What the fuck! Ok, I'm not usually one to bitch about moderation, but how could my comment be redundant, look at the time and date I think it was like the 5th post! Moderators: pull your heads out of your asses. Meta-Moderators: do your job!
Well, I'm not sure if it will fit with you lifestyle, etc. But have you considered real estate? For $1000 a month you could pretty quickly come up with a down payment on a house that you could rent out. Even if you can't get enough in rent to cover the mortgage, you can spend some of your monthly surplus on it. With interest rates as low as they are now, it's probably one of the best investments you could make, and if you get laid off or find a better job you'd have a place to live.
I think the existance of such a group is a good start. Not being a woman, I can't give the best advice in this area, but I've heard studies that girls tend to perform better in elementary school when they are in all female classes.
The best place to start would probably be to just get some friends together and have a couple meetings and see where things go. I haven't known any feminists to be CS nerds (except myself) but you might try starting with your college's feminist group. We started a vegetarian club by going to the social advocacy and environmental clubs to recuit. Other than that I would just announce meetings in class, write on whiteboards, put up flyers, etc. Oh yeah, one more thing, find a female CS professor who would be willing to sponsor the group, I've always felt like the clubs I've been in got more accomplished when we had a faculty member there.
I think this is where the real contention is. Microsoft isn't going to press the issue about running VFP on linux because it's clearly anti-competitive. They will, however, try to stop their DLLs from being distributed to non Windows machines. Microsoft's distinction here is absurd. They want to force developers to distribute MS DLLs with their VFP software so that it is impossible to distribute software to non MS machines without violating the FoxPro EULA.
In fact, it probably costs them more dollars for their lawyers to draft various emails and notices than it would if a few Linux nerds run MS software
are you kidding? This is 100% about profits. Microsoft knows it makes some great products (like FoxPro) but the majority of their market share is in the OS, which is not nearly as well made. Microsoft knows if they let people start using their good products on other OSs that they'll lose their OS market share. Why bother using a buggy, and insecure OS when you can get a much better product for free, assuming you're willing to put in the effort to use linux.
Micosoft is not just worried about a few linux nerds, they're worried about companies doing the math to figure out the difference in cost between paying someone to get their system working in linux and the cost of paying for MS licenses. As a linux nerd I have no personal need to run MS software and potentially violate their EULA, but I know that companies are willing to pay me to do it if it helps their bottom line.
I don't buy ram very frequently but I have never run into bad ram, and I always buy the cheapest I can find.
My one encounter with "bad" ram was in a computer hardware class I took a few years ago. Two other classmates and myself were usually given special tasks by the professor because the class was so stupidly easy for us. One day, after we finished our two hour lab in fifteen minutes he gave us a stack of 8meg simms (this was a while ago) to test with some software he had. We tested about six and every time one or all of them came up as bad. Being 18 year old computer geeks we decided could keep the bad ram for keychains. The next week he told us to try the test with known good ram, and it turned out that the program was faulty not the ram. My fully functional $30 keychain has since fallen apart but I sometimes wonder if he every counted the ram in the closet at the end of the semester.
to the decreasing fraction of students who bother to study the "hard" sciences
As someone who choose not to study the "hard" sciences because I thought they were easy and boring (no offense inteded to those who do, however) I am a little annoyed at the implication that social science is somehow better suited to stupid people.
If you bothered to study "soft" sciences you'd realize the degree of depth of understanding possible is far greater than is capable in science. The most interesting and intelligent people I know are Religion and Political science professors, and the most boring and unintelligent (outside their subject area) are professors of the "hard" sciences.
On topic, I guess at least we can be glad they don't allow leaded gas anymore, hopefully this will go away in a few generations.
I agree, I don't understand why you can't use VNC but you're willing to use other free software. Does VNC somehow subvert microsoft's monopoly when it's installed on windows machines? I've used TightVNC in a windows to windows environment and it worked pretty well (I haven't tried it on dialup but I think ping time is more important than bandwidth)
Seriously though, I know it sounds a little crazy but I wonded if this thing has any sort of rudimentary intelligence. I mean if it is 8500 years old it seems like it would have time to figure something out. I suppose it would need nerves though....
Ok, I feel like a little bit of a faker because I don't currently have a girlfriend but I have read slashdot and had a girlfriend in the recent past. I have friends who read slashdot and are actually married! Listen guys, I know you think that just because you're geeks girls will never like you, but just find the geek girls and you'll be fine.
I'll never understand why people aren't willing to see what they're doing to the people of the country they're attacking. To whoever took down the aljazeera site: yes, we are killing Iraqi children. Taking down the server that holds the pictures won't bring them back.
The reminds me of the US representatives to the UN covering the print of Guernica (is it the original?) at the UN headquarters so that an image of the terror of war wouldn't be the backdrop for press conferences.
Ok let's assume this scheme actually would work. Imagine you have a piece of software that is being used by the government in some fairly sensitive places.(uh, that didn't come out right)
Anyway, they hit their sales quota and the source gets released. Now every malicious cracker has access to code at the same time as the development community. Imagine if this were a microsoft product! I think the crackers would be finding and exploiting bugs way faster than the open sourcers could fix them.
Don't get me wrong I think open source in it's current form is safer than closed, but that's because while it is gaining market share the security bugs can be worked out.
This is asinine. I don't see how visiting a developing country is putting money into the hands of tyrants. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "these types of countries" but honestly there are more places in the world to visit than Europe and North America.
Social Responsibility? Why not put some money into an economy that needs it rather than vacationing in your own country?
Now for the on topic comment. I've never been to Vietnam but I imagine that access to reliable power would be an issue (unless you never leave your hotel). I would probably try to get a slower machine with a passive grayscale screen that is intended to be rugged rather than pretty. I can't remember what it's called but I've seen an old win95 palmtop with a 486/66 (I think) that might fit the bill.
OK, don't get me wrong. I'd love to have money to spend on AV gear. What I don't get is why anyone would need more than one DVD player. I suppose I could justify getting one for every TV (again only one for me) but I would rather spend the cash on buying DVDs or going to an acutal movie in an acutal theater. Not to mention the kind of money you could spend on projectors, sound systems, theater seats, etc. I guess I can understand you having them if that's your job, but the problem I have is I just don't find it impressive when people brag about how they have wasted their money. It just seems pointless to own several identical things when one would work just as well. On that note I think I'll go drink several of the identical beers I have in my fridge.
The thing I worry about is how delicate the glasses look. I imagine the people who get these will probably take better care of them then I do of my glasses, but accidents are bound to happen and how durable is that thin polyesther membrane going to be? Judging from the picture provided the whole apparatus looks like it would last about six months of normal wear and tear.
The thing I don't understand is why you even need to do this in the first place? How many documents are we talking about here? I know.doc is quite inefficient compared to ASCII text, but unless you have so many documents that storage is a problem why not just leave them the way they are?
Even if storage is a problem, compare the cost of your time to the cost of a few CDRs (or tapes, or whatever)
I agree, I was just there this summer and I didn't have any trouble finding internet access in London. They even have coin-op terminals in the Airport.
I know it's tough to think of being so far from home without a computer, but do you really want to carry that thing on the plane?
The only caveat I have is if you plan on going outside of London. I spent most of my time in a small village southeast of London which didn't even have a gas station let alone an internet cafe. I'm not sure if the larger towns are different but I only saw internet cafes in London.
It's been a while since I've taken a government class, but couldn't the supreme court find this unconstitutional? The congress can't just pass a law that ignores the 4th amendment, they'd have to pass a new amendment.
Of course now that the entire government is controlled by Republicans, the supreme court soon will be too. Boy these checks and balances really work well!
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What the fuck! Ok, I'm not usually one to bitch about moderation, but how could my comment be redundant, look at the time and date I think it was like the 5th post! Moderators: pull your heads out of your asses. Meta-Moderators: do your job!
Well, I'm not sure if it will fit with you lifestyle, etc. But have you considered real estate? For $1000 a month you could pretty quickly come up with a down payment on a house that you could rent out. Even if you can't get enough in rent to cover the mortgage, you can spend some of your monthly surplus on it. With interest rates as low as they are now, it's probably one of the best investments you could make, and if you get laid off or find a better job you'd have a place to live.
I think the existance of such a group is a good start. Not being a woman, I can't give the best advice in this area, but I've heard studies that girls tend to perform better in elementary school when they are in all female classes.
The best place to start would probably be to just get some friends together and have a couple meetings and see where things go. I haven't known any feminists to be CS nerds (except myself) but you might try starting with your college's feminist group. We started a vegetarian club by going to the social advocacy and environmental clubs to recuit. Other than that I would just announce meetings in class, write on whiteboards, put up flyers, etc. Oh yeah, one more thing, find a female CS professor who would be willing to sponsor the group, I've always felt like the clubs I've been in got more accomplished when we had a faculty member there.
Good Luck!
I think this is where the real contention is. Microsoft isn't going to press the issue about running VFP on linux because it's clearly anti-competitive. They will, however, try to stop their DLLs from being distributed to non Windows machines. Microsoft's distinction here is absurd. They want to force developers to distribute MS DLLs with their VFP software so that it is impossible to distribute software to non MS machines without violating the FoxPro EULA.
In fact, it probably costs them more dollars for their lawyers to draft various emails and notices than it would if a few Linux nerds run MS software
are you kidding? This is 100% about profits. Microsoft knows it makes some great products (like FoxPro) but the majority of their market share is in the OS, which is not nearly as well made. Microsoft knows if they let people start using their good products on other OSs that they'll lose their OS market share. Why bother using a buggy, and insecure OS when you can get a much better product for free, assuming you're willing to put in the effort to use linux.
Micosoft is not just worried about a few linux nerds, they're worried about companies doing the math to figure out the difference in cost between paying someone to get their system working in linux and the cost of paying for MS licenses. As a linux nerd I have no personal need to run MS software and potentially violate their EULA, but I know that companies are willing to pay me to do it if it helps their bottom line.
I don't buy ram very frequently but I have never run into bad ram, and I always buy the cheapest I can find.
My one encounter with "bad" ram was in a computer hardware class I took a few years ago. Two other classmates and myself were usually given special tasks by the professor because the class was so stupidly easy for us. One day, after we finished our two hour lab in fifteen minutes he gave us a stack of 8meg simms (this was a while ago) to test with some software he had. We tested about six and every time one or all of them came up as bad. Being 18 year old computer geeks we decided could keep the bad ram for keychains. The next week he told us to try the test with known good ram, and it turned out that the program was faulty not the ram. My fully functional $30 keychain has since fallen apart but I sometimes wonder if he every counted the ram in the closet at the end of the semester.
to the decreasing fraction of students who bother to study the "hard" sciences
As someone who choose not to study the "hard" sciences because I thought they were easy and boring (no offense inteded to those who do, however) I am a little annoyed at the implication that social science is somehow better suited to stupid people.
If you bothered to study "soft" sciences you'd realize the degree of depth of understanding possible is far greater than is capable in science. The most interesting and intelligent people I know are Religion and Political science professors, and the most boring and unintelligent (outside their subject area) are professors of the "hard" sciences.
On topic, I guess at least we can be glad they don't allow leaded gas anymore, hopefully this will go away in a few generations.
Hmmm, does anyone know where the "face" on mars is supposed to be? I'd like to see what it really is if we have such good pictures now.
:)
I bet they just "forgot" to get an image of that area
I agree, I don't understand why you can't use VNC but you're willing to use other free software. Does VNC somehow subvert microsoft's monopoly when it's installed on windows machines? I've used TightVNC in a windows to windows environment and it worked pretty well (I haven't tried it on dialup but I think ping time is more important than bandwidth)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Seriously though, I know it sounds a little crazy but I wonded if this thing has any sort of rudimentary intelligence. I mean if it is 8500 years old it seems like it would have time to figure something out. I suppose it would need nerves though....
Ok, I feel like a little bit of a faker because I don't currently have a girlfriend but I have read slashdot and had a girlfriend in the recent past. I have friends who read slashdot and are actually married! Listen guys, I know you think that just because you're geeks girls will never like you, but just find the geek girls and you'll be fine.
I'll never understand why people aren't willing to see what they're doing to the people of the country they're attacking. To whoever took down the aljazeera site: yes, we are killing Iraqi children. Taking down the server that holds the pictures won't bring them back.
The reminds me of the US representatives to the UN covering the print of Guernica (is it the original?) at the UN headquarters so that an image of the terror of war wouldn't be the backdrop for press conferences.
No, it's not a contradiction.
Hmmm, maybe it's your sig?
Ok let's assume this scheme actually would work.
Imagine you have a piece of software that is being used by the government in some fairly sensitive places.(uh, that didn't come out right)
Anyway, they hit their sales quota and the source gets released. Now every malicious cracker has access to code at the same time as the development community. Imagine if this were a microsoft product! I think the crackers would be finding and exploiting bugs way faster than the open sourcers could fix them.
Don't get me wrong I think open source in it's current form is safer than closed, but that's because while it is gaining market share the security bugs can be worked out.
This is asinine. I don't see how visiting a developing country is putting money into the hands of tyrants. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "these types of countries" but honestly there are more places in the world to visit than Europe and North America.
Social Responsibility? Why not put some money into an economy that needs it rather than vacationing in your own country?
Now for the on topic comment. I've never been to Vietnam but I imagine that access to reliable power would be an issue (unless you never leave your hotel). I would probably try to get a slower machine with a passive grayscale screen that is intended to be rugged rather than pretty. I can't remember what it's called but I've seen an old win95 palmtop with a 486/66 (I think) that might fit the bill.
OK, don't get me wrong. I'd love to have money to spend on AV gear. What I don't get is why anyone would need more than one DVD player. I suppose I could justify getting one for every TV (again only one for me) but I would rather spend the cash on buying DVDs or going to an acutal movie in an acutal theater. Not to mention the kind of money you could spend on projectors, sound systems, theater seats, etc. I guess I can understand you having them if that's your job, but the problem I have is I just don't find it impressive when people brag about how they have wasted their money.
It just seems pointless to own several identical things when one would work just as well. On that note I think I'll go drink several of the identical beers I have in my fridge.
> I have more DVD players than I can count [no-ip.org].
:)
Funny, I count 2. I suppose you could count the PS2 and the macs which would bring it up to 5.
When did slashdot turn into a forum for bragging about how much people spend on their hardware?
Nice setup though
BTW, I have between 49,000 and 1.2 million DVD players. Oh wait, no, it's just the one, my mistake.
*grumble*
read the article before you post (or at least the entire original post)!
Anyway, now that that is out of my system. I thought this already existed under linux (and for free) can't they just port that to OS X?
The thing I worry about is how delicate the glasses look. I imagine the people who get these will probably take better care of them then I do of my glasses, but accidents are bound to happen and how durable is that thin polyesther membrane going to be? Judging from the picture provided the whole apparatus looks like it would last about six months of normal wear and tear.
The thing I don't understand is why you even need to do this in the first place? How many documents are we talking about here? I know .doc is quite inefficient compared to ASCII text, but unless you have so many documents that storage is a problem why not just leave them the way they are?
Even if storage is a problem, compare the cost of your time to the cost of a few CDRs (or tapes, or whatever)
I've always wanted to have in internet connection in the bathroom, and when these robots are done I can just pull a cable out of the bowl!
I love the fan idea, my computer is so noisy that it's started to harm my social life.
"I don't think I can spend the night again, your computer kept me awake all night last time."
of course maybe she was just trying to protect my feelings...
I agree, I was just there this summer and I didn't have any trouble finding internet access in London. They even have coin-op terminals in the Airport.
I know it's tough to think of being so far from home without a computer, but do you really want to carry that thing on the plane?
The only caveat I have is if you plan on going outside of London. I spent most of my time in a small village southeast of London which didn't even have a gas station let alone an internet cafe. I'm not sure if the larger towns are different but I only saw internet cafes in London.
Any Brits have better advice about this?
hmmm, a somewhat extreme suggestion, careful or you might just secure yourself a place on board.
It's been a while since I've taken a government class, but couldn't the supreme court find this unconstitutional? The congress can't just pass a law that ignores the 4th amendment, they'd have to pass a new amendment.
Of course now that the entire government is controlled by Republicans, the supreme court soon will be too. Boy these checks and balances really work well!