Re:Do we need the anti-smoking jab
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When a loved one dies from something related to lifestyle, then one is allowed a little preaching. I believe it with regard to smoking, drinking, and even bad diet. With that, I'll proudly say that you should put down that crap you're eating and take the stairs every now and then. It might be rude, but if my soapbox keeps someone else from dying like my father did then I don't care. Give the OP a break and try not to light up in front of him.
In college (>10 years ago) I had an internship writing hand scanner software for a large alcoholic beverage distributor. Since it had to be functional with all their products I made it so that if an obscure 7oz. drink was scanned the operator had to play a hardcoded game of ascii Space Invaders to continue. In the end I chickened out and took out the conditional, but I'm pretty sure I left the actual game in the source code. I've always wondered if whoever took over after I left noticed it.
I wish I'd have left it in, or at least a short demo, as an Easter Egg.
I use GNU Octave. I'm a grad student in Discrete Mathematics and Octave's ability to read my MATLAB code lets me work from home and test out light algorithms without the mess of SSH-ing into my server at the office. It's been great.
I had this problem with my MacBook (no bootcamp), and while the folks at Apple Support didn't know what to do I found a good solution online. I downloaded the combo update to 10.4.11 to my iMac (even though it had already gone through the update), booted up the MacBook into target disk mode, and selected my MacBook as the target in the update installer from the iMac. Worked great.
In the UK you'd have a 1/54 prob. of being someone with a Zune and, depending on your frequency of ex basementus excursions the prob. of knowing someone with one would be much higher.
I wonder if there will ever be a release of an OLPC VM for us all to work (read: play) with. I'd imagine that the project could only benefit from giving us all the opportunity to enhance it, even if the OS ends up closed. Throw out a QEMU VM that looks exactly as the OLPC will and see what happens in the sandbox.
I just completed the lecture series for this course to prep for a prelim, as I'm out of practice in Linear Algebra. Wonderfully done. If I pass I'm going to find a way to buy him a beer in MA from CA. If I ever get a real academic job then I'm donating to the program. It's got to be one of the best education paradigms I've ever seen. See the other courses with full video at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/avocw.htm.
At least within a single institution this should fall within the FERPA rights of academic employees, even without student permission. As long as the information being archived, be it records, projects, papers, or whatever, relates to the academic success of the student, we can pass information among others within the academic dept. In other words, if I wanted to build such a database within the confines of my institution and allow all my fellow faculty to upload material to be cross-referenced with my own students' material then I could.
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When a loved one dies from something related to lifestyle, then one is allowed a little preaching. I believe it with regard to smoking, drinking, and even bad diet. With that, I'll proudly say that you should put down that crap you're eating and take the stairs every now and then. It might be rude, but if my soapbox keeps someone else from dying like my father did then I don't care. Give the OP a break and try not to light up in front of him.
In college (>10 years ago) I had an internship writing hand scanner software for a large alcoholic beverage distributor. Since it had to be functional with all their products I made it so that if an obscure 7oz. drink was scanned the operator had to play a hardcoded game of ascii Space Invaders to continue. In the end I chickened out and took out the conditional, but I'm pretty sure I left the actual game in the source code. I've always wondered if whoever took over after I left noticed it. I wish I'd have left it in, or at least a short demo, as an Easter Egg.
I use GNU Octave. I'm a grad student in Discrete Mathematics and Octave's ability to read my MATLAB code lets me work from home and test out light algorithms without the mess of SSH-ing into my server at the office. It's been great.
I had this problem with my MacBook (no bootcamp), and while the folks at Apple Support didn't know what to do I found a good solution online. I downloaded the combo update to 10.4.11 to my iMac (even though it had already gone through the update), booted up the MacBook into target disk mode, and selected my MacBook as the target in the update installer from the iMac. Worked great.
In the UK you'd have a 1/54 prob. of being someone with a Zune and, depending on your frequency of ex basementus excursions the prob. of knowing someone with one would be much higher.
You're a winner. Thanks.
I wonder if there will ever be a release of an OLPC VM for us all to work (read: play) with. I'd imagine that the project could only benefit from giving us all the opportunity to enhance it, even if the OS ends up closed. Throw out a QEMU VM that looks exactly as the OLPC will and see what happens in the sandbox.
I just completed the lecture series for this course to prep for a prelim, as I'm out of practice in Linear Algebra. Wonderfully done. If I pass I'm going to find a way to buy him a beer in MA from CA. If I ever get a real academic job then I'm donating to the program. It's got to be one of the best education paradigms I've ever seen. See the other courses with full video at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/avocw.htm .
At least within a single institution this should fall within the FERPA rights of academic employees, even without student permission. As long as the information being archived, be it records, projects, papers, or whatever, relates to the academic success of the student, we can pass information among others within the academic dept. In other words, if I wanted to build such a database within the confines of my institution and allow all my fellow faculty to upload material to be cross-referenced with my own students' material then I could.