Hell yeah. Greg Egan does my head in each and every time. Admittedly he does occassionally go off the rails with the maths and physics, but I kinda like that. The thing that amazes me with Egan is that for an author he really does understand his stuff. He publishes on physics, including all the mindboggling mega dimensional super flipout brainfuck stuff. His website (sorry no URL, google it) has all sortsa homespun java apps to illustrate the math in his books.
For a real bender, try Permutation city where he posits a cellular automata simulation that kinda busts off into it's own reality due to the internal self sufficiency of it's math (yes I'm sure he's aware of philosophical-mathematical objections to this notion). It's a brainwarp of a book.
Theres an interesting parallel to that one. In Australia, there is the Fosters brand , which only tourists drink, as it's generally accepted to be shiet. There is also the much loved 'crown' brand.
Recently the glassie at my local bar told me that they where the same beer. I didn't believe him, so he did a test. He poured me a crownie and a fosters, and got me to blind compare them. I could not tell the difference. The moral here is that taste is *socially constructed*. That is in non sociology talk, we base our likes and perceptions on the social environment that we are exposed to. It's a wierd thing.
No postgres apt's into place pretty nicely (woody). I must admit being a little befuddled working it out at first (just the security settings) but the everlovin' webmin (apt-get install webmin-postgres) seemed to magic it all good. None the less, for web stuff we still usually float with My-sql as dreamweaver-mx now copes with it natively (keeps art-troggs happy). Heads up to Macromedia here, ppl actually DO use postgres.
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I think one of the amazing things about being an Adult is that at school, I remember hating math and the like. Nowdays I really find it interesting. Peg me a geek perhaps, but I actually find it interesting. In school , pot & females sorta distracted from it all, but yeah, being able to confound the boss with some whacked out equasion does have it's bonuses, and sure, knowing *how* to figure out whether to unroll that loop is a handy thing.
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I'm gonna make a bold claim with the electronics bit, but it's kinda.... easy. I do think it should be taught, though. I'd never really played with electronics much until a recent embeded project at work and the EE's from the lab came in and started drilling me on , like , what sorta DAC's we'd be using and the like. Out came the books. The thing that struck me was how easy it was to schematify a little circuit up (ignoring ugly stuff like, oh say resistors and the like!) that I could give to the EE's to make into real toys. But that's because back in the day we actually learned how this stuff fits together. Really, if one can understand the finer points of stack tuning then figuring out that one needs to provide a latch to a parallel thinger is not too hard. real CS rocks, and amazingly once or twice in a career it actually gets used.
Just imagine the hullabaloo to be had here when the Feds require all TVs to ship with WinCE and/or MSN...
Or Even CANCER! OR BOMBS! That'd be pretty contraversial too! And like the previous sugestion, completely beside the point.
I imagine that given time the "3.1 shareware" look thing will be less and less of a problem. I discovered pretty early on theat Delphi had (A)Shite loads (@ the torry.net site) of pretty widgets and the like for fairly tightly themed apps, and that a bit of creativity goes a long way. Things like using 'clickable' images for buttons (like one does with a web page) and taking advantage of things like the 'speed' buttons and the like. The widget objects tend to expose a lot of tweakability. Give Kylix time.
I fked up and didn't come. I'm into next time. email me @ shayne[mandatoryspamblock]@guild.murdoch.edu[mores pamproof].au for plans whatever. Sorry guys. I did mess up.
I've seen it when traffic lights go dead mid-city, and the amazing thing is that no one gets mashed. Cars still behave and the like cause people stop being compliant and start being courteous. It's a lovely thing.
nononono. I ofcourse presume that they removed the nag-like GPL screens of compiled apps generated from Kylix 1 in ver2? Did they? Borland *treats* the GPL as if its a second class of software. Principally the free-clx libraries are highly crippled compared to the non-free library... Implication.. Shareware.
Actually it's been available for some time.... I have the installer for it around somewhere, but I'm yet to fiddle with it yet for want of time. If it's anything like V1, it may have many of the wonderful library objects of the full version missing.... Sometimes I think that borland confuses free software for shareware.. *sigh* It's a shame though as Delphi/Kylix truely is a joyous language to program in.
Oh piss off you abusive wanker. Theres no point in abusing someone just because you don't agree. Maybe when you graduate from high school you'll learn that. Remember kidstuff that that sort of language in the real world will likely get your nose punched in. Fuck off.
I hear you there. After blowing 30$ on download costs snarfing the ISO I was quite anoyed to find it is purely a chinese distro... what did I expect I guessss....
Although I've been using debian in the workplace for a while , my experience of Mandrake has been stunning. It's a reeealy good looking distro , and my own mother can use the damn thing on her machine. I honestly believe that if mandrake ever lost the stupid rpm nonsense and moved across to.deb (apt-get debian stuff) heaven then in my opinion the distro wars would be over. Until then it's debian for mission critical things and mandrake for fun stuff for me.
Re:take this in the spirit it is written in
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If this is true dude, thats some real sad shit.
There are a lot of things that can 'hook' people tho. I've seen grown men turn into hermits by CIV.And IRC can sure do it too.
..Well.. The ssid is like an ID name for a network, sorta like a domain or something, the bandwidth is exactly what it implies it is, and the little half circles mean open network (closed circle means closed network.. encrypted perhaps?) And of course the 802 jazz is all wireless networking. I gather that the gig is , one sees the sign and knows a public or misconfigured(therefore public) lan is available to hook to.
Grow the sucker!...... Genetic algorithm esoterica my friend.
It's my understanding (and granted I havent looked at the Neural Networking universe for years) that the initial layer configuration problems are pretty muched unresolved or... *gasp*... perhaps even uncomputable.
Look at GA techniques. come up with some good fitness criteria, and then ask your self *why?* would you want to drive your pc with a neural net. (When a simple statistical method may do it so much better , not withstanding that neural nets tend towards 'normal' anyway).
-Yes. But despite that, the breadth of etc's *multiple* points of failure mean that factually there is a higher probability for a gooned bootup.
Contemplate.... Manually edit a passwd file & blow the first line... OoopS no root login , again, ever. Punk out inittab... no start up services. fstab.. your nfs kernel modules go awol..
ever seen what happens when you make a passwd file to big on an axis uclinux+jffs box? passwd file dies as fs mysteriously grows terrabytes in size.. No boot. thow away embeded box...
I could go on. I agree that the registery is a highly nukeable thing, but it's singular.
Re:haha, LOFL!
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As opposed to multiple points of failure? There are a good many nukable files in/etc that'll cause linux to bork at bootup.
That said one can get in via alternate methods and fix, but what a horror. One should back that etc dir regularly btw, windows does it automatically "Last good configuration". Woohoo.
Of course windowss still sucks;)
Re:Wolfram's new book and my thoughts on reality
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Read Greg Egan's Distress. That's the basic concept (kinda)
I suspect what you'd find is that any judge can probably make a ruling on how he or she sees the constitution to apply, but the ruling is only as valid as a higher court allows it to be. I think however that (it's generally the case in Australia and its a semi simmilar legal system) only the highest courts (In Aust the High court, and in US the Supreme court) can actually beat up a law or whatever based on the constitutional gig.
Actually GL is indeed a proprietry "standard", but it's generally treated , and to a degree allowed to behave as a standard. Of course DirectX is not a standard if only one platform supports it.
Social control is generally considered a primo feature of conservatism. Although in fairness US modern conservatism is probably better considered post-liberal conservatism. Not that
"post-liberal" would make sense to a lot of americans as the US has never really used the word liberal correctly anyway.
It does amuse me US conservative rhetoric about liberals into social control since the old theorisers of liberalism tended to emphasise minimal govt. The US constitution is probably one of the best examples of early liberal thinking, but to a lot of ppl in the US thats an unthinkable blashphemy to say that. It's probably more because the US conservatives have turned it into a term of abuse and (wierdly) lumped it in with that other conservative boogey monster , socialism of which liberalism generally shares no common features.
Yeah but said program dont know what ['tip','handle','middle'] is then the program rolls over and says ['fuck','knows?'].
End of dialogue. Seriously , what is wrong with a computer admitting defeat? If it cant talk then it follows the entire history of modern computing and raises an error. It worked before, why is it now a problem?
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Hell yeah. Greg Egan does my head in each and every time. Admittedly he does occassionally go off the rails with the maths and physics, but I kinda like that. The thing that amazes me with Egan is that for an author he really does understand his stuff. He publishes on physics, including all the mindboggling mega dimensional super flipout brainfuck stuff. His website (sorry no URL, google it) has all sortsa homespun java apps to illustrate the math in his books.
For a real bender, try Permutation city where he posits a cellular automata simulation that kinda busts off into it's own reality due to the internal self sufficiency of it's math (yes I'm sure he's aware of philosophical-mathematical objections to this notion). It's a brainwarp of a book.
Theres an interesting parallel to that one. In Australia, there is the Fosters brand , which only tourists drink, as it's generally accepted to be shiet. There is also the much loved 'crown' brand.
Recently the glassie at my local bar told me that they where the same beer. I didn't believe him, so he did a test. He poured me a crownie and a fosters, and got me to blind compare them. I could not tell the difference. The moral here is that taste is *socially constructed*. That is in non sociology talk, we base our likes and perceptions on the social environment that we are exposed to. It's a wierd thing.
No postgres apt's into place pretty nicely (woody). I must admit being a little befuddled working it out at first (just the security settings) but the everlovin' webmin (apt-get install webmin-postgres) seemed to magic it all good. None the less, for web stuff we still usually float with My-sql as dreamweaver-mx now copes with it natively (keeps art-troggs happy). Heads up to Macromedia here, ppl actually DO use postgres.
I think one of the amazing things about being an Adult is that at school, I remember hating math and the like. Nowdays I really find it interesting. Peg me a geek perhaps, but I actually find it interesting. In school , pot & females sorta distracted from it all, but yeah, being able to confound the boss with some whacked out equasion does have it's bonuses, and sure, knowing *how* to figure out whether to unroll that loop is a handy thing.
I'm gonna make a bold claim with the electronics bit, but it's kinda.... easy. I do think it should be taught, though. I'd never really played with electronics much until a recent embeded project at work and the EE's from the lab came in and started drilling me on , like , what sorta DAC's we'd be using and the like. Out came the books. The thing that struck me was how easy it was to schematify a little circuit up (ignoring ugly stuff like, oh say resistors and the like!) that I could give to the EE's to make into real toys. But that's because back in the day we actually learned how this stuff fits together. Really, if one can understand the finer points of stack tuning then figuring out that one needs to provide a latch to a parallel thinger is not too hard. real CS rocks, and amazingly once or twice in a career it actually gets used.
Just imagine the hullabaloo to be had here when the Feds require all TVs to ship with WinCE and/or MSN ...
Or Even CANCER! OR BOMBS! That'd be pretty contraversial too! And like the previous sugestion, completely beside the point.
I imagine that given time the "3.1 shareware" look thing will be less and less of a problem. I discovered pretty early on theat Delphi had (A)Shite loads (@ the torry.net site) of pretty widgets and the like for fairly tightly themed apps, and that a bit of creativity goes a long way. Things like using 'clickable' images for buttons (like one does with a web page) and taking advantage of things like the 'speed' buttons and the like. The widget objects tend to expose a lot of tweakability. Give Kylix time.
I fked up and didn't come. I'm into next time. email me @ shayne[mandatoryspamblock]@guild.murdoch.edu[mores pamproof].au for plans whatever.
Sorry guys. I did mess up.
I've seen it when traffic lights go dead mid-city, and the amazing thing is that no one gets mashed. Cars still behave and the like cause people stop being compliant and start being courteous. It's a lovely thing.
nononono. I ofcourse presume that they removed the nag-like GPL screens of compiled apps generated from Kylix 1 in ver2? Did they? Borland *treats* the GPL as if its a second class of software. Principally the free-clx libraries are highly crippled compared to the non-free library... Implication.. Shareware.
Actually it's been available for some time....
I have the installer for it around somewhere, but I'm yet to fiddle with it yet for want of time. If it's anything like V1, it may have many of the wonderful library objects of the full version missing.... Sometimes I think that borland confuses free software for shareware.. *sigh* It's a shame though as Delphi/Kylix truely is a joyous language to program in.
Oh piss off you abusive wanker. Theres no point in abusing someone just because you don't agree. Maybe when you graduate from high school you'll learn that. Remember kidstuff that that sort of language in the real world will likely get your nose punched in.
Fuck off.
No doubts , but I couldn't get past the installer. I just didn't understand the heiroglyphics. Maybe it's about time I learned some chinese ,I guess.
I hear you there. After blowing 30$ on download costs snarfing the ISO I was quite anoyed to find it is purely a chinese distro... what did I expect I guessss....
Although I've been using debian in the workplace for a while , my experience of Mandrake has been stunning. It's a reeealy good looking distro , and my own mother can use the damn thing on her machine. I honestly believe that if mandrake ever lost the stupid rpm nonsense and moved across to .deb (apt-get debian stuff) heaven then in my opinion the distro wars would be over. Until then it's debian for mission critical things and mandrake for fun stuff for me.
If this is true dude, thats some real sad shit.
There are a lot of things that can 'hook' people tho. I've seen grown men turn into hermits by CIV.And IRC can sure do it too.
Either way. Sad sad sad.
What is that supposed to mean?
..Well.. The ssid is like an ID name for a network, sorta like a domain or something, the bandwidth is exactly what it implies it is, and the little half circles mean open network (closed circle means closed network.. encrypted perhaps?)
And of course the 802 jazz is all wireless networking. I gather that the gig is , one sees the sign and knows a public or misconfigured(therefore public) lan is available to hook to.
I think.
Initial design?
... *gasp*... perhaps even uncomputable.
Grow the sucker!...... Genetic algorithm esoterica my friend.
It's my understanding (and granted I havent looked at the Neural Networking universe for years) that the initial layer configuration problems are pretty muched unresolved or
Look at GA techniques. come up with some good fitness criteria, and then ask your self *why?* would you want to drive your pc with a neural net. (When a simple statistical method may do it so much better , not withstanding that neural nets tend towards 'normal' anyway).
-Yes. But despite that, the breadth of etc's *multiple* points of failure mean that factually there is a higher probability for a gooned bootup.
... no start up services. .. your nfs kernel modules go awol..
Contemplate.... Manually edit a passwd file & blow the first line... OoopS no root login , again, ever.
Punk out inittab
fstab
ever seen what happens when you make a passwd file to big on an axis uclinux+jffs box? passwd file dies as fs mysteriously grows terrabytes in size.. No boot. thow away embeded box...
I could go on. I agree that the registery is a highly nukeable thing, but it's singular.
As opposed to multiple points of failure? There are a good many nukable files in /etc that'll cause linux to bork at bootup.
;)
That said one can get in via alternate methods and fix, but what a horror. One should back that etc dir regularly btw, windows does it automatically "Last good configuration". Woohoo.
Of course windowss still sucks
Read Greg Egan's Distress. That's the basic concept (kinda)
I'm also not an american :)
I suspect what you'd find is that any judge can probably make a ruling on how he or she sees the constitution to apply, but the ruling is only as valid as a higher court allows it to be. I think however that (it's generally the case in Australia and its a semi simmilar legal system) only the highest courts (In Aust the High court, and in US the Supreme court) can actually beat up a law or whatever based on the constitutional gig.
Actually GL is indeed a proprietry "standard", but it's generally treated , and to a degree allowed to behave as a standard. Of course DirectX is not a standard if only one platform supports it.
Social control is generally considered a primo feature of conservatism. Although in fairness US modern conservatism is probably better considered post-liberal conservatism. Not that
"post-liberal" would make sense to a lot of americans as the US has never really used the word liberal correctly anyway.
It does amuse me US conservative rhetoric about liberals into social control since the old theorisers of liberalism tended to emphasise minimal govt. The US constitution is probably one of the best examples of early liberal thinking, but to a lot of ppl in the US thats an unthinkable blashphemy to say that. It's probably more because the US conservatives have turned it into a term of abuse and (wierdly) lumped it in with that other conservative boogey monster , socialism of which liberalism generally shares no common features.
Yeah but said program dont know what ['tip','handle','middle'] is then the program rolls over and says ['fuck','knows?'].
End of dialogue. Seriously , what is wrong with a computer admitting defeat? If it cant talk then it follows the entire history of modern computing and raises an error. It worked before, why is it now a problem?