers to be sold in a secured state, requiring the user to take action to turn off the security if he/she wishes?
Come now, it's simple, really:
y'all - singular subject or object. "Y'all bring a truck?" = "Good sir, did you bring your cargo vehicle?"
y'alls - singular possessive. "Is that y'alls truck?" = "Does this vehicle belong to you, my good man?"
all y'all - plural subject or object. "All y'all git yer guns?" = "Gentlemen, did each of you bring a sidearm?"
all y'alls - plural possessive. "Are all y'alls guns in the truck?" = "Sirs, are your firearms all stowed in the vehicle?"
No kidding! In fact, when I read the headline my first thought is that these guys were experimenting with ways to put a stop to the rampant cow/whale breeding that has been taking place in cities like mine. It's really transformed my neighborhood in such a way that I'm no longer comfortable letting my kids play out front, at least not unsupervised.
The article says that he is charged with "running an online study group on Facebook"; if that is true, then by extension Ryerson should outlaw any form of study group, because it's just as easy to share answers when you're meeting with others in the library or talking about it at a party with an upperclassman who took the class three years ago. If they are charging him with "posting answers on Facebook," or even "soliciting answers on Facebook," that would be more understandably punishable.
As a college prof, I can attest to the fact that catching plagiarism is necessary and one of the few crappy aspects of my job. There is a fine line between someone (tutor, friend, Facebook buddy, etc.) helping the student and giving him/her the answers, but the line is there nonetheless. It's impossible and inappropriate to police the students every minute; I've seen other profs burn themselves out with the paranoia that there are cheaters out there and they must catch every last one of them.
The answer, in my mind, is to make the students want to learn the material: make the lectures interesting and informative, show them why the information is important for them to know in the long-term, give tests which require the assimilation of the material and not just memorization of the answers. If a student in my class is cheating, I take some responsibility for it.
And maintaining an active Facebook account doesn't hurt...
I bet Rockhound would do it either way!
And there's good reason. I grew up in Los Alamos, NM, and the best part about doing our swimming merit badges at the county pool was having the dad of one of the scouts -- a LANL physicist -- come early to pick up his son. He'd have all of us at the shallow end of the pool, and he'd be standing there holding a pendulum. Based on the pendulum's swing, he'd either yell "jump in!" and we'd all jump in simultaneously, or "get out" and we'd all get out simultaneously. After doing this for four or five minutes, the entire pool was sloshing back and forth, spilling over onto the deck on each end, getting everyone's towels wet if they weren't on the bleachers.
We thought it was awesome. The lifeguards didn't.
Yeah, and Smart Rubber also promised it'd return my Criminal Minds Season 2 DVDs and stop eating all the Grape Nuts. And we know how well THAT panned out...
I had never heard of Dresden Codak before this post but am now getting hooked while going through the archive. I think it's hilarious, but then I grew up in Los Alamos...
The linked comic is funny in a postmodern way (wondertwins vs. historical quantum theory) and the art is fantastic. A lot better than I could ever do.
Well, at least Nemesis had Picard...
*ducks*
And therein lies the true wonder... not only did he quote from Star Trek, and not only did he quote Shatner during that intermediate period when he was not cool, but he quoted from ST V, which most consider the worst one ever made.
That's no nerd, that's an übernerd. We are not worthy.
I saw the headline and got all excited....
Hmmm... depends. Who's directing, J.J. Abrams, or Roland Emmerich?
I'm just assuming that everyone here knows this already, but for the one or two of you who don't know, the Heisenberg Compensator is the part of the ST transporter that deals with the pesky quantum issue of not being able to pin down the exact location of the subatomic particles whizzing around in Picard's body.
Of course it's physically impossible to make such a compensation, and when one of the technical guys on the show's staff (Okuda?) was asked how the Heisenberg Compensator worked, he replied, "Very well, thank you."
Ahh... good point! Well said.
When I was in driver's ed, one of the instructors was reading from the textbook (this was in the 80s, and the textbook was probably 25 years old at that point) where it said to give quick beeps on your horn to signal to other drivers as you are passing them, and at some other innocuous times. He then told us that he had tried this, and even when he also smiled and waved, the reaction from other drivers was... well, less than friendly.
And E. Lizardo and T. Hikita, et al, made some strides toward the eighth... and even had some independent confirmation by B. Banzai years later.