Also, my computer contains copyrighted material from artists not associated with the RIAA. I'm sorry, but I couldn't possibly distribute their copyrighted works to you.
You know, if you hadn't provided the link, we could've all claimed to be "internet-illiterate" and immune to being sued for digital copyright infringement.
Way to go, you insensitive clod!
No apologies necessary. Most of us are idiots right now. Just don't forget two things:
1. You used to be one of us, so don't act high and mighty. 2. You need to help us, cause we'll be running things in not too long.
Btw, I think what the importance of teenage opinions in this subject is more like "We care what teen's think about BitTorrent because that's what music exec's perceive as the targets of anti-piracy programs." It's not that you care what teens think; it's that you care what music exec's think, and they care what teens think.
Since I'm in public policy, there are few classes that include technical graphs (and half of those use Excel anyhow). Actually, I've gotten pretty good at outlining using simple text for all my other stuff. There are several things I love about taking notes on my powerbook:
-My handwriting is officially horrible. Typed notes are not only legible by me but by my classmates, too.
-My notes are searchable. By using simple text for notes, I can use "cat Classname*.txt | grep important term" and find every reference to it in my notes. Useful for when my professor mentions long-run discount function and I need a refresher.
-No extra books. I need to carry my laptop around for my work anyhow, and I'm constantly doing e-mail (and slashdot reading) all day, so taking notes on my laptop prevents having to switch back and forth.
-Non-perishable notes. My disorganization leads to crumpled up, torn pages. Using my laptop preserves my notes indefinitely.
-Community back up. Got a friend who missed class? Send them your notes. Then, if you ever need notes, not only do you have friends in debt, but they also have an exact copy of your old notes should you lose them (or, perhaps, you drop your laptop in the parking lot and kill the hard drive).
Now, I'm not going to say that i've moved to a paperless life. I still print a lot of things out (usually for turning a paper in, but also for my own convenience somtimes). I'm also not the only one in my department doing this: I'd say about 20% of students have switched to electronic note-taking.
I'm betting your in a technical major where numbers and graphs play a big role, so it'll be difficult for you to switch to text notes. I'll also wager that you're one of the "write every word the professor says" notetakers. But I bet if you had a tablet notebook (especially a slim one like I bet Apple would make) you'd become a digital-notes proponent yourself.
Anyway, the bottom line is: for social sciences, typing is very covenient, even if you don't type that fast. Also, technical majors will probably find it convenient once the interface exists for their notes.
I work doing IT as a grad department at a major public university. I'm seeing a lot of people buying MacBook's, but mustly in humanties/soft-sciences. The biggest reason that technical students say they won't get a MacBook is that their next laptop will be a tablet. And I agree: for any class containing numbers/graphs, the ability to draw notes is essential.
If Apple really wants to corner the educational market (and they've got a good start now), they really need to release a Tablet MacBook.
I don't think you know what "early morning" means. Think of just before sunrise- everything has done all the cooling it can before the sun rises, so slow dissipators will be clearly distinguishable the fast dissipators.
A new realm of man-in-the-middle attacks. Just redirect the Wii shopchannel to your viral executable, and then reforward the users to the actual wii page. Suddenly you have a rather large, network-connected install base. Now start spamming.
Best of all, can you imagine the pain of having to find a way to remove these viruses? Probably the only option would be wiping your Wii system and reinstalling, with or without your saved games.
They can't launch a model rocket because they did somethign stupid in college?...
...someone is invoking the word terrorism doesn't change that.
Why oh why is college such an excuse? Here's a college student talking: 'college' isn't a free pass on responsibility. 'college' doesn't cause you to be an idiot. 'Alcohol was involved' doesn't mean those things either, though people use it like 'college'. Idiots are idiots and there's a reason we keep a record of it. Stop implying we're all idiots in college, cause there's a difference between breaking the laws in college and doing unusual things.
Two kids 'acting out' in college. One kid get's DUI's, the other keeps weird hours working on image analysis algorthyms. The division isn't because of 'college', it's just in the context of it. And it's suggestive of where the two people will go in the rest of their lives, and how/when they should be trusted.
Why am I making this argument? Because in the same post you wave the flag of "college" to make the mistakes minor, and then accuse people of using the word "terrorism" to make things look big.
(By the way, I think most of our laws are fscking retarded regarding control of dangerous items/materials. I'd like to study chemistry on my own, but it's pretty much illegal to own the materials to do so, and since I like to work I'd better not break that rule. Of course, anyone who wants to use chemistry for malicious purposes will just ignore the ban on paraphenalia anyhow.)
Actually, a copy of Encyclopedia Britannica in any one language would be somewhat useful. The beauty of the encyclopedia is that it provides relationships of ideas and would likely contain comprehendable images.
Soon the complex relationships of words of images becomes an understanding of our world, at some level.
My point is that it wouldn't be easy but it would be doable for an alien race to understand the ideas of our communication, assuming they have the biological mechanisms to comprehend our messages (in this case, eyes that perceive in our visible range and interpretive logic neuron structures).
True, a television program is more difficult to use. It requires complex technology and understanding of EM radiation. But EM radiation flies a lot faster than a book and we'd rather have an answer in the next 100 years than the next few million years.
A few thoughts on making a book more usable, though: 1. Use a medium/ink combination so that the ink's EM absorbancy is higher at any point across the spectrum. This should increase the chance that any EM-sensing organism could perceive the contrast between ink and medium and increase 2. Use multiple ways of describing each item. Words, images, sounds, shapes. The more levels of association, the more complex the relationship expression can be. 3. One collumn output, at most. One idea per page or other "natural" division is best. Especially if they can be separated and physically rearranged by the reader. Also, therefore, all relationships should be expressed in on the page, not by the page itself.
Facts:
PG and MoCo are 2 of the 4 strongest Democratic area in the state (The others are Baltimore County and Baltimore City, separate entities), and also 2 of the most populous counties.
The state is heavily Democrat as a whole, so tonight's primary will probably decide who wins the general election. Another of other offices are essentially being decided tonight, and reduced particpation from these heavily Democratic counties could change the outcomes.
We have a Republican governor (first in 30-some-odd years) who is running for re-election this fall against an un-opposed Democrat. His Lt. Gov., Michael S. Steele, is running for an open Senate seat and facing several Democratic opponents.
PG and MoCo are not the only counties using these systems. It's unclear at this point why the problem is affecting these two counties and not others.
Please correct your sig. It is correctly written: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep debating what they are going to eat. Liberty is a well-armed sheep taking exception to the outcome of the vote. -- Ben Franklin
This might seem (-1: Offtopic), but you seem to think that liberty means extra-constitutional government blacklists. I thought it might be useful to remember that there other extra-constitutional methods, and that yours usually leads to mine.
Actually, you'd be sending a report to the CEOP, not the actual state police. The CEOP is just another non-governmental organization (NGO, infamously). There is no crime in submitting false reports to the NGO's (yet, at least).
But here's a problem with the NGO: data control. As long as an NGO doesn't commit libel, it can publish any and all of the information is collects. So, why not protect the child better by automatically posting all reports online? Why not make a public blacklist to help parental-controls block pedaphiles?
Wireless you say? But not on a regular mac- Apple hasn't released the spec's for the airport so Ubuntu is only useful if you want to drag a wire around. When someone writes an Airport driver for Ubuntu, linux will be viable for most mac users. Until then, it's useful only for niche and amusement applications (unless you invest in a 3rd-party wireless card).
As a (kinda but not really) poor college student, the intel macs are wonderful. All my rich friends, young and old, are buying them and financing it by selling their old ones. I'll be picking up a 12-month old, very-well-cared-for Powerbook for about 500 USD in the next couple weeks. I'm also lining up a couple "old" iMacs.
A. The line-item veto would not affect congressional spoiling. In the incestual pit that is D.C., the President doesn't want to annoy every legislator on the other side of the aisle. He needs their votes elsewhere. The things that will get line-item veto'd will be symbolic (Clinton won't fund research into medicinal prayer, Bush won't fund stem cell research). All other pork will continue as usual.
B. Congressmen can't raise their own pay. All pay increases take effect at the beginning of the next term. If you don't like the pay raise, you can vote them out before they get it.
C. Comp sci people are really good at designing systems and evaluating their security and hackability. Why do you think that complexity makes computer systems more vulnerable and political systems less? More rules just create more hidden vulnerabilities for hacking, and politicians will have more ways to become corrupt without appearing so.
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Also, my computer contains copyrighted material from artists not associated with the RIAA. I'm sorry, but I couldn't possibly distribute their copyrighted works to you.
You know, if you hadn't provided the link, we could've all claimed to be "internet-illiterate" and immune to being sued for digital copyright infringement. Way to go, you insensitive clod!
Welcome our new human/synthetic-gecko hybrid overlords?
No apologies necessary. Most of us are idiots right now. Just don't forget two things:
1. You used to be one of us, so don't act high and mighty.
2. You need to help us, cause we'll be running things in not too long.
Btw, I think what the importance of teenage opinions in this subject is more like "We care what teen's think about BitTorrent because that's what music exec's perceive as the targets of anti-piracy programs." It's not that you care what teens think; it's that you care what music exec's think, and they care what teens think.
Since I'm in public policy, there are few classes that include technical graphs (and half of those use Excel anyhow). Actually, I've gotten pretty good at outlining using simple text for all my other stuff. There are several things I love about taking notes on my powerbook:
-My handwriting is officially horrible. Typed notes are not only legible by me but by my classmates, too.
-My notes are searchable. By using simple text for notes, I can use "cat Classname*.txt | grep important term" and find every reference to it in my notes. Useful for when my professor mentions long-run discount function and I need a refresher.
-No extra books. I need to carry my laptop around for my work anyhow, and I'm constantly doing e-mail (and slashdot reading) all day, so taking notes on my laptop prevents having to switch back and forth.
-Non-perishable notes. My disorganization leads to crumpled up, torn pages. Using my laptop preserves my notes indefinitely.
-Community back up. Got a friend who missed class? Send them your notes. Then, if you ever need notes, not only do you have friends in debt, but they also have an exact copy of your old notes should you lose them (or, perhaps, you drop your laptop in the parking lot and kill the hard drive).
Now, I'm not going to say that i've moved to a paperless life. I still print a lot of things out (usually for turning a paper in, but also for my own convenience somtimes). I'm also not the only one in my department doing this: I'd say about 20% of students have switched to electronic note-taking.
I'm betting your in a technical major where numbers and graphs play a big role, so it'll be difficult for you to switch to text notes. I'll also wager that you're one of the "write every word the professor says" notetakers. But I bet if you had a tablet notebook (especially a slim one like I bet Apple would make) you'd become a digital-notes proponent yourself.
Anyway, the bottom line is: for social sciences, typing is very covenient, even if you don't type that fast. Also, technical majors will probably find it convenient once the interface exists for their notes.
I work doing IT as a grad department at a major public university. I'm seeing a lot of people buying MacBook's, but mustly in humanties/soft-sciences. The biggest reason that technical students say they won't get a MacBook is that their next laptop will be a tablet. And I agree: for any class containing numbers/graphs, the ability to draw notes is essential.
If Apple really wants to corner the educational market (and they've got a good start now), they really need to release a Tablet MacBook.
I know, this totally breaks my spider-footstep detectors. Now what, am I just going to have to grow a spine or something?
I don't think you know what "early morning" means. Think of just before sunrise- everything has done all the cooling it can before the sun rises, so slow dissipators will be clearly distinguishable the fast dissipators.
A new realm of man-in-the-middle attacks. Just redirect the Wii shopchannel to your viral executable, and then reforward the users to the actual wii page. Suddenly you have a rather large, network-connected install base. Now start spamming.
Best of all, can you imagine the pain of having to find a way to remove these viruses? Probably the only option would be wiping your Wii system and reinstalling, with or without your saved games.
so... you're in high school?
Lagging behind? According to this article, Mac's have had this feature since 2000.
Why oh why is college such an excuse? Here's a college student talking: 'college' isn't a free pass on responsibility. 'college' doesn't cause you to be an idiot. 'Alcohol was involved' doesn't mean those things either, though people use it like 'college'. Idiots are idiots and there's a reason we keep a record of it. Stop implying we're all idiots in college, cause there's a difference between breaking the laws in college and doing unusual things.
Two kids 'acting out' in college. One kid get's DUI's, the other keeps weird hours working on image analysis algorthyms. The division isn't because of 'college', it's just in the context of it. And it's suggestive of where the two people will go in the rest of their lives, and how/when they should be trusted.
Why am I making this argument? Because in the same post you wave the flag of "college" to make the mistakes minor, and then accuse people of using the word "terrorism" to make things look big.
(By the way, I think most of our laws are fscking retarded regarding control of dangerous items/materials. I'd like to study chemistry on my own, but it's pretty much illegal to own the materials to do so, and since I like to work I'd better not break that rule. Of course, anyone who wants to use chemistry for malicious purposes will just ignore the ban on paraphenalia anyhow.)
Where did you get that statistic in your sig? You state it non-humorously, but what's your source for p(individual guilt) in that model?
Actually, a copy of Encyclopedia Britannica in any one language would be somewhat useful. The beauty of the encyclopedia is that it provides relationships of ideas and would likely contain comprehendable images.
Soon the complex relationships of words of images becomes an understanding of our world, at some level.
My point is that it wouldn't be easy but it would be doable for an alien race to understand the ideas of our communication, assuming they have the biological mechanisms to comprehend our messages (in this case, eyes that perceive in our visible range and interpretive logic neuron structures).
True, a television program is more difficult to use. It requires complex technology and understanding of EM radiation. But EM radiation flies a lot faster than a book and we'd rather have an answer in the next 100 years than the next few million years.
A few thoughts on making a book more usable, though:
1. Use a medium/ink combination so that the ink's EM absorbancy is higher at any point across the spectrum. This should increase the chance that any EM-sensing organism could perceive the contrast between ink and medium and increase
2. Use multiple ways of describing each item. Words, images, sounds, shapes. The more levels of association, the more complex the relationship expression can be.
3. One collumn output, at most. One idea per page or other "natural" division is best. Especially if they can be separated and physically rearranged by the reader. Also, therefore, all relationships should be expressed in on the page, not by the page itself.
Disclosure: I'm a registered Republican in MD.
Facts:
PG and MoCo are 2 of the 4 strongest Democratic area in the state (The others are Baltimore County and Baltimore City, separate entities), and also 2 of the most populous counties.
The state is heavily Democrat as a whole, so tonight's primary will probably decide who wins the general election. Another of other offices are essentially being decided tonight, and reduced particpation from these heavily Democratic counties could change the outcomes.
We have a Republican governor (first in 30-some-odd years) who is running for re-election this fall against an un-opposed Democrat. His Lt. Gov., Michael S. Steele, is running for an open Senate seat and facing several Democratic opponents.
PG and MoCo are not the only counties using these systems. It's unclear at this point why the problem is affecting these two counties and not others.
Please correct your sig. It is correctly written: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep debating what they are going to eat. Liberty is a well-armed sheep taking exception to the outcome of the vote. -- Ben Franklin This might seem (-1: Offtopic), but you seem to think that liberty means extra-constitutional government blacklists. I thought it might be useful to remember that there other extra-constitutional methods, and that yours usually leads to mine.
Actually, you'd be sending a report to the CEOP, not the actual state police. The CEOP is just another non-governmental organization (NGO, infamously). There is no crime in submitting false reports to the NGO's (yet, at least).
But here's a problem with the NGO: data control. As long as an NGO doesn't commit libel, it can publish any and all of the information is collects. So, why not protect the child better by automatically posting all reports online? Why not make a public blacklist to help parental-controls block pedaphiles?
Wireless you say? But not on a regular mac- Apple hasn't released the spec's for the airport so Ubuntu is only useful if you want to drag a wire around. When someone writes an Airport driver for Ubuntu, linux will be viable for most mac users. Until then, it's useful only for niche and amusement applications (unless you invest in a 3rd-party wireless card).
As a (kinda but not really) poor college student, the intel macs are wonderful. All my rich friends, young and old, are buying them and financing it by selling their old ones. I'll be picking up a 12-month old, very-well-cared-for Powerbook for about 500 USD in the next couple weeks. I'm also lining up a couple "old" iMacs.
A. The line-item veto would not affect congressional spoiling. In the incestual pit that is D.C., the President doesn't want to annoy every legislator on the other side of the aisle. He needs their votes elsewhere. The things that will get line-item veto'd will be symbolic (Clinton won't fund research into medicinal prayer, Bush won't fund stem cell research). All other pork will continue as usual. B. Congressmen can't raise their own pay. All pay increases take effect at the beginning of the next term. If you don't like the pay raise, you can vote them out before they get it. C. Comp sci people are really good at designing systems and evaluating their security and hackability. Why do you think that complexity makes computer systems more vulnerable and political systems less? More rules just create more hidden vulnerabilities for hacking, and politicians will have more ways to become corrupt without appearing so.
Ok.