What I see, personally, is the CS people using powerpoint or, rarely, OO Impress. It's the acme of technical sophistication if they actually go in and fucking subscript their equations, instead of leaving ugly crap like "X0" or (if they once learned latex and promptly forgot it) "X_0". I hate that; it looks like a grade schooler typed up your notes.
Meanwhile the math people use putty and winscp to login/copy to their tincans-and-string shell accounts in order to run tex/latex and then copy the.ps back.
Apart from being generally tasteless anyway, this is actually the opposite of the "fight club" in the novel/movie. This is just an "exploitation club", which is not unusual at all.
Real sound doesn't magically die off at 22kHz, and anti-aliasing isn't perfect. There's also the 16-bit resolution.
From talking to musicians who've tested a few proposed standards, the thinking seems to be that the extra bits are better spent on amplitude quantization than on sampling frequency: 32-bit, 44kHz sounds better than 16-bit, 88kHz. They still claim that the latter is a bit better than a standard CD.
Sanka (=SANs KAffeine) is decaf, and one of the first decafs.
Yeah, I don't understand why anyone would buy it either. It tastes bad, and there's no caffeine...
If one is just after caffeine, take caffeine pills instead. At six cents per 200mg, it's a hell of a bargain. BTW, a 20 oz. drip at Starbucks has over 400 mg of caffeine (that's _two_ no-doz tablets!), so you might even consume less caffeine if you take it "pure" and in measured doses. Just make sure to take it with a coffee cup's worth of water to offset the diuretic effect. Dry-swallowing them is not recommended.
I still have coffee occasionally, but just for the taste, which I appreciate more now because it's not tied into the caffeine "requirement".
As someone who was tricked into a math degree, and is only beginning to see its practical benefit, I wholeheartedly agree.
It's funny; in high school I didn't see the point of memorizing all these tricks, when a computer could do quadrature (even some of my "superior" classmates didn't realize this). Now, as a stats Ph.D., the integrals are too fucking hard to do (closed forms don't give you much...), and I use a computer to do stochastic integration (MCMC). There's something wrong here...
Even the schools (which are colleges in my experience) which offer the class you're talking about, call it as "shell scripting".
Although I was surprised that anyone had even enough clue to offer the class (the elite designing curricula have human shell scripts called "grad students"), it's a shame that it has such a crummy name. It should be called:
"Getting shit done, by exploiting other people's hard work."
The good posts always come when I don't have mod points. Slashdot would be a much better place, if the phrase "My mocking something does not necessarily mean that I support the government suppressing it," were half as popular as that damned Franklin quote about security and liberty.
I guess you can call that "detail". I call it a fawning press release.
Still, from what I read it's a proprietary summary of a lot of expert knowledge with a token cellular automaton thrown in somewhere to satisfy Wolfram's ego. Prediction: fades from prominence within a year of release, as 1) the summarized knowledge goes out of date and can't be maintained in realtime (human labor required too expensive); and 2) knockoffs emerge.
Schweiger didnâ(TM)t notice anything odd about the bag when she bought it, but after finding the phone, she and her husband compared the bag with the phone in it with the unopened bag, she said. It was slightly heavier.
No, the narration explains that he wasn't smart enough (or, more accurately, educated enough) to figure out/know why. He just had a different tradition, one from an average ~105 IQ society instead of the miserable future.
Rather amusingly, Idiocracy is itself a dumbed-down and toned-down adaptation of the short story "The Marching Morons" (1951): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons, which I recommend reading.
Well, don't worry. The way things are going, you'll have to fight like hell just to survive. Forget any meaningful kind of "success". Unless you're born into the right group, and if you are, you know it and don't need to do much of anything.
Heheh, I didn't contribute much apart from an excited and barely-coherent review of "Platoon" (which is an awesome game on the C=64 by the way). Mostly I downloaded SID tunes and crappy free-/shareware games.
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Quote at bottom of /. page:
"You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your part."
Well, there you go.
Get it? It's funny because it's a miserable hellhole where human life is worth close to nothing!
Just like the eye worm; now that's comedy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loa_loa_filariasis.
What I see, personally, is the CS people using powerpoint or, rarely, OO Impress. It's the acme of technical sophistication if they actually go in and fucking subscript their equations, instead of leaving ugly crap like "X0" or (if they once learned latex and promptly forgot it) "X_0". I hate that; it looks like a grade schooler typed up your notes.
Meanwhile the math people use putty and winscp to login/copy to their tincans-and-string shell accounts in order to run tex/latex and then copy the .ps back.
It's weird, and almost embarrassing.
Apart from being generally tasteless anyway, this is actually the opposite of the "fight club" in the novel/movie. This is just an "exploitation club", which is not unusual at all.
Real sound doesn't magically die off at 22kHz, and anti-aliasing isn't perfect. There's also the 16-bit resolution.
From talking to musicians who've tested a few proposed standards, the thinking seems to be that the extra bits are better spent on amplitude quantization than on sampling frequency: 32-bit, 44kHz sounds better than 16-bit, 88kHz. They still claim that the latter is a bit better than a standard CD.
Oh, and if you wanted (masochistically) to argue technicalities, caffeine is not a drug in the US - it's a "dietary supplement".
It's funny how drinking 20 oz. of starbucks is fine, but taking one caffeine pill makes you a druggie freak in the eyes of some. Stupid.
Sanka (=SANs KAffeine) is decaf, and one of the first decafs.
Yeah, I don't understand why anyone would buy it either. It tastes bad, and there's no caffeine...
If one is just after caffeine, take caffeine pills instead. At six cents per 200mg, it's a hell of a bargain. BTW, a 20 oz. drip at Starbucks has over 400 mg of caffeine (that's _two_ no-doz tablets!), so you might even consume less caffeine if you take it "pure" and in measured doses. Just make sure to take it with a coffee cup's worth of water to offset the diuretic effect. Dry-swallowing them is not recommended.
I still have coffee occasionally, but just for the taste, which I appreciate more now because it's not tied into the caffeine "requirement".
As someone who was tricked into a math degree, and is only beginning to see its practical benefit, I wholeheartedly agree.
It's funny; in high school I didn't see the point of memorizing all these tricks, when a computer could do quadrature (even some of my "superior" classmates didn't realize this). Now, as a stats Ph.D., the integrals are too fucking hard to do (closed forms don't give you much...), and I use a computer to do stochastic integration (MCMC). There's something wrong here...
Even the schools (which are colleges in my experience) which offer the class you're talking about, call it as "shell scripting".
Although I was surprised that anyone had even enough clue to offer the class (the elite designing curricula have human shell scripts called "grad students"), it's a shame that it has such a crummy name. It should be called:
"Getting shit done, by exploiting other people's hard work."
That'd be a draw!
It actually has (at least) two, competing, implicit conclusions.
It's not as bad as "gNewSense". On many levels...
Not really.
The good posts always come when I don't have mod points. Slashdot would be a much better place, if the phrase "My mocking something does not necessarily mean that I support the government suppressing it," were half as popular as that damned Franklin quote about security and liberty.
I guess you can call that "detail". I call it a fawning press release.
Still, from what I read it's a proprietary summary of a lot of expert knowledge with a token cellular automaton thrown in somewhere to satisfy Wolfram's ego. Prediction: fades from prominence within a year of release, as 1) the summarized knowledge goes out of date and can't be maintained in realtime (human labor required too expensive); and 2) knockoffs emerge.
Is there any criticism of Obama which didn't also apply, in the most part, to Bush?
"But as long as it doesn't help poor people, it's not socialism."
Schweiger didnâ(TM)t notice anything odd about the bag when she bought it, but after finding the phone, she and her husband compared the bag with the phone in it with the unopened bag, she said. It was slightly heavier.
A truly groundbreaking insight.
Yeah, we all miss you terribly. I hope the system gets fixed soon...
No, the narration explains that he wasn't smart enough (or, more accurately, educated enough) to figure out/know why. He just had a different tradition, one from an average ~105 IQ society instead of the miserable future.
Rather amusingly, Idiocracy is itself a dumbed-down and toned-down adaptation of the short story "The Marching Morons" (1951): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons, which I recommend reading.
A much greater chance; meaning 5 out of ten million, rather than 1 out of ten million?
Well, don't worry. The way things are going, you'll have to fight like hell just to survive. Forget any meaningful kind of "success". Unless you're born into the right group, and if you are, you know it and don't need to do much of anything.
That's awesome. Thank you.
With actual flags, you're probably right. But if you count all the Amerikitsch like antenna-flags and yellow ribbons, we just must come out ahead.
Even more offtopic: I wonder if they have truck nuts in Australia?
(http://www.truck-nuts.com/index.html)
Heheh, I didn't contribute much apart from an excited and barely-coherent review of "Platoon" (which is an awesome game on the C=64 by the way). Mostly I downloaded SID tunes and crappy free-/shareware games.
They most likely had already a free sub-license for the trademark: http://www.linuxmark.org/
Revoking a nominally perpetual license, in order to take over someone's website, would be rather questionable...