(Haven't scanned the whole comment tree, so this may be redundant)
There are museums within the facility, and even the weirdest aquarium you'll ever find, so it's definitely a blend of both. There's collections of door locks and hinges, columns and arches, blown glass, and more eclectic stuff that I can't remember at the moment.
If it became legal to sell the vomit, then perhaps people would start to farm the vomit, resulting in harm to the whales (holding whales in captivity, seeding ambergris through unhealthy diet, inducing vomit in unhealthy ways).
I suppose you could open up a loophole, allowing for sale of naturally occurring vomit, but that would still provide a motive for "encouraging" naturally occurring vomit (through the surreptitious methods listed above).
I conclude that 50% of the students are aware of their 1st amendment freedoms, and I say that's not so bad. Threaten a group of students with freedom impinging restrictions, and quite a few of them will be able to speak up.
About a decade ago there was an article in the Radio Electronics magazine (not even sure if it's still being published!) containing schematics and assembly instructions for a robot lawn mower. Head to your library and search it out. Or, do some googling for radio electronics robot lawnmower.
You could always put a job up for auction at sites like Freelance Auction or Rent A Coder. You put a cap on how much you're willing to pay for your graphics, and let bidders compete for the job.
Another great selling point of these games is their PBEM capability. Ever have trouble finding opponents who have free time the same time you do? Just fire off a round of Combat Mission, and they can respond when they get the chance.
It's about how tolerant and/or disciplined you are when it comes to solving problems. Have you ever coached someone who hates math through doing a math problem? Perhaps something somewhat tedious like long division. Their claim is usually something like "I'm no good at this," or "I can't do this," and they give up quickly on their own. They know how to do each step, they just find no joy in the accomplishment and they don't sympathize with the benefits.
When I'm told things like "you're so smart," it's usually after doing something relatively adventurous like engine repair (even just changing the oil!) or enjoying an instruction manual. There's nothing inherent in me that makes me spin a socket wrench better than anyone else.
I'm not a Londoner, so I can't answer authoratively; but I do have a copy of Chase's Calendar of Events, which has this to say about Guy Fawke's Day:
It is still observed, and on the night of Nov 5, "the whole country lights up with bonfires and celebration. "Guys" are burned in effigy and the old verses repeated: "Remember, remember the fifth of November,/Gunpowder treason and plot;/I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot."
From this I surmise that a good percentage of Londoners celebrate that he was caught.
Apparently the breakin ocurred before a patch was available. From the referenced README on ftp.gnu.org:
A root compromise and a Trojan horse were discovered on gnuftp.gnu.org,
the FTP server of the GNU project. The machine appears to have been cracked in March 2003, but we only very recently discovered the crack. The modus operandi of the cracker shows that (s)he was interested primarily in using gnuftp to collect passwords and as a launching point to attack other machines. It appears that the machine was cracked using a ptrace exploit immediately after the exploit was posted on bugtraq.
(For the ptrace bug, an root-shell exploit available on 17 March 2003, and
a working fix was not available on linux-kernel until the following week.
Evidence found on the machine indicates that were cracked during that
week.)
Run, do not walk, to emusic.com. For $10 bucks a month, you get unlimited MP3 access to an outstanding jazz collection. They've got some great historical collections, a reasonable sampling of modern artists, and you've got an easy way to try out some music you otherwise wouldn't have risked money on.
Plus you've still got leftover money for a CD each month!
You just have to look a little harder. Games like Uplink, Pontifex and Combat Mission are available, successful on their own scale, and pretty durned innovative! I would love to see more games like Pontifex that educate while they entertain.
Several people already mentioned Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach. If you liked that, you'll also like The Mind's I, by Hofstadter and Dennett. It's a collection of thoughts and essays by the authors and various other big thinkers pursuing the nature of consciousness.
Does anyone have any experience with ACAP, the Application Configuration Access Protocol? It's somehow related to the Cyrus IMAP project, and claims to be able to store bookmarks, address book, etc. in a central location. Are there any ACAP clients?
I'm another happy Safari customer, but I wouldn't mind an enhanced bookmarking system that should be plenty easy to implement. Currently, for each bookmark, I have to delete them individually by clicking on a little trashcan icon, and each time going to a separate confirmation page. It would be nice to have a checkbox next to each bookmark so I can delete them in batch. It would also be nice to option out the confirmation.
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Will I be able to play "Where's George" with bitcoin?
(Haven't scanned the whole comment tree, so this may be redundant) There are museums within the facility, and even the weirdest aquarium you'll ever find, so it's definitely a blend of both. There's collections of door locks and hinges, columns and arches, blown glass, and more eclectic stuff that I can't remember at the moment.
I hope you had enough LEGO bricks to make a "brick and mortar" Wumpus maze!
I can imagine the happiness you felt, but I'm left wondering how you used this combo of KIM-1 and LEGO motors. What did you build?
My first was a KIM-1. The level of excitement I experienced playing Hunt the Wumpus has rarely been matched since.
If it became legal to sell the vomit, then perhaps people would start to farm the vomit, resulting in harm to the whales (holding whales in captivity, seeding ambergris through unhealthy diet, inducing vomit in unhealthy ways).
I suppose you could open up a loophole, allowing for sale of naturally occurring vomit, but that would still provide a motive for "encouraging" naturally occurring vomit (through the surreptitious methods listed above).
Man, I loved typing "vomit" so many times!
Hmmm. I wonder if they sell this chemical in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch.
I conclude that 50% of the students are aware of their 1st amendment freedoms, and I say that's not so bad. Threaten a group of students with freedom impinging restrictions, and quite a few of them will be able to speak up.
There's also still a lot of Diplomacy PBEM going around.
I'm most excited about getting a Linux Journal in the mail, and I read each Perl Journal cover to cover, but some other favorites:
DownBeat for the music
Fine Woodworking and its sibling Fine Homebuilding for one of the hobbies
Babybug for the kiddo
About a decade ago there was an article in the Radio Electronics magazine (not even sure if it's still being published!) containing schematics and assembly instructions for a robot lawn mower. Head to your library and search it out. Or, do some googling for radio electronics robot lawnmower.
You could always put a job up for auction at sites like Freelance Auction or Rent A Coder. You put a cap on how much you're willing to pay for your graphics, and let bidders compete for the job.
Another great selling point of these games is their PBEM capability. Ever have trouble finding opponents who have free time the same time you do? Just fire off a round of Combat Mission, and they can respond when they get the chance.
It's actually pretty fun. Combat Mission does exactly what you describe.
My all time favorite password was from DEC's TOPS-20 OS. You could set your password to a ctl-C if you prefixed it properly.
Third Reich? I'd up the ante to Squad Leader and the expansion modules, eventually becoming Advanced Squad Leader.
It's about how tolerant and/or disciplined you are when it comes to solving problems. Have you ever coached someone who hates math through doing a math problem? Perhaps something somewhat tedious like long division. Their claim is usually something like "I'm no good at this," or "I can't do this," and they give up quickly on their own. They know how to do each step, they just find no joy in the accomplishment and they don't sympathize with the benefits.
When I'm told things like "you're so smart," it's usually after doing something relatively adventurous like engine repair (even just changing the oil!) or enjoying an instruction manual. There's nothing inherent in me that makes me spin a socket wrench better than anyone else.
Intelligence is all about attitude.
Butt kicking for goodness!
From this I surmise that a good percentage of Londoners celebrate that he was caught.
FWIW, I'm running Cyrus/Postfix/SpamAssassin, and am very happy with it.
If you take a look at Managing IMAP, you'll get a good comparison of the major IMAP players.
Run, do not walk, to emusic.com. For $10 bucks a month, you get unlimited MP3 access to an outstanding jazz collection. They've got some great historical collections, a reasonable sampling of modern artists, and you've got an easy way to try out some music you otherwise wouldn't have risked money on.
Plus you've still got leftover money for a CD each month!
You just have to look a little harder. Games like Uplink, Pontifex and Combat Mission are available, successful on their own scale, and pretty durned innovative! I would love to see more games like Pontifex that educate while they entertain.
Several people already mentioned Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach. If you liked that, you'll also like The Mind's I, by Hofstadter and Dennett. It's a collection of thoughts and essays by the authors and various other big thinkers pursuing the nature of consciousness.
Does anyone have any experience with ACAP, the Application Configuration Access Protocol? It's somehow related to the Cyrus IMAP project, and claims to be able to store bookmarks, address book, etc. in a central location. Are there any ACAP clients?
I'm another happy Safari customer, but I wouldn't mind an enhanced bookmarking system that should be plenty easy to implement. Currently, for each bookmark, I have to delete them individually by clicking on a little trashcan icon, and each time going to a separate confirmation page. It would be nice to have a checkbox next to each bookmark so I can delete them in batch. It would also be nice to option out the confirmation.