Videos are usually eventually made available of the HOPE conferences. The H2K2 VCDs, for example, are finally available, and MP3 files are available for free from our website. If you're interested in spending your time typing up transcripts and making them available, we won't stop you.
But you're right: our priority is on folks who are physically present. They are, after all, the ones who make the conferences happen. (And, they get to have the most fun.)
The point is not that PowerPoint qua software is bad, and that we should seek clones of it to do the same job. Rather, the point is that PowerPoint-style presentations are (usually) stupid and stupifying, regardless of the software used to create them. Do the places in which you give lectures have a whiteboard? Or select some other means of giving a convincing presentation.
You canif you're willing to take 1.5 times as long as Greyhound. And that's the scheduled time; Amtrak has not once ever been on time anywhere but Boston-New York-Washington (and even there, it's pretty unlikely).
I've taken a number of standardized tests where you're supposed to write ("DO NOT PRINT") the silly do-not-cheat paragraph. I've always printed (but still not cheated) and nothing bad has yet happened to me as a result.
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Studies show the obvious: when you build more roads, more people drive. This causes more traffic, not less.
here's some stuff I did up when evaluating POS systems for a food coop. The information therein may or may not be useful or up-to-date. My conclusion was basically that L'ÃnePOS is probably the best option available right now.
The poster suggests creation of a group of women who are already interested in CS.
CS is not the same as IT.
Natural-science and engineering fields (a category which for some reason includes CS and math, despite the fact that neither is more "concrete" than philosophy) tend to be male-dominated environments, often to (and past) the point of creating an uncomfortable environment for other folks, even when such folks might otherwise be interested in the subject at hand.
Related, some people in our society are socialized in a way that rewards being good at math and math-like things. Some are not.
Often, people of different genders perceive the world generally. To answer your question directly: if we have more people of different genders (and other sorts of different backgrounds), they are likely to be able to bring different experiences and analyses to the field. This creates a richer environment for all. example
The smarter and more accurate the military technology, the fewer unintended deaths.
I suppose that's possible, but I am opposed to many deaths which the military fully intends.
More to the point: if the military and its controllers believe they can wage war without harming "Westerners", then it is more likely to do so. But I am opposed to harming people, even if by accident of birth, they were born somewhere else. So an "effective" military is not in my interest.
Start at 10^100 and count down using this algorythm, and youll find it in P time instead of NP time. It'll still take forever, literally and figuratively, but wouldn't it take significantly less time than before?
Ah, no. First, note that a 2^1024-big number has more than 300 decimal digits, and so a 2^512-big number has more than 150. Then, even if primality testing took only 1 operation, we'd still need to perform something like 2^511 operations by your method. At 10^24 (one trillion trillion; unfathomably many) operations per second, this'd *still* stake 10^112 times longer than the estimated lifetime of the universe (1.5*10^10 yrs) to complete!
There are, however, faster ways of factorization than testing all the numbers in (1..sqrt(N)) to see if they are factors of N. They are not noted in (or relevant to) the paper mentioned by this article.
[nb: See other comments for why this is, in *practical* use, not such a big improvement on Miller-Rabin and other randomized methods which have been known for decades.]
I also like this software, even enough that it's possibly the only piece of commercial software I own and use (they have a Linux port, as well as port to many other Unices). Definitely worth the $99 student price.
It's the only editor I could find that properly supports HTML/PHP as nicely as MSVC++ supports C++ (pop-up function help and other goodies). I also use it for Java, occasionally for C. When I had the misfortune of having to use Cold Fusion for a class once, it supported that too.
Take off your readability hat and put on your psychology hat. What are people thinking when they click "I agree"? Are they illiterate? Naive? Stupid?
They're not stupid. They're trusting. It's actually quite similar behavior to sick people....
I disagree with that analysis. Sure, maybe some people are really stupid, and a few are still naïve enough to believe that corporations really are interested in writing licenses that benefit both sides. But the reason that I don't read EULAs (or most other things I sign) is that there's no point in wasting my time. I can't negotiate with the company if there's a term in the EULA I don't like. Either I accept the license, or I don't get the product or service they're offering.
Take a real-world contract I just signed, for next year's housing at my school. Now, the way it works here is that you go into a room and pick the housing you want, then take a card over to a couple people with computers who will print out a contract for you to sign, and hand you a 6-page booklet of terms and conditions. Now, I happen to have looked through that booklet a while ago, so I knew there was a clause (clause X) I don't like:
The University reserves the right to enter an assigned space for reasons of health, safety, or emergency; for the purpose of insuring compliance with these
Terms and Conditions of Residence; for inventory; and for making necessary repairs.
So, I asked the guy if I could amend the booklet to strike that clause. Of course, I couldn't. So my only alternative would be to not sign the contract and then try and find an apartment in New York for $700/month.
What did I gain from reading the contract? Absolutely nothing, just knowing that I'm screwed. I'm screwed whether I know it or not, so why shouldn't I just save my time and not read the contract? It was a nice day---I'd rather be outside than wading through a 6-page booklet of legal mumbo jumbo that I can't change.
I'm totally making this up, as I haven't done any Windows development in about 1.5yrs, but you might try looking at ActiveState's Perl COM stuff. I did use it for something, but don't recall if it worked well or not.
If it works well, then you can read MS docs to figure out what kind of COM interfaces are exposed by Exchange, and work from there.
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But you're right: our priority is on folks who are physically present. They are, after all, the ones who make the conferences happen. (And, they get to have the most fun.)
Well, the US military is a group of terrorists, and it uses Linux, so it seems that this is the one thing that Darl got right. Hm.
You can use dia for all kinds of things.
Frankly, it seems like a waste of time, but what do I know?
If you don't eat meat, then you can't get mad cow, and don't have to worry about recalls and associated privacy violations.
I once worked with some Java code written by Germans. The code won't compile if your locale is C, because they use a few umlauts. What fun, what fun!
Hi Matt...
Prof. Rugg has a website about his methods and results, which may be of interest.
The point is not that PowerPoint qua software is bad, and that we should seek clones of it to do the same job. Rather, the point is that PowerPoint-style presentations are (usually) stupid and stupifying, regardless of the software used to create them. Do the places in which you give lectures have a whiteboard? Or select some other means of giving a convincing presentation.
You canif you're willing to take 1.5 times as long as Greyhound. And that's the scheduled time; Amtrak has not once ever been on time anywhere but Boston-New York-Washington (and even there, it's pretty unlikely).
We at 2600 actually called the White House and did a bit of resource. The article detailing our findings is online.
I've taken a number of standardized tests where you're supposed to write ("DO NOT PRINT") the silly do-not-cheat paragraph. I've always printed (but still not cheated) and nothing bad has yet happened to me as a result.
Studies show the obvious: when you build more roads, more people drive. This causes more traffic, not less.
here's some stuff I did up when evaluating POS systems for a food coop. The information therein may or may not be useful or up-to-date. My conclusion was basically that L'ÃnePOS is probably the best option available right now.
The poster suggests creation of a group of women who are already interested in CS.
CS is not the same as IT.
Natural-science and engineering fields (a category which for some reason includes CS and math, despite the fact that neither is more "concrete" than philosophy) tend to be male-dominated environments, often to (and past) the point of creating an uncomfortable environment for other folks, even when such folks might otherwise be interested in the subject at hand.
Related, some people in our society are socialized in a way that rewards being good at math and math-like things. Some are not.
Often, people of different genders perceive the world generally. To answer your question directly: if we have more people of different genders (and other sorts of different backgrounds), they are likely to be able to bring different experiences and analyses to the field. This creates a richer environment for all. example
hm, interesting.
The original letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is online.
More to the point: if the military and its controllers believe they can wage war without harming "Westerners", then it is more likely to do so. But I am opposed to harming people, even if by accident of birth, they were born somewhere else. So an "effective" military is not in my interest.
Ah, no. First, note that a 2^1024-big number has more than 300 decimal digits, and so a 2^512-big number has more than 150. Then, even if primality testing took only 1 operation, we'd still need to perform something like 2^511 operations by your method. At 10^24 (one trillion trillion; unfathomably many) operations per second, this'd *still* stake 10^112 times longer than the estimated lifetime of the universe (1.5*10^10 yrs) to complete!
There are, however, faster ways of factorization than testing all the numbers in (1..sqrt(N)) to see if they are factors of N. They are not noted in (or relevant to) the paper mentioned by this article.
[nb: See other comments for why this is, in *practical* use, not such a big improvement on Miller-Rabin and other randomized methods which have been known for decades.]
It's the only editor I could find that properly supports HTML/PHP as nicely as MSVC++ supports C++ (pop-up function help and other goodies). I also use it for Java, occasionally for C. When I had the misfortune of having to use Cold Fusion for a class once, it supported that too.
See the CAW logo license and then my homepage.
Take a real-world contract I just signed, for next year's housing at my school. Now, the way it works here is that you go into a room and pick the housing you want, then take a card over to a couple people with computers who will print out a contract for you to sign, and hand you a 6-page booklet of terms and conditions. Now, I happen to have looked through that booklet a while ago, so I knew there was a clause (clause X) I don't like:
So, I asked the guy if I could amend the booklet to strike that clause. Of course, I couldn't. So my only alternative would be to not sign the contract and then try and find an apartment in New York for $700/month.What did I gain from reading the contract? Absolutely nothing, just knowing that I'm screwed. I'm screwed whether I know it or not, so why shouldn't I just save my time and not read the contract? It was a nice day---I'd rather be outside than wading through a 6-page booklet of legal mumbo jumbo that I can't change.
If it works well, then you can read MS docs to figure out what kind of COM interfaces are exposed by Exchange, and work from there.