Three strings walk into a bar. The first one goes up to the bar and orders a drink. The bar tender takes a long hard look at him and says "We don't serve your kind around here." The first string goes to sit down, a bit miffed. The second one goes up to get a drink, but since this is a joke, the same thing happens to him. Then the third string stands up, starts wiggling around sporadically, twisting and turning until he is all messed up. He then walks up to the bar and orders three drinks. The bartender says "You a'int with those pieces of string are you?" and the third piece of string says "Sorry, I'm a frayed knot."
Check this link out. It is about a guy who's wireless keyboard ended up transmitting to his neighbor's computer. I don't think this was a bluetooth keyboard, but you get the idea
Well, its a tough issue. I hope I never *have* to own a gun, but I'm glad that I can buy one if I feel its necessary.
The *democracy* of America seems to be teetering on the brink of "Who's more paranoid?" The populace, or the government? The people don't want the government taking away their (our) rights and the government doesn't want the people (us) to overthrow it. Ever since the Vietnam war, the American population has become increasingly cynical and suspicious of government and I'd bet that the feeling is mutual. This state of fear has made me respect the power that guns give the populace (kinda evens the scoreboard), even though I hate the thought of ever owning one myself. I think its about time to get out of the US.
Personally, I'd feel better if every gun in the world suddenly disappeared, but that won't happen short of an act of god (or nuclear war).
Damn, thinking about this has made me depressed. I'm gonna go see whats on Comedy Central right now.
I know it supports firewire and USB 2.0 adapters, but it sucks that you gotta buy them separetly. If i'm gonna spend $300+ I don't want to have to buy another adapter just to get reasonable speeds.
Besides as far as I recall the firewire cable is still "in development"
I've never used it, but it'd probably be okay if you set this thing to sync up before you went to sleep at night. Everything might finally get uploaded by the time you wake up!
While I was going to make some insightful comments about continual growth of electric cars lately, this 'product' is just plain laughable.
In my opinion, something that is more important to the future of electric cars (and a testament to their potential) is the Toyota Prius Rally Car. It recently just finished a 5,000 mile 3 week rally. Didn't finish first, but finished (which, as any rally fan will tell you is a challenge in-and-of itself). At least Toyota's accomplishments are tangible.
I don't have trouble finding what I want on vinyl. Vinyl will stick around for a long time-- until the ludditical music snobs (myself included) die off.
On the other hand, for a majority of consumers, you're post is dead on. I wish I had mod points right now.
Actually, almost everyone at UCSB now as their stuff together. Since i've been here I became a webmaster on campus; the backbone people did impress me, although i never really worked with them directly (only periperially through e-mail and phone)
And BTW, I did hiring for those jobs something like 4 years ago (maybe only 3) as part of a "peer review" type of process -- I was just a student -- and I remember recommending certain people not be hired because they spouted linux misinformation and thought they were bad-ass-bitchez because they pecked their way through the linux installer. So maybe I was the one who recommended you not be hired? Who knows, but the point is that running linux does not mean you have technical knowledge. Neither does setting multiple static IPs on your machine.
Good point. There is no way to know if I could have been good for the job or not. It doesn't really matter at this point. I think we can agree that I would have needed much more training then I would have admitted at that point in my life:P
But just so you know, we had 2 computers that used DHCP to get their IP and one statically set. Our port was never shut off.
Its not a hoax. *nix and routers (and I'll assume VPN boxes too) are not explicitly banned, but are severly frowned on (and not supported). Also, your machine gets monitored a lot closer then other machines.
They actually did ban linux. My freshmen year (4 years ago) my roommate and I had to petition to get a "unix-like operating system" on the network. But if they "caught us doing any of that hacking stuff" we'd be shut off and kicked out of the dorms. Funny thing is, we were hacked and we did our best to fend off the attack before we just shut off the system for a few hours (and reset all the passwds).:) We actually had the linux box up for about 3-4 weeks before they noticed.
UCSB has all sorts of stupid rules. One of my favorites was that no more then 1 IP per person per room... (which was way too easy to get around...)
When I applied for a job there, they turned me down for not having enough technical knowledge, but I didn't feel like it was a good time to tell them about how easy it was to bypass all their "safeguards".
It also says "Mac OS X for Unix Developers" not "Unix Geeks" (like in the original link). Maybe amazon got a press kit for an earlier version of the book....
Its not that slow. My 600mhz g3 feels faster then my 1ghz athlon (don't have actual benchmarks though...)
3) it has a sluggish eyecandy GUI
Actually, since the windowing system is vector based rather then bitmaped, the eyecandy doesn't hit the windowing system that hard (and if it does, its incredibly easy to turn off).
Well, he's a professor for a graduate only department, so no, he doesn't teach undergraduates (as far as I know) but our chancellor teaches (at least) one engineering class a year.
Well, blue LEDs have been out for a while, sort of. They were really white LEDs (or perhaps some other color) with blue paint on the inside of the bulb to make a blue light. What Shuji did was create an LED that actually generates a blue light of the correct wavelength/frequency. I'm not familiar with the technical aspects of this, but I've read a lot about his work and this was the dumbed down explaniation that was told to me some time ago.
He's also worked on the blue laser (more). The benefit of blue is the short wavelength which can do more stuff that I don't fully understand at less electric power and higher precision. A CD sized disk that can be encoded/decoded with a blue laser can hold something like 5 times a DVD (IIRC, but for some reason my scattered brain wants to say 12 times instead of 5). More information about Shuji can be found in a recent article by the UCSB engineering dept. at http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/Announce/2awards.h tml.
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Three strings walk into a bar. The first one goes up to the bar and orders a drink. The bar tender takes a long hard look at him and says "We don't serve your kind around here." The first string goes to sit down, a bit miffed. The second one goes up to get a drink, but since this is a joke, the same thing happens to him. Then the third string stands up, starts wiggling around sporadically, twisting and turning until he is all messed up. He then walks up to the bar and orders three drinks. The bartender says "You a'int with those pieces of string are you?" and the third piece of string says "Sorry, I'm a frayed knot."
Ba-dum-ching
Hah, we didn't get rid of self-modifying code for "ease of use", we got rid of it because we were all scared of Skynet.
Check this link out. It is about a guy who's wireless keyboard ended up transmitting to his neighbor's computer. I don't think this was a bluetooth keyboard, but you get the idea
I feel so..... powerful
Well, its a tough issue. I hope I never *have* to own a gun, but I'm glad that I can buy one if I feel its necessary.
The *democracy* of America seems to be teetering on the brink of "Who's more paranoid?" The populace, or the government? The people don't want the government taking away their (our) rights and the government doesn't want the people (us) to overthrow it. Ever since the Vietnam war, the American population has become increasingly cynical and suspicious of government and I'd bet that the feeling is mutual. This state of fear has made me respect the power that guns give the populace (kinda evens the scoreboard), even though I hate the thought of ever owning one myself. I think its about time to get out of the US.
Personally, I'd feel better if every gun in the world suddenly disappeared, but that won't happen short of an act of god (or nuclear war).
Damn, thinking about this has made me depressed. I'm gonna go see whats on Comedy Central right now.
I know it supports firewire and USB 2.0 adapters, but it sucks that you gotta buy them separetly. If i'm gonna spend $300+ I don't want to have to buy another adapter just to get reasonable speeds.
Besides as far as I recall the firewire cable is still "in development"
USB 1.1
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20 GB
'nuff said.
I've never used it, but it'd probably be okay if you set this thing to sync up before you went to sleep at night. Everything might finally get uploaded by the time you wake up!
but you can turn Jaguar into a talking cat.
I apologize for the awful pun...
While I was going to make some insightful comments about continual growth of electric cars lately, this 'product' is just plain laughable.
In my opinion, something that is more important to the future of electric cars (and a testament to their potential) is the Toyota Prius Rally Car. It recently just finished a 5,000 mile 3 week rally. Didn't finish first, but finished (which, as any rally fan will tell you is a challenge in-and-of itself). At least Toyota's accomplishments are tangible.
And seriously, whats with the 8 wheel design?
I don't have trouble finding what I want on vinyl. Vinyl will stick around for a long time-- until the ludditical music snobs (myself included) die off.
On the other hand, for a majority of consumers, you're post is dead on. I wish I had mod points right now.
Were they supposed to have Mac support?
What? Do you think you're a warrior or something.
Not particularly. The best thing we did was hit the powerswitch.
Actually, almost everyone at UCSB now as their stuff together. Since i've been here I became a webmaster on campus; the backbone people did impress me, although i never really worked with them directly (only periperially through e-mail and phone)
In retrospect, probably. But we were leaving in about a week anyways.
It was a learning experience. And we didn't do any damage (advertently or inadvertantly). But it was more luck then anything else.
And BTW, I did hiring for those jobs something like 4 years ago (maybe only 3) as part of a "peer review" type of process -- I was just a student -- and I remember recommending certain people not be hired because they spouted linux misinformation and thought they were bad-ass-bitchez because they pecked their way through the linux installer. So maybe I was the one who recommended you not be hired? Who knows, but the point is that running linux does not mean you have technical knowledge. Neither does setting multiple static IPs on your machine.
:P
Good point. There is no way to know if I could have been good for the job or not. It doesn't really matter at this point. I think we can agree that I would have needed much more training then I would have admitted at that point in my life
But just so you know, we had 2 computers that used DHCP to get their IP and one statically set. Our port was never shut off.
Its not a hoax. *nix and routers (and I'll assume VPN boxes too) are not explicitly banned, but are severly frowned on (and not supported). Also, your machine gets monitored a lot closer then other machines.
They actually did ban linux. My freshmen year (4 years ago) my roommate and I had to petition to get a "unix-like operating system" on the network. But if they "caught us doing any of that hacking stuff" we'd be shut off and kicked out of the dorms. Funny thing is, we were hacked and we did our best to fend off the attack before we just shut off the system for a few hours (and reset all the passwds). :) We actually had the linux box up for about 3-4 weeks before they noticed.
UCSB has all sorts of stupid rules. One of my favorites was that no more then 1 IP per person per room... (which was way too easy to get around...)
When I applied for a job there, they turned me down for not having enough technical knowledge, but I didn't feel like it was a good time to tell them about how easy it was to bypass all their "safeguards".
Who knew hemp could also help improve the internet?
First off, Its not a software hack, its built into the os.
Secondly, get over it.
It also says "Mac OS X for Unix Developers" not "Unix Geeks" (like in the original link). Maybe amazon got a press kit for an earlier version of the book....
Try this one. Its old though:
Cringely's Pipe Dream: OS X on Intel
The newer slashdot post:
Apple Secretly Maintaining x86 Port Of Mac OS X
And a similar post at MacSlash (probably more pro-mac comments):
Marklar! Marklar!
1) it's a commercial OS.
Yeah, so?
2) it runs on overpriced slow hardware
Its not that slow. My 600mhz g3 feels faster then my 1ghz athlon (don't have actual benchmarks though...)
3) it has a sluggish eyecandy GUI
Actually, since the windowing system is vector based rather then bitmaped, the eyecandy doesn't hit the windowing system that hard (and if it does, its incredibly easy to turn off).
Well, he's a professor for a graduate only department, so no, he doesn't teach undergraduates (as far as I know) but our chancellor teaches (at least) one engineering class a year.
Hah, I'm glad someone who know better then me was able to respond :)
Admittidly, my knowledge on this subject is just barely above layman.
Well, blue LEDs have been out for a while, sort of. They were really white LEDs (or perhaps some other color) with blue paint on the inside of the bulb to make a blue light. What Shuji did was create an LED that actually generates a blue light of the correct wavelength/frequency. I'm not familiar with the technical aspects of this, but I've read a lot about his work and this was the dumbed down explaniation that was told to me some time ago.
h tml.
He's also worked on the blue laser (more). The benefit of blue is the short wavelength which can do more stuff that I don't fully understand at less electric power and higher precision. A CD sized disk that can be encoded/decoded with a blue laser can hold something like 5 times a DVD (IIRC, but for some reason my scattered brain wants to say 12 times instead of 5). More information about Shuji can be found in a recent article by the UCSB engineering dept. at http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/Announce/2awards.