What are you talking about?!?! NJIT SUCKS SO MUCH! I'm sorry, but no one in their right mind should recommend this school. My life has been ruined by the school.
I do beleive it ranked number 4 in a study of schools most hated by it's students.
Let's not forget that it's also in the ghettos of newark, nj.
Actually, radio shack does sell voice recognition chips. The only problem is it detects a set of hard-wired words, like go and stop. *shrug* Words are words.
Well, after searching the radio shack website, I don't think that they sell it anymore. But I remember seeing it!
I didn't intentionally switch back to using windows on the desktop. Whenever my system dies or I get a new one I usually put some version of windows on it first, because I know I can have it up in a relatively short time. Now with Windows 2000, I've found no reason whatsoever to use FreeBSD. W2k doesn't crash, and although it's a lil quirky at times, it's generally good to me. That and it plays games.
As for servers, it's FreeBSD all the way. I wouldn't dream of using anything else.
The only reason the OSS would have to even consider doing something like this is because they're still stuck in the corporate mind-set. Open source software has thrived in the past without being worked on full time. I thought the whole deal about being a hacker was to do this stuff in your spare time. Once you started giving people pay checks to make open source software you turned into your parents.
Ehh, okay. I may be speaking out my tush here, but bear with me. 100Mhz is the carrier signal. When you buy a wireless phone, what do you want? Higher frequency. Why? It's a little bit like sound in this respect. Higher frequency signals/noises travel easier and farther.
It's more of a psychological thing, and maybe even a thing of pride. Honestly, who are these people at greenwitch to tell us THEY have central time.
As for going to work at 13, it's not exactly something you'd want if you traveled around. From an internet prospective it make sense, which is why there are internet "beats" (go look around swatch's website they started it.) In the real world, it's more convenient to remember you want to go to sleep at around midnight and wake up at 8am. You know the sun will be about there, and you'll have approximatly such and such hours of daylight.
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I think the best place for P2P to go is broadcasting. True broadcasting. I think each router/gateway on the internet should start having built in accomidations for P2P, so when you want to stream video or audio your computer would send out a request and then the router will send out a request (much like it already does,) to the nearest server that is helping stream such and such a a/v channel. With something like that in place in the heart of the net can we achieve virtually seamless streaming data. Of course then there would be problems of assigning ID codes so joe-schmoe won't accidentally override cnn's stream and that could prove to be slightly evil.
Such a method could also be used for file sharing, but I doubt that'd find quicker acceptance. At least with p2p streaming a/v, big broadcasting corperations wouldn't mind too much. TV and radio stations could only benefit from such a system, they can get their ads out to a wider audience cheaper than using a traditional client/server model.
I think the real question is: is the internet ready to become the standard infastructure for all electronic communications? With a good P2P broadcasting scheme and VoIP phones we could have only two cables running into our homes, data and power (unless of course you want data over power.)
Keyboard are better, given. BUT, for mobility, they just suck. It would be much easier to push a button on your pen and scribble a text message on the back of your cell phone than txt w/ lot sht-hnd. This can also be practical for automagically transforming notes to your computer. Depending on how much ram is in there you could possibly scribble someone's phone number on your hand without actually using ink. At a meeting you wouldn't have to carry the current bulky electronic clipboards, just your pen and maybe an extra memory stick.
Keyboards will always rock the desktop input world...until we get neural implants. (:
I used to play these games all the time. It taught me to type, and type FAST (scene where you're in the cage in, ohh, SQ2? Although now that I play it again they gave you a long time, but at ten they couldn't've made it shorter.) Heck, I still play them when I can coax win98 to comply (wonder where my dos 6 disks are.) But what got to me was that sierra started catering these games to the younger crowd. Okay okay, so SQ6 wasn't that bad, and hey the cartoony look was perty good (a lot better than SQ1 for sure.) But in Kings Quest 7 I just went nuts. Sure sure, I still haven't beaten the game, but giving you only one pointer that LIGHTS UP when you're on top of something clickable is infuriating. I liked reading the whitty comments when you couldn't do something, or tried something very silly. \-: In a way I'd like the old type-your-action even more (don't ya hate it when you're only given a few seconds to hurl something from your invintory into something else...and you mouse suddenly decides it doesn't want to move that way?)
Ahhh sweet nostalgia. I know what I'll be doing tonight.
Friction?! As I remember the electrions themselves move slow as molasses, but the information (current move, current not move,) travels at the speed of light. So how would any kind of friction change this?
After a while, I began to understand that the way to win in chess was to become "fluent" in the patterns of chess itself, and that those patterns didn't really have any important analog elsewhere.
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This is true with all games. That's how I play minesweeper, I hardly look at the numbers anymore, I just click around on instinct. Rarely am I challenged with some thought, and usually such tight situations have multiple possible solutions, and so it's just luck. Not just for board games, quake is just sensing motion, centering and shooting.
I pity those who fool themselves. I heard the most rediculus thing from somebody. Playing racing games will help you drive. W.T.F. I beat Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed, but that doesn't make me an excelent driver. No, far from it. When I change lanes I swerve and get it done with quick...then again I'm only beginning. And just because I can swerve out of the way of an incoming car at 170mph doesn't mean I could do that in real life. Turning a wheel is a lot different than depressing a button.
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FreeBSD has kernel level security options. Once you set a security level you cannot set it at a more relaxed level without rebooting. With features like that in place, it becomes very hard for a cracker to gain complete control over your server. Reboots are pretty dawg-gone noticable, don't ya think?
So wait...let me get this straight...
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NetBSD runs on everything, right? Hardware-wise at least.
Now Debian runs on everything? Kernel-wise at least, and with NetBSD, hardware-wise too? Freaky stuff...
Could someone please explain how a new IM protocol could POSSIBLY help? Isn't this a problem with the routers? Fix the routers, and you'd never have a problem with bandwidth hogs ever again.
I have a set of files that are hard to manage for me. I have a copy on my desktop, laptop, webserver, and sometimes even on floppy (to take to school.) Just keeping these files up to date is hard (redundancy is good, esp for things like research papers (-:,) and I imagine that if I ever needed to erase a file, that too would be very difficult.
What I'd really like is a cross-platform program to sync a directory between several computers. If I could keep my home directory current, that would be AWESOME. Maybe once I get some time I'll get around to making it.
As I understand it, normal data is compressed by finding repeating strings and shoving it in a dictionary. This obviously won't work for truly random data. Since we all know what truly random data is a myth, why don't we use mathabatics? Compare the string to something like pi, or e, or other equations that produce commonly occuring 'random' data. Of course the time it takes to compress would be very long indeed. But, thankfully, processor power is fairly cheap, and big businesses surely won't mind running their 64 teraflop cluster for a week if it'll get nike commercials over a 56k in a second.
Since my views are obviously misguided, could someone share some links about compression theory?
Moral CG characters: Vegetales. With posers and all. I think it's a tv series or something along those lines. My cousins seem to like it.
Projection surfaces for fantasies? Like...sexually? I don't get what you mean... But CG characters are 'stars' if you will, I know a few people that scour the internet for images of that girl from Final Fantasy.
I doubt real actors will die. No form of media ever really dies, I'm sure silent films are still being made (I for one would like to make one,) and there is this thing called the theater, where you can see people perform LIVE in 3D!
Even if actors become a dying breed, I wouldn't mind. I wonder how the heck a society comes to value cheap entertainment so much that they have to idolize celebrities and give them big, fat, million dollar paychecks.
I don't know much about optics (other than the math trips me up and I hate it,) but instead of sending a space craft 550au away from the sun, couldn't you position a craft a tad closer? albeit it would have to be significantly larger a craft. I'm thinking a giant ring that intercepts the light between the lens (sun), and the focus. Or maybe not even a ring...again I don't know much about optics, but couldn't you still get a magnified image just by being in the path of the light? Even if it's not the entire picture, it could be useful.
Yet another reason to bring back the mainframes and ditch the PC. If every house had a server and nice graphical terminals running to your room, all the noise would be in the basement with your loud furnace and air conditioner.
Of course, then cabling becomes a problem. Shielded cables a necesity for those rooms far from the mainframe...or go optical.
Untill people realize the joys of mainframes, an alternate solution is to house the computer in a closet, or even in the wall (cooling vent?) Before my closet began overflowing with old and probably now-useless computer parts, I could stuff my box in there and close the door. It was a heck of a lot quieter.
You, and everyone else, will note that WWW != Internet. They are not interchangable. The internet does not mean netscape, ("you got the internet right?" "yeah, I got netscape.") AOL, or anything like that. So don't start confusing napster with the www. If you want to call someone out, pick on those business folk, with the amazon.com and the buy.com and whatnot.
When I was 15 I was like that. I really don't remember why I thought that stuff was cool, it just was. Thankfully I grew out of it.
Hmmm, maybe if there are more crackdowns on script kiddies and more slander against that kind of life these kids won't think it's 'cool' anymore. Just a thought.
Forget everquest, although I know someone addicted to that one. He looks at everquest screenshots whenever he's at a computer w/o eq. My weakness it nethack. I just started playing and I got it bad. It's hard for me to sit here right now and tell myself I need to do my homework before I even think about firing up nethack. I missed sleep the past two weeks, I even skipped an entire research essay to play it. I read rec.games.roguelike.nethack, they got it too. I'm still strugglin to get beyond the gnomish mines, but I ain't quittin until I get that first ascention...then ascentions in the other classes...then with conduct...
Damn you, you had to mention addiction...looks like I have to do calc early in the mornin before class again.
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Just use ANSI style joins. You're guaranteed never to accidentally do a cartesian join.
For example:
Normal join - "SELECT * FROM table1 t1 JOIN table2 t2 ON (t1.column = t2.column)"
Cartesian join - "SELECT * FROM table1 t1 CROSS JOIN table2 t2"
Big difference, no mistakes no matter how many tables/columns you're pulling in to your query.
What are you talking about?!?! NJIT SUCKS SO MUCH! I'm sorry, but no one in their right mind should recommend this school. My life has been ruined by the school.
I do beleive it ranked number 4 in a study of schools most hated by it's students.
Let's not forget that it's also in the ghettos of newark, nj.
Actually, radio shack does sell voice recognition chips. The only problem is it detects a set of hard-wired words, like go and stop. *shrug* Words are words.
Well, after searching the radio shack website, I don't think that they sell it anymore. But I remember seeing it!
I didn't intentionally switch back to using windows on the desktop. Whenever my system dies or I get a new one I usually put some version of windows on it first, because I know I can have it up in a relatively short time. Now with Windows 2000, I've found no reason whatsoever to use FreeBSD. W2k doesn't crash, and although it's a lil quirky at times, it's generally good to me. That and it plays games.
As for servers, it's FreeBSD all the way. I wouldn't dream of using anything else.
The only reason the OSS would have to even consider doing something like this is because they're still stuck in the corporate mind-set. Open source software has thrived in the past without being worked on full time. I thought the whole deal about being a hacker was to do this stuff in your spare time. Once you started giving people pay checks to make open source software you turned into your parents.
Alas, no utopia is perfect.
Ehh, okay. I may be speaking out my tush here, but bear with me. 100Mhz is the carrier signal. When you buy a wireless phone, what do you want? Higher frequency. Why? It's a little bit like sound in this respect. Higher frequency signals/noises travel easier and farther.
*Takes off thinking cap* Hope that helps.
-Dr. Stupid
It's more of a psychological thing, and maybe even a thing of pride. Honestly, who are these people at greenwitch to tell us THEY have central time.
As for going to work at 13, it's not exactly something you'd want if you traveled around. From an internet prospective it make sense, which is why there are internet "beats" (go look around swatch's website they started it.) In the real world, it's more convenient to remember you want to go to sleep at around midnight and wake up at 8am. You know the sun will be about there, and you'll have approximatly such and such hours of daylight.
I think the best place for P2P to go is broadcasting. True broadcasting. I think each router/gateway on the internet should start having built in accomidations for P2P, so when you want to stream video or audio your computer would send out a request and then the router will send out a request (much like it already does,) to the nearest server that is helping stream such and such a a/v channel. With something like that in place in the heart of the net can we achieve virtually seamless streaming data. Of course then there would be problems of assigning ID codes so joe-schmoe won't accidentally override cnn's stream and that could prove to be slightly evil.
Such a method could also be used for file sharing, but I doubt that'd find quicker acceptance. At least with p2p streaming a/v, big broadcasting corperations wouldn't mind too much. TV and radio stations could only benefit from such a system, they can get their ads out to a wider audience cheaper than using a traditional client/server model.
I think the real question is: is the internet ready to become the standard infastructure for all electronic communications? With a good P2P broadcasting scheme and VoIP phones we could have only two cables running into our homes, data and power (unless of course you want data over power.)
Sometimes it's better to simply start over.
Keyboard are better, given. BUT, for mobility, they just suck. It would be much easier to push a button on your pen and scribble a text message on the back of your cell phone than txt w/ lot sht-hnd. This can also be practical for automagically transforming notes to your computer. Depending on how much ram is in there you could possibly scribble someone's phone number on your hand without actually using ink. At a meeting you wouldn't have to carry the current bulky electronic clipboards, just your pen and maybe an extra memory stick.
Keyboards will always rock the desktop input world...until we get neural implants. (:
I used to play these games all the time. It taught me to type, and type FAST (scene where you're in the cage in, ohh, SQ2? Although now that I play it again they gave you a long time, but at ten they couldn't've made it shorter.) Heck, I still play them when I can coax win98 to comply (wonder where my dos 6 disks are.) But what got to me was that sierra started catering these games to the younger crowd. Okay okay, so SQ6 wasn't that bad, and hey the cartoony look was perty good (a lot better than SQ1 for sure.) But in Kings Quest 7 I just went nuts. Sure sure, I still haven't beaten the game, but giving you only one pointer that LIGHTS UP when you're on top of something clickable is infuriating. I liked reading the whitty comments when you couldn't do something, or tried something very silly. \-: In a way I'd like the old type-your-action even more (don't ya hate it when you're only given a few seconds to hurl something from your invintory into something else...and you mouse suddenly decides it doesn't want to move that way?)
Ahhh sweet nostalgia. I know what I'll be doing tonight.
Friction?! As I remember the electrions themselves move slow as molasses, but the information (current move, current not move,) travels at the speed of light. So how would any kind of friction change this?
After a while, I began to understand that the way to win in chess was to become "fluent" in the patterns of chess itself, and that those patterns didn't really have any important analog elsewhere.
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This is true with all games. That's how I play minesweeper, I hardly look at the numbers anymore, I just click around on instinct. Rarely am I challenged with some thought, and usually such tight situations have multiple possible solutions, and so it's just luck. Not just for board games, quake is just sensing motion, centering and shooting.
I pity those who fool themselves. I heard the most rediculus thing from somebody. Playing racing games will help you drive. W.T.F. I beat Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed, but that doesn't make me an excelent driver. No, far from it. When I change lanes I swerve and get it done with quick...then again I'm only beginning. And just because I can swerve out of the way of an incoming car at 170mph doesn't mean I could do that in real life. Turning a wheel is a lot different than depressing a button.
FreeBSD has kernel level security options. Once you set a security level you cannot set it at a more relaxed level without rebooting. With features like that in place, it becomes very hard for a cracker to gain complete control over your server. Reboots are pretty dawg-gone noticable, don't ya think?
NetBSD runs on everything, right? Hardware-wise at least.
Now Debian runs on everything? Kernel-wise at least, and with NetBSD, hardware-wise too? Freaky stuff...
Could someone please explain how a new IM protocol could POSSIBLY help? Isn't this a problem with the routers? Fix the routers, and you'd never have a problem with bandwidth hogs ever again.
I have a set of files that are hard to manage for me. I have a copy on my desktop, laptop, webserver, and sometimes even on floppy (to take to school.) Just keeping these files up to date is hard (redundancy is good, esp for things like research papers (-:,) and I imagine that if I ever needed to erase a file, that too would be very difficult.
What I'd really like is a cross-platform program to sync a directory between several computers. If I could keep my home directory current, that would be AWESOME. Maybe once I get some time I'll get around to making it.
As I understand it, normal data is compressed by finding repeating strings and shoving it in a dictionary. This obviously won't work for truly random data. Since we all know what truly random data is a myth, why don't we use mathabatics? Compare the string to something like pi, or e, or other equations that produce commonly occuring 'random' data. Of course the time it takes to compress would be very long indeed. But, thankfully, processor power is fairly cheap, and big businesses surely won't mind running their 64 teraflop cluster for a week if it'll get nike commercials over a 56k in a second.
Since my views are obviously misguided, could someone share some links about compression theory?
Computer Science IS about theory. Programming is just a means to an end. The best way to learn theory is to put it in practice.
Moral CG characters: Vegetales. With posers and all. I think it's a tv series or something along those lines. My cousins seem to like it.
Projection surfaces for fantasies? Like...sexually? I don't get what you mean... But CG characters are 'stars' if you will, I know a few people that scour the internet for images of that girl from Final Fantasy.
I doubt real actors will die. No form of media ever really dies, I'm sure silent films are still being made (I for one would like to make one,) and there is this thing called the theater, where you can see people perform LIVE in 3D!
Even if actors become a dying breed, I wouldn't mind. I wonder how the heck a society comes to value cheap entertainment so much that they have to idolize celebrities and give them big, fat, million dollar paychecks.
I don't know much about optics (other than the math trips me up and I hate it,) but instead of sending a space craft 550au away from the sun, couldn't you position a craft a tad closer? albeit it would have to be significantly larger a craft. I'm thinking a giant ring that intercepts the light between the lens (sun), and the focus. Or maybe not even a ring...again I don't know much about optics, but couldn't you still get a magnified image just by being in the path of the light? Even if it's not the entire picture, it could be useful.
just my misguided two cents.
they become ISPs and a space corperation (assuming they want satelites)
Yet another reason to bring back the mainframes and ditch the PC. If every house had a server and nice graphical terminals running to your room, all the noise would be in the basement with your loud furnace and air conditioner.
Of course, then cabling becomes a problem. Shielded cables a necesity for those rooms far from the mainframe...or go optical.
Untill people realize the joys of mainframes, an alternate solution is to house the computer in a closet, or even in the wall (cooling vent?) Before my closet began overflowing with old and probably now-useless computer parts, I could stuff my box in there and close the door. It was a heck of a lot quieter.
You, and everyone else, will note that WWW != Internet. They are not interchangable. The internet does not mean netscape, ("you got the internet right?" "yeah, I got netscape.") AOL, or anything like that. So don't start confusing napster with the www. If you want to call someone out, pick on those business folk, with the amazon.com and the buy.com and whatnot.
When I was 15 I was like that. I really don't remember why I thought that stuff was cool, it just was. Thankfully I grew out of it.
Hmmm, maybe if there are more crackdowns on script kiddies and more slander against that kind of life these kids won't think it's 'cool' anymore. Just a thought.
Forget everquest, although I know someone addicted to that one. He looks at everquest screenshots whenever he's at a computer w/o eq. My weakness it nethack. I just started playing and I got it bad. It's hard for me to sit here right now and tell myself I need to do my homework before I even think about firing up nethack. I missed sleep the past two weeks, I even skipped an entire research essay to play it. I read rec.games.roguelike.nethack, they got it too. I'm still strugglin to get beyond the gnomish mines, but I ain't quittin until I get that first ascention...then ascentions in the other classes...then with conduct...
Damn you, you had to mention addiction...looks like I have to do calc early in the mornin before class again.