http://www.ebtechaudio.com/humxdes.html (~$70 from Guitar Center or similar stores) -- basically a small filter to help eliminate noise on ground lines (quite useful for fixing A/V problems involving differences in ground, i.e.: when you have a projector on a different circuit than your audio equipment).
Run network scans and kick PCs that are infected off the network (or limit their access to a very small number of hosts).
Provide enough directions for students who have been kicked off to fix their problems and get back up and running.
It should be just as acceptable to expect students to learn how to keep their PCs clean when they move out on their own as it is to expect them to learn how to take care of their own laundry.
A lifetime is generally unfair to a lot of authors - if the old dude wrote his greatest work only days, months, or two or three years before croaking, he and his estate make very little.
Why is it so unfair as compared to other fields of work? There nothing that would say the author can't demand a large up-front payment from a publisher or take out a larger insurance policy as a means of ensuring money for his heirs.
But I think parent is basically correct: the only practical way to end spam is to make it unprofitable. Having every email cost a cent (given to the recipient) will go a long way.
So all I need to do to get rich is to have a botnet of infected pcs start sending me massive amounts of spam? Where do I sign up?
Thinking back to the science classes that I had, it always struck me as interesting how theories in Biology seemed to be treated much differently than theories in Physics.
Within Biology, things were generally presented with "this is the way that we think things are" and that was about it.
Within Physics, the discussion tended to center around "this is how ideas of this subject have developed over time and this is the way we think things are now", at times followed by discussion of where there might be opportunity to better clarify current theory.
Just wondering why it is that lots of introductory physics textbooks include a history of the atomic models (complete with plenty of examples of "hey, we got some parts right and were dead wrong on others, but at least we kept improving our models"), but I can't really recall any biology textbooks that gave serious discussion to shortcomings in evolution that have been identified and how the theory has "evolved" over time.
Just skimming through the changes, it doesn't look like they forbid advertising or donations: just in-game advertising or requests for donations.
(i.e.: an add-on developer would still be perfectly free to solicit donations or include advertising on the site where they offer the add-on for download)
Although Sametime itself isn't open source, the newer versions are based on Eclipse (as are the more recent versions of Notes).
Whether or not the overhead of running an instance of Eclipse to handle IM is a good idea or not is up to you.
If she's truly nerdy, she may already know. There's certainly enough info in the post to ID her (assuming you know her already), and given the/. readership it's quite likely that she and/or one or more of her friends have read this. Assuming that he realized this when he submitted his question, it might actually be a pretty creative way of asking someone out.
Even though enough information is in there to make an educated guess, there's definitely an element of plausible deniability.
As they say: necessity is the mother of innovation. As long as we have a need for medicine, someone's going to do the research to look for it. It may become less easy to justify spending millions in funding and make millions in profits off of discoveries, but that doesn't mean that innovation will stop.
Fair enough, at the moment with HD-DVD they do not have a choice. Bottom line is, while the average consumer might not care about their 'digital rights' they dam well care about their shiny new disks working in their shiny new HD-DVD player. This has the same beneficial effect to my mind, the end of DRM. The movie industry pisses off the average consumer at their peril. Ah, but they do have a choice, and they seem to be making that choice quite often: DVD is good enough for most consumers.
Remember that, at least in the US, the evidence must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. If you have original media, CD-cases and CD-Keys -- all the mechanisms of Microsoft's license enforcement -- it is unlikely that a jury will find in the BSA's favor for lack of purchase records.
Reasonable doubt only applies for criminal cases, though, not civil. I'm sure that Microsoft has more than enough lawyers to file a few civil suites.
I'd actually seen reports on a forum of exactly that happening -- EB/Gamestop employees seeing the same systems come back to the store 2-3 times within the same day as people buy them, see that the eBay prices have fallen, then immediately bring them back.
I'd recommend going with Java, for two main reasons that have little to do with the language itself:
1. Javadoc -- the core APIs for Java are simply better documented. Having an easy means of looking up syntax, etc. for everything cannot be underestimated when trying to learn and experiment with coding.
2. Good, free IDEs -- although there are quite a few good C++ IDEs, there don't seem to be as many that support as many platforms as Eclipse.
Probably one of the neater things that I've built was Tetris Weightlifting: http://www.tetrisweightlifting.com/
Basically a modified version of Tetris with a bunch of sensors attached to home-made weightlifting equipment that functioned as the controls.
Not to mention that I was able to work on it as a project for my Masters' degree.
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Would a Hum-X filter it out?
http://www.ebtechaudio.com/humxdes.html (~$70 from Guitar Center or similar stores) -- basically a small filter to help eliminate noise on ground lines (quite useful for fixing A/V problems involving differences in ground, i.e.: when you have a projector on a different circuit than your audio equipment).
Are you sure about that? Maps are databases.
I would think that Maps would generally be considered as "images" rather than databases.
If they're blocking SMS and foreign web content, what makes you think that they won't be blocking international calls?
Run network scans and kick PCs that are infected off the network (or limit their access to a very small number of hosts). Provide enough directions for students who have been kicked off to fix their problems and get back up and running. It should be just as acceptable to expect students to learn how to keep their PCs clean when they move out on their own as it is to expect them to learn how to take care of their own laundry.
Are you serious? Here in Michigan there are so many people that go into teaching that many have to leave the state to find a job.
A lifetime is generally unfair to a lot of authors - if the old dude wrote his greatest work only days, months, or two or three years before croaking, he and his estate make very little.
Why is it so unfair as compared to other fields of work? There nothing that would say the author can't demand a large up-front payment from a publisher or take out a larger insurance policy as a means of ensuring money for his heirs.
Worked for me -- try using an overhead transparency.
But I think parent is basically correct: the only practical way to end spam is to make it unprofitable. Having every email cost a cent (given to the recipient) will go a long way.
So all I need to do to get rich is to have a botnet of infected pcs start sending me massive amounts of spam? Where do I sign up?
Thinking back to the science classes that I had, it always struck me as interesting how theories in Biology seemed to be treated much differently than theories in Physics.
Within Biology, things were generally presented with "this is the way that we think things are" and that was about it.
Within Physics, the discussion tended to center around "this is how ideas of this subject have developed over time and this is the way we think things are now", at times followed by discussion of where there might be opportunity to better clarify current theory.
Just wondering why it is that lots of introductory physics textbooks include a history of the atomic models (complete with plenty of examples of "hey, we got some parts right and were dead wrong on others, but at least we kept improving our models"), but I can't really recall any biology textbooks that gave serious discussion to shortcomings in evolution that have been identified and how the theory has "evolved" over time.
Just skimming through the changes, it doesn't look like they forbid advertising or donations: just in-game advertising or requests for donations. (i.e.: an add-on developer would still be perfectly free to solicit donations or include advertising on the site where they offer the add-on for download)
Why not just have access controlled by a lever that can't be reached unless you're at least the minimum height?
On the other hand, assuming that the algorithm works properly, eventually it may start to hit on movies that you BOTH like.
Although Sametime itself isn't open source, the newer versions are based on Eclipse (as are the more recent versions of Notes). Whether or not the overhead of running an instance of Eclipse to handle IM is a good idea or not is up to you.
Would be nice if they included instructions for creating the bootable CD without requiring commercial software.
CompactFlash to IDE adapters can be had for $5 or so and work fine with most motherboards.
Isn't the common advice to flush expired prescriptions?
Assuming that said company doesn't happen to have a tendency to reformat whenever a PC has a problem or gets transferred to someone else.
"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one"
As they say: necessity is the mother of innovation. As long as we have a need for medicine, someone's going to do the research to look for it. It may become less easy to justify spending millions in funding and make millions in profits off of discoveries, but that doesn't mean that innovation will stop.
Remember that, at least in the US, the evidence must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. If you have original media, CD-cases and CD-Keys -- all the mechanisms of Microsoft's license enforcement -- it is unlikely that a jury will find in the BSA's favor for lack of purchase records.
Reasonable doubt only applies for criminal cases, though, not civil. I'm sure that Microsoft has more than enough lawyers to file a few civil suites.I'd actually seen reports on a forum of exactly that happening -- EB/Gamestop employees seeing the same systems come back to the store 2-3 times within the same day as people buy them, see that the eBay prices have fallen, then immediately bring them back.
I'd recommend going with Java, for two main reasons that have little to do with the language itself: 1. Javadoc -- the core APIs for Java are simply better documented. Having an easy means of looking up syntax, etc. for everything cannot be underestimated when trying to learn and experiment with coding. 2. Good, free IDEs -- although there are quite a few good C++ IDEs, there don't seem to be as many that support as many platforms as Eclipse.
Probably one of the neater things that I've built was Tetris Weightlifting: http://www.tetrisweightlifting.com/ Basically a modified version of Tetris with a bunch of sensors attached to home-made weightlifting equipment that functioned as the controls. Not to mention that I was able to work on it as a project for my Masters' degree.