Really, the only way to watch the Doctor is in order. There's just so much *lore* and inside jokes that it's tough to appreciate without watching in chronological order.
Which is to say, get all of them, from the first Doctor to the last and re-arrange the episodes in chronological order. It will skip about quite a bit as the Doctor will have a scarf in one episode and a bowtie in another, but it makes it far more contiguous.
Back in college we used to prank each other by sending in requests for magazines and advertisements. We sent in subscription cards to bondage and fetish magazines and had them delivered to the victim. Apparently this also gets you on a lot of lists because when the junk mail started arriving, it never abated. To this day there's probably some poor sot getting a weekly ad for "Chihuahas and the Men Who Love Them".
Nowadays these things are delivered via email so can't do that much anymore. Looking back though, it was an acute thrill to see your roommate start to dread the arrival of the mail carrier. I miss those days..
"Dude, your mail's here." "F* you." "I'm just saying." "F* you."
Funny, I lost 40 lbs eating high-fat low-carb food, purposely not exercising, and eating whenever I was hungry.
Well done... I lost 30lbs through a combination of diet and exercise. I'm still fighting the blood pressure problem though. This year I resolved to reduce sodium intake.
I do notice that I no longer crave things I did before. For example, I used to enjoy a caramel macchiato and a bacon/egg/cheese biscuit in the morning. I'd eat those, plus a bagel loaded with cream cheese. My average lunch bill was about $25/day often for fatty skirt steaks with lots of sides or meals like the "bandeja paisa", which is essentially 3 lbs of assorted meat, some rice, and a couple fried eggs. Add to this about 10 cups of coffee every day with *at minimum* 6 teaspoons of sugar in each and it amazes me that I didn't weigh more than the 230lbs at my heaviest.
I also noticed is that fatty foods tend to keep me satisfied longer. Not *fried fat*, mind you, as in pieces of bacon, but fat that some people tend to cut away before cooking.
I honestly say I've never used calculus or differential equations professionally.
I've found myself using calculus for some GPS related apps that I'm writing. Previously I've used lots of algebra and statistics. Algebra is a fairly routine necessity. I don't so much *use* statistics as need to know it in order to figure out what to use and whether it's valid or not (doing some pointy headed boss apps and need to calculate some statistical metrics for process validation). In previous jobs I needed enough math to understand how to interpret a performance graph and determine whether or not the code was running at expected throughput. I needed to know enough logic in order to optimize some very slow Remedy code.
So in 15 years, maybe I've used non-trivial math maybe 20 times (and I suppose that's relative.. non-trivial is anything beyond calculus 1 for me). There are libraries and tools now that can do all this, but I do believe that to use them effectively you'd need to understand the math.
I think anytime a product is based on the arbitrary opinion of "experts" then there's going to be this sort of price inflation. It's like calling out that the Emperor has no clothes. No one wants to run contrary to the expert and be considered rude or undiscriminating.
It's sort of like music or art or diamonds or bottled water. The actual product is quite plentiful. There are many unsigned bands that have better talent than the biggest pop stars. A top rated diamond is only valuable because some company decided to assign a rating to what is essentially a piece of rock. One bottle of bottled water is almost certainly no better than another, and in the US, it's no better than tap water.
Penn & Teller did a show about bottled water and how a "water expert" opinion influenced how people perceived a bottle of water. I suspect that some of the subjects were just playing along, but many actually believed that garden hose water was more delicate and refreshing than others because of the expert opinion. It would be interesting to see a study done for wine.
From your yearbook, find a portrait pic. From the Interweb, find a semi-nude model. With Photoshop, or Gimp, or other graphic editor, place the head on the body. Put the image on your phone. Now go show it to the principle and have that person from the yearbook brought up on indecency charges.
Exactly.. It's not specific to Chinese though, as just about every culture makes claim to great inventions. In the US, many believe Henry Ford invented the automobile. Many believe Edison invented the light bulb. Entire cultures believe that reading Hamlet in the original Klingon is the only way to appreciate the nuances of revenge. The thing is that you can qualify the inventions as much as you want. There are incremental changes, early failed prototypes; we stand on the shoulders of giants, after all. Maybe Ford was the first to mass produce automobiles or Edison was the first to make a bulb that lasted, but to claim that they were the original inventors is wrong.
Movable type though? Probably Chinese. Fermented beverages? Probably not. Well, at least they probably weren't the only "inventors". Use of salt? Hmmm. Probably some over-zealous folks elsewhere tweaking articles to match the history they learned in school. Or a government tweaking folks to match their world view. Either way, history is mutable.
I read on the Internet that The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd appear to have some interesting coincidences. For a couple hours I've been listening to the soundtrack of the Wizard of Oz and staring at the album cover. It's truly bizarre because after about twenty minutes the little prism thingy looked like it was floating in space. I don't get the "No place like home" piece at the end though.
Here's the main problem I have with enabling ads..
Load NoScript in your browser.. Then load some random sites. Some of them are advertiser sites that are being blocked. Some of these advertiser sites (maybe disguised as a social networking site) can then set/read cookies from your browser. In their databases they can aggregate your browsing patterns.
Here's where it's a problem...
On one social networking site that I use I have many of my co-workers and business associates. In the past I've already had ads start showing up on non-related sites after browsing new products. For example, I don't have a pet but someone asked me to research some flea medication. Within moments after researching on one site, I started noticing flea powders being advertised on another site. Coincidence? What would you think?
I don't want my personal life to start spilling into my public/work life. The problem with these ad sites is that I do not know what information they are storing about me. I don't know if their revenues one day start to decline so they start opening up my records to seedy advertisers. What if Facebook modifies their policy or some seedy advertiser exploits a bug in the Facebook API and starts posting on my home page? What if my co-workers start seeing "Holley 4-Barrel Carbs and the Men Who Love Them" on my page and get the wrong impression? What if LinuxJournal posts "Finger, mount, fsck and sleep" on my wall (and say I work at Microsoft)?
In order to produce art it seems that you'd need a community around you. Without a community it would be difficult to find the time to do anything beyond mere surviving....
Or maybe not.. It could be that there are long periods of inactivity -- sitting around waiting for the rain to stop or last night's meal to digest -- punctuated by moments of actual survival. Maybe game was super plenty.
In either case, I like to think that those first human artists were not so different from those today.
They show the same symbols are used over and over again, and the team say there are signs that the symbols evolved over 5,000 years. This long-term repetition is a hallmark of symbolic communication and a sign of modern human thinking, say the team.
Indeed, this is quite true and the tradition continues. It's hard to imagine our forebears scratching symbols in eggshell and that one day it would lead to us scratching symbols in kornshell. The shells then were quite fragile, barely able to withstand an errant pointer. A misplaced hash would lead to a shell escape. And don't even get me started on bash. When the ancients were using eggshell, there were many competing mediums. Deer horns and bits of pottery, jade, flecks of obsidian -- they were all prettier and easier to work with. Today it's the same -- there's ruby and perl and a host of others -- but kornshell, and its ancestor eggshell, will always have a place in my heart,
Based on world per capita income levels, I am quite wealthy. In fact, my income is beyond the dreams of avarice of the inhabitants of several sub-Saharan peoples.
Last week I bought 5 Casual Day stickers benefiting the American Red Cross. They cost $2 apiece, which is equivalent to me working four days in the field on a Guatemalan farm.
It's not an either/or thing. Secure software is often the *easiest* to configure. It's when configuration is difficult and prone to error that people make mistakes or start using default configurations.
For example, when a service is installed on a system many installers do not have procedures for configuring the firewall. It may be a range of ports that's needed, or some access to a particular IP address. So people install the software and it doesn't work. They read something on the Internet that it's a firewall issue. So what do most people do? They turn off the firewall. I know at least three people who did this because they couldn't get NTP updates to work on their systems.
Remember calculus 2 and wheel problems? One approach to the equations was to put the center of rotation at the center of the wheel. Another approach is to consider the wheel as rotating around the point of contact with the surface. One seems non-intuitive, but can simplify a bunch of other equations. Or dealing with rotating CoM equations...
If it worked like that it would be awesome. But it doesn't.
Say you are an independent programmer with EIN in hand. You walk up to Acme Industrials and present your resume and EIN. They contract you because, dammit, you're really good. A few months go by. You're very good, and love the independence of contracting. So good, in fact, that Acme renews your contract. Life is good.
Tax season rolls around. The government says, "Hey Acme, your awesome programmer contractor is really an employee. You owe us 30% of his salary in withholding tax. You owe use unemployment taxes. You owe us social security taxes. You owe use these other fees. And you're late on paying for the past three years also. Pay or lube up."
Acme gets rid of the awesome contract programmer who is so damn good that he doesn't need an agency to find him work. Well, at least he didn't before.
My wifi is normally secured, but I have some neighbors that are always trying to login. I see their attempts in the router logs and I open the router up every so often just to have fun. I set the broadcast name to "passw0rd" and changed to that password. Sure enough, they immediately log in with that key. I've set the router to deny all traffic except through my squid proxy and all pages redirect to the proxy welcome page until then. I don't care for their personal content, but it's interesting seeing the URLs that show up in the proxy. Many of them set cookies or use other auth so I can't see their content (at least not without changing some settings) but a good percentage use URL encoding so I can pull up their personal sites. The neighbors bounce a lot between facebook, gmail and some news sites. Oh and porn. The bastards watch a lot of porn. I'm probably going to start redirecting those sites to the GOP homepage or a rickroll at some point You can do this by subscribing squid to one of the blocklist sites. Nothing like a dated meme to piss off the neighbors.
Setup of the squid proxy took a few hours.. hardest part was the DNS redirect until they connect to the proxy, but there's tons of instructions now for doing it...
It seems like another way for Hollywood to steal money, but maybe a similar idea could have merit...
Now we have a bunch of "producers" who listen to a bunch of ideas and determine which has potential for making money. They grab the least offensive ideas that can be marketed to a wide group of consumers.
Way back, when people wrote plays and stories, the writers would get a bunch of people to underwrite (i.e., subscribe) the cost of writing a story. If the author was good he/she could earn a decent living.
Imagine if some movies were made the same way? It probably won't work for the biggest movies requiring huge CGI budgets and exotic location shots, but maybe it could help with the independent films that have great stories but just not quite enough budget to push it from an amateur attempt to something people will pay money to watch.
Maybe movies like "Serenity II: The Alliance Strikes Back" could be made if this were the case.
A couple years ago I was searching for the name of an old friend from college. I got a few Google hits for his full name and followed one of them. It led to a page on a radio station website that had lots of confidential information including birth date, email address, home address, business phone/address, salary, *and* password information. I alerted the radio station immediately. The first response from them was accusatory, asking what I was doing hacking their site. I sent back an email to the person who responded and to the addresses listed on their contact page detailing how I found the information.. Haven't heard back from them, but the page stayed up for over a week.
My 8yr old daughter uses Ubuntu without issue. I use mainly CentOS, but am impressed by Linux Mint. All have Windows-ish interfaces with start bar and icons. She bounces between XP on her laptop and Ubuntu on her desktop, and doesn't have any issues; she even tells me what dfferences there are between them.
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Really, the only way to watch the Doctor is in order. There's just so much *lore* and inside jokes that it's tough to appreciate without watching in chronological order.
Which is to say, get all of them, from the first Doctor to the last and re-arrange the episodes in chronological order. It will skip about quite a bit as the Doctor will have a scarf in one episode and a bowtie in another, but it makes it far more contiguous.
Back in college we used to prank each other by sending in requests for magazines and advertisements. We sent in subscription cards to bondage and fetish magazines and had them delivered to the victim. Apparently this also gets you on a lot of lists because when the junk mail started arriving, it never abated. To this day there's probably some poor sot getting a weekly ad for "Chihuahas and the Men Who Love Them".
Nowadays these things are delivered via email so can't do that much anymore. Looking back though, it was an acute thrill to see your roommate start to dread the arrival of the mail carrier. I miss those days..
"Dude, your mail's here."
"F* you."
"I'm just saying."
"F* you."
Funny, I lost 40 lbs eating high-fat low-carb food, purposely not exercising, and eating whenever I was hungry.
Well done...
I lost 30lbs through a combination of diet and exercise. I'm still fighting the blood pressure problem though. This year I resolved to reduce sodium intake.
I do notice that I no longer crave things I did before. For example, I used to enjoy a caramel macchiato and a bacon/egg/cheese biscuit in the morning. I'd eat those, plus a bagel loaded with cream cheese. My average lunch bill was about $25/day often for fatty skirt steaks with lots of sides or meals like the "bandeja paisa", which is essentially 3 lbs of assorted meat, some rice, and a couple fried eggs. Add to this about 10 cups of coffee every day with *at minimum* 6 teaspoons of sugar in each and it amazes me that I didn't weigh more than the 230lbs at my heaviest.
I also noticed is that fatty foods tend to keep me satisfied longer. Not *fried fat*, mind you, as in pieces of bacon, but fat that some people tend to cut away before cooking.
New Moore Island, eh?
So the new name is now No More Island, right?
I honestly say I've never used calculus or differential equations professionally.
I've found myself using calculus for some GPS related apps that I'm writing. Previously I've used lots of algebra and statistics. Algebra is a fairly routine necessity. I don't so much *use* statistics as need to know it in order to figure out what to use and whether it's valid or not (doing some pointy headed boss apps and need to calculate some statistical metrics for process validation). In previous jobs I needed enough math to understand how to interpret a performance graph and determine whether or not the code was running at expected throughput. I needed to know enough logic in order to optimize some very slow Remedy code.
So in 15 years, maybe I've used non-trivial math maybe 20 times (and I suppose that's relative.. non-trivial is anything beyond calculus 1 for me). There are libraries and tools now that can do all this, but I do believe that to use them effectively you'd need to understand the math.
I think anytime a product is based on the arbitrary opinion of "experts" then there's going to be this sort of price inflation. It's like calling out that the Emperor has no clothes. No one wants to run contrary to the expert and be considered rude or undiscriminating.
It's sort of like music or art or diamonds or bottled water. The actual product is quite plentiful. There are many unsigned bands that have better talent than the biggest pop stars. A top rated diamond is only valuable because some company decided to assign a rating to what is essentially a piece of rock. One bottle of bottled water is almost certainly no better than another, and in the US, it's no better than tap water.
Penn & Teller did a show about bottled water and how a "water expert" opinion influenced how people perceived a bottle of water. I suspect that some of the subjects were just playing along, but many actually believed that garden hose water was more delicate and refreshing than others because of the expert opinion. It would be interesting to see a study done for wine.
From your yearbook, find a portrait pic. From the Interweb, find a semi-nude model. With Photoshop, or Gimp, or other graphic editor, place the head on the body. Put the image on your phone. Now go show it to the principle and have that person from the yearbook brought up on indecency charges.
It's an awesome project. On my Canons it allowed a range of extra picture tweak settings and allowed some better RAW image manipulation.
Exactly.. It's not specific to Chinese though, as just about every culture makes claim to great inventions. In the US, many believe Henry Ford invented the automobile. Many believe Edison invented the light bulb. Entire cultures believe that reading Hamlet in the original Klingon is the only way to appreciate the nuances of revenge. The thing is that you can qualify the inventions as much as you want. There are incremental changes, early failed prototypes; we stand on the shoulders of giants, after all. Maybe Ford was the first to mass produce automobiles or Edison was the first to make a bulb that lasted, but to claim that they were the original inventors is wrong.
Movable type though? Probably Chinese. Fermented beverages? Probably not. Well, at least they probably weren't the only "inventors". Use of salt? Hmmm. Probably some over-zealous folks elsewhere tweaking articles to match the history they learned in school. Or a government tweaking folks to match their world view. Either way, history is mutable.
Hmm.. Could be eye strain caused by looking down your nose at the PC??
but if there's no salt for your hash, doesn't that make your clients and servers less secure?
Only if your server hasn't washed his hands before a handshake.
I read on the Internet that The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd appear to have some interesting coincidences. For a couple hours I've been listening to the soundtrack of the Wizard of Oz and staring at the album cover. It's truly bizarre because after about twenty minutes the little prism thingy looked like it was floating in space. I don't get the "No place like home" piece at the end though.
Here's the main problem I have with enabling ads..
Load NoScript in your browser.. Then load some random sites. Some of them are advertiser sites that are being blocked. Some of these advertiser sites (maybe disguised as a social networking site) can then set/read cookies from your browser. In their databases they can aggregate your browsing patterns.
Here's where it's a problem...
On one social networking site that I use I have many of my co-workers and business associates. In the past I've already had ads start showing up on non-related sites after browsing new products. For example, I don't have a pet but someone asked me to research some flea medication. Within moments after researching on one site, I started noticing flea powders being advertised on another site. Coincidence? What would you think?
I don't want my personal life to start spilling into my public/work life. The problem with these ad sites is that I do not know what information they are storing about me. I don't know if their revenues one day start to decline so they start opening up my records to seedy advertisers. What if Facebook modifies their policy or some seedy advertiser exploits a bug in the Facebook API and starts posting on my home page? What if my co-workers start seeing "Holley 4-Barrel Carbs and the Men Who Love Them" on my page and get the wrong impression? What if LinuxJournal posts "Finger, mount, fsck and sleep" on my wall (and say I work at Microsoft)?
In order to produce art it seems that you'd need a community around you. Without a community it would be difficult to find the time to do anything beyond mere surviving....
Or maybe not.. It could be that there are long periods of inactivity -- sitting around waiting for the rain to stop or last night's meal to digest -- punctuated by moments of actual survival. Maybe game was super plenty.
In either case, I like to think that those first human artists were not so different from those today.
They show the same symbols are used over and over again, and the team say there are signs that the symbols evolved over 5,000 years. This long-term repetition is a hallmark of symbolic communication and a sign of modern human thinking, say the team.
Indeed, this is quite true and the tradition continues. It's hard to imagine our forebears scratching symbols in eggshell and that one day it would lead to us scratching symbols in kornshell. The shells then were quite fragile, barely able to withstand an errant pointer. A misplaced hash would lead to a shell escape. And don't even get me started on bash. When the ancients were using eggshell, there were many competing mediums. Deer horns and bits of pottery, jade, flecks of obsidian -- they were all prettier and easier to work with. Today it's the same -- there's ruby and perl and a host of others -- but kornshell, and its ancestor eggshell, will always have a place in my heart,
I will speak to this.
Based on world per capita income levels, I am quite wealthy. In fact, my income is beyond the dreams of avarice of the inhabitants of several sub-Saharan peoples.
Last week I bought 5 Casual Day stickers benefiting the American Red Cross. They cost $2 apiece, which is equivalent to me working four days in the field on a Guatemalan farm.
Have I not done enough?
It's not an either/or thing. Secure software is often the *easiest* to configure. It's when configuration is difficult and prone to error that people make mistakes or start using default configurations.
For example, when a service is installed on a system many installers do not have procedures for configuring the firewall. It may be a range of ports that's needed, or some access to a particular IP address. So people install the software and it doesn't work. They read something on the Internet that it's a firewall issue. So what do most people do? They turn off the firewall. I know at least three people who did this because they couldn't get NTP updates to work on their systems.
Indeed.
Remember calculus 2 and wheel problems? One approach to the equations was to put the center of rotation at the center of the wheel. Another approach is to consider the wheel as rotating around the point of contact with the surface. One seems non-intuitive, but can simplify a bunch of other equations. Or dealing with rotating CoM equations...
If it worked like that it would be awesome. But it doesn't.
Say you are an independent programmer with EIN in hand. You walk up to Acme Industrials and present your resume and EIN. They contract you because, dammit, you're really good. A few months go by. You're very good, and love the independence of contracting. So good, in fact, that Acme renews your contract. Life is good.
Tax season rolls around. The government says, "Hey Acme, your awesome programmer contractor is really an employee. You owe us 30% of his salary in withholding tax. You owe use unemployment taxes. You owe us social security taxes. You owe use these other fees. And you're late on paying for the past three years also. Pay or lube up."
Acme gets rid of the awesome contract programmer who is so damn good that he doesn't need an agency to find him work. Well, at least he didn't before.
Why is everyone so worried? Just do the following:
cvs co -r 1.1 internet
Or if that doesn't work
cvs co -r 1.1 www
My wifi is normally secured, but I have some neighbors that are always trying to login. I see their attempts in the router logs and I open the router up every so often just to have fun. I set the broadcast name to "passw0rd" and changed to that password. Sure enough, they immediately log in with that key. I've set the router to deny all traffic except through my squid proxy and all pages redirect to the proxy welcome page until then. I don't care for their personal content, but it's interesting seeing the URLs that show up in the proxy. Many of them set cookies or use other auth so I can't see their content (at least not without changing some settings) but a good percentage use URL encoding so I can pull up their personal sites. The neighbors bounce a lot between facebook, gmail and some news sites. Oh and porn. The bastards watch a lot of porn. I'm probably going to start redirecting those sites to the GOP homepage or a rickroll at some point You can do this by subscribing squid to one of the blocklist sites. Nothing like a dated meme to piss off the neighbors.
Setup of the squid proxy took a few hours.. hardest part was the DNS redirect until they connect to the proxy, but there's tons of instructions now for doing it...
It seems like another way for Hollywood to steal money, but maybe a similar idea could have merit...
Now we have a bunch of "producers" who listen to a bunch of ideas and determine which has potential for making money. They grab the least offensive ideas that can be marketed to a wide group of consumers.
Way back, when people wrote plays and stories, the writers would get a bunch of people to underwrite (i.e., subscribe) the cost of writing a story. If the author was good he/she could earn a decent living.
Imagine if some movies were made the same way? It probably won't work for the biggest movies requiring huge CGI budgets and exotic location shots, but maybe it could help with the independent films that have great stories but just not quite enough budget to push it from an amateur attempt to something people will pay money to watch.
Maybe movies like "Serenity II: The Alliance Strikes Back" could be made if this were the case.
A couple years ago I was searching for the name of an old friend from college. I got a few Google hits for his full name and followed one of them. It led to a page on a radio station website that had lots of confidential information including birth date, email address, home address, business phone/address, salary, *and* password information. I alerted the radio station immediately. The first response from them was accusatory, asking what I was doing hacking their site. I sent back an email to the person who responded and to the addresses listed on their contact page detailing how I found the information.. Haven't heard back from them, but the page stayed up for over a week.
I used to get a UAC on opening documents from a Samba share on my LAN. I could see it happening if a Word document was opened from a share.
My 8yr old daughter uses Ubuntu without issue. I use mainly CentOS, but am impressed by Linux Mint. All have Windows-ish interfaces with start bar and icons. She bounces between XP on her laptop and Ubuntu on her desktop, and doesn't have any issues; she even tells me what dfferences there are between them.