Now, I've been out of the college scene for all of 2 weeks now, but I question the need for things like a lockpick set. I mean, if you're gonna need it, odds are it's gonna end up in that dresser/desk draw that you open up twice all year, when moving in and moving out, which dosent help much if, say, you locked yourself out of your room. While coming back from the shower. In only a towel. Not that I know about that....
Now, the UV Marking pen makes sense, only if you include a blacklight. And a whole lot of alcohol or other substances. Man, those walls come ALIVE, along with all the flourescent Pink Floyd posters.
Now, I always liked getting duct tape. It's great to fix things, build furnitire with, and even use in place of a belt! Along the same lines are foam insulation tubes, like the kind you put around pipes. It's handy to cover up rough edges on pipes/closet sides/wnatever, and also makes great nerf-like weapons! All for a couple bucks! WOW!
Now, to get aside from the handyman stuff, the last thing I'd send too a geek would be some sort of USB or Firewire hard drive, preferably one that dosent need external power. I had one for my last semester while working on a project with a lot of high-res images, and it came in very handy. And only cost about $50. Whether I was in class in a lab or in my room, it was nice to have everything the way I wanted it, and not have to move to copy it all to a zip disk (or 4). I mean, it wasnt totally necessary, but I really liked the convienence. It's also nice to have enough MP3's on hand to keep me going for hours away from home.
The professor and his UConn colleagues plan to build a device to test whether it's possible to transport a subatomic particle, probably a neutron, through time. The energy from a rotating laser beam, Mallett hopes, would warp the space inside the ring of the light so that gravity forces the neutron to rotate sideways. With even more energy, it's possible, he believes, a second neutron would appear. The second particle would be the first one visiting itself from the future.
And you'll probably be able to get it pretty cheap soon, too, since the owner has landed in prison. Here's more about it: http://www.kimble.org/message20020220.htm
No pity for him here though. Goes along with what I think of people with toys like expensive pimped-out cars and gaudy flash sites. Give me my '87 Nissan and plain text web page any day!
how long will it be before your wordprocessor is running on a remote machine and you just have a dumb terminal?
-9 years ago actually, and thensome. A computer lab used by the English department in my old high school used a system just like that. There was one server, a whopping 486, and everyone used a word processor remotley (the name escapes me, but it made Word Perfect 5.1 look modern). The terminals were all old cheap 8088's with nice burnt-in monochrome monitors, and it all ran on an Novell network. And it was fast and worked great, except for one time I was at the second node and knocked out the network cable and everyone mysterously froze;)
When I look at labs now, with all thier fancy P4's at every station, it almost makes me cringe. All that power gone to waste for no more than Word. It's a sin I tell ya!
Do you not watch TV or are you just not from the US? Watch for the commercials any weekend network programming to see them. For some reason, they appear durring a lot of sports. Guess the NBA SCREAMS mainframes. They have the funny one with the PHB looking for the servers and the geek saves them a bundle, and my favorite, the basketball team series with the star player Linux! The team consists of Mainframe, Middleware, and a few other guys too, so IBM is getting the word out. "Whats this?" "Triangle"
All joking aside, mainframes kick ass. Having seen (but not used:( ) one about a year ago, and the raw power it contains, it's truly something to be reckoned with. And the best part is they were running Linux via virtual machine on it. What more could a geek want!
I can see it now. Microsoft monopoly bad. IBM monololy bad. *sprinkle Linux into IBM* IBM MONOPOLY GOOD! SLASHJUNKIE SMASH!
Re:"Sorcerer's Stone" vs. "Philosopher's Stone"
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This is coming from some crazy religion show that was telling how Harry Potter is the devil, after being re-interperated and deFUDisized by myself.
Apparently, the term Philosophers Stone has to do with some occult item, which is supposed to give the holder god-like knowledge and power, or something along those lines (feel free to correct me).
The whole occult theme has always been stronger in Europe than in the US, and by calling it the Philosophers Stone there, it gives it a deeper, darker meaning, while Harry is an innocent child, the side of good and light. And that's where the fun comes in.
Now, why was it changed for the US? Well, a couple reasons. Americans, in general, arent familiar with terms like Philosophers Stone, and frankly, that sounds like something a speaker would pass in a college philosophy class. Now, take the term Sorcerers Stone, and thats magical, that'll put butts in the seats.
Now, I may be compeletly wrong, maybe they think Americans are religiously sensitive? Who knows. Let's get an Ask/. of the author or marketers and find out!
I'm a CS undergrad graduating in May, and I went through a similar spell myself. I never got into CS because of the money, I did it because I enjoyed it, it's my hobby and my passion. But, about 3/4 into my Freshman year, I lost all intrest. I was learning nothing, and stopped going to class all together, quickly finding myself no longer enrolled.
As I worked my way back to college, I learned what I really enjoyed, and that was working with people like myself, working on code for fun, and all in all, just enjoying my hobbies. I got back into designing programs, reading lots of stuff (/., books, anything), and just being a total geek.
I eventually returned to college, and took what I learned and applied it to everything. I started doing what I enjoyed, entered programming competitions, made some friends who felt the same as me, and, my biggest achievement, I started a student ACM chapter at my school. Currently, I'm very happy at school, not so much for class, but the the environement of academia. The faculty at my school is totally supportive of what I do, and have provided me with some great guidance. I'd reccomend anyone at college get to know their professors, because they can be your best supporters at times!
Anyways, if you really want to know how to make the most out of college, read Hackers by Steven Levy. That book pretty much guided me along the way when I picked it up 2 years ago. It's a must read for all CS college students.
And one last shameless plug, if you go to URI, there's an ACM meeting in Tyler 126. Check if out!
Re:Gamecube control is a cheap piece o' crap
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Wait till you hold one. Here's how my experience playing Smash Brothers Melee went at the Nintendo Club thing in Cambridge:
"Hmm, let's have Pikachu use his lightning attack!"
PUNCH!
"Uh, jump out of the way!"
PUNCH!
"One more time Pikachu, do anything!"
PUNCH!
Needless to say, I got my ass handed to me. The A button on this controler is simply too big. I dont know, maybe kids these days have fingers that bend or extend in different ways than mine, because I know no matter what I did, I was hitting A, unless I held the controler like a lobster would. It's not an improvement over the N64 controler, it's just rearranged. The R and Z button mess dosent help much in the heat of battle either. I hope some 3rd party companies release some controlers that make sense quickly!
At about the same price as a magazine, SPIKE has some great potential. Even if it was only as good as Bluetooth, it's price alone would make it be worth it, but SPIKE seems to have a lot more to offer.
The fact that it can do all the processing at 50 mhz for two more bucks, and it's high speed and reliable nature, makes this a no-brainer. As long as it can deliver at least as good as Bluetooth (which shouldn't be too hard), whoever adopts SPIKE will have an upper hand in the whole wireless revolution.
Time to look for $10 in the couch!
I was hoping to see a home movie of a bunch of kids rolling dice, playing the game, not a CG extravaganza. Oh well, I guess Time Warner knows whats best.
If the world is like Super Mario Brothers 2, NO ONE better be feeding vegetables to an evil frog! I still have so much to live for, like the final build of Mozilla!
Just so no one makes the trek to Cambridge for no reason, the flea is on Sunday, Oct. 15.
I went to one a couple months ago, and it's a lot of fun. I know I'll be there Sunday. I could use a good doorstop, err, Mac Classic.
Say someone goes to one of the many porn sites out there, and they use some sort of pheremone scent to keep people coming back and paying. Imagine the economic consequences of this, similar to walking into a bakery and buying something just because it smells good. Or maybe this whole iSmell is just another step along the way to the goal of actually having sex with your computer. Then again, isn't everything?
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Now, I've been out of the college scene for all of 2 weeks now, but I question the need for things like a lockpick set. I mean, if you're gonna need it, odds are it's gonna end up in that dresser/desk draw that you open up twice all year, when moving in and moving out, which dosent help much if, say, you locked yourself out of your room. While coming back from the shower. In only a towel. Not that I know about that....
Now, the UV Marking pen makes sense, only if you include a blacklight. And a whole lot of alcohol or other substances. Man, those walls come ALIVE, along with all the flourescent Pink Floyd posters.
Now, I always liked getting duct tape. It's great to fix things, build furnitire with, and even use in place of a belt! Along the same lines are foam insulation tubes, like the kind you put around pipes. It's handy to cover up rough edges on pipes/closet sides/wnatever, and also makes great nerf-like weapons! All for a couple bucks! WOW!
Now, to get aside from the handyman stuff, the last thing I'd send too a geek would be some sort of USB or Firewire hard drive, preferably one that dosent need external power. I had one for my last semester while working on a project with a lot of high-res images, and it came in very handy. And only cost about $50. Whether I was in class in a lab or in my room, it was nice to have everything the way I wanted it, and not have to move to copy it all to a zip disk (or 4). I mean, it wasnt totally necessary, but I really liked the convienence. It's also nice to have enough MP3's on hand to keep me going for hours away from home.
If you actually read the article...
The professor and his UConn colleagues plan to build a device to test whether it's possible to transport a subatomic particle, probably a neutron, through time. The energy from a rotating laser beam, Mallett hopes, would warp the space inside the ring of the light so that gravity forces the neutron to rotate sideways. With even more energy, it's possible, he believes, a second neutron would appear. The second particle would be the first one visiting itself from the future.
And you'll probably be able to get it pretty cheap soon, too, since the owner has landed in prison. Here's more about it: http://www.kimble.org/message20020220.htm
No pity for him here though. Goes along with what I think of people with toys like expensive pimped-out cars and gaudy flash sites. Give me my '87 Nissan and plain text web page any day!
Back to adding neon lights into my computer...
how long will it be before your wordprocessor is running on a remote machine and you just have a dumb terminal?
;)
-9 years ago actually, and thensome. A computer lab used by the English department in my old high school used a system just like that. There was one server, a whopping 486, and everyone used a word processor remotley (the name escapes me, but it made Word Perfect 5.1 look modern). The terminals were all old cheap 8088's with nice burnt-in monochrome monitors, and it all ran on an Novell network. And it was fast and worked great, except for one time I was at the second node and knocked out the network cable and everyone mysterously froze
When I look at labs now, with all thier fancy P4's at every station, it almost makes me cringe. All that power gone to waste for no more than Word. It's a sin I tell ya!
Yes! And it's been running quite well actually. Just because bnetd is dead dosent mean the code is.
Do you not watch TV or are you just not from the US? Watch for the commercials any weekend network programming to see them. For some reason, they appear durring a lot of sports. Guess the NBA SCREAMS mainframes. They have the funny one with the PHB looking for the servers and the geek saves them a bundle, and my favorite, the basketball team series with the star player Linux! The team consists of Mainframe, Middleware, and a few other guys too, so IBM is getting the word out. "Whats this?" "Triangle"
All joking aside, mainframes kick ass. Having seen (but not used :( ) one about a year ago, and the raw power it contains, it's truly something to be reckoned with. And the best part is they were running Linux via virtual machine on it. What more could a geek want!
I can see it now. Microsoft monopoly bad. IBM monololy bad. *sprinkle Linux into IBM* IBM MONOPOLY GOOD! SLASHJUNKIE SMASH!Perhaps a better slogan would be:
"1000 million Chinese can't choose otherwise"
At least they aren't running TurboLinux *shudder*
This is coming from some crazy religion show that was telling how Harry Potter is the devil, after being re-interperated and deFUDisized by myself.
/. of the author or marketers and find out!
Apparently, the term Philosophers Stone has to do with some occult item, which is supposed to give the holder god-like knowledge and power, or something along those lines (feel free to correct me).
The whole occult theme has always been stronger in Europe than in the US, and by calling it the Philosophers Stone there, it gives it a deeper, darker meaning, while Harry is an innocent child, the side of good and light. And that's where the fun comes in.
Now, why was it changed for the US? Well, a couple reasons. Americans, in general, arent familiar with terms like Philosophers Stone, and frankly, that sounds like something a speaker would pass in a college philosophy class. Now, take the term Sorcerers Stone, and thats magical, that'll put butts in the seats.
Now, I may be compeletly wrong, maybe they think Americans are religiously sensitive? Who knows. Let's get an Ask
I'm a CS undergrad graduating in May, and I went through a similar spell myself. I never got into CS because of the money, I did it because I enjoyed it, it's my hobby and my passion. But, about 3/4 into my Freshman year, I lost all intrest. I was learning nothing, and stopped going to class all together, quickly finding myself no longer enrolled.
As I worked my way back to college, I learned what I really enjoyed, and that was working with people like myself, working on code for fun, and all in all, just enjoying my hobbies. I got back into designing programs, reading lots of stuff (/., books, anything), and just being a total geek.
I eventually returned to college, and took what I learned and applied it to everything. I started doing what I enjoyed, entered programming competitions, made some friends who felt the same as me, and, my biggest achievement, I started a student ACM chapter at my school. Currently, I'm very happy at school, not so much for class, but the the environement of academia. The faculty at my school is totally supportive of what I do, and have provided me with some great guidance. I'd reccomend anyone at college get to know their professors, because they can be your best supporters at times!
Anyways, if you really want to know how to make the most out of college, read Hackers by Steven Levy. That book pretty much guided me along the way when I picked it up 2 years ago. It's a must read for all CS college students.
And one last shameless plug, if you go to URI, there's an ACM meeting in Tyler 126. Check if out!
Wait till you hold one. Here's how my experience playing Smash Brothers Melee went at the Nintendo Club thing in Cambridge:
"Hmm, let's have Pikachu use his lightning attack!"
PUNCH!
"Uh, jump out of the way!"
PUNCH!
"One more time Pikachu, do anything!"
PUNCH!
Needless to say, I got my ass handed to me. The A button on this controler is simply too big. I dont know, maybe kids these days have fingers that bend or extend in different ways than mine, because I know no matter what I did, I was hitting A, unless I held the controler like a lobster would. It's not an improvement over the N64 controler, it's just rearranged. The R and Z button mess dosent help much in the heat of battle either. I hope some 3rd party companies release some controlers that make sense quickly!
Why doesn't someone at MIT set up a video camera to record everything?
You do realize this is in a bathroom, right?
Now, is it me, or do the words "Millennium" and "distributed" together send chills down your spine too, especially coming from MS?
(and also)
How bout a beowulf cluster of...aw screw it.
Never mind Mandrakes confused looking Tux ripoff. Let's hope these new guys fire up Corel Photo Paint and make something better than that!
Me Grimlock say robot dinosaurs first step to Dinobots! Dinobots no need AI, Dinobots smash!
At about the same price as a magazine, SPIKE has some great potential. Even if it was only as good as Bluetooth, it's price alone would make it be worth it, but SPIKE seems to have a lot more to offer. The fact that it can do all the processing at 50 mhz for two more bucks, and it's high speed and reliable nature, makes this a no-brainer. As long as it can deliver at least as good as Bluetooth (which shouldn't be too hard), whoever adopts SPIKE will have an upper hand in the whole wireless revolution. Time to look for $10 in the couch!
I was hoping to see a home movie of a bunch of kids rolling dice, playing the game, not a CG extravaganza. Oh well, I guess Time Warner knows whats best.
Isn't this kinda like that crappy TV show Reboot? And will Linus have to escape the evil virus Megabyte too? Now THAT would be mediocre TV!
If the world is like Super Mario Brothers 2, NO ONE better be feeding vegetables to an evil frog! I still have so much to live for, like the final build of Mozilla!
Just so no one makes the trek to Cambridge for no reason, the flea is on Sunday, Oct. 15. I went to one a couple months ago, and it's a lot of fun. I know I'll be there Sunday. I could use a good doorstop, err, Mac Classic.
Say someone goes to one of the many porn sites out there, and they use some sort of pheremone scent to keep people coming back and paying. Imagine the economic consequences of this, similar to walking into a bakery and buying something just because it smells good. Or maybe this whole iSmell is just another step along the way to the goal of actually having sex with your computer. Then again, isn't everything?