Then they'll target both genders equally. Then the mosquitos will get a little tougher, perhaps reflective in the appropriate frequency, and learn to play dead and fall to the ground when hit with a laser that doesn't quite kill them.
Where they are promptly eaten by a frog. Sometimes, change and predation happens so fast that evolution is not a fast enough process to prevent extinction. Sometimes the change is insurmountable.
And in my opinion, this is second most important part: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." For example: The right to not have your cellphones monitored by Monkeyhead Dubya Bush or Barak Corpseman Obama via the Unpatriotic Act.
Interstate Commerce.
'But', you say, 'It is a...'
Interstate Commerce.
'OK, but surely...'
Interstate Commerce.
It's the Wildcard of the Constitution, and it's current interpretation by the SCOTUS makes all the protections in the Bill of Rights and the enumeration of powers meaningless.
My understanding is that they don't. But Texas is a huge purchaser of textbooks and the standards they set influence what the publishers are willing to print. They publish books in order to placate Texas and the rest of the country are stuck with them.
I ran into similar problems on several tests during my academic tenure. I eventually decided that, in the case of those questions, unless it specifically says something like "always" or "every time", then whichever case that is most likely to happen is the one the examiner is thinking about. That, and what would a reasonable student with the expected knowledge at this level be expected to think
I learned that lesson VERY quickly. Unfortunately I learned it from the result of my first freshman exam in a CS course. And that exam was 40% of my grade.
Hmm looking up the professor... it appears there is no more record of her, anywhere. I'm hoping they dumped her because even for a freshman course I learned very little from her.
I'd rather not find out. (And some other posters have provided examples).
The fact of the matter is a cop is an extention of a judicial system which uses an adversarial style of judgement. At his whim, I could be implicated as an opponent of that adversary. An adversary which effectively has an infinite amount of resources to use against me. I only have the amount of money I can borrow or raise on my limited personal salary which may not exist much longer if I am implicated in any way or prevented from going to work for any period longer than my vacation/personal leave allows.
As a result, I intentionally limit the amount of time in which I am in contact with the police to an absolute minimum. If that amount of time can be zero, all the better.
My father once taught computer science to high school students. His approach was to grade the assignment, and divide the points equally among all the students who handed in substantially identical work. (One good assignment, total grade 90%. Handed in by three people -- everyone gets 30%.) The problem didn't usually recur.
Slight permutations of the assignment also provide interesting results, as each student hands in identical answers to different questions.
My friend had an interesting tale when a student came up to him (He is an English teacher) and complained that she got a 0% (everything wrong) even though her friend had the exact same answers.
His response: Did she have the exact same questions?
She had copied her friends answers verbatim without checking that they had the same exam. It was multiple choice, so the beauty was that she scored even lower than if she had just picked all off column 'B'.
Absolutely. I've actually had to work with someone I knew was cheating in school and they couldn't code their way out of a pile of leaves, let alone a wet paper sack.
They got the grades because they cheated. They got the job because they got the grades. Eventually, they were among the first to get the layoff because B and C students like me just plain outperformed them day in and day out on the job.
I hated coding in higher level languages, but I loved doing it for microcontrollers in Assembly. Combined with my logic courses and some of the more theoretically courses I thought it combined to make me a solid engineer. (At least my company thought so and paid me a hell of a lot to stay when I asked to leave)
Yet I had a HELL of a time with my early programming courses because the exams were so poorly designed that I ended up failing a course because I just couldn't do the exams well. My projects typically netted me a 100% in the courses, but I bombed the exams because I just sucked at picking out typos, or misreading what the question was asking.
True and False questions did me in something terribly, as they were worded very poorly and I often caught myself overthinking the problem: "Well, it might be true, but if you look at the statement from this angle then it is actually false." I actually understood the subject matter too well for those kinds of questions and ended up having to say to myself "What did they think a student who has a basic knowledge of this question answer."
The exams were 90 questions long and the exam was 90 minutes. So it caused me a great deal of grief when I simply needed more information on the question to give it a proper answer. Combined with exams which were 35-50% of your final grade, it was very easy to screw up your grades. (Still doesn't beat the SINGLE question probability exam I had that was 35% of my grade, you either got a 100% on the final or a 0% since the professor lost the exam the night before and had to come up with a question on the fly)
I did poorly on that class, but convinced the professor of the next level course that even though I bombed the pre-req, I knew what I was doing but just didn't do well with those sorts of exams. I took the higher level course and finished with a 97% (It was project, not exam based) Then I went back and slugged through the preliminary course and you can be damned sure that I used every advantage I could for the exams.
I've never taken exams well, especially exams that try to put complex issues into true/false questions.
So on this point, I'm not sure I would be happy with a CS program that tries to place greater emphasis on exams than actual work.
At this point, since my life would be financially over, I'd consider some other options. Options that, while not monetarily or legally beneficial, ones that would be immensely emotionally cathartic.
I've had a copy of windows that I bought earlier in the decade, and transferred it from machine, to machine, to machine as I either upgraded hardware or replaced dead components. The old machines were gifted to friends/family with a linux installation.
This last time, I messed up something and got the WGA notification. (Maybe it didn't like that I had it on 10 machines, even though only one at a time) I can't really use linux on this machine, I just don't have the time to tinker like I used to, so I've been using the registry key hack to fix it. It is just damned annoying to have to do it every time windows restarts.
I could probably call Microsoft, but I'm mostly just pissed about the whole situation. Of course the irony is I just moved to a new house and in the course of packing, I found the original install disk hidden in my office supplies.
Then refuse to repair people's computers if they have invalid keys. Or request their Windows CD when they take it to the shop. There are about a hundred ways around this.
. I fully expect we'll end up finding life a lot more frequently than we expect at the moment.
So you expect to find more than we(thus you) expect at the moment. Holy crap, you are stuck in a feedback loop of ever growing expectations. If you expectations are not bound by time and you are simply expecting more with every moment by now you already expect to find an infinite amount of life.
These self-replicating expectations are dangerous things. As I expect you know.
This is an odd definition of 'previously supported'.
I don't think it is an odd definition. I think it is the neutral definition the concept that companies retroactively revoking capability somehow causes that capability to have been unsupported in the past is a fairly odd definition.
While we may disagree on that definition, the point remains that just because you are able to do something with a previous version of an Apple product, there is no guarantee that you will be able to do that unless it is explicitly guaranteed by Apple. So pointing to previous versions of Apple's software is just an indicator and certainly no guarantee.
When they are already being offered $500,000+ per year even before you consider all the other forms of compensation, I'd say you have a very flexible definition for 'screwed'.
It wouldn't be the first time that a later generation of an Apple product REMOVED features that they previously supported. Nor is it unique to Apple.
Consider the PS3, which has decreased in functionality with every single revision.
Or consider how with later OS drops of the iphone, features and third party hardware stopped working (but don't worry there is an Apple product which you can buy for 10x the cost) The reason the third party hardware stopped working had nothing to do with any real incompatability but that it wasn't recognized as 'official' and the iPhone used software to disable the output to that component.
I love tinkering, in my workshop there are several dozen computers in various states, about a dozen different OS installs and spare parts galore.
Yet I was thinking about purchasing a Logitech all-in-one remote control device. One that has a simplified interface so that I could control the computer which is serving as my television's backend while also handling my AV equipment. That is something that I really wanted someone ELSE to develop an interface for me.
I can see how that could work in with the ipad. (except I don't think it really does IR, and you would need some sort of special backend equipment to receive/transmit the IR and RF to your components.) And that remote doesn't really prevent me from taking it apart and mucking about with it to tailor it to my uses if I should so choose.
Yet I can see it being similar to such a device. One that I think is absurdly encumbered and beyond my price range for such a device.
Because DRM uses encryption and keys to deny access. A CD check is just crude copy protection. And if you're calling serial numbers DRM, then you've just made the term utterly useless and meaningless.
No, it isn't and I'm not sure why you are defending it. For example:
A CD check is just crude copy protection.
Copy protection.
And what is it protecting or prohibiting?
Your ability to make a copy.
It is an attempt by the publisher to control your right to reproduce it.
Unless said level 10 soldier has just witnessed said Orc in armor punch out a dragon.
I like to think of it like the Matrix. There is the story, and then there is the simulation behind it. The simulation broke when your Orc punched out a dragon. That was the dejavu cat walking by, a glitch in the matrix as the simulation broke down as your character entered into an area where it shouldn't be.
As far as the WoW world goes, your character shouldn't have been able to do that. Nor should your character be able to wade into stormwind tossing hundreds of guards into the canals without breaking a sweat. Your character, while part of the storyline, isn't supposed to be able to do things like that. So it is just a glitch. The level 10 character SHOULD be running towards you, because if you designed the story to react based upon your character's strength as told by the 'matrix' it would break down the true purpose of the world, to tell a story.
So either you balance the game along the idea that experience and Armor can do a lot for you, you are still just an orc or human in armor. If you took off your armor, it wouldn't make sense for you to be able to deflect blows from swords with just your skin regardless of how much combat experience you have.
So I agree that IF you saw someone punch out the dragon, they should run away, the fact that you DID punch out the dragon is simply a flaw in the game and not the story, so the NPCs must react according to the story and not the flaw.
Not until the copyright expires. I have no problem with reasonable copyright terms but this is yet another straw man as its completely orthogonal to the issue at hand. Excessive copyright terms are not justification to steal something today. So contrary to your flawed assertion, no you absolutely are not entitled to it as you see fit, on your terms and no other.
You are also using terms like stealing which I believe implies a more extreme form of infringement (deliberately taking another's work and then reproducing it for sale), so your standards and my standards are different.
I simply view the current copyright laws as a breach of the social contract and since I don't have the pockets to fix it, or the time/money to push something like that to the supreme court, Perhaps if my hardware wasn't intentionally crippled in order to prevent something that I wasn't doing in the first place. It has just reached the point where I simply have no care for it anymore. At least not in the state it is in now. As you have these companies lobbying to have a system instituted whereby people's Right to Free Speech can be stripped under very light judicial oversight... again, I simply refuse to honor it anymore.
Much as if I saw someone smoking Marijuana. I don't care if it is illegal, the government is in the wrong trying to enforce such laws and I can not in good conscience support the prosecution of such 'crimes'. I don't personally do it as I have other motivations and reasonings, but I'd abstain from supporting any efforts to prosecute.
As to your "when is a good time for the meeting" I'm surprised you didn't get a better response rate. Especially if you worded it "We will have a staff meeting at 10:00 AM Friday unless you can't make it. How you word the questions has a BIG effect on response, as well as response rate.
I don't disagree, but the email in question was going to the owner of the company who doesn't exactly follow his calendar. In that case, I do err on the 'what time is good for you.' THEN send out a selection of options to the others (who were investors).
Slashdot Mirror
The Future's so bright... I wear my sunglasses at night.
Frankly, I'm not entirely sure you want to be zapping mosquitoes and aerosolizing their body parts around an open surgery site.
I'd rather risk a bacterial infection than Malaria when trying to recover from surgery.
Then they'll target both genders equally. Then the mosquitos will get a little tougher, perhaps reflective in the appropriate frequency, and learn to play dead and fall to the ground when hit with a laser that doesn't quite kill them.
Where they are promptly eaten by a frog. Sometimes, change and predation happens so fast that evolution is not a fast enough process to prevent extinction. Sometimes the change is insurmountable.
Adios passenger pidgeon.
Woe be to the man who walks past wearing his fishing vest.
Science is not the search for truth, just facts. If you want truth you should seek out philosophy
But Professor Jones' Archaeology class is so much more interesting.
And in my opinion, this is second most important part: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." For example: The right to not have your cellphones monitored by Monkeyhead Dubya Bush or Barak Corpseman Obama via the Unpatriotic Act.
Interstate Commerce.
'But', you say, 'It is a...'
Interstate Commerce.
'OK, but surely...'
Interstate Commerce.
It's the Wildcard of the Constitution, and it's current interpretation by the SCOTUS makes all the protections in the Bill of Rights and the enumeration of powers meaningless.
My understanding is that they don't. But Texas is a huge purchaser of textbooks and the standards they set influence what the publishers are willing to print. They publish books in order to placate Texas and the rest of the country are stuck with them.
Kind of like car regulations and California.
(Really wanted a Diesel engine in my new car)
I ran into similar problems on several tests during my academic tenure. I eventually decided that, in the case of those questions, unless it specifically says something like "always" or "every time", then whichever case that is most likely to happen is the one the examiner is thinking about. That, and what would a reasonable student with the expected knowledge at this level be expected to think
I learned that lesson VERY quickly. Unfortunately I learned it from the result of my first freshman exam in a CS course. And that exam was 40% of my grade.
Hmm looking up the professor... it appears there is no more record of her, anywhere. I'm hoping they dumped her because even for a freshman course I learned very little from her.
what's the harm really?
I'd rather not find out. (And some other posters have provided examples).
The fact of the matter is a cop is an extention of a judicial system which uses an adversarial style of judgement. At his whim, I could be implicated as an opponent of that adversary. An adversary which effectively has an infinite amount of resources to use against me. I only have the amount of money I can borrow or raise on my limited personal salary which may not exist much longer if I am implicated in any way or prevented from going to work for any period longer than my vacation/personal leave allows.
As a result, I intentionally limit the amount of time in which I am in contact with the police to an absolute minimum. If that amount of time can be zero, all the better.
There are often many correct answers in CS.
And that is what killed me when my CS professor handed me an exam with mostly true/false questions. (I described it earlier)
She wasn't a very good professor.
My father once taught computer science to high school students. His approach was to grade the assignment, and divide the points equally among all the students who handed in substantially identical work. (One good assignment, total grade 90%. Handed in by three people -- everyone gets 30%.) The problem didn't usually recur.
Slight permutations of the assignment also provide interesting results, as each student hands in identical answers to different questions.
My friend had an interesting tale when a student came up to him (He is an English teacher) and complained that she got a 0% (everything wrong) even though her friend had the exact same answers.
His response:
Did she have the exact same questions?
She had copied her friends answers verbatim without checking that they had the same exam. It was multiple choice, so the beauty was that she scored even lower than if she had just picked all off column 'B'.
Absolutely. I've actually had to work with someone I knew was cheating in school and they couldn't code their way out of a pile of leaves, let alone a wet paper sack.
They got the grades because they cheated. They got the job because they got the grades. Eventually, they were among the first to get the layoff because B and C students like me just plain outperformed them day in and day out on the job.
I hated coding in higher level languages, but I loved doing it for microcontrollers in Assembly. Combined with my logic courses and some of the more theoretically courses I thought it combined to make me a solid engineer. (At least my company thought so and paid me a hell of a lot to stay when I asked to leave)
Yet I had a HELL of a time with my early programming courses because the exams were so poorly designed that I ended up failing a course because I just couldn't do the exams well. My projects typically netted me a 100% in the courses, but I bombed the exams because I just sucked at picking out typos, or misreading what the question was asking.
True and False questions did me in something terribly, as they were worded very poorly and I often caught myself overthinking the problem: "Well, it might be true, but if you look at the statement from this angle then it is actually false." I actually understood the subject matter too well for those kinds of questions and ended up having to say to myself "What did they think a student who has a basic knowledge of this question answer."
The exams were 90 questions long and the exam was 90 minutes. So it caused me a great deal of grief when I simply needed more information on the question to give it a proper answer. Combined with exams which were 35-50% of your final grade, it was very easy to screw up your grades. (Still doesn't beat the SINGLE question probability exam I had that was 35% of my grade, you either got a 100% on the final or a 0% since the professor lost the exam the night before and had to come up with a question on the fly)
I did poorly on that class, but convinced the professor of the next level course that even though I bombed the pre-req, I knew what I was doing but just didn't do well with those sorts of exams. I took the higher level course and finished with a 97% (It was project, not exam based) Then I went back and slugged through the preliminary course and you can be damned sure that I used every advantage I could for the exams.
I've never taken exams well, especially exams that try to put complex issues into true/false questions.
So on this point, I'm not sure I would be happy with a CS program that tries to place greater emphasis on exams than actual work.
So this is what, the third trial?
At this point, since my life would be financially over, I'd consider some other options. Options that, while not monetarily or legally beneficial, ones that would be immensely emotionally cathartic.
Is there a way to auto-import the key?
I've had a copy of windows that I bought earlier in the decade, and transferred it from machine, to machine, to machine as I either upgraded hardware or replaced dead components. The old machines were gifted to friends/family with a linux installation.
This last time, I messed up something and got the WGA notification. (Maybe it didn't like that I had it on 10 machines, even though only one at a time) I can't really use linux on this machine, I just don't have the time to tinker like I used to, so I've been using the registry key hack to fix it. It is just damned annoying to have to do it every time windows restarts.
I could probably call Microsoft, but I'm mostly just pissed about the whole situation. Of course the irony is I just moved to a new house and in the course of packing, I found the original install disk hidden in my office supplies.
Then refuse to repair people's computers if they have invalid keys. Or request their Windows CD when they take it to the shop. There are about a hundred ways around this.
Yeah, 100 ways to fold your business.
. I fully expect we'll end up finding life a lot more frequently than we expect at the moment.
So you expect to find more than we(thus you) expect at the moment. Holy crap, you are stuck in a feedback loop of ever growing expectations. If you expectations are not bound by time and you are simply expecting more with every moment by now you already expect to find an infinite amount of life.
These self-replicating expectations are dangerous things. As I expect you know.
This is an odd definition of 'previously supported'.
I don't think it is an odd definition. I think it is the neutral definition the concept that companies retroactively revoking capability somehow causes that capability to have been unsupported in the past is a fairly odd definition.
While we may disagree on that definition, the point remains that just because you are able to do something with a previous version of an Apple product, there is no guarantee that you will be able to do that unless it is explicitly guaranteed by Apple. So pointing to previous versions of Apple's software is just an indicator and certainly no guarantee.
When they are already being offered $500,000+ per year even before you consider all the other forms of compensation, I'd say you have a very flexible definition for 'screwed'.
DSL or fiber from the phone company, which is Verizon
Which also may not be available. I lived near Binghamton, NY, and my CO didn't support DSL even as recently as 2006.
It wouldn't be the first time that a later generation of an Apple product REMOVED features that they previously supported. Nor is it unique to Apple.
Consider the PS3, which has decreased in functionality with every single revision.
Or consider how with later OS drops of the iphone, features and third party hardware stopped working (but don't worry there is an Apple product which you can buy for 10x the cost) The reason the third party hardware stopped working had nothing to do with any real incompatability but that it wasn't recognized as 'official' and the iPhone used software to disable the output to that component.
I love tinkering, in my workshop there are several dozen computers in various states, about a dozen different OS installs and spare parts galore.
Yet I was thinking about purchasing a Logitech all-in-one remote control device. One that has a simplified interface so that I could control the computer which is serving as my television's backend while also handling my AV equipment. That is something that I really wanted someone ELSE to develop an interface for me.
I can see how that could work in with the ipad. (except I don't think it really does IR, and you would need some sort of special backend equipment to receive/transmit the IR and RF to your components.) And that remote doesn't really prevent me from taking it apart and mucking about with it to tailor it to my uses if I should so choose.
Yet I can see it being similar to such a device. One that I think is absurdly encumbered and beyond my price range for such a device.
Because DRM uses encryption and keys to deny access. A CD check is just crude copy protection. And if you're calling serial numbers DRM, then you've just made the term utterly useless and meaningless.
No, it isn't and I'm not sure why you are defending it. For example:
A CD check is just crude copy protection.
Copy protection.
And what is it protecting or prohibiting?
Your ability to make a copy.
It is an attempt by the publisher to control your right to reproduce it.
Rights management.
Unless said level 10 soldier has just witnessed said Orc in armor punch out a dragon.
I like to think of it like the Matrix. There is the story, and then there is the simulation behind it. The simulation broke when your Orc punched out a dragon. That was the dejavu cat walking by, a glitch in the matrix as the simulation broke down as your character entered into an area where it shouldn't be.
As far as the WoW world goes, your character shouldn't have been able to do that. Nor should your character be able to wade into stormwind tossing hundreds of guards into the canals without breaking a sweat. Your character, while part of the storyline, isn't supposed to be able to do things like that. So it is just a glitch. The level 10 character SHOULD be running towards you, because if you designed the story to react based upon your character's strength as told by the 'matrix' it would break down the true purpose of the world, to tell a story.
So either you balance the game along the idea that experience and Armor can do a lot for you, you are still just an orc or human in armor. If you took off your armor, it wouldn't make sense for you to be able to deflect blows from swords with just your skin regardless of how much combat experience you have.
So I agree that IF you saw someone punch out the dragon, they should run away, the fact that you DID punch out the dragon is simply a flaw in the game and not the story, so the NPCs must react according to the story and not the flaw.
Not until the copyright expires. I have no problem with reasonable copyright terms but this is yet another straw man as its completely orthogonal to the issue at hand. Excessive copyright terms are not justification to steal something today. So contrary to your flawed assertion, no you absolutely are not entitled to it as you see fit, on your terms and no other.
You are also using terms like stealing which I believe implies a more extreme form of infringement (deliberately taking another's work and then reproducing it for sale), so your standards and my standards are different.
I simply view the current copyright laws as a breach of the social contract and since I don't have the pockets to fix it, or the time/money to push something like that to the supreme court, Perhaps if my hardware wasn't intentionally crippled in order to prevent something that I wasn't doing in the first place. It has just reached the point where I simply have no care for it anymore. At least not in the state it is in now. As you have these companies lobbying to have a system instituted whereby people's Right to Free Speech can be stripped under very light judicial oversight... again, I simply refuse to honor it anymore.
Much as if I saw someone smoking Marijuana. I don't care if it is illegal, the government is in the wrong trying to enforce such laws and I can not in good conscience support the prosecution of such 'crimes'. I don't personally do it as I have other motivations and reasonings, but I'd abstain from supporting any efforts to prosecute.
As to your "when is a good time for the meeting" I'm surprised you didn't get a better response rate. Especially if you worded it "We will have a staff meeting at 10:00 AM Friday unless you can't make it. How you word the questions has a BIG effect on response, as well as response rate.
I don't disagree, but the email in question was going to the owner of the company who doesn't exactly follow his calendar. In that case, I do err on the 'what time is good for you.' THEN send out a selection of options to the others (who were investors).