Not sure who's on crack, but I disagree with you. His job from your quote was monitoring, which says nothing about "making copyright accusations" and certainly not extorting the students. So the GP (your parent) is more correct in my book.
The GGP seems to think that just because the students are paying tuition that the university should just turn a blind eye to illegal activity on their network? That just doesn't make sense. Whether or not you think it should be illegal is another thing, but the school certainly has every right to monitor their networks.
A couple things...the failed attacks have been as much about terrorist incompetence as it has passenger heroism.
I just have a hard time caring whether some doctor or security guard is having a chuckle over my saggy ass or hairy balls. Immature? Sure, but an egregious violation of my civil rights? Meh...
I find it much more concerning, for instance, how many poorly trained, roid-raging, gun-wielding policemen we have running around violating people's civil rights in much more substantial ways (life, liberty, property and all that). There's enough corruption in our government and law enforcement that it's really hard for me to care about my sack being posted on Airportscanner.com
The real question is, if you asked 100 random people what 'random' meant, how many could define it correctly.
Sounds like one of them would not be you. You've just described a quasi-random sampling of people who fly commercially, which by definition creates a very biased sample and one which would likely overestimate the percentage of people who know what random means. People who fly would tend to be more educated and wealthier than the general population. At any rate, it's certainly not a random sampling of the general population.
Well if you never touch it, then you wouldn't need it, cutting down on cost. However, I'm betting it couldn't completely replace it, but supplement. It would be nicer, for instance, to scroll without your tubby fingers obstructing the screen. But selecting icons or text would still probably need touch. I remember some videos a few months back of a prototype device in which you controlled it from the back and it projected shadows of your fingers onto the screen. That seemed pretty clever and might work for selecting.
It is not just people with breathing issues. While the mortality rate for H1N1 may be similar to other flu strains, who it hits hard seems to be different, with young people 2-25 and pregnant women hit particularly hard. We've seen several healthy people with no known risk factors be completely devastated by H1N1. It's certainly no polio and may have been sensationalized, but if you think healthy people are not dying from it, you're wrong.
Nice try, and excellent vocabulary, but no dissembling going on. Indirect costs are generally on the order of 25% and have nothing to do with my bottom line. They pay for infrastructure support, but have nothing to do with whether NIH funds cover my bills. I don't see any of it, hence why it is "indirect".
I can make a lot more money for my institution doing clinical work than I can doing research. I mean a LOT more. And with significantly less effort. NIH pays salary support roughly fifty cents on the dollar to cover my time to do the research. I do the research not to make money, but because I believe in it and think/home I'm developing new things. I'm not getting rich off it, and my institution is not getting rich off it. And I am the rule, not the exception. Are there instances where the system is abused? I'm sure, but to suggest that the NIH is a fat cow that people are getting rich off of is, in my view, wrong.
And it still doesn't address the question of how the government is going to develop these technologies if it owns them. What happens after the investigator hands over the technology that you now own?
But most of the time the simple view is exactly that...too simple...and unbelievably shortsighted. The fact is that the government is not paying for all the research. It's being subsidized by the institutions, oftentimes more than half of the expense of the research.
I do NIH-funded research, and much of the funding comes from internal sources. If you, the taxpayer, give me $100,000 and I spend $100,000 of my own money and develop a new method or device, does that mean you own it? At most, in my mind I would just pay you back the $100,000. You didn't spend the 5 years working 70-80 hours per week developing it. Maybe I'll give your relative a job in the new factory I build. Maybe the tax revenue from that new device will more than pay for that $100,000.
And say I do give it to you after I develop it. What are you going to do with it? You design the clinical trials to get it FDA approved, you monitor for problems or side effects, and figure out the process for mass-producing it cheaply. Oh what, you don't know how to do any of that? You don't have the expertise to do that? Well, find someone who does. Well, there is a guy in China working on something similar. We'll just let them finish it off and sell it instead.
I have used a variety of software for this purpose, and I vote for TeamViewer. You dont even have to installhttp://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2037219/Simple-Free-Web-Remote-PC-Control# anything if you dont want to, just run it off the web. I am not sure about TeamViewer's encryption standards though.
I get 2 msec for a 70 year lifespan, but the point is well taken. And I rely so much on the network connection when I write anyway that I can't get much done without it.
The data security thing is a big issue though, and I think it will keep most companies from moving in that direction, even if the risk is more perceived than real. If somebody really wants your data, I'm not sure having it in-house is going to offer that much more protection.
What is your justification that XP64 is "awful"? I've been running it for a couple years and haven't had problems. I mostly run computer modeling applications on it, but I've installed many other more mainstream things without a hitch. I don't recall running into any compatibility issues. I think there were driver issues in the early days of XP-64, but that was true of Vista too.
My new workstation is going to be Vista-64, but not because I had any problems with XP64.
I don't use the 64-bit IE at all. In fact I only use IE for some intranet sites that require it. Why use IE-64 at all. I've never needed to address more than 4GB with my web browser. I find no compelling reason to use 64-bit IE.
I must say I was pretty disappointed when I saw the project. From the title, I envisioned actually wiring the bus. They're basically just putting the chips into a pre-printed PCB.
In college, we wire-wrapped an entire 8088 system complete with custom controllers. Then we programmed it in assembly. That really teaches you how everything works.
Obviously that wasn't the point of the project, but the "from scratch" caught my eye and I figured they were custom-wiring. Guess it all depends on how you define "scratch". The cool thing about 8-bit buses were that it was possible to wire them by hand.
Nobody said anything about changing the laws of physics. What you are referring to is the energy released by a specific, theoretical complete combustion (oxidation reaction) of gasoline. I say theoretical because it in reality cannot be achieved. Furthermore, it does not take into account the other sources of inefficiency I talked about.
Let's imagine that I build a machine that splits the atoms of gasoline and captures that energy to propel a car. That will generate a lot more than 33.6 kWh of energy. 33.6 kWh is not the fundamental "energy density" of gasoline. It is simply the maximum theoretical energy produced from the complete combustion of a gallon of gasoline.
So, if an electric car can go 100 miles on 33.6kWh of energy, it is equivalent to a car that gets 100mpg. They are the same. It is a conversion. There is no difference.
Get it?
Actually, it is not that simple at all, Mr. Smarty Pants. That gasoline did not just appear in the tank. It was pumped out of the ground, refined, tanked, trucked etc. All of this requires energy. Similarly, the electricity used in the car had it's own set of inefficiencies in producing and delivering the electricity.
Furthermore, there are differences in raw materials, construction, waste, etc. that have to be taken into account for a fair comparison. You're implying that charging my electric car with 33.6 kWh of electricity is exactly as efficient as filling my ICE with a gallon of gasoline. Do you have data to back that up?
Also, for a Mr. Smarty Pants, you are quite imprecise. The 33.6 kWh is the amount of energy released from the complete combustion of gasoline into carbon dioxide and water. It is not ALL the energy contained in the bonds, which is quite a bit larger and is what was being indirectly referenced in the GP's post. It also doesn't account for all the other nasties released from the inevitable incomplete combustion.
Need it? No. But I must admit that I have around 1 TB of recorded HD TV shows that I just can't bring myself to delete. Why? Dunno. I doubt I'll watch them again.
Typical human hoarding behavior I guess.
I've also got several hundred GB of HD video recordings I've made, mostly of the kids. That's only going to grow. It's easy to accumulate large amounts from video, especially if you're re-encoding, etc. and want to keep all the originals. And I haven't had my camcorder for that long.
I manually back it up right now, but plan to build a moderate RAID 10 array to further help guard against a single disk failure, as I certainly don't back up every day.
I agree there's obviously a sweet spot, but for me it's more like 12-13 inches rather than 10.
I love the Thinkpad X series, and think its usability far exceeds the Netbooks.
If netbooks gravitated toward that form factor, I'd be very happy. My main issue with the netbooks is the screen size and resolution are insufficient to get much real work done.
Sorry in advance for the rant, but do you actually have teenagers?
Raising a teenager is a delicate balance of promoting independence and keeping them in line and safe. Taking a cell phone away for occasionally not answering the phone is aa bit draconian in my book. The solution to not being able to get them sometimes is to make it so I can't contact them at all while they're away?
As another poster mentioned, there are many reaons why they don't answer, including sports practice, work, etc. I can't distinguish between them. But I know if I send a text they will get it.
The problem with the billing for texts is that they're not in complete control. Most of the costs are in receiving texts. So I choose to pay for unlimited texting because i didn't want to block it completely. They had jobs and payed for their own gas and certain expenses.
I've got pretty good kids and they're pretty well mannered and grounded. Not the most ambitious by my standards, but mine are pretty high. Perhaps giving kids the benefit of the doubt sometimes is warranted. For me, the unlimited plan is $10. Add than to the $10 for add-a-phone and it's $20 a month for being able to contact them at any time. I say it's worth it.
Don't think of it as a battle. Think of it as a teaching moment.
Ha! Did you learn to parent by watching the Brady Bunch and Leave It To Beaver?
While I certainly agree with this in principle, having texting available for your teen can be extremely useful for the parent as well. I often need to reach them and they don't answer their phone. Sometimes they're out of range, sometimes they just don't want to answer.
If I text them, I know they got it and they generally respond right away. I can also text them from my computer without a cell phone and the responses come back to my email.
Then when they have it, they get inundated with texts from other kids. My son gets an order of magnitude more texts than he sends. This is difficult to control, and so I get him the unlimited plan.
You have to pick your battles with teenagers. You're not going to win every one, at least not and keep your sanity. This is not one that's worth fighting in my book. I certainly don't think I've spoiled my teenagers, but they still have entitlement issues. They usually grow out of it once they get out on their own and realize what it costs to live.
None of this excuses the price fixing the wireless providers engage in. The fact that you get charged so much for both sending and receiving a text is outrageous.
Yes, well persistence would have made for a very short series. Didn't they actually get off the island once and then somehow wrecked right back onto the same island?
I think you pretty much had to suspend your reality-meter to enjoy the show.
OK. So you're criticizing someone for not being as lazy as you? Way to go. This is a new level to revelling in laziness.
I remember fondly one of my udergrad design classes in which we built an 8088 system from scratch by wire-wrapping the crystal, interrupt controller, memory controller, etc. and then programmed it to make some kind of control system. I made an infusion pump controller.
The professor was a surly drunk, but I learned a lot in the class.
It may be a "waste of time" but I'm sure he'll benefit.
That's interesting. I find the Half-life story more compelling, but I liked both.
Both seemed pretty clear to me.
I've been playing FPS since the original Doom and Pathways Into Darkness. The first FPS games had barely any story.
To me, the FPS with the best story was the Marathon series, also by Bungie. The story was largely told by scripts in various computer consoles you looked at. But the story was amazing.
To me else has come close. Part of the problem I think is that nobody would tolerate reading the amount you had to for Marathon. The story now is generally played out through short cutscenes and you can't relay as much story that way without it being intrusive into gameplay.
But I still very much enjoyed Half-life series and feel it's a distant second in terms of story, followed by the Halo.
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Not sure who's on crack, but I disagree with you. His job from your quote was monitoring, which says nothing about "making copyright accusations" and certainly not extorting the students. So the GP (your parent) is more correct in my book.
The GGP seems to think that just because the students are paying tuition that the university should just turn a blind eye to illegal activity on their network? That just doesn't make sense. Whether or not you think it should be illegal is another thing, but the school certainly has every right to monitor their networks.
A couple things...the failed attacks have been as much about terrorist incompetence as it has passenger heroism.
I just have a hard time caring whether some doctor or security guard is having a chuckle over my saggy ass or hairy balls. Immature? Sure, but an egregious violation of my civil rights? Meh...
I find it much more concerning, for instance, how many poorly trained, roid-raging, gun-wielding policemen we have running around violating people's civil rights in much more substantial ways (life, liberty, property and all that). There's enough corruption in our government and law enforcement that it's really hard for me to care about my sack being posted on Airportscanner.com
The real question is, if you asked 100 random people what 'random' meant, how many could define it correctly.
Sounds like one of them would not be you. You've just described a quasi-random sampling of people who fly commercially, which by definition creates a very biased sample and one which would likely overestimate the percentage of people who know what random means. People who fly would tend to be more educated and wealthier than the general population. At any rate, it's certainly not a random sampling of the general population.
Well if you never touch it, then you wouldn't need it, cutting down on cost. However, I'm betting it couldn't completely replace it, but supplement. It would be nicer, for instance, to scroll without your tubby fingers obstructing the screen. But selecting icons or text would still probably need touch. I remember some videos a few months back of a prototype device in which you controlled it from the back and it projected shadows of your fingers onto the screen. That seemed pretty clever and might work for selecting.
It is not just people with breathing issues. While the mortality rate for H1N1 may be similar to other flu strains, who it hits hard seems to be different, with young people 2-25 and pregnant women hit particularly hard. We've seen several healthy people with no known risk factors be completely devastated by H1N1. It's certainly no polio and may have been sensationalized, but if you think healthy people are not dying from it, you're wrong.
Nice try, and excellent vocabulary, but no dissembling going on. Indirect costs are generally on the order of 25% and have nothing to do with my bottom line. They pay for infrastructure support, but have nothing to do with whether NIH funds cover my bills. I don't see any of it, hence why it is "indirect".
I can make a lot more money for my institution doing clinical work than I can doing research. I mean a LOT more. And with significantly less effort. NIH pays salary support roughly fifty cents on the dollar to cover my time to do the research. I do the research not to make money, but because I believe in it and think/home I'm developing new things. I'm not getting rich off it, and my institution is not getting rich off it. And I am the rule, not the exception. Are there instances where the system is abused? I'm sure, but to suggest that the NIH is a fat cow that people are getting rich off of is, in my view, wrong.
And it still doesn't address the question of how the government is going to develop these technologies if it owns them. What happens after the investigator hands over the technology that you now own?
I think they were referring to the fact that Prague is actually another planet.
Well if they're jerks, they're jerks, right? They're either jerks with more or less profit.
Put another way, their jerkiness is not defined by their profits, their profits are defined by their jerkiness.
But most of the time the simple view is exactly that...too simple...and unbelievably shortsighted. The fact is that the government is not paying for all the research. It's being subsidized by the institutions, oftentimes more than half of the expense of the research.
I do NIH-funded research, and much of the funding comes from internal sources. If you, the taxpayer, give me $100,000 and I spend $100,000 of my own money and develop a new method or device, does that mean you own it? At most, in my mind I would just pay you back the $100,000. You didn't spend the 5 years working 70-80 hours per week developing it. Maybe I'll give your relative a job in the new factory I build. Maybe the tax revenue from that new device will more than pay for that $100,000.
And say I do give it to you after I develop it. What are you going to do with it? You design the clinical trials to get it FDA approved, you monitor for problems or side effects, and figure out the process for mass-producing it cheaply. Oh what, you don't know how to do any of that? You don't have the expertise to do that? Well, find someone who does. Well, there is a guy in China working on something similar. We'll just let them finish it off and sell it instead.
Sounds like a great plan.
I have used a variety of software for this purpose, and I vote for TeamViewer. You dont even have to installhttp://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2037219/Simple-Free-Web-Remote-PC-Control# anything if you dont want to, just run it off the web. I am not sure about TeamViewer's encryption standards though.
I get 2 msec for a 70 year lifespan, but the point is well taken. And I rely so much on the network connection when I write anyway that I can't get much done without it.
The data security thing is a big issue though, and I think it will keep most companies from moving in that direction, even if the risk is more perceived than real. If somebody really wants your data, I'm not sure having it in-house is going to offer that much more protection.
What is your justification that XP64 is "awful"? I've been running it for a couple years and haven't had problems. I mostly run computer modeling applications on it, but I've installed many other more mainstream things without a hitch. I don't recall running into any compatibility issues. I think there were driver issues in the early days of XP-64, but that was true of Vista too.
My new workstation is going to be Vista-64, but not because I had any problems with XP64.
I don't use the 64-bit IE at all. In fact I only use IE for some intranet sites that require it. Why use IE-64 at all. I've never needed to address more than 4GB with my web browser. I find no compelling reason to use 64-bit IE.
I must say I was pretty disappointed when I saw the project. From the title, I envisioned actually wiring the bus. They're basically just putting the chips into a pre-printed PCB.
In college, we wire-wrapped an entire 8088 system complete with custom controllers. Then we programmed it in assembly. That really teaches you how everything works.
Obviously that wasn't the point of the project, but the "from scratch" caught my eye and I figured they were custom-wiring. Guess it all depends on how you define "scratch". The cool thing about 8-bit buses were that it was possible to wire them by hand.
(double sigh)
Nobody said anything about changing the laws of physics. What you are referring to is the energy released by a specific, theoretical complete combustion (oxidation reaction) of gasoline. I say theoretical because it in reality cannot be achieved. Furthermore, it does not take into account the other sources of inefficiency I talked about.
Let's imagine that I build a machine that splits the atoms of gasoline and captures that energy to propel a car. That will generate a lot more than 33.6 kWh of energy. 33.6 kWh is not the fundamental "energy density" of gasoline. It is simply the maximum theoretical energy produced from the complete combustion of a gallon of gasoline.
So, if an electric car can go 100 miles on 33.6kWh of energy, it is equivalent to a car that gets 100mpg. They are the same. It is a conversion. There is no difference.
Get it?
Actually, it is not that simple at all, Mr. Smarty Pants. That gasoline did not just appear in the tank. It was pumped out of the ground, refined, tanked, trucked etc. All of this requires energy. Similarly, the electricity used in the car had it's own set of inefficiencies in producing and delivering the electricity.
Furthermore, there are differences in raw materials, construction, waste, etc. that have to be taken into account for a fair comparison. You're implying that charging my electric car with 33.6 kWh of electricity is exactly as efficient as filling my ICE with a gallon of gasoline. Do you have data to back that up?
Also, for a Mr. Smarty Pants, you are quite imprecise. The 33.6 kWh is the amount of energy released from the complete combustion of gasoline into carbon dioxide and water. It is not ALL the energy contained in the bonds, which is quite a bit larger and is what was being indirectly referenced in the GP's post. It also doesn't account for all the other nasties released from the inevitable incomplete combustion.
Need it? No. But I must admit that I have around 1 TB of recorded HD TV shows that I just can't bring myself to delete. Why? Dunno. I doubt I'll watch them again.
Typical human hoarding behavior I guess.
I've also got several hundred GB of HD video recordings I've made, mostly of the kids. That's only going to grow. It's easy to accumulate large amounts from video, especially if you're re-encoding, etc. and want to keep all the originals. And I haven't had my camcorder for that long.
I manually back it up right now, but plan to build a moderate RAID 10 array to further help guard against a single disk failure, as I certainly don't back up every day.
And perhaps we should have a long discussion with you about a couple little things called humor and irony.
Missed that episode. Sounds like a spoof of The Music Man.
I agree there's obviously a sweet spot, but for me it's more like 12-13 inches rather than 10.
I love the Thinkpad X series, and think its usability far exceeds the Netbooks.
If netbooks gravitated toward that form factor, I'd be very happy. My main issue with the netbooks is the screen size and resolution are insufficient to get much real work done.
Sorry in advance for the rant, but do you actually have teenagers?
Raising a teenager is a delicate balance of promoting independence and keeping them in line and safe. Taking a cell phone away for occasionally not answering the phone is aa bit draconian in my book. The solution to not being able to get them sometimes is to make it so I can't contact them at all while they're away?
As another poster mentioned, there are many reaons why they don't answer, including sports practice, work, etc. I can't distinguish between them. But I know if I send a text they will get it.
The problem with the billing for texts is that they're not in complete control. Most of the costs are in receiving texts. So I choose to pay for unlimited texting because i didn't want to block it completely. They had jobs and payed for their own gas and certain expenses.
I've got pretty good kids and they're pretty well mannered and grounded. Not the most ambitious by my standards, but mine are pretty high. Perhaps giving kids the benefit of the doubt sometimes is warranted. For me, the unlimited plan is $10. Add than to the $10 for add-a-phone and it's $20 a month for being able to contact them at any time. I say it's worth it.
Don't think of it as a battle. Think of it as a teaching moment.
Ha! Did you learn to parent by watching the Brady Bunch and Leave It To Beaver?
While I certainly agree with this in principle, having texting available for your teen can be extremely useful for the parent as well. I often need to reach them and they don't answer their phone. Sometimes they're out of range, sometimes they just don't want to answer.
If I text them, I know they got it and they generally respond right away. I can also text them from my computer without a cell phone and the responses come back to my email.
Then when they have it, they get inundated with texts from other kids. My son gets an order of magnitude more texts than he sends. This is difficult to control, and so I get him the unlimited plan.
You have to pick your battles with teenagers. You're not going to win every one, at least not and keep your sanity. This is not one that's worth fighting in my book. I certainly don't think I've spoiled my teenagers, but they still have entitlement issues. They usually grow out of it once they get out on their own and realize what it costs to live.
None of this excuses the price fixing the wireless providers engage in. The fact that you get charged so much for both sending and receiving a text is outrageous.
Yes, well persistence would have made for a very short series. Didn't they actually get off the island once and then somehow wrecked right back onto the same island?
I think you pretty much had to suspend your reality-meter to enjoy the show.
OK. So you're criticizing someone for not being as lazy as you? Way to go. This is a new level to revelling in laziness.
I remember fondly one of my udergrad design classes in which we built an 8088 system from scratch by wire-wrapping the crystal, interrupt controller, memory controller, etc. and then programmed it to make some kind of control system. I made an infusion pump controller.
The professor was a surly drunk, but I learned a lot in the class.
It may be a "waste of time" but I'm sure he'll benefit.
That's interesting. I find the Half-life story more compelling, but I liked both.
Both seemed pretty clear to me.
I've been playing FPS since the original Doom and Pathways Into Darkness. The first FPS games had barely any story.
To me, the FPS with the best story was the Marathon series, also by Bungie. The story was largely told by scripts in various computer consoles you looked at. But the story was amazing.
To me else has come close. Part of the problem I think is that nobody would tolerate reading the amount you had to for Marathon. The story now is generally played out through short cutscenes and you can't relay as much story that way without it being intrusive into gameplay.
But I still very much enjoyed Half-life series and feel it's a distant second in terms of story, followed by the Halo.
Hmm? The GP said Beowulf cluster. Where in that did you read general purpose computing?
There are many HPC problems that you can solve adequately with single precision.