That's interesting. Things are evidently different in New Jersey, but in Britain, percussionists are most definitely not at the bottom of the totem pole. In most orchestras there are three broad groups: section principals, assistant principals and tutti (rank and file).
Because there are very few percussionists in an orchestra (and hence they have rather exposed parts to play), they fall into one of the first two groups. The orchestra leader will be paid a large amount, for reasons expressed elsewhere, but many of the first violinists will probably earn less than the principal timpanist.
Given that OS/2 is in a good many cash machines/ATMs, I wouldn't be surprised if there are contractural problems with opening the code up. Security through obscurity and all that.
MATLAB is actually quite useful, but you don't have to buy it to use it.
Nor does your university, in fact, if you use Octave, a GNU Matlab-alike, instead. Seemed pretty good when I used it a few years ago - I can't claim to be a heavy user but I found it good enough during my university course.
The problem seems to me to be one of inertia. Everyone with at least a vague knowledge of the facts is well aware that, whilst WEP is a small hurdle, it's really no obstacle to anyone who's vaguely determined to get in.
On the other hand, it's some hassle to set up a firewall before plugging your access point in. Especially for development work, when you're not setting out to install a "proper" network, it's all too easy to just plug it in for a short period and hope, on the grounds that it'll somehow all be OK. Especially when deadlines are tight, setting up all the security properly is always going to be seen as too time-consuming.
What's fairly inevitable is that there will come off the shelf access points with real security built in. Let's just hope it's not each manufacturer having their own proprietary standard, so there's no interoperability...
When I was at Uni, I always thought this was a splendid idea. We had an IT chap who did all the installations (he'd even lend you a NIC) and was very helpful but, what with there only being one of him for a college with about 400 undergrads, things were slightly slow.
The hubs had security settings on meaning that they had to be reset to learn your MAC address, but past that there really wasn't anything you couldn't do yourself.
It always seemed to us that you need a two-stream system - either sign up for an appointment and have your hand held with the appropriate delay, or just get your hub port reset and be given all the relevant addresses. The IT chap could spend an hour at the start of each day dealing with "fast track" applications, who'd then have to wait until the rush had subsided before they got any more attention if they actually didn't know what they were doing...
sounds cool if you have a 8086 or something that can't handle a 160kbps encoded MP3.
Actually, my P60 (yes, I know it's outdated but I'm a broke student) can only just keep up, provided it's doing nothing else, on a good day, in a following wind etc.
Even moving a window around on screen screws up playing MP3's:-/
...if you do manage to crack the case while putting a screw back in please, asap, send a message to NASA and tell them to replace all the polycarbonite plastic they use.
At the risk of starting an off-topic debate, IIRC a screw hole acts as a stress raiser - it's possible a crack can propagate from there. In layman's terms, cutting a hole in a piece of polycarb screws up its excellent material properties. The sort of damage we're talking about would come from a totally different failure mechanism to being hit by a bullet.
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That's interesting. Things are evidently different in New Jersey, but in Britain, percussionists are most definitely not at the bottom of the totem pole. In most orchestras there are three broad groups: section principals, assistant principals and tutti (rank and file).
Because there are very few percussionists in an orchestra (and hence they have rather exposed parts to play), they fall into one of the first two groups. The orchestra leader will be paid a large amount, for reasons expressed elsewhere, but many of the first violinists will probably earn less than the principal timpanist.
Given that OS/2 is in a good many cash machines/ATMs, I wouldn't be surprised if there are contractural problems with opening the code up. Security through obscurity and all that.
> Programmers are now "Simian Engineers".:)
;)
That's "Symbian"...
MATLAB is actually quite useful, but you don't have to buy it to use it.
Nor does your university, in fact, if you use Octave, a GNU Matlab-alike, instead. Seemed pretty good when I used it a few years ago - I can't claim to be a heavy user but I found it good enough during my university course.
The problem seems to me to be one of inertia. Everyone with at least a vague knowledge of the facts is well aware that, whilst WEP is a small hurdle, it's really no obstacle to anyone who's vaguely determined to get in.
On the other hand, it's some hassle to set up a firewall before plugging your access point in. Especially for development work, when you're not setting out to install a "proper" network, it's all too easy to just plug it in for a short period and hope, on the grounds that it'll somehow all be OK. Especially when deadlines are tight, setting up all the security properly is always going to be seen as too time-consuming.
What's fairly inevitable is that there will come off the shelf access points with real security built in. Let's just hope it's not each manufacturer having their own proprietary standard, so there's no interoperability...
For any UK readers worried about family in lower Manhattan or en route to the US, the Foreign Office have issued this helpline number:
020 7008 0000
No guarantee as to its accuracy. Someone I know who tried it just now said it wasn't working.
It always seemed to us that you need a two-stream system - either sign up for an appointment and have your hand held with the appropriate delay, or just get your hub port reset and be given all the relevant addresses. The IT chap could spend an hour at the start of each day dealing with "fast track" applications, who'd then have to wait until the rush had subsided before they got any more attention if they actually didn't know what they were doing...
sounds cool if you have a 8086 or something that can't handle a 160kbps encoded MP3.
Actually, my P60 (yes, I know it's outdated but I'm a broke student) can only just keep up, provided it's doing nothing else, on a good day, in a following wind etc.
Even moving a window around on screen screws up playing MP3's :-/
At the risk of starting an off-topic debate, IIRC a screw hole acts as a stress raiser - it's possible a crack can propagate from there. In layman's terms, cutting a hole in a piece of polycarb screws up its excellent material properties. The sort of damage we're talking about would come from a totally different failure mechanism to being hit by a bullet.
Just my two penn'orth.