I remember back in 2004, when Beowulf clusters were still a cool thing, Quake iii getting the real time raytracing treatment. Great to see it in individual machines now, but I also wonder what cluster tech has replaced the old Beowulf...
Sad, but not surprising given the effort put into the edits of the videos. No raw footage, but cut together, picture in picture, soundtrack, etc cinemagic...
Thanks for all your work. A key memory for me is refreshing/. regularly to find out the latest on the Microsoft anti-trust case in the late 90s. Lots more, but for some reason/. as the news source for that sticks in my mind...
I've started filtering my email on what is basically a Steven Covey 4 Quadrants principle:
Urgent is email that is important to _my_ goals in life, where there is a deadline. Usually that means other people are involved. For example, email from my PhD students who should be working on research that furthers my interests as well. (Covey quadrant 1)
Important is email that is important to my goals, with no deadline. The stuff that is good for me if I read it, but I didn't used to because of the deadline issue. I now make sure to read through the Important folder once a day. An example is conference announcements in my area. (Covey quadrant 2)
Distracting is stuff that is important to other people, but not really me. Most of my Staff mailing lists go in here. (Covey quadrant 3)
Timewasting is stuff that is fun but not really important to anyone. Friends mailing lists talking about the latest in computer games or eclectic news stories, for example. Stuff I can read for 5 minutes to get a chuckle before meetings. (Covey quadrant 4)
Other email gets put aside for me to find out how to not get it again. For example mailing lists I subscribed to once thinking they'd be useful for me, but really I'm better off searching the web when I need that info rather than wasting my time keeping on top of it every day/week.
It works very nicely, and I only have a couple of filters for the lot. I get 400+ emails a day, incidentally.
Try it -- just set up 4 filters copying rather than moving the emails, and run it in parallel with your current filters...
1 gig of space, just send yourself an email with the latest version every day when you're done. You can clean up after yourself if you do run out of space.
(email me at ralf at muhlberger.com if you need/want an invite)
I'd also like to see the OO.org people (and others) and the abiword people decide on one text format.
I'm thinking Esperanto.
(Although I'm writing English.)
reverse graffiti but not as advertising
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· Score: 2, Interesting
See also this campaign to highlight smog and pollution effects, where messages were made by cleaning dirty (not graffitied, just plain old dirty) walls around London.
Neither of you is getting the point that what you need in an interview is to tell the interviewer what they think the right answer is. Clearly that's not the answer we would commonly consider as right, i.e. the truth, but rather it is some perverted version of what would work.
Therefore, read through those answers before your next interview and don't go in sprouting some sort of freakish actualities. Think:
What would the pointy haired boss think was the right answer?
It's obvious why this was published in The Telegraph first. It's not obvious how it made it to The Edge.
However useful science may be, and however relevant to everyday life, that is the least important thing about it. Science is, above all, wonderful. You may write to inform. You should write to inspire.
As a scientist, I have to interpret this as being about entertainers, not scientists and not novelists: "What is your motivation? Writing, inspired by science? Science, inspired by the search for knowledge? Entertainment, inspired by wanting to inspire people?"
Personally I suspect that he is wanting to strike back at literature for having both artistic and academic outcomes.:-)
Have a look at elvin for example. You run a publish server, the things you mentioned are instrumented (also apps like CVS) to publish events, users subscribe to only those events they're interested in and are then notified when these happen. One notification mechanism is tickertape, but there are others of course.
Slashdot Mirror
I remember back in 2004, when Beowulf clusters were still a cool thing, Quake iii getting the real time raytracing treatment. Great to see it in individual machines now, but I also wonder what cluster tech has replaced the old Beowulf...
https://games.slashdot.org/story/04/06/07/2350243/quake-iii-gets-real-time-ray-tracing-treatment
Possibly not the best example :-)
http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/longoria.asp
They really need to do more research. Listening to key boards to detect what's written was shown possible 8 years ago...
Ralf
There was a BBC article by Will Self on this recently also.
In defence of obscure words
Ralf
Sad, but not surprising given the effort put into the edits of the videos. No raw footage, but cut together, picture in picture, soundtrack, etc cinemagic...
R
Those 7 digit UID kids wouldn't know what grumpy means.
Back in my day ....
Twenty-five years after the fact?
Try fifty...
Thanks for all your work. A key memory for me is refreshing /. regularly to find out the latest on the Microsoft anti-trust case in the late 90s. Lots more, but for some reason /. as the news source for that sticks in my mind...
Ralf
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http://www.whowantsabalti.com/video/photocopier.w
http://www.whowantsabalti.com/funpics/spicy/colou
I guess this really needs a couple of links
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http://www.whowantsabalti.com/video/photocopier.w
http://www.whowantsabalti.com/video/photocopier2.
http://www.whowantsabalti.com/video/photocopier3.
and
http://www.whowantsabalti.com/funpics/spicy/colou
Happy Silly Season
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That site is about tactics, not strategy. Do you know the difference?
I've started filtering my email on what is basically a Steven Covey 4 Quadrants principle:
Urgent is email that is important to _my_ goals in life, where there is a deadline. Usually that means other people are involved. For example, email from my PhD students who should be working on research that furthers my interests as well. (Covey quadrant 1)
Important is email that is important to my goals, with no deadline. The stuff that is good for me if I read it, but I didn't used to because of the deadline issue. I now make sure to read through the Important folder once a day. An example is conference announcements in my area. (Covey quadrant 2)
Distracting is stuff that is important to other people, but not really me. Most of my Staff mailing lists go in here. (Covey quadrant 3)
Timewasting is stuff that is fun but not really important to anyone. Friends mailing lists talking about the latest in computer games or eclectic news stories, for example. Stuff I can read for 5 minutes to get a chuckle before meetings. (Covey quadrant 4)
Other email gets put aside for me to find out how to not get it again. For example mailing lists I subscribed to once thinking they'd be useful for me, but really I'm better off searching the web when I need that info rather than wasting my time keeping on top of it every day/week.
It works very nicely, and I only have a couple of filters for the lot. I get 400+ emails a day, incidentally.
Try it -- just set up 4 filters copying rather than moving the emails, and run it in parallel with your current filters...
R
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1 gig of space, just send yourself an email with the latest version every day when you're done. You can clean up after yourself if you do run out of space.
(email me at ralf at muhlberger.com if you need/want an invite)
I'd also like to see the OO.org people (and others) and the abiword people decide on one text format.
I'm thinking Esperanto.
(Although I'm writing English.)
See also this campaign to highlight smog and pollution effects, where messages were made by cleaning dirty (not graffitied, just plain old dirty) walls around London.
Therefore, read through those answers before your next interview and don't go in sprouting some sort of freakish actualities. Think:
Best of luck!
As a scientist, I have to interpret this as being about entertainers, not scientists and not novelists: "What is your motivation? Writing, inspired by science? Science, inspired by the search for knowledge? Entertainment, inspired by wanting to inspire people?"
Personally I suspect that he is wanting to strike back at literature for having both artistic and academic outcomes.
R
That picture totally looks like this animal. Illustrating other evolutionary principles somehow?
R
antimonopoly is what monopoly is really all about, but the focus was lost through marketing.
You might also look at getting cash flow
R
Have a look at elvin for example. You run a publish server, the things you mentioned are instrumented (also apps like CVS) to publish events, users subscribe to only those events they're interested in and are then notified when these happen. One notification mechanism is tickertape, but there are others of course.
Ralf
I'm thinking that it is just the final touches to the Jupiter Death Star project.
We're like soooo doomed.
Ralf
This is a people issue. Make and use a process that is described clearly and mentioned often. Inform everyone of misconduct cases.
Our numbers are going down.
Ralf
The Mac Table could be one thing to look at...
Ralf
And of course there are also macquariums galore out there.
Ralf
If they weren't restricting to credit cards with a US billing address. Like VISA isn't the same globally?
Ralf