where did he say that she was busting his chops? he just said that it keeps her up. he probably feels bad about it. those of us who actually have girlfriends can tell you fellows that part of the point of a good relationship is that you make each other happy and do nice things for each other.
the 3 button mouse is clearly a thing of the past. i just bought a 7 button mouse (+scrollwheel--so technically 10 mouse click events). This thing is sweet, and although i haven't set up 3 of the buttons yet in Linux, the mouse is kicking ass right now.
I am about to retire my current PC (P3 733, 384MB RAM, 140GB, SBLive -- running Gentoo Linux), and was seriously considering turning it into a Tivo-like device. My question (which I assume others have as well) is what do I need to do to a standard existing PC to turn it into a PVR? I know I need to buy a PVR card (I was looking at the Hauppauge ones), but is there anything else I need? Do I need a video card with video out to connect the box to a TV, or will the PVR card handle this? If I don't want to only use a TV, can I view the content easily on my monitor? What if I want it to work with a remote control? Is this possible (especially under Linux)? Anything connected to my TV had better be remote-control operated:-).
I would greatly prefer to stay with Linux, but I would be willing to switch distros if that would make setup easier.
P.S. I am a student, so I don't have any electricity costs. The university pays the electric bills, so I don't really care that having a PC on all the time costs a few extra dollars per month.
I can't believe this made it to the front page, but I'll bite.
1. Ebay. Duh. (Half.com, too) 2. Apple Educational Discounts. 3. Apple Refurbished products (through the Apple Store). 4. Dell's online store has frequent coupons for 10-25% off. 5. Amazon.com maketplace has used stuff.
The sad fact of the matter for you is that you will not find it much cheaper than the list price. That is because lots of people want it at the list price, and it is not worth it for them to lower the price for you. If you want an iPod, which is the best and most popular mp3 player on the market, you have to expect to pay for it. Comparisons have been made between Apple and BMW. Both offer high quality and fashionable products at premium prices. If you want economy, buy an Archos Jukebox or a Creative Nomad. Slow and ugly, but cheaper. If you want the best, be willing to pay the price.
All that being said, the real discounts are not for the holiday season, but after the holiday season, so if you are just buying it for yourself, wait until January. Apple always has a conference then, and they slash prices on many products. If the iPod gets updated, you would definitely get more for your money.
What about Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)? The dock can be autohidden, and with "expose," the ability to run almost most standard GNU/UNIX apps (as a Debian user, you will be thrilled to know that the dpkg system--including apt-get--is available for Mac OS X through the Fink Project), and increased performance over previous versions (even on your old G3), it might be just the thing you need. Unfortunately virtual desktops are not part of the standard Mac OS, although there are many free utilities to do this, which would provide quite a bit of screen space.
Of course, there is that pesky $129 price tag ($69 educational), but if you hunt around (like ebay) you can probably find it cheaper.
Also, although none of those old iBooks came with VGA out, some did come with composite video out, which you might be able to hook up to a TV for some extra screen real estate, if it comes to that.
I have been using both mplayer and xine on Gentoo [GNU/]Linux for quite some time, and I have recently become quite frustrated with mplayer. Yes, its support of many different formats is commendable, but I find it losing the synchronicity of the audio and video tracks WAY too often. I have recently brought xine from back-up to primary player, and use mplayer only when xine does not support the video file I am trying to play, which is rare. xine is fast, polished, and less buggy than mplayer in my experience. Is there any reason to bother with mplayer at all for formats that are supported by both?
As a side note, am I the only one who finds these articles to be pretty immature? This guy is just complaining left and right (especially in the first one). And inserting the piece about how playing video files in mplayer required getting video files from gnutella? Come on...
So many things wrong with this. First of all, just becasue screeners are a source of piracy, does not mean they are the main source of piracy. Nowhere in the article does it say this, and having seen many "pirated" movies, I can say that very few of them have been screeners. Most seem to be ripped from DVDs or, to a lesser extent, VHS tapes.
Second, the people who receive screeners are not really members of the MPAA. The MPAA is an industry group of major movie studios. The people who get screeners are members of the Academy and Writers, Directors, and Screen Actors Guilds. Yes, the people who leak screeners are technically part of the industry, but they are not members of the MPAA.
Third, what does it matter if these people are in the movie industry? The MPAA has noticed a source of pirated movies over which it potentially has control and has attempted to close up this hole. Would you rather they went after you?
There are some movies that are just junk, however I kind of want to see them. Some examples from this past year include:
Daredevil (another installment of the crappy comic book movies--but I'm a comic junkie, what can I say?)
Hulk (same)
T3 (sequel several years after the fact -- obviously just to make money)
Bad Boys 2 (same)
Living in New York City, movies cost $10 and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay that much for prepackaged junk.
Just as I continue to buy CDs which I think are worth the price charged for them, I still continue to go see movies I think will be worth my $10, but few movies fall into this category. It's simple market economics. The reason I don't go to the movies is that I don't want to shell out all that cash. The fact that I can still get ahold of these movies by other means is pretty irrelevant.
couldn't you just make a special gcc group (or even make gcc executable by root only). If your someone gets root on your machine, you are totally fucked anyway, so why not let them compile some stuff too?
I learned from Lewis & Loftus' Java Software Solutions and found it quite nice. It teaches Java, but does not focus on applets. It has plenty of good information (covering sytax, classes/objects, inheritence, string processing, exceptions, I/O, software engineering, Swing GUIs, and some applet stuff), not to mention OOP design guidelines, etc. The problems were not so interesting, but the prof. always made his own, which I suggest you do as well, just to keep things lively.
Out of curiousity, what department are you teaching in? Pretty strange for grad students who have a need for programming in their field to have no experience whatsoever.
For matematics, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, and other things in that vein, the indespensible resource is MathSciNet, a service of the AMS (American Mathematical Society. Almost every article is reviewed, many have abstracts, and all have citations. Some have the full text of the article (or links to it).
don't you mean wolverine/logan?
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I am pretty sure that Weapon-X was the name given to Wolverine by the research facility that bonded the adamantium to his skeleton. The healing factor is one of his natural mutant abilities (and, in fact, is what allowed him to survive the adamantium bonding process). So, unless they've found a way to do that (which is what I first thought after reading the headline), it would just be Wolverine.
I am a mathematics major, with research experience. All my papers, reports, and even a few physics labs I had to do have been written in LaTeX, which makes automatic section labeling, theorem/proposition/proof labeling, table of contents generation, and bibliography generation a snap. Not only have I found that LaTeX has allowed me to create truly beautiful documents, but *every* handout I have received from any professor in Math, Physics, or CS has been in LaTeX (okay, there have been a few execptions--but not many!). This includes tests, homeworks, syllabi, etc. There have even been a couple times when a professor has stopped mid-lecture to wax romantic about how great LaTeX is and how easy it makes his/her life. Every journal expects papers to be submitted in TeX or LaTeX, and every researcher in the field knows it.
As for previous comments saying that LaTeX is not extensible and that the formatting and content are not separate, that is bunk. You can write your own macros, people have written image drawing programs (for diagram generation) in LaTeX, and anything else imaginable. The formatting is done for you 99%. You just specify where paragraphs, sections, whatever start, and LaTeX takes care of the rest.
The only capacity in which SGML or XML (including MathML) is used to publish scientific content (i.e., containing lots of equations and document structions such as sections, theorems, proofs, etc.) is to first write the LaTeX, then to use latex2html (or a similar program). Seriously, it is totally impractical to write MathML yourself. take a look at somesamplecode if you want. It is designed to be output by a computer program such as LaTeX.
The learning curve on LaTeX is pretty low. Just google around for stuff, and it will be easy to find what you are looking for (usually).
Start with the following references (there is *no* need to ever buy a book on LaTeX):
but google is your best bet. I usually just type "latex..." into google where... is whatever I need help on (e.g., tables, infinite series, vectors, labelling theorems, etc.). You can't go wrong. Happy TeX-ing.
How many times have I had this conversation?
"Hey what's that new son--" Song is already playing off my computer, having downloaded already.
[almost]Anytime I want to know something, I can look it up online, thanks to IMDb, allmusic.com, google, etc. I guess that's a difference in all life, not just college. But it helps that I have an always-on 10Mbit connection.
Another interesting story: I was taking a music class and one student who didn't have a computer and lived off campus handed in the first paper handwritten. The teacher wouldn't accept it and made her take it to the computer lab and type it up. I guess that's an appreciable change to how things were before.
Regular mail correspondence has also disappeared. There was something nice about seeing a message from someone in their own handwriting. Email is nice b/c of its speed and convenience, but it can't really match handwritten letters for the "personal touch."
or just read slashdot at -1, nested. that'll keep you more than busy. talk about science fiction, just wait until someone posts a question to ask slashdot about anything scientific. watch as the creativity follows...
Just some picky comments on the slate article and the posting. First, the man's name is Grisha Perelman, not Grigori. He is Russian, not Italian. (Even the MIT Math department's Seminar Page gets this one wrong). Second the work spoken about at MIT was written up in two preprints (here and here -- I guess I should say don't even bother reading them without a graduate education in mathematics).
FYI, this work is based on a prescription for proof of the Geometrization Conjecture (which implies the Poincare Conjecture), done by Prof. Richard Hamilton, who was at one of the UC schools at the time, but is now at Columbia University. Professor Hamilton was over 40 when he published his work on the Ricci flow, which is the basis for Dr. Perelman's recent work.
i'm not sure what you mean when you say "It is more brittle than ABS...but it tougher." This seems to be a contradictory statement. Could you please elaborate?
I suspect that the reason you get so much spam is that your email address is so prominently displapyed on the internet. What else could one expect?
I have had the same email address for 3+ years now and I average less than one piece of spam per month. I have a separate free email account that I use for ecommerce transactions and to give out to websites. Even it gets a minimal amount of spam.
I would be outraged having to pay to send email. People should just be responsible with their addresses and not give their primary email out to every webiste on the internet. That would solve the spam problem quite well.
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where did he say that she was busting his chops? he just said that it keeps her up. he probably feels bad about it. those of us who actually have girlfriends can tell you fellows that part of the point of a good relationship is that you make each other happy and do nice things for each other.
:-)
the 3 button mouse is clearly a thing of the past. i just bought a 7 button mouse (+scrollwheel--so technically 10 mouse click events). This thing is sweet, and although i haven't set up 3 of the buttons yet in Linux, the mouse is kicking ass right now.
[logitech mx700 wireless mouse...awesome]
I am about to retire my current PC (P3 733, 384MB RAM, 140GB, SBLive -- running Gentoo Linux), and was seriously considering turning it into a Tivo-like device. My question (which I assume others have as well) is what do I need to do to a standard existing PC to turn it into a PVR? I know I need to buy a PVR card (I was looking at the Hauppauge ones), but is there anything else I need? Do I need a video card with video out to connect the box to a TV, or will the PVR card handle this? If I don't want to only use a TV, can I view the content easily on my monitor? What if I want it to work with a remote control? Is this possible (especially under Linux)? Anything connected to my TV had better be remote-control operated :-).
I would greatly prefer to stay with Linux, but I would be willing to switch distros if that would make setup easier.
P.S. I am a student, so I don't have any electricity costs. The university pays the electric bills, so I don't really care that having a PC on all the time costs a few extra dollars per month.
I can't believe this made it to the front page, but I'll bite.
1. Ebay. Duh. (Half.com, too)
2. Apple Educational Discounts.
3. Apple Refurbished products (through the Apple Store).
4. Dell's online store has frequent coupons for 10-25% off.
5. Amazon.com maketplace has used stuff.
The sad fact of the matter for you is that you will not find it much cheaper than the list price. That is because lots of people want it at the list price, and it is not worth it for them to lower the price for you. If you want an iPod, which is the best and most popular mp3 player on the market, you have to expect to pay for it. Comparisons have been made between Apple and BMW. Both offer high quality and fashionable products at premium prices. If you want economy, buy an Archos Jukebox or a Creative Nomad. Slow and ugly, but cheaper. If you want the best, be willing to pay the price.
All that being said, the real discounts are not for the holiday season, but after the holiday season, so if you are just buying it for yourself, wait until January. Apple always has a conference then, and they slash prices on many products. If the iPod gets updated, you would definitely get more for your money.
What about Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)? The dock can be autohidden, and with "expose," the ability to run almost most standard GNU/UNIX apps (as a Debian user, you will be thrilled to know that the dpkg system--including apt-get--is available for Mac OS X through the Fink Project), and increased performance over previous versions (even on your old G3), it might be just the thing you need. Unfortunately virtual desktops are not part of the standard Mac OS, although there are many free utilities to do this, which would provide quite a bit of screen space.
Of course, there is that pesky $129 price tag ($69 educational), but if you hunt around (like ebay) you can probably find it cheaper.
Also, although none of those old iBooks came with VGA out, some did come with composite video out, which you might be able to hook up to a TV for some extra screen real estate, if it comes to that.
I have been using both mplayer and xine on Gentoo [GNU/]Linux for quite some time, and I have recently become quite frustrated with mplayer. Yes, its support of many different formats is commendable, but I find it losing the synchronicity of the audio and video tracks WAY too often. I have recently brought xine from back-up to primary player, and use mplayer only when xine does not support the video file I am trying to play, which is rare. xine is fast, polished, and less buggy than mplayer in my experience. Is there any reason to bother with mplayer at all for formats that are supported by both?
As a side note, am I the only one who finds these articles to be pretty immature? This guy is just complaining left and right (especially in the first one). And inserting the piece about how playing video files in mplayer required getting video files from gnutella? Come on...
So many things wrong with this. First of all, just becasue screeners are a source of piracy, does not mean they are the main source of piracy. Nowhere in the article does it say this, and having seen many "pirated" movies, I can say that very few of them have been screeners. Most seem to be ripped from DVDs or, to a lesser extent, VHS tapes.
Second, the people who receive screeners are not really members of the MPAA. The MPAA is an industry group of major movie studios. The people who get screeners are members of the Academy and Writers, Directors, and Screen Actors Guilds. Yes, the people who leak screeners are technically part of the industry, but they are not members of the MPAA.
Third, what does it matter if these people are in the movie industry? The MPAA has noticed a source of pirated movies over which it potentially has control and has attempted to close up this hole. Would you rather they went after you?
- Daredevil (another installment of the crappy comic book movies--but I'm a comic junkie, what can I say?)
- Hulk (same)
- T3 (sequel several years after the fact -- obviously just to make money)
- Bad Boys 2 (same)
Living in New York City, movies cost $10 and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay that much for prepackaged junk.Just as I continue to buy CDs which I think are worth the price charged for them, I still continue to go see movies I think will be worth my $10, but few movies fall into this category. It's simple market economics. The reason I don't go to the movies is that I don't want to shell out all that cash. The fact that I can still get ahold of these movies by other means is pretty irrelevant.
couldn't you just make a special gcc group (or even make gcc executable by root only). If your someone gets root on your machine, you are totally fucked anyway, so why not let them compile some stuff too?
I learned from Lewis & Loftus' Java Software Solutions and found it quite nice. It teaches Java, but does not focus on applets. It has plenty of good information (covering sytax, classes/objects, inheritence, string processing, exceptions, I/O, software engineering, Swing GUIs, and some applet stuff), not to mention OOP design guidelines, etc. The problems were not so interesting, but the prof. always made his own, which I suggest you do as well, just to keep things lively.
Out of curiousity, what department are you teaching in? Pretty strange for grad students who have a need for programming in their field to have no experience whatsoever.
For matematics, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, and other things in that vein, the indespensible resource is MathSciNet, a service of the AMS (American Mathematical Society. Almost every article is reviewed, many have abstracts, and all have citations. Some have the full text of the article (or links to it).
You should also check out jstor.org, sciencedirect, and springerlink.
I am pretty sure that Weapon-X was the name given to Wolverine by the research facility that bonded the adamantium to his skeleton. The healing factor is one of his natural mutant abilities (and, in fact, is what allowed him to survive the adamantium bonding process). So, unless they've found a way to do that (which is what I first thought after reading the headline), it would just be Wolverine.
As for previous comments saying that LaTeX is not extensible and that the formatting and content are not separate, that is bunk. You can write your own macros, people have written image drawing programs (for diagram generation) in LaTeX, and anything else imaginable. The formatting is done for you 99%. You just specify where paragraphs, sections, whatever start, and LaTeX takes care of the rest.
The only capacity in which SGML or XML (including MathML) is used to publish scientific content (i.e., containing lots of equations and document structions such as sections, theorems, proofs, etc.) is to first write the LaTeX, then to use latex2html (or a similar program). Seriously, it is totally impractical to write MathML yourself. take a look at some sample code if you want. It is designed to be output by a computer program such as LaTeX.
The learning curve on LaTeX is pretty low. Just google around for stuff, and it will be easy to find what you are looking for (usually). Start with the following references (there is *no* need to ever buy a book on LaTeX):
- Text Processing using LaTeX
- Help on LaTeX
- The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
but google is your best bet. I usually just type "latexHow many times have I had this conversation? "Hey what's that new son--" Song is already playing off my computer, having downloaded already.
[almost]Anytime I want to know something, I can look it up online, thanks to IMDb, allmusic.com, google, etc. I guess that's a difference in all life, not just college. But it helps that I have an always-on 10Mbit connection.
Another interesting story: I was taking a music class and one student who didn't have a computer and lived off campus handed in the first paper handwritten. The teacher wouldn't accept it and made her take it to the computer lab and type it up. I guess that's an appreciable change to how things were before.
Regular mail correspondence has also disappeared. There was something nice about seeing a message from someone in their own handwriting. Email is nice b/c of its speed and convenience, but it can't really match handwritten letters for the "personal touch."
Just a few observations...
or just read slashdot at -1, nested. that'll keep you more than busy. talk about science fiction, just wait until someone posts a question to ask slashdot about anything scientific. watch as the creativity follows...
Just some picky comments on the slate article and the posting. First, the man's name is Grisha Perelman, not Grigori. He is Russian, not Italian. (Even the MIT Math department's Seminar Page gets this one wrong). Second the work spoken about at MIT was written up in two preprints (here and here -- I guess I should say don't even bother reading them without a graduate education in mathematics).
FYI, this work is based on a prescription for proof of the Geometrization Conjecture (which implies the Poincare Conjecture), done by Prof. Richard Hamilton, who was at one of the UC schools at the time, but is now at Columbia University. Professor Hamilton was over 40 when he published his work on the Ricci flow, which is the basis for Dr. Perelman's recent work.
What is this company Any Reason and where did they get the capital to buy Microsoft? Wow...looks like this new software giant came out of nowhere
i'm not sure what you mean when you say "It is more brittle than ABS...but it tougher." This seems to be a contradictory statement. Could you please elaborate?
I suspect that the reason you get so much spam is that your email address is so prominently displapyed on the internet. What else could one expect?
I have had the same email address for 3+ years now and I average less than one piece of spam per month. I have a separate free email account that I use for ecommerce transactions and to give out to websites. Even it gets a minimal amount of spam.
I would be outraged having to pay to send email. People should just be responsible with their addresses and not give their primary email out to every webiste on the internet. That would solve the spam problem quite well.