Oh, man. This brings back memories, alright. Good memories. Titrations all the time. I don't know about anyone else, but there is something about phenolpthaline (sp!!!) in general and acid-base titrations in particular that is just so satisfying, even if you are not the kind of cowboy who knows exactly when to flip the lever.
And tungsten, damn. That element rules. Highest melting point, IIRC. Also known as "wolframite".
I loved high school chemistry so much, I almost made the mistake of becoming a chemical engineer. I know, I know. Damn, good times.
That's what I was trying to get at. I was just drawing a distinction (one I think MS would agree with) between changing my environment without touching the Windows libraries and executables vs. using a debugger or so to modify Windows to suit my purposes. One would (I think) comply with MS's EULA while the other would not.
Of course the whole thing is silly...there's nothing inherently different in actuality between the two approaches. These are all technicalities. Someone could design a filesystem, where each byte is a seperate "file." A compatability layer would map this to a FAT32 virtual filesystem. Then when you want to modify any program, you just edit at the byte (file) level, replacing old files with your own. AFAIK, this is technically feasible and perfectly legal, and also completely gets around an EULA that prohibits modification.
I would think that these are seperate enough that they should be distinct Bonobo components (that have a lot of components in common, of course) that are then wrapped together with a lightweight navigator (or just stuck in a web browser?). Maybe they are trying to figure out some kind of elegent design for this?
Also, while I agree that technically, dealing with newsgroups is similar to dealing with mailboxes, the two have always been semantically different in my mind. Whether your email is stored locally or on a server, and whether the news articles are on a server or cached locally, email tends to have more of a "sense of mineness" about it. By that I mean, e.g., I would expect my email program to let me set up a filter that puts any email with "narts" in the subject into my narts.com mailbox, but I would be very surprised if my newsreader allowed me to set up such a "filter" for putting things into alt.narts. Deletion is similar in its different meanings in each context.
Basically, I think there is a UI issue to resolve. Namely, an interface that is too consistent across the two applications risks implying more similarity than is really justified, while inconsistency requires the user to learn twice as many interfaces. I think the second option is better (though I don't know how best to go about it), since in either case, the user is going to have to learn two sets of semantics. The second one makes this explicit by also requiring the learning of two sets of syntax.
I've not used mplayer for VCDs, but it handles pretty much any file I've thrown at it except for Quicktime (which is handled in the newest version sans Sorensen, IIRC). Corrupted files that skip around or crash using the media players on the Mac (QT Player and DIVX Player) play without a hitch on mplayer. And it is damn fast, too.
I think this is the best path to follow. Another easy solution would be to modify your windowing system such that any button with the title "I agree" would be displayed as "I disagree". Note that this does not modify the original program: the program has simply requested that something be drawn by the windowing system, which really can do whatever it wants with that request.
Of course, said modifications would likely violate MS's EULA, but maybe you could get around this by running the software through a modified Wine over cygwin.
I can't wait until these things are affordable enough, and high res enough, to replace CRTs. And when I am old I can talk about the "bad old days" when we had these huge power-hungry things we had to lug around. It will be analogous to people talking about punch cards today.
Also, CDs will no longer exist: pervasive networking will have replaced removeable media.
And no keyboards, replaced by voice/thought recognition.
And "paper" will only be used by some backward governments and lone survivalist types.
Sorry, was referring to the G4 Cube, which came out plenty late enough, and aimed at a high-end enough market, IMO, to have included a 133MHz bus. The ATA/66 instead of 100 disk was excuseable at the time, but I saw no reason to skimp on the memory speed.
Where "quality" is taken to mean "to the extent that it was manufactured by Apple." Pay no attention to that small IDE hard drive and small PC100 DIMM behind the curtain.
I might get flamed or modded down for this, but any chance of a TV version?
I mean, the book sounds great, but we have to be realistic. Reading is one of the most important skills that is (or should be!) taught to our nation's children. Witness the many great strides we have made as a Society since widespread literacy has come upon us. It is all but impossible to find success (hence, happiness, fulfillment, &c.) without the basic ability to read.
That said, there is a world of difference between a valuable skill for life and an ability to be used as a form of entertainment. Take writing as a related example. As the sister of reading, writing is as important in daily life and a sound career as reading, if not more so. You write checks, you write shopping lists, you write letters to old friends. But few amongst us write for pleasure. Yes, there are those who write the odd poem or short story, even essays for the local OpEd page. But for most, writing is merely a tool, to be used when needed, and never else.
I suggest that reading should be treated similarly. Yes, it is absolutely essential in many situations. But we should not necessarily turn to reading as a method of entertainment or information. Technology has continued to march onward since Gutenberg was taught how to print by the Chinese, and we have much better ways of conveying information (e.g., television and slashdot) these days.
In this busy world we live in, who has time to read when the same information can be conveyed through more efficient means? I didn't even have time to read the review above, though from the first line on the front page it sounds funny. Maybe if it were available as streaming audio or video, I could absorb it as I work. Life is too short to spend with your nose in a book.
I had no idea they were planning on making yet another console! I thought the PS2 was going to be the last, best one, and now I find out it's going to be obsolete!
I have been caught completely off guard by similar reports on slashdot in the past. Apparently, Apple is planning a G5 processor (as if the G4 weren't fast enough!), Microsoft is supposedly working on an operating system to replace XP, and the 2.5 branch will not be the last iteration of the Linux kernel.
To the three who responded to this, and any others that are confused:
I was not saying that Science is not important. Obviously, many Scientists would disagree with that! What I'm saying is that it is not relevent to people who are not Scientists (those outside of academia).
For example, how many Americans know how to fix a car? Not many, I would guess. Why? Because there are people who do that, called Mechanics. This doesn't mean that Mechanics are not important, because cars do break down. But no one worships Mechanics and few people study car repair as a hobby, and that is okay.
So why is it that Scientists then for some reason get all upset that not everyone finds their chosen occupation interesting, or feels the need to study it? What ever happened to "live and let live"?
To my mind, Evolution is not a Scientific Theory in that you cannot devise an experiment where the results would disprove the tenants of Evolutionary Science. Experiments that can disprove a theory are, to me, the foundation and tradition of the Scientific Method.
Would be fascinated to hear about your experimental design which could disprove the Theory of Relativity, and the Laws of Gravity and Thermodynamics. Thanks.
Galileo claimed the Earth revolves around the Sun, which at the time was quite controversial and extraordinary. However, simply observing the planetary motions proved him right.
Note that "the Earth revolv[ing] around the Sun" is part of "the planetary motions."
How does this jive with my own intuition and experiences?
Not being skilled in Ebonics, I wouldn't know, but I do recommend looking up the word "jibe".
Frankly, I'm not surprised. And what I'm about to say has nothing to do with the deplorable state of education in America or the world, the horror that is Pop Culture, or anything else that elitists love to ramble on about.
No, there is a simpler explanation for why Science has proven so unpopular, and that is: who cares? Seriously, since the Industrial Revolution there has not been a single example of a scientific discovery that affected human life more than superficially. Science is little more than a hobby. Far more important is R&D (which is unknown, not because it is arcane, but because it is kept a secret).
Yes, boo-hoo go the Scientists. Well, I have news for you. There are garbage men too, and no one finds their jobs so enchanting. Same goes for janitors and programmers. In fact, the vast majority of people have occupations that no one gives a shit about. Any Scientists who have a problem with this should sign up for the fucking NFL. Free clue: you are not entitled to a job that gets you laid; you are not entitled to a job that requires you to give autographs; you are not entitled to a life. If you are disillusioned by Science, time to switch careers, sucker.
Apologies for antagonistic tone...I read your Stephen Hawking post and your "Slashdot Moderator" lyrics. You will not be placed in ~tps12/foes anytime soon.
Steganography, AFAIK, is a hoax. I have not read the article in question, but have read many like it. Yes, there are some studies which show correlation (i.e., not necessarily causation!) between personality and the form of the human skull. These have largely been disproven or at least thrown into question by independent studies. Steganography is just what the word literally means: science for stegesauri, that is, science from the stone age. Let's please move on.
indefensible? how is BSD suffering? do you have proof?
Come on, you can do better than that. First, it was an obvious joking allusion to the "*BSD is dying" troll. Second, relative to Linux, BSD is dead...look at user base, development activity, applications, any meaningful metric, and BSD trails Linux. So what I said (IIRC, "I don't want Linux to go the way of BSD") is completely based in fact and reason.
you sound like that idiot in the UK years ago who claimed there was no holocaust. stop hyping shit that isn't true
Fuck you and your neo-Nazi analogy. Read my original post, look up how many innocent people were slaughtered during the Holocaust, think for one fucking second, and then reconsider whether you really want to make that comparison.
you karma is going down because it should.
Easy to say for an AC. I'm posting this with my bonus. Plz ks my ass, thx.
Hey hey. I'm one of the few slashdot readers to post w/a real, unobfuscated email address, no reason to hold it against me.:) Really, I recently graduated, and get the lifetime email address for "free" (I know, I know).
On a related note, I will recommend that people not obfuscate their email addresses. I have received very little spam since having this account (nigh on 4 years), and have seen no correlation between posting on slashdot and spam. I get maybe 5 spams a day, at most, with no filtering whatsoever, and half of them are from websites I've given my email address to. Click on my user info to see how many times I've posted... By obfuscating your email address, you prevent practically zero harvest-scripts from getting your address, and you prevent who-knows-how-many legitimate users from easily emailing you. Never mind that it is weak to give in to the opponent by inconveniencing every single legitimate emailer because you are afraid of setting up a good enough filter. You people...disgust me.
"Jumped the shark" is a reference to the last episodes of Happy Days, when the studio was so desperate for ratings that they had episodes with topics like "Fonzie jumps a shark on his motorcycle."
Thx 4 th hedz up. Is that a real example, or hypothetical?
I believe such a thing happened to MASH. And SNL, like 17 times.
the Buffy Musical episode.
While I do not watch TV on a regular basis, my mother is an avid Buffy fan. She loved that episode (I have not seen it, but remember her telling me about it multiple times), though she is admittedly not as elitist as the average slashbot.
Does The Media really use this term? I find it odd that I am so completely out of the loop.
in Europe, there is a max number of hours you can work per week.
I will point out that this is not necessarily a good thing.
In Europe the countries set the rules for vacations while in the US, the companies set the polices.
More accurately, vacation policies are determined by the market. Most companies give vacation time in the amount to which it will best increase total productivity (taking turnover into account). If you legislate, you risk hurting the companies, who will then hire fewer people. At best, you get exactly the same results as would occur in the market, so why not just leave it be?
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And tungsten, damn. That element rules. Highest melting point, IIRC. Also known as "wolframite".
I loved high school chemistry so much, I almost made the mistake of becoming a chemical engineer. I know, I know. Damn, good times.
That's what I was trying to get at. I was just drawing a distinction (one I think MS would agree with) between changing my environment without touching the Windows libraries and executables vs. using a debugger or so to modify Windows to suit my purposes. One would (I think) comply with MS's EULA while the other would not.
Of course the whole thing is silly...there's nothing inherently different in actuality between the two approaches. These are all technicalities. Someone could design a filesystem, where each byte is a seperate "file." A compatability layer would map this to a FAT32 virtual filesystem. Then when you want to modify any program, you just edit at the byte (file) level, replacing old files with your own. AFAIK, this is technically feasible and perfectly legal, and also completely gets around an EULA that prohibits modification.
...to install blackbox on my pants.
Also, while I agree that technically, dealing with newsgroups is similar to dealing with mailboxes, the two have always been semantically different in my mind. Whether your email is stored locally or on a server, and whether the news articles are on a server or cached locally, email tends to have more of a "sense of mineness" about it. By that I mean, e.g., I would expect my email program to let me set up a filter that puts any email with "narts" in the subject into my narts.com mailbox, but I would be very surprised if my newsreader allowed me to set up such a "filter" for putting things into alt.narts. Deletion is similar in its different meanings in each context.
Basically, I think there is a UI issue to resolve. Namely, an interface that is too consistent across the two applications risks implying more similarity than is really justified, while inconsistency requires the user to learn twice as many interfaces. I think the second option is better (though I don't know how best to go about it), since in either case, the user is going to have to learn two sets of semantics. The second one makes this explicit by also requiring the learning of two sets of syntax.
I've not used mplayer for VCDs, but it handles pretty much any file I've thrown at it except for Quicktime (which is handled in the newest version sans Sorensen, IIRC). Corrupted files that skip around or crash using the media players on the Mac (QT Player and DIVX Player) play without a hitch on mplayer. And it is damn fast, too.
Of course, said modifications would likely violate MS's EULA, but maybe you could get around this by running the software through a modified Wine over cygwin.
Also, CDs will no longer exist: pervasive networking will have replaced removeable media.
And no keyboards, replaced by voice/thought recognition.
And "paper" will only be used by some backward governments and lone survivalist types.
We will all wear white pants.
I recommend using the +1 bonus whenever possible, if for no other purpose then as an offering to the slashgods.
Sorry, was referring to the G4 Cube, which came out plenty late enough, and aimed at a high-end enough market, IMO, to have included a 133MHz bus. The ATA/66 instead of 100 disk was excuseable at the time, but I saw no reason to skimp on the memory speed.
Where "quality" is taken to mean "to the extent that it was manufactured by Apple." Pay no attention to that small IDE hard drive and small PC100 DIMM behind the curtain.
I mean, the book sounds great, but we have to be realistic. Reading is one of the most important skills that is (or should be!) taught to our nation's children. Witness the many great strides we have made as a Society since widespread literacy has come upon us. It is all but impossible to find success (hence, happiness, fulfillment, &c.) without the basic ability to read.
That said, there is a world of difference between a valuable skill for life and an ability to be used as a form of entertainment. Take writing as a related example. As the sister of reading, writing is as important in daily life and a sound career as reading, if not more so. You write checks, you write shopping lists, you write letters to old friends. But few amongst us write for pleasure. Yes, there are those who write the odd poem or short story, even essays for the local OpEd page. But for most, writing is merely a tool, to be used when needed, and never else.
I suggest that reading should be treated similarly. Yes, it is absolutely essential in many situations. But we should not necessarily turn to reading as a method of entertainment or information. Technology has continued to march onward since Gutenberg was taught how to print by the Chinese, and we have much better ways of conveying information (e.g., television and slashdot) these days.
In this busy world we live in, who has time to read when the same information can be conveyed through more efficient means? I didn't even have time to read the review above, though from the first line on the front page it sounds funny. Maybe if it were available as streaming audio or video, I could absorb it as I work. Life is too short to spend with your nose in a book.
You should probably install Linux or a BSD on those to make them useful. Some of the lighter weight *nix office apps (tho probably not OO) should run.
I have been caught completely off guard by similar reports on slashdot in the past. Apparently, Apple is planning a G5 processor (as if the G4 weren't fast enough!), Microsoft is supposedly working on an operating system to replace XP, and the 2.5 branch will not be the last iteration of the Linux kernel.
I was not saying that Science is not important. Obviously, many Scientists would disagree with that! What I'm saying is that it is not relevent to people who are not Scientists (those outside of academia).
For example, how many Americans know how to fix a car? Not many, I would guess. Why? Because there are people who do that, called Mechanics. This doesn't mean that Mechanics are not important, because cars do break down. But no one worships Mechanics and few people study car repair as a hobby, and that is okay.
So why is it that Scientists then for some reason get all upset that not everyone finds their chosen occupation interesting, or feels the need to study it? What ever happened to "live and let live"?
Would be fascinated to hear about your experimental design which could disprove the Theory of Relativity, and the Laws of Gravity and Thermodynamics. Thanks.
Note that "the Earth revolv[ing] around the Sun" is part of "the planetary motions."
How does this jive with my own intuition and experiences?
Not being skilled in Ebonics, I wouldn't know, but I do recommend looking up the word "jibe".
No, there is a simpler explanation for why Science has proven so unpopular, and that is: who cares? Seriously, since the Industrial Revolution there has not been a single example of a scientific discovery that affected human life more than superficially. Science is little more than a hobby. Far more important is R&D (which is unknown, not because it is arcane, but because it is kept a secret).
Yes, boo-hoo go the Scientists. Well, I have news for you. There are garbage men too, and no one finds their jobs so enchanting. Same goes for janitors and programmers. In fact, the vast majority of people have occupations that no one gives a shit about. Any Scientists who have a problem with this should sign up for the fucking NFL. Free clue: you are not entitled to a job that gets you laid; you are not entitled to a job that requires you to give autographs; you are not entitled to a life. If you are disillusioned by Science, time to switch careers, sucker.
Apologies for antagonistic tone...I read your Stephen Hawking post and your "Slashdot Moderator" lyrics. You will not be placed in ~tps12/foes anytime soon.
You get more spam from hotmail than you do from your school address? I'm guessing Cornell, Brown as backup.
Steganography, AFAIK, is a hoax. I have not read the article in question, but have read many like it. Yes, there are some studies which show correlation (i.e., not necessarily causation!) between personality and the form of the human skull. These have largely been disproven or at least thrown into question by independent studies. Steganography is just what the word literally means: science for stegesauri, that is, science from the stone age. Let's please move on.
Come on, you can do better than that. First, it was an obvious joking allusion to the "*BSD is dying" troll. Second, relative to Linux, BSD is dead...look at user base, development activity, applications, any meaningful metric, and BSD trails Linux. So what I said (IIRC, "I don't want Linux to go the way of BSD") is completely based in fact and reason.
you sound like that idiot in the UK years ago who claimed there was no holocaust. stop hyping shit that isn't true
Fuck you and your neo-Nazi analogy. Read my original post, look up how many innocent people were slaughtered during the Holocaust, think for one fucking second, and then reconsider whether you really want to make that comparison.
you karma is going down because it should.
Easy to say for an AC. I'm posting this with my bonus. Plz ks my ass, thx.
On a related note, I will recommend that people not obfuscate their email addresses. I have received very little spam since having this account (nigh on 4 years), and have seen no correlation between posting on slashdot and spam. I get maybe 5 spams a day, at most, with no filtering whatsoever, and half of them are from websites I've given my email address to. Click on my user info to see how many times I've posted... By obfuscating your email address, you prevent practically zero harvest-scripts from getting your address, and you prevent who-knows-how-many legitimate users from easily emailing you. Never mind that it is weak to give in to the opponent by inconveniencing every single legitimate emailer because you are afraid of setting up a good enough filter. You people...disgust me.
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Yes, thank you, that dependency was not clear to anyone.
Thx 4 th hedz up. Is that a real example, or hypothetical?
I believe such a thing happened to MASH. And SNL, like 17 times.
the Buffy Musical episode.
While I do not watch TV on a regular basis, my mother is an avid Buffy fan. She loved that episode (I have not seen it, but remember her telling me about it multiple times), though she is admittedly not as elitist as the average slashbot.
Does The Media really use this term? I find it odd that I am so completely out of the loop.
I will point out that this is not necessarily a good thing.
In Europe the countries set the rules for vacations while in the US, the companies set the polices.
More accurately, vacation policies are determined by the market. Most companies give vacation time in the amount to which it will best increase total productivity (taking turnover into account). If you legislate, you risk hurting the companies, who will then hire fewer people. At best, you get exactly the same results as would occur in the market, so why not just leave it be?