When was the last time you used an air-conditioner or Bobcat Godthwait's Big Ass Show to research your term-paper?
I'll address these one at a time.
Air conditioning.
Having lived in a residence over the summer term, and being on the top floor, I can attest that it gets *DAMN* hot, especially when you don't have any A/C (I didn't). Why would you need A/C to get your work done? Simple. It prevents your ink from running.
That's right. When people get hot, their body's reaction it to sweat. The sweat forms into globules and drips down onto paper, and makes ink smear. I for one would refuse to sign my name at the top of a paper that is totally unreadable due to sweat stains.
And if you're thinking: "But most papers nowadays are written on computer." I have news for you, the danger increases. Just think about it: Computers use electricity, sweat is a good conductor, sweat on computer makes nasty shocks. It would be a health hazard to use a computer when you're sweating.
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I'll rip my example straight from a video game. Ever played The Sims? Well, if you didn't, I'll tell you what happens. You take a person and send them to work everyday without any time to unwind or relax. Eventually they just crash and can't do anything.
Same thing happens to students. We need distractions to prevent nervous breakdowns, suicides, and switching into Arts programs. I just can't imagine myself going on for a whole term doing nothing but studying because my dorm doesn't allow me to do anything *BUT* study.
Though I do have some small beef with #2, India did all their testing underground so there is no radioactive fallout.
The French on the other hand, detonated a bomb on a South-Pacific Island (underwater, I believe) a few years go. Water particles have a bit more freedom to travel than particles underground.
IIRC, what makes a brand of Unix, Unix... Is the source code has to descent from the original Unix for the PDP-7. So such variants as Linux are *NOT* considered Unix. As well, I believe the word Unix is copyrighted, and owned by AT&T (somebody tell me if I'm wrong?).
Just because you have some shells and a kernel does not mean you're running Unix. It just means you're running an OS.
Sadly, I feel that there are people who would like to see less mathematical content (e.g. removing multivariable calculus from the requirements)
It's already happened. MATH 237 is no longer a requirement for CS. I'm not sure when it happened, but it must have been sometime before my first year. But it's still a great idea to take, it really opens your eyes to what calculus *really* is about (in a more general case than a single piddly variable:)
Okay, I guess you don't know how the scoring works. It's all based on how many questions the team successfully completes (any language, doesn't matter). NOT the quality of the code.
However, if a submitted program does not satisfy the automatic testing (and specs), penalty minutes , equal to the number of minutes since the contest began, are added to the team's penalty total. The penalty minutes are used if teams have the same number of correct submissions.
So first off, whoever has the most correct programs is the winner. If there is a tie, then whoever has the least penalty minutes wins.
Sounds like AMD's going to speed their FPU up somewhat. It's about time. I've been cranking my K6/2 without any pipelining, and been feeling 1/3 the speed of an Intel.
Yeah, I was surprised there isn't a distributed attempt to disprove the conjecture. It *is* after all a conjecture, and deserves to be shot down:). I for one would gladly give up my search for Mersenne primes (GIMPS) and look for even numbers that do not have 2 primes as summands.
It is in the nation's best interests to make sure that foreign money goes into buying American dollars
Wasn't the US based upon the concept of a free market and capitalism? I fail to see how a government interfering in companies' affairs contributes to a free market.
IIRC, it is the government's responsibility to ensure the market is *FAIR* for all interested, and not favouring to the "home boys".
Although I hesitate to use it, I have to resort to an age-old cliché: "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would yout too?" It is irrelevant whether other countries practice government-sponsored industrial espionage, it is against what the United States was created for.
There's a possibility that FreeBSD will have to find a new distribution site. But that's doubtful. Just take a look at what else is sitting there on cdrom.com.
Right next to FreeBSD are a whole whackload of Linuxes, and 4.4BSD. I believe Walnut Creek is also the official distribution site of Slackware (I might be wrong here), yet also distributes Red Hat. I can't verify that right now, since it appears all the linuxes on ftp.cdrom.com have disappeared.:)
IIRC, Slackware's "mission statement" is to be the most Unix-like of all the Linuxes. To what extent they fulfill that, I'm not sure since I haven't played with BSD too much. Now if they could only update the installer... But that would make it less Unix-like, wouldn't it?;)
My reason for using Slackware is that the configuration is really nice, with all the rc.? files in one spot, unlike in Red Hat.
Put simply, in the US it is illegal to rebroadcast someone elses signal, it's that simple. You can rationalize it all you want, but the law is very clear on this point.
You are absolutely correct. Now, if a US company tried to do the same, they would be doing something illegal.
However, the company is CANADIAN, and is broadcasing to CANADIANS. And therefore it is under CANADIAN law. The US laws don't apply. They're not even doing business in the US!
For example, suppose chewing gum is illegal in Uruguay. You're not in Uruguay, but they decide to prosecute you because you're breaking one of their laws. Get my point?
To the best of my knowledge, a full T. Rex skeleton has never been found. Any "full skeletons" out there, are partial skeletons, with plaster replicas for the missing bones.
Yes, I know, the bones on display in museums are *always* plaster replicas (Can you imagine trying to hold up FOSSILIZED bones with thin little wires?). But there is a set of bones "in the back", where the plaster replicas came from. Of course, if some bones were missing from the originals, some fakes would be made to fill in the gaps.
I wish you luck. You'll never get a straight or correct answer. The problem is that holy wars erupt, because some people don't enjoy having something they consider sacred called 'inferior'. Take vi vs. emacs for example. Nobody will ever be able to tell you which is better.
As for the Linuxes, they are technically all the same. The same source code, the same apps (GNU stuff). Just different compiler options, and version numbers. Some may ship with a few more applications than another, but it's nothing that you can't download at a later time. The only difference I can think of is configuration. Redhat and its derivatives put rc files all over the place, whereas Slackware (and others?) put the important ones in/etc/rc.d
I think the best way to explain this would be to experiment.
Get a ping-pong ball and a flashlight. Find a nice dark room and turn on the flashlight. Now, put the ping-pong ball into the light. The flashlight would be the sun, the ping-pong ball would be the moon and your eyes would be the earth. Remember, the sun is much larger than the earth and the earth is much alrger than the moon. So the shadow cast by your head is going to be exaggerated a lot.
Now comes the eclipse part. The moon does not orbit in the same plane that the earth orbits in. It is a few degrees off. So, when the moon is at its farthest away from the sun in its orbit (a full moon), the distance between the sun and the moon != (distance between sun and earth) + (distance between earth and moon). Just think of the earth, sun and moon as three points in a very obtuse triangle.
Doesn't $1,000,000.00 seem a big expensive for a set-top box?:) I'm not an economist, but I'm sure there is a pretty small market for high-pricetag-low-end internet connections.
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Not all religions have been irked by sex. Only the Judeo-Christian ones
Yeah, I gotta admit I was only thinking with a Western mind. The Eastern ones are pretty liberated. I don't know if they can be called religions rather than spiritualities (well, except for Hinduism). I'm not very qualified on the issue however. But from what I understand, it is quite easy to mix a religion and spirituality. e.g. Christianity and Buddhism.
Usually trespassing only occurs when there is unauthorized access.
People who browse (normally) are not trespassing since they are "authorized" by eBay to access their web pages.
IANAL but I can still remember a bit from my law classes.
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artificially created life
Religion has always been irked by this. In the beginning, it was called sex. And organized religions put restrictions on it. Now it's called genetic manipulation and still organized religions are putting restrictions on it.
I can't see how 2000+ year old ideas can apply to 50- year old ideas. The world we are living in has changed a lot since the fall of the Roman Empire. Society has changed, morals have changed, even the species has changed!
I'm not going out to say that we should scrap all the teaching of religion, but that we should modify them to fit our modern world. They should be interpreted rather than taken literally.
It *is* a relief that a bioengineering patent has been rejected. However, the reasons for the overturning are still a bit wanting.
scientists got the important patent in 1990 by misrepresenting their experiments and falsely claiming advances over previous discoveries.
This is just business as usual for the judge. It wasn't exactly a ground-shattering decision like, oh say, that processes to do with DNA should be unpatentable. If it *was*, then I'd be applauding.
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Didn't Allen sell all of his stock off to Gates a few years ago?
I guess the poster owns stock in RHAT and is trying to spread FUD. :)
I'll address these one at a time.
Having lived in a residence over the summer term, and being on the top floor, I can attest that it gets *DAMN* hot, especially when you don't have any A/C (I didn't). Why would you need A/C to get your work done? Simple. It prevents your ink from running.
That's right. When people get hot, their body's reaction it to sweat. The sweat forms into globules and drips down onto paper, and makes ink smear. I for one would refuse to sign my name at the top of a paper that is totally unreadable due to sweat stains.
And if you're thinking: "But most papers nowadays are written on computer." I have news for you, the danger increases. Just think about it: Computers use electricity, sweat is a good conductor, sweat on computer makes nasty shocks. It would be a health hazard to use a computer when you're sweating.
I'll rip my example straight from a video game. Ever played The Sims? Well, if you didn't, I'll tell you what happens. You take a person and send them to work everyday without any time to unwind or relax. Eventually they just crash and can't do anything.
Same thing happens to students. We need distractions to prevent nervous breakdowns, suicides, and switching into Arts programs. I just can't imagine myself going on for a whole term doing nothing but studying because my dorm doesn't allow me to do anything *BUT* study.
The French on the other hand, detonated a bomb on a South-Pacific Island (underwater, I believe) a few years go. Water particles have a bit more freedom to travel than particles underground.
Just because you have some shells and a kernel does not mean you're running Unix. It just means you're running an OS.
It's already happened. MATH 237 is no longer a requirement for CS. I'm not sure when it happened, but it must have been sometime before my first year. But it's still a great idea to take, it really opens your eyes to what calculus *really* is about (in a more general case than a single piddly variable :)
Isn't the Computer Graphics Lab was in DC?
However, if a submitted program does not satisfy the automatic testing (and specs), penalty minutes , equal to the number of minutes since the contest began, are added to the team's penalty total. The penalty minutes are used if teams have the same number of correct submissions.
So first off, whoever has the most correct programs is the winner. If there is a tie, then whoever has the least penalty minutes wins.
Wow, I've seen Donny Cheung in the hallways of the Math building, and never even recognized him... :)
Sounds like AMD's going to speed their FPU up somewhat. It's about time. I've been cranking my K6/2 without any pipelining, and been feeling 1/3 the speed of an Intel.
Anybody want to start one with me? :)
Wasn't the US based upon the concept of a free market and capitalism? I fail to see how a government interfering in companies' affairs contributes to a free market.
IIRC, it is the government's responsibility to ensure the market is *FAIR* for all interested, and not favouring to the "home boys".
Although I hesitate to use it, I have to resort to an age-old cliché: "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would yout too?" It is irrelevant whether other countries practice government-sponsored industrial espionage, it is against what the United States was created for.
It's hypocritical to the maximus :)
P.S. Glad I'm not American. :)
Right next to FreeBSD are a whole whackload of Linuxes, and 4.4BSD. I believe Walnut Creek is also the official distribution site of Slackware (I might be wrong here), yet also distributes Red Hat. I can't verify that right now, since it appears all the linuxes on ftp.cdrom.com have disappeared. :)
My reason for using Slackware is that the configuration is really nice, with all the rc.? files in one spot, unlike in Red Hat.
You are absolutely correct. Now, if a US company tried to do the same, they would be doing something illegal.
However, the company is CANADIAN, and is broadcasing to CANADIANS. And therefore it is under CANADIAN law. The US laws don't apply. They're not even doing business in the US!
For example, suppose chewing gum is illegal in Uruguay. You're not in Uruguay, but they decide to prosecute you because you're breaking one of their laws. Get my point?
To the best of my knowledge, a full T. Rex skeleton has never been found. Any "full skeletons" out there, are partial skeletons, with plaster replicas for the missing bones.
Yes, I know, the bones on display in museums are *always* plaster replicas (Can you imagine trying to hold up FOSSILIZED bones with thin little wires?). But there is a set of bones "in the back", where the plaster replicas came from. Of course, if some bones were missing from the originals, some fakes would be made to fill in the gaps.
Want a definition? You got several!
As for the Linuxes, they are technically all the same. The same source code, the same apps (GNU stuff). Just different compiler options, and version numbers. Some may ship with a few more applications than another, but it's nothing that you can't download at a later time. The only difference I can think of is configuration. Redhat and its derivatives put rc files all over the place, whereas Slackware (and others?) put the important ones in /etc/rc.d
I think more to the point would be: Unless whoever watches the movie has a THX theatre, I think both versions would be about the same.
THX is a specification for movie theatres, not a digital sound format.
Get a ping-pong ball and a flashlight. Find a nice dark room and turn on the flashlight. Now, put the ping-pong ball into the light. The flashlight would be the sun, the ping-pong ball would be the moon and your eyes would be the earth. Remember, the sun is much larger than the earth and the earth is much alrger than the moon. So the shadow cast by your head is going to be exaggerated a lot.
Now comes the eclipse part. The moon does not orbit in the same plane that the earth orbits in. It is a few degrees off. So, when the moon is at its farthest away from the sun in its orbit (a full moon), the distance between the sun and the moon != (distance between sun and earth) + (distance between earth and moon). Just think of the earth, sun and moon as three points in a very obtuse triangle.
Doesn't $1,000,000.00 seem a big expensive for a set-top box? :) I'm not an economist, but I'm sure there is a pretty small market for high-pricetag-low-end internet connections.
Yeah, I gotta admit I was only thinking with a Western mind. The Eastern ones are pretty liberated. I don't know if they can be called religions rather than spiritualities (well, except for Hinduism). I'm not very qualified on the issue however. But from what I understand, it is quite easy to mix a religion and spirituality. e.g. Christianity and Buddhism.
People who browse (normally) are not trespassing since they are "authorized" by eBay to access their web pages.
IANAL but I can still remember a bit from my law classes.
Religion has always been irked by this. In the beginning, it was called sex. And organized religions put restrictions on it. Now it's called genetic manipulation and still organized religions are putting restrictions on it.
I can't see how 2000+ year old ideas can apply to 50- year old ideas. The world we are living in has changed a lot since the fall of the Roman Empire. Society has changed, morals have changed, even the species has changed!
I'm not going out to say that we should scrap all the teaching of religion, but that we should modify them to fit our modern world. They should be interpreted rather than taken literally.
scientists got the important patent in 1990 by misrepresenting their experiments and falsely claiming advances over previous discoveries.
This is just business as usual for the judge. It wasn't exactly a ground-shattering decision like, oh say, that processes to do with DNA should be unpatentable. If it *was*, then I'd be applauding.
Still, one down, 9999 to go.