Perhaps this is what the world will use as weapons after World War III -- modified office supplies rather than sticks and stones as Einstein originally predicted.
What if you happened to have fractured your wrist like I did recently? My typing is much different with my left hand in a short-arm cast now I can say for sure.
There are all sorts of hand injuries that could change your typing style.
Also is it just me or do people make more typos in the morning?
Ugh the last thing one needs is to find a religious nut at a church.. I do agree with the meet more women advice though; go to a bar or something. That's what I would have done, but I'm not 21 yet. Curse this stupid country and its arbitrary, petty drinking laws. The easiest way is college, but that's just a 4-8yr window, depending on what sort of degree you're getting. Being a second year student at a university, I still hadn't found a girlfriend until just a month ago. I actually met her through thefacebook.com, which is an interesting new social phenomenon altogether. Don't despair -- there's someone for everybody; the world population is in the billions and there are more women than men. The problem is taking full advantage of this huge search space and not getting too intimidated in the process.
I'm curious as to what potential impact on the ocean wave power may have. I believe there was a/. story recently about how wind power will actually take the kinetic energy out of wind and affect global weather patterns. Surely taking the kinetic energy from the ocean must have some sort of impact on some sort of ecosystem.
Hopefully it won't have any serious negative impact as this technology seems promising.
Quickly skimming through previous discussion, I see people have been talking about experience, which is definitely more important than a degree I would say.
That said, a bachelors is becoming the minimum an employer expects of a potential employee, aside from interns. If you really want to succeed or are interested in computer science, you should look into going to grad school and getting at least a Masters degree; that way you can get your CS bachelors degree wherever and then you can go to a more prestigious grad school.
Kerry conceded the race due to heavy political stress. If you recall last election, the Democrats really shat on their own public image. I believe that Kerry wanted to "save face" this time.
Regardless of Kerry's concession to the public, Kerry could still be appointed president if large enough vote count errors are discovered and the electoral votes go to him.
So far the magnitude of the voting errors is rather alarming; it is also a bit "strange" that most, if not all, the errors are in favor of Bush. The huge asymmetry between the exit polls and alleged actual outcome is also puzzling.
One does not steal an election with a landslide, one steals it with a 3% margin that leaves people thinking "Wow! That was a close one.."
You guys should just use Debian, then you wouldn't have this problem. There's no issue with recompiling kernels, it's extremely easy, and the distribution even provides a mechanism for building kernel debs, if that floats you boat. Personally, I just build the kernels by hand and install them by hand.
Two degrees of separation is not too bad. Regarding the Mercedes and having to break out of it, just Google for it; I remember it happened within the last year or so.
I forgot whether it was Mercedes or BMW that already is using onboard Windows CE in their cars. Anyway, I know someone who knows someone who had a BMW 7 series. They were driving it over the Dumbarton Bridge when suddenly their entire car "shut down"; the driver was unable to control the car or stop it and ended up having the car totalled in the resulting collision.
I also recall reading about a high-end Mercedes car completely shutting down while parked and trapping the user inside; the user was unable to unlock/open the doors or roll down the windows. A passerby ended up having to find something to break the windows open with to let the user out.
Power windows are sketchy enough already; if one drives their vehicle into a body of water, unless it's some sort of amphibious vehicle, the window servos will short out and prevent one from rolling down the windows. Since one cannot roll down the windows, one would not be able to equalize the pressure inside the cabin of the vehicle and thus the user will not be able to get the doors open, at least not until the water finishes seeping through the cracks.
Many of today's automotive trends take control away from the user; perhaps in the case of the in-duh-viduals, these trends will be more beneficial than harmful, but these trends are definitely harmful to the experienced driver. For example, some cars already detect skids and correct the driver's actions by override if the user is making the skid worse. The scariest part is not the loss of control over the car, but the situation of computer failure.
I have a dual P2/333 set up in the student organization room at my campus running GNOME and I've had Mozilla and OpenOffice running together just fine on it.. I'd like to see WinXP run that well on it.
Most people seem to be posting about laptop security, but I wouldn't have that as my primary concern. Don't sit around in front of your computer the first week; go out to parties and form your social webs. Number one piece of advice I can offer is to relax and enjoy the ride. The first week or so was a bit disorienting for me..
As for security, don't leave your laptop unattended when you're not at home. Not that you should do this, but no one ever locks their doors at the dorms I live at; people just walk into the apartments and hang out. The worst that happened over the year was someone's brand-new bike got stolen because it was left outside, unlocked. Some stranger must've passed through and found a bike for the taking.. I had thousands of dollars of equipment on my desk in my room and didn't really worry about it getting stolen. I guess it really depends on what college you go to and what kind of people surround you.
I use dvdrtools (dvdrecord), which works completely perfectly for me. Debian even has dvdrtools in their distribution already. I use it just like cdrecord.
I don't know about you guys, but my pages are already written in XHTML 1.0 and, thanks to CGI.pm, all I need to get my pages up to the XHTML 2.0 spec is a newer version of CGI.pm which would be provided through a newer Perl distribution.
Well pico doesn't seem to advertise it.. nano advertises it right on the front screen as ^_ which seems better than ^W^T.. Need I also mention pico's licensing problems?
cat is the only "one true" text editor, but emacs is the "one true" text-editing, interactive lisp environment. pico is simply the "one true" piece of crap which doesn't even have a "Goto Line" function; use nano instead.
So, what does this mean in terms of shielding from solar radiation? Word is that currently non-ECC RAM can have an occasional bit flipped about once a month or so at sealevel. As technology gets smaller, especially CPUs, will there be new shielding technology developed? Surely there must be something better than lead..
I have a pretty serious lack of outlets in my room.. I live in an apartment with four other people and I have to share my room with two guys; note that my room was originally built as a double, though..There are only two sets of outlets I've noticed, although there might be a third hiding somewhere. The biggest pain is that there are only two RJ-45 ports, so I have to share my internet connection with my switch. I've been burnt by this before as my roommates use Windows and have had virii on their computers that led to the ports I used being turned off and myself left without Internet access..
Anyway, on the subject of power outlets, my desk alone is currently using three power strips (completely full), an extension cord (for my blacklight), and one of those things that screws onto an outlet to provide 6 outlets instead of 2. I haven't really had much problem with accidentally disconnecting hardware.. My only advice is to screw on that thing that provides 6 outlets otherwise you get screwed;) I've accidentally turned off my computer before but that's due to the power cord in the back being loose.. That said, I worry about this problem all the time since one of my roommates is not a very careful person, but he hasn't caused any trouble yet. The living room area with the TV also uses its fair share of power with two power strips completely filled up with adaptors from the four game consoles attached to the TV. I hope that the new apartments my school is building will have a greater complement of power outlets and RJ-45 ports.
Back in 1992, I was able to store all my stuff on a SyQuest 44MB removable cartridge and I was happy. When I had first heard of drives that could actually store a gigabyte, I was amazed and thought that no one would ever really need more than a gigabyte or two for storage. Now my machines have hundreds of gigabytes of storage and even that is not adequate for my storage needs. I had never expected to actually have over 300 gigs of storage in my workstation.
Right now it seems that processors have plateau'd. I somehow doubt a 3GHz P4 is THAT much faster than the average modern machine. Sure a P4 can pump flops like a motherfucker and an Athlon XP can pump integers pretty quickly, but we perceive everything on a logarithmic scale. I recently upgraded my 1GHz AMD Thunderbird (256k L2) to a 1.83GHz Athlon XP 2500+ (512k L2) and I barely notice any boost in speed, besides slightly faster compilation times (I can build a fresh 2.6 kernel in just a little over 6 minutes!) I think that with the advent of smaller transistors and diamonds, computers of the future will be noticeable faster, but I still think it will be a while before we can talk to our computers (definitely at least 30-40 years.)
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Actually, they were selling some sort of "UNIX services" that would run on Linux. What was REALLY lame was that the HP bags that were given out in the lobby of the Moscone center were full of all sorts of crap including some "Oracle Unbreakable Linux" CD and "Microsoft UNIX Services" CD. I think they even had an issue of "Oracle Magazine" (I kid you not) bundled in the bag.
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One fun thing that happened at LinuxWorld was this guy who decided to put up a Penguin Computing poster on Microsoft's booth without them knowing it. He walked over the booth with me behind him as camera-man and talked with the lady there for a while and I, myself, didn't even notice that he had put up the poster! See a close-up and the full metal jacket.
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Perhaps this is what the world will use as weapons after World War III -- modified office supplies rather than sticks and stones as Einstein originally predicted.
What if you happened to have fractured your wrist like I did recently? My typing is much different with my left hand in a short-arm cast now I can say for sure.
There are all sorts of hand injuries that could change your typing style.
Also is it just me or do people make more typos in the morning?
Make sure to have some WD-40 or PB Blaster on hand if the operating system does seize up.
Ugh the last thing one needs is to find a religious nut at a church.. I do agree with the meet more women advice though; go to a bar or something. That's what I would have done, but I'm not 21 yet. Curse this stupid country and its arbitrary, petty drinking laws.
The easiest way is college, but that's just a 4-8yr window, depending on what sort of degree you're getting. Being a second year student at a university, I still hadn't found a girlfriend until just a month ago. I actually met her through thefacebook.com, which is an interesting new social phenomenon altogether.
Don't despair -- there's someone for everybody; the world population is in the billions and there are more women than men. The problem is taking full advantage of this huge search space and not getting too intimidated in the process.
I'm curious as to what potential impact on the ocean wave power may have. I believe there was a /. story recently about how wind power will actually take the kinetic energy out of wind and affect global weather patterns. Surely taking the kinetic energy from the ocean must have some sort of impact on some sort of ecosystem.
Hopefully it won't have any serious negative impact as this technology seems promising.
Quickly skimming through previous discussion, I see people have been talking about experience, which is definitely more important than a degree I would say.
That said, a bachelors is becoming the minimum an employer expects of a potential employee, aside from interns. If you really want to succeed or are interested in computer science, you should look into going to grad school and getting at least a Masters degree; that way you can get your CS bachelors degree wherever and then you can go to a more prestigious grad school.
Kerry conceded the race due to heavy political stress. If you recall last election, the Democrats really shat on their own public image. I believe that Kerry wanted to "save face" this time.
Regardless of Kerry's concession to the public, Kerry could still be appointed president if large enough vote count errors are discovered and the electoral votes go to him.
So far the magnitude of the voting errors is rather alarming; it is also a bit "strange" that most, if not all, the errors are in favor of Bush. The huge asymmetry between the exit polls and alleged actual outcome is also puzzling.
One does not steal an election with a landslide, one steals it with a 3% margin that leaves people thinking "Wow! That was a close one.."
You guys should just use Debian, then you wouldn't have this problem. There's no issue with recompiling kernels, it's extremely easy, and the distribution even provides a mechanism for building kernel debs, if that floats you boat. Personally, I just build the kernels by hand and install them by hand.
Fine, you whiny anonymous coward bitch, this took me 30 seconds of research to find: http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,63846,00 .html
I was wrong, it was a BMW the person was trapped in.
When it comes to primitive sorting algorithms, your time would have been better spent implementing a fibonacci sequence spaced shell sort.
Two degrees of separation is not too bad. Regarding the Mercedes and having to break out of it, just Google for it; I remember it happened within the last year or so.
I forgot whether it was Mercedes or BMW that already is using onboard Windows CE in their cars. Anyway, I know someone who knows someone who had a BMW 7 series. They were driving it over the Dumbarton Bridge when suddenly their entire car "shut down"; the driver was unable to control the car or stop it and ended up having the car totalled in the resulting collision.
I also recall reading about a high-end Mercedes car completely shutting down while parked and trapping the user inside; the user was unable to unlock/open the doors or roll down the windows. A passerby ended up having to find something to break the windows open with to let the user out.
Power windows are sketchy enough already; if one drives their vehicle into a body of water, unless it's some sort of amphibious vehicle, the window servos will short out and prevent one from rolling down the windows. Since one cannot roll down the windows, one would not be able to equalize the pressure inside the cabin of the vehicle and thus the user will not be able to get the doors open, at least not until the water finishes seeping through the cracks.
Many of today's automotive trends take control away from the user; perhaps in the case of the in-duh-viduals, these trends will be more beneficial than harmful, but these trends are definitely harmful to the experienced driver. For example, some cars already detect skids and correct the driver's actions by override if the user is making the skid worse. The scariest part is not the loss of control over the car, but the situation of computer failure.
I have a dual P2/333 set up in the student organization room at my campus running GNOME and I've had Mozilla and OpenOffice running together just fine on it.. I'd like to see WinXP run that well on it.
Most people seem to be posting about laptop security, but I wouldn't have that as my primary concern. Don't sit around in front of your computer the first week; go out to parties and form your social webs. Number one piece of advice I can offer is to relax and enjoy the ride. The first week or so was a bit disorienting for me..
As for security, don't leave your laptop unattended when you're not at home. Not that you should do this, but no one ever locks their doors at the dorms I live at; people just walk into the apartments and hang out. The worst that happened over the year was someone's brand-new bike got stolen because it was left outside, unlocked. Some stranger must've passed through and found a bike for the taking.. I had thousands of dollars of equipment on my desk in my room and didn't really worry about it getting stolen. I guess it really depends on what college you go to and what kind of people surround you.
I don't know about you guys, but my pages are already written in XHTML 1.0 and, thanks to CGI.pm, all I need to get my pages up to the XHTML 2.0 spec is a newer version of CGI.pm which would be provided through a newer Perl distribution.
Ah portability..
Well pico doesn't seem to advertise it.. nano advertises it right on the front screen as ^_ which seems better than ^W^T .. Need I also mention pico's licensing problems?
cat is the only "one true" text editor, but emacs is the "one true" text-editing, interactive lisp environment. pico is simply the "one true" piece of crap which doesn't even have a "Goto Line" function; use nano instead.
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So, what does this mean in terms of shielding from solar radiation? Word is that currently non-ECC RAM can have an occasional bit flipped about once a month or so at sealevel. As technology gets smaller, especially CPUs, will there be new shielding technology developed? Surely there must be something better than lead..
I have a pretty serious lack of outlets in my room.. I live in an apartment with four other people and I have to share my room with two guys; note that my room was originally built as a double, though..There are only two sets of outlets I've noticed, although there might be a third hiding somewhere. The biggest pain is that there are only two RJ-45 ports, so I have to share my internet connection with my switch. I've been burnt by this before as my roommates use Windows and have had virii on their computers that led to the ports I used being turned off and myself left without Internet access..
;) I've accidentally turned off my computer before but that's due to the power cord in the back being loose.. That said, I worry about this problem all the time since one of my roommates is not a very careful person, but he hasn't caused any trouble yet. The living room area with the TV also uses its fair share of power with two power strips completely filled up with adaptors from the four game consoles attached to the TV. I hope that the new apartments my school is building will have a greater complement of power outlets and RJ-45 ports.
Anyway, on the subject of power outlets, my desk alone is currently using three power strips (completely full), an extension cord (for my blacklight), and one of those things that screws onto an outlet to provide 6 outlets instead of 2. I haven't really had much problem with accidentally disconnecting hardware.. My only advice is to screw on that thing that provides 6 outlets otherwise you get screwed
Back in 1992, I was able to store all my stuff on a SyQuest 44MB removable cartridge and I was happy. When I had first heard of drives that could actually store a gigabyte, I was amazed and thought that no one would ever really need more than a gigabyte or two for storage. Now my machines have hundreds of gigabytes of storage and even that is not adequate for my storage needs. I had never expected to actually have over 300 gigs of storage in my workstation.
Right now it seems that processors have plateau'd. I somehow doubt a 3GHz P4 is THAT much faster than the average modern machine. Sure a P4 can pump flops like a motherfucker and an Athlon XP can pump integers pretty quickly, but we perceive everything on a logarithmic scale. I recently upgraded my 1GHz AMD Thunderbird (256k L2) to a 1.83GHz Athlon XP 2500+ (512k L2) and I barely notice any boost in speed, besides slightly faster compilation times (I can build a fresh 2.6 kernel in just a little over 6 minutes!) I think that with the advent of smaller transistors and diamonds, computers of the future will be noticeable faster, but I still think it will be a while before we can talk to our computers (definitely at least 30-40 years.)
Actually, they were selling some sort of "UNIX services" that would run on Linux. What was REALLY lame was that the HP bags that were given out in the lobby of the Moscone center were full of all sorts of crap including some "Oracle Unbreakable Linux" CD and "Microsoft UNIX Services" CD. I think they even had an issue of "Oracle Magazine" (I kid you not) bundled in the bag.
One fun thing that happened at LinuxWorld was this guy who decided to put up a Penguin Computing poster on Microsoft's booth without them knowing it. He walked over the booth with me behind him as camera-man and talked with the lady there for a while and I, myself, didn't even notice that he had put up the poster! See a close-up and the full metal jacket.
This sounds somewhat like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but with strippers..