... who always thinks RSA is South Africa at first? It really had me for a minute with the "watering hole" thing. First thing I think of is a muddy pond surrounded by hyenas and giraffes and such...
Not to sound like a total douche but I try to drive as efficiently as possible. At first it was a personal finance issue since I noticed that driving efficiently saved me considerably over the course of a year. Now that I make decent money it's less about that and more that I don't have any particular reason to be wasteful. And since I'm not trying to impress anyone out there and not driving 500 miles a day, frankly I'd rather give as little money to oil companies and car makers as is humanly possible. If the app was on Android I would probably have already pre-ordered one...
So I'm a nerd who works in a chair all day, but I also weight train at least 3 times a week and run competitive times in everything from 5Ks to half-marathons, AND I used to weight about 320lbs (I weigh around 160 now). The trick? I treat it like I do everything else I love to do: I think of my workouts as ways to fix, tinker, and improve (dare I say, hack?) my body. It's easy to think of our computers (or whatever we work with daily) as important extensions of our physical selves, but we seem to do this to the detriment of our actual bodies. I wouldn't let one of my systems limp along with broken hardware/software and have spent hours or days fixing problems, so why shouldn't I commit half an hour a day (to begin with) to my own physical upkeep? It turns out that although it was a seemingly IMPOSSIBLE struggle at the onset, after several weeks I began to really genuinely enjoy it! Running in particular got me hooked because it's the sort of thing you can keep working on, and continue improving, without ever feeling like you're stagnating if you do it right. It seems to me that anyone with the typical geek mentality could easily change their mindset to feel the same way.
Of course, it's just my experience, and therefore anecdotal at best, but still my 2 cents.
There is a bigger issue here, though. If we assume that people can create communities online, and that we should take this as evidence of a "space" for these avatars, then how does morality work in such a space? How about governance? Laws? Would/should these concepts apply only in the space itself?
Currently, there is no effective governing body within "cyberspace" (cringe) that acts solely within that same space. Instead, the assumption is made that there exists a mapping of the members of the "online community", the avatars, back to human people in the real world, and we attempt to govern the human people accordingly. The problems with this are many, this site seems to exist to list them. As just one of the many examples, what if behavior is legal in the person's place of residence, but is perpetrated against someone in whose country it would be illegal? Should there be an International Court of Cyberspace? What about crimes perpetrated by online "beings" outside of control of people in the real world? The behavior of viruses of even just buggy software that are unintentional?
If we want to go ahead and say that cyberspace is real, then shouldn't we be able to define a governing body whose jurisdiction is online and who punishes/reforms avatars? This seems absurd if for no other reason than that any mapping from people to avatars is not injective. Although it is amusing to imagine the CyperPolice putting my Slashdot avatar in CyberPrison until I learn to shape up.
It is this very absurdity that makes me want to agree that the notion of some sort of online "space" is just simply invalid. It seems that any definition of space, in as far as it should apply to people and governance, needs to include the ability to meaningfully govern within the space itself. A corn field is a space, because the governance of a community of people within that space can enact laws with repercussions within that space.
And perhaps that example sums it up. Avatars are not people, they are not really much of anything other than a sequence of electrical impulses and magnetic fields, and even then only by a system of assignment, and so cannot be governed as avatars. Because of this, there can be no cyberspace in this sense.
Decent list but if you ask me Ultima (choose almost any of the first 4) should be tacked on. Not only did I waste many hours of my youth playing those games, but they were one of the big reasons I gained any interest in computers at all. Just my two cents though.
If you have communicated your concerns to your superiors then your obligation is filled and you don't have to worry about it.
That said, if you are still worried for some reason then you should either find a way to express the problem to your superiors' superiors (if they have any) or possibly anonymously report it to the clients themselves (if you won't be endangering yourself in the process).
Hmmm, not so sure if I like the sounds of this. I broke an iPod by dropping it about 4 feet, I can only imagine how one will fare after plummeting 30,000...
I might be (read: am mostly) retarded but I never thought of using a graphics processor for anything else, but with the super cards around the corner it makes sense that some normal processing jobs could be farmed out to the GPU when its not being occupied with graphics duties. Does anyone know where I can find some extra info on this, or to what extent this is being implemented? My curiosity is piqued!
I'm not in this field (mathematician, no fancy equipment required) but I am curious, why do these things have to be so large in the first place. Anyone in the know point me to a good explanation of how these work? My curiosity is piqued. A quick google search didn't return much for me.
To answer this very loosely, parts of these functions are bounded by geodesics with cusps at the corners, and this means that any geodesic structure of this type (certain types of chemical structures and a slew of phenomena in relativistic physics) can be partly described by those pieces of these functions and that it is possible that these functions represent a certain type of generalization for these structures, allowing scientists to better describe some existing structures with similar modular forms and even some that exist only in thought.
The mock theta functions are special functions that describe of host of phenomena, the most interesting of which is probably its relation to modular forms. There has been a great deal of controversy as to how these functions should actually be defined in the abstract sense and for the most part any serious attempts at figuring them out have involved using nothing more than the functions that Ramanujan himself wrote down in a notebook right before he died. It will probably be some time before this "solution" appears in a final, published form so don't get your hopes up unless you have connections to number theorists close to the activity. If you are at a university you can look up scads of articles on the topic from JStor, or just browse the bounded periodicals in the library.
This is cool and all, but the real kicker will be if Peter Sarnak from Princeton proves the Riemann Hypothesis (rumor has it he is on the way to doing so).
I was thinking the same thing but then I thought, "What is there to say about this?" The answer appears to be nothing unless, like you, the reader has some relevant personal experience.
Web applet security is certainly an important matter, just not one that stirs up a great deal of controversy.
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Sorry bout the AC before, its a reflex. The idea of a wormhole is an interesting one and if you really want to know more feel free to email me at jacob@mail.hartord.edu with your questions.
Its about time. The only reason i have a winblows partition is to play DVDs. If the linux DVD project picks it up i'll be formatting some hard drive space.
til magnetic hard drives are moved out of the market. There is still much research to be done before new types can even start to be available to consumers. Then, the first 2 or more years they will be buggy and extremely expensive. After enough people start buying them and they drop in price, there will most likely be a huge surge in development for a better way to make these hard drives and the ones that all the people bought will be obsolete. Then after about 7-10 years or more they will become common place in the market. The thing is that this isnt new news at all, computer hardware and software have and will continually replace itself with newer and "better" versions of itself. Chances are that the system you run now wont even have the opportunity to try to run one of the new types of hard drives that will be made available and even if it could, it would be too slow to handle them. So in conclusion, you have to roll with the market and upgrade as you see fit. Unless you have an interest in design, don't worry yourself about products that wont be available for many years.
Please, whoever wrote this request for advice please use BeOS!! BeOS was made to handle massive media files for editing and makes the best use of your hardware for just this purpose. So do yourself a favor and dump the other OS's out and go with BeOS.
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... who always thinks RSA is South Africa at first? It really had me for a minute with the "watering hole" thing. First thing I think of is a muddy pond surrounded by hyenas and giraffes and such...
Not to sound like a total douche but I try to drive as efficiently as possible. At first it was a personal finance issue since I noticed that driving efficiently saved me considerably over the course of a year. Now that I make decent money it's less about that and more that I don't have any particular reason to be wasteful. And since I'm not trying to impress anyone out there and not driving 500 miles a day, frankly I'd rather give as little money to oil companies and car makers as is humanly possible. If the app was on Android I would probably have already pre-ordered one...
So I'm a nerd who works in a chair all day, but I also weight train at least 3 times a week and run competitive times in everything from 5Ks to half-marathons, AND I used to weight about 320lbs (I weigh around 160 now). The trick? I treat it like I do everything else I love to do: I think of my workouts as ways to fix, tinker, and improve (dare I say, hack?) my body. It's easy to think of our computers (or whatever we work with daily) as important extensions of our physical selves, but we seem to do this to the detriment of our actual bodies. I wouldn't let one of my systems limp along with broken hardware/software and have spent hours or days fixing problems, so why shouldn't I commit half an hour a day (to begin with) to my own physical upkeep? It turns out that although it was a seemingly IMPOSSIBLE struggle at the onset, after several weeks I began to really genuinely enjoy it! Running in particular got me hooked because it's the sort of thing you can keep working on, and continue improving, without ever feeling like you're stagnating if you do it right. It seems to me that anyone with the typical geek mentality could easily change their mindset to feel the same way. Of course, it's just my experience, and therefore anecdotal at best, but still my 2 cents.
Yes, it does sound more like a religion...
There is a bigger issue here, though. If we assume that people can create communities online, and that we should take this as evidence of a "space" for these avatars, then how does morality work in such a space? How about governance? Laws? Would/should these concepts apply only in the space itself? Currently, there is no effective governing body within "cyberspace" (cringe) that acts solely within that same space. Instead, the assumption is made that there exists a mapping of the members of the "online community", the avatars, back to human people in the real world, and we attempt to govern the human people accordingly. The problems with this are many, this site seems to exist to list them. As just one of the many examples, what if behavior is legal in the person's place of residence, but is perpetrated against someone in whose country it would be illegal? Should there be an International Court of Cyberspace? What about crimes perpetrated by online "beings" outside of control of people in the real world? The behavior of viruses of even just buggy software that are unintentional? If we want to go ahead and say that cyberspace is real, then shouldn't we be able to define a governing body whose jurisdiction is online and who punishes/reforms avatars? This seems absurd if for no other reason than that any mapping from people to avatars is not injective. Although it is amusing to imagine the CyperPolice putting my Slashdot avatar in CyberPrison until I learn to shape up. It is this very absurdity that makes me want to agree that the notion of some sort of online "space" is just simply invalid. It seems that any definition of space, in as far as it should apply to people and governance, needs to include the ability to meaningfully govern within the space itself. A corn field is a space, because the governance of a community of people within that space can enact laws with repercussions within that space. And perhaps that example sums it up. Avatars are not people, they are not really much of anything other than a sequence of electrical impulses and magnetic fields, and even then only by a system of assignment, and so cannot be governed as avatars. Because of this, there can be no cyberspace in this sense.
For a second there I thought maybe this was a late April fool's joke...
Same here, I certainly never got to use it as an excuse. I think I would have had my ass kicked if I had.
In my experience kids who use labels to manipulate their parents only do so because they are allowed to, the parents tend to be push-overs.
Decent list but if you ask me Ultima (choose almost any of the first 4) should be tacked on. Not only did I waste many hours of my youth playing those games, but they were one of the big reasons I gained any interest in computers at all. Just my two cents though.
If you have communicated your concerns to your superiors then your obligation is filled and you don't have to worry about it.
That said, if you are still worried for some reason then you should either find a way to express the problem to your superiors' superiors (if they have any) or possibly anonymously report it to the clients themselves (if you won't be endangering yourself in the process).
Good luck.
Hmmm, not so sure if I like the sounds of this. I broke an iPod by dropping it about 4 feet, I can only imagine how one will fare after plummeting 30,000...
I might be (read: am mostly) retarded but I never thought of using a graphics processor for anything else, but with the super cards around the corner it makes sense that some normal processing jobs could be farmed out to the GPU when its not being occupied with graphics duties. Does anyone know where I can find some extra info on this, or to what extent this is being implemented? My curiosity is piqued!
I'm not in this field (mathematician, no fancy equipment required) but I am curious, why do these things have to be so large in the first place. Anyone in the know point me to a good explanation of how these work? My curiosity is piqued. A quick google search didn't return much for me.
To answer this very loosely, parts of these functions are bounded by geodesics with cusps at the corners, and this means that any geodesic structure of this type (certain types of chemical structures and a slew of phenomena in relativistic physics) can be partly described by those pieces of these functions and that it is possible that these functions represent a certain type of generalization for these structures, allowing scientists to better describe some existing structures with similar modular forms and even some that exist only in thought.
The mock theta functions are special functions that describe of host of phenomena, the most interesting of which is probably its relation to modular forms. There has been a great deal of controversy as to how these functions should actually be defined in the abstract sense and for the most part any serious attempts at figuring them out have involved using nothing more than the functions that Ramanujan himself wrote down in a notebook right before he died. It will probably be some time before this "solution" appears in a final, published form so don't get your hopes up unless you have connections to number theorists close to the activity. If you are at a university you can look up scads of articles on the topic from JStor, or just browse the bounded periodicals in the library.
This is cool and all, but the real kicker will be if Peter Sarnak from Princeton proves the Riemann Hypothesis (rumor has it he is on the way to doing so).
Am I the only one who read "Windows for Worship"? For a second I though /. had really changed.
( Pthreads >= Win32 threads ) and ( Win32 threads >= Pthreads ) => Pthreads = Win32 threads
Remember when Lieberman's website was molested?
Hypothesizing about fantasy amounts to fantasizing! I move to have this story removed from /. Sign below.
I was thinking the same thing but then I thought, "What is there to say about this?" The answer appears to be nothing unless, like you, the reader has some relevant personal experience.
Web applet security is certainly an important matter, just not one that stirs up a great deal of controversy.
Sorry bout the AC before, its a reflex. The idea of a wormhole is an interesting one and if you really want to know more feel free to email me at jacob@mail.hartord.edu with your questions.
Its about time. The only reason i have a winblows partition is to play DVDs. If the linux DVD project picks it up i'll be formatting some hard drive space.
til magnetic hard drives are moved out of the market. There is still much research to be done before new types can even start to be available to consumers. Then, the first 2 or more years they will be buggy and extremely expensive. After enough people start buying them and they drop in price, there will most likely be a huge surge in development for a better way to make these hard drives and the ones that all the people bought will be obsolete. Then after about 7-10 years or more they will become common place in the market. The thing is that this isnt new news at all, computer hardware and software have and will continually replace itself with newer and "better" versions of itself. Chances are that the system you run now wont even have the opportunity to try to run one of the new types of hard drives that will be made available and even if it could, it would be too slow to handle them. So in conclusion, you have to roll with the market and upgrade as you see fit. Unless you have an interest in design, don't worry yourself about products that wont be available for many years.
BeOS allows for files greater than 2GB and works on an ext2.
Hey, Ive been a raving BeOS lunatic for sometime.
Please, whoever wrote this request for advice please use BeOS!! BeOS was made to handle massive media files for editing and makes the best use of your hardware for just this purpose. So do yourself a favor and dump the other OS's out and go with BeOS.