Crack Whore was one of the funniest Q2 skins. I know some guys who had fun making screenshots combining the positions Crack Whore died in with the taunts of other models. Wow, work is boring today.
On a side note, has anyone thought about calling Guiness ( the records guys, not the beer guys) for a note in The Book? This has to be the longest online reading ever.
Just a little OT history lesson. The Guinness book guys are the Guinness beer guys. The idea came about when Sir Hugh Beaver, managing directory for the Guinness Brewery, went to a shooting party where he became involved in a discussion as to what was the fastest game bird in England. He had the idea for a book, Published by Guinness, that would provide the answers to these sorts of questions would be perfect. The first edition was published in 1955.
"Wherever people congregate to talk, they will argue, and sometimes the joy lies in the arguing and would be lost if there were any definite answer. But more often the argument takes place on a dispute of fact, and it can be very exasperating if there is no immediate means of settling the argument. Who was the first to swim the Channel? Where is England's deepest well, or Scotland's highest tree, or Ireland's oldest church? How many died in history's worst rail crash? Who gained the biggest majority in Parliament? What is the highest point in our country? What is the greatest weight a man has ever lifted? And so on. How much heat these innocent questions can raise! Guinness in producing this book hopes that it may assist in resolving many such disputes, and may, we hope, turn heat into light."
- Rt. Hon. the Earl of Iveagh, Chairman of Guinness.
I took this class in fall of '99, so they might have changed it, but it was all in pseudocode, with a special section or two that used scheme.
Yeah, they got rid of pseudocode. It's all in Scheme now. I took it under pseudocode and found it to be much easier than the bitching I heard from all my friends taking the Scheme sections (Fall 2000).
Actually, CS 1311 (the intro class at GT) is taught in Scheme. They cover everything from the basics through basic linked lists, binary trees, up to the beginnings of OOP. The web page and other such assignment are there because other departments of the school requested that their students know Excel and HTML and other programs so the CS department teaches them as "labs" in addition to the regular programming assignments.
MP3 supports higher bitrates, even up to 512kbps IIRC, that are much tougher to differentiate from the original.
But it is still lower quality than the original. The person I was originally replying to said "Most of mine are at least 192 if not 256." I assume he is talking about his mp3s that he probably ripped and encoded from CDs. I doubt that he is recording his own music which would yield better-than-CD quality (as some people pointed out).
Actually, MP3s can be better than CD quality (128 kbps). Most of mine are at least 192 if not 256.
Think about that for a second. If an MP3 is ripped from a CD (even at 512kbps) it can't have better quality than the CD. The mp3s encoder can't create audio content that isn't there.
So it makes sense that whenever you go buy a CD make sure it has the logo. That way you don't have to wait until you get home to know if it's copy-protected or not. Philips should start an ad campaign for genuine CDs. "Remember, if it isn't a Duncan, it isn't a yo-yo."
"Books are great. They're portable, they're wireless, and they have their own search engine in the back."
- Jim Greenlee, Georgia Tech CS professor on the benefits of the textbook.
Which half do you mean? The half of the time when the moon is in between the earth and the radio-telescope? Or do you mean the other half of the time, when the exact same situation exists?
Perhaps he means the half of the time when the earth is between the moon and the ground station. Not that this is a problem, just need a few more relay points.
If Starbucks can tell you might be refreshed by a mocha latte as you walk by their store, and they offer one tailored specifically to you, do you HAVE to buy it?
Well...yes. I'm sure my pants will also analyze my caffeine stream and realize my blood content is too high. If Starbucks knows a latte will refresh me then I'm sure they also know it's because my addiction needs a hit.
Please remember that Lucas works in the movie INDUSTRY. That means he is trying to make money. I do believe he's doing a damn good job of it. I've been sitting here reading everyone's comments and I've come to the conclusion that most readers of this article have forgotten that Lucas isn't making movies for you. He isn't making Star Wars so that the 35 year old guys still living with their parents get a thril from his "epic" film. There is a definite difference between a film and a movie. A film tends to be more artistic and usually is trying to convey a message (a perfect example is Copola's Apocalypse Now). Movies, on the other hand, are here to entertain us and to make money. Star Wars is a series of movies. If you want something epic with real meaning why don't you go read a book. I'm sick of whiny fanboys bitching about what Lucas is doing to their "precious" Star Wars. If you don't like it then you don't have to go watch it. No one is forcing you. When you create a movie franchise and make millions of dollars you can do whatever the hell you want. But last I checked most/. readers probably don't own the rights to successful movie franchises. This reminds me of a story (that I heard on 60 Minutes the other night) about when Richard Harris went to Jack Warner to voice a complaint about Warner making his movie version of Camelot more sexy than was originally intened. Warner took Harris to the front of the studio and asked him what it said on the sign. Harris said "Warner Brothers". Jack said, "Right. And until it says 'Harris Brothers' you'll do what I say." Ok, I've said my piece. Mod me down if you want but I had to get this off my chest.
Yes, I like to call it "Two Hard Drives". By following the "Two Hard Drives" method one will have absolutely no problems dualbooting WinAnything (TM) and AnythingElse (TM). And with HD prices the way they are right now (especially if you have an old PC lying around ripe for canibalization) this is the best solution for dealing with Microsoft (which is necessary so I can play Counter-Strike).
The same type of thing happens when any group goes on strike. When airline pilots walk away it affects everyone who deals with airlines...including the business traveler, his company, people who buy from his company, their families, etc. What I'm proposing is no different, just on a grander scale. ---
What we should be sponsoring is not ex post facto protests and lawsuits, but making sure that geek-friendly laws are made from the beginning.
Why does it seem that geeks are unwilling (or maybe it's unable) to organize. If anyone hasn't noticed, WE are the ones with the power. Geeks run the world. If only we could get organized we could change the way things work. What we need is a geek union. We'll call it something like the American Federation of Computer Professionals (AFCP). Then, we display our power with a strike. Suddenly, the United States grinds to a halt. Trading ceases on Wall Street because they fear we will crash the NASDAQ in a firey blaze. Major companies go down because there is no one around to monitor the systems. Script kiddies have a field day with security pros off the job. Then, we will return to our jobs having shown the country just how much they need us. After that, Washington with have to listen to us. We will have become a lobbying force just like the AFL/CIO. But as long as IT pros and Programmers are a dime a dozen this will not happen. We'll need to recruit in the colleges. We won't allow the companies to replace us so easily. Then we can have legislation passed that protects our up-and-coming tech community still in school. It will be glorious.
I appologize for this being slightly US-centric. I'm sure if your country allows for unions and lobbying this will work there, too. ---
Coke isn't "more southern" but here in Atlanta (as I write this in the shadow of the Coke building) Pepsi really doesn't stand a chance. Coke has put so much money into this town (they basically built Georgia Tech and Emory...Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering here at Tech, for example) and has been around so long that many people just don't drink anything else. As the lecturer I'm listening to said yesterday, "Coke doesn't need to sell you Coke". Sure, Pepsi advertises here and if I go to Taco Bell I have to drink Pepsi but they still really don't stand a chance with born-and-raised southerners around here. Around here if you want a soda, you ask for a Coke. If you want Sprite, you ask for a Coke. "I'd like a Coke" "What kind?" "Sprite, please". ---
I don't know. If the service was reliable and had the content I wanted, I'd be happy to pay a modest fee for Napster. If it's easier to use than the old alternatives of web searching and irc then it's a service worth paying for. If it sucks and doesn't have any obscure content I want then it's not. People have to be willing to pay for something...it's the way the world works. You can't get everything for free (as much as we might like to). ---
A few years ago, the Texas state legislature official rounded Pi to 3.14 because it was "easier". The have since undone that but just think about what that says about the man leading my country. I didn't vote for him. ---
If you actually spend the time to read the article (which I have, so we'll have to see what CID this gets...but it should be low because the article is short...but I digress...and now I've been sidetracked so this test won't work anyway) then you won't have your comment in the first 100. If your CID isn't low enough, people won't read it as much. Thus, you won't get the attention of the moderators that don't read the comments correctly anyway (-1, nested or flat, newest first). So the people who do the most and earliest postings are the Karma whores and I think this is an indication of how Slashdot has gone downhill recently. ---
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He isn't a tech writer. It said at the bottom he's a medical writer. ---
You're delusionally idealistic. I'd like to know when the last time writing your representatives actually accomplished anything against the corporations that are lining the politicians pockets.
"Oh look! Here on my desk I have a bag of money from Sony and Warner Brothers. I also have this letter from Joe Shmoe in my district back in Georgia. Look at all this money." ---
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Crack Whore was one of the funniest Q2 skins. I know some guys who had fun making screenshots combining the positions Crack Whore died in with the taunts of other models. Wow, work is boring today.
And does't JAAVA(sic) use pointers too?
Java uses pointers internally but the programmer never as to see or deal with those pointers.
Are you slashdot? I think not, you are just a part of the collective.
But aren't we just going to make his intellectual and biological distinctiveness our own?
On a side note, has anyone thought about calling Guiness ( the records guys, not the beer guys) for a note in The Book? This has to be the longest online reading ever.
Just a little OT history lesson. The Guinness book guys are the Guinness beer guys. The idea came about when Sir Hugh Beaver, managing directory for the Guinness Brewery, went to a shooting party where he became involved in a discussion as to what was the fastest game bird in England. He had the idea for a book, Published by Guinness, that would provide the answers to these sorts of questions would be perfect. The first edition was published in 1955.
"Wherever people congregate to talk, they will argue, and sometimes the joy lies in the arguing and would be lost if there were any definite answer. But more often the argument takes place on a dispute of fact, and it can be very exasperating if there is no immediate means of settling the argument. Who was the first to swim the Channel? Where is England's deepest well, or Scotland's highest tree, or Ireland's oldest church? How many died in history's worst rail crash? Who gained the biggest majority in Parliament? What is the highest point in our country? What is the greatest weight a man has ever lifted? And so on. How much heat these innocent questions can raise! Guinness in producing this book hopes that it may assist in resolving many such disputes, and may, we hope, turn heat into light."
- Rt. Hon. the Earl of Iveagh, Chairman of Guinness.
Linux is the greatest, and microsoft suck! ;-) )
(Sorry, this makes half the other \. comments redundant
I know this is OT and I'm sorry....but I have to ask. What exactly is Backslashdot?
IANAL, but I don't think people in the US have any real rights until they turn 18.
I took this class in fall of '99, so they might have changed it, but it was all in pseudocode, with a special section or two that used scheme.
Yeah, they got rid of pseudocode. It's all in Scheme now. I took it under pseudocode and found it to be much easier than the bitching I heard from all my friends taking the Scheme sections (Fall 2000).
Actually, CS 1311 (the intro class at GT) is taught in Scheme. They cover everything from the basics through basic linked lists, binary trees, up to the beginnings of OOP. The web page and other such assignment are there because other departments of the school requested that their students know Excel and HTML and other programs so the CS department teaches them as "labs" in addition to the regular programming assignments.
MP3 supports higher bitrates, even up to 512kbps IIRC, that are much tougher to differentiate from the original.
But it is still lower quality than the original. The person I was originally replying to said "Most of mine are at least 192 if not 256." I assume he is talking about his mp3s that he probably ripped and encoded from CDs. I doubt that he is recording his own music which would yield better-than-CD quality (as some people pointed out).
Actually, MP3s can be better than CD quality (128 kbps). Most of mine are at least 192 if not 256.
Think about that for a second. If an MP3 is ripped from a CD (even at 512kbps) it can't have better quality than the CD. The mp3s encoder can't create audio content that isn't there.
So it makes sense that whenever you go buy a CD make sure it has the logo. That way you don't have to wait until you get home to know if it's copy-protected or not. Philips should start an ad campaign for genuine CDs. "Remember, if it isn't a Duncan, it isn't a yo-yo."
"Books are great. They're portable, they're wireless, and they have their own search engine in the back."
- Jim Greenlee, Georgia Tech CS professor on the benefits of the textbook.
Which half do you mean? The half of the time when the moon is in between the earth and the radio-telescope? Or do you mean the other half of the time, when the exact same situation exists?
Perhaps he means the half of the time when the earth is between the moon and the ground station. Not that this is a problem, just need a few more relay points.
If Starbucks can tell you might be refreshed by a mocha latte as you walk by their store, and they offer one tailored specifically to you, do you HAVE to buy it?
Well...yes. I'm sure my pants will also analyze my caffeine stream and realize my blood content is too high. If Starbucks knows a latte will refresh me then I'm sure they also know it's because my addiction needs a hit.
Please remember that Lucas works in the movie INDUSTRY. That means he is trying to make money. I do believe he's doing a damn good job of it. I've been sitting here reading everyone's comments and I've come to the conclusion that most readers of this article have forgotten that Lucas isn't making movies for you. He isn't making Star Wars so that the 35 year old guys still living with their parents get a thril from his "epic" film. There is a definite difference between a film and a movie. A film tends to be more artistic and usually is trying to convey a message (a perfect example is Copola's Apocalypse Now). Movies, on the other hand, are here to entertain us and to make money. Star Wars is a series of movies. If you want something epic with real meaning why don't you go read a book. I'm sick of whiny fanboys bitching about what Lucas is doing to their "precious" Star Wars. If you don't like it then you don't have to go watch it. No one is forcing you. When you create a movie franchise and make millions of dollars you can do whatever the hell you want. But last I checked most /. readers probably don't own the rights to successful movie franchises. This reminds me of a story (that I heard on 60 Minutes the other night) about when Richard Harris went to Jack Warner to voice a complaint about Warner making his movie version of Camelot more sexy than was originally intened. Warner took Harris to the front of the studio and asked him what it said on the sign. Harris said "Warner Brothers". Jack said, "Right. And until it says 'Harris Brothers' you'll do what I say." Ok, I've said my piece. Mod me down if you want but I had to get this off my chest.
Yes, I like to call it "Two Hard Drives". By following the "Two Hard Drives" method one will have absolutely no problems dualbooting WinAnything (TM) and AnythingElse (TM). And with HD prices the way they are right now (especially if you have an old PC lying around ripe for canibalization) this is the best solution for dealing with Microsoft (which is necessary so I can play Counter-Strike).
The same type of thing happens when any group goes on strike. When airline pilots walk away it affects everyone who deals with airlines...including the business traveler, his company, people who buy from his company, their families, etc. What I'm proposing is no different, just on a grander scale.
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What we should be sponsoring is not ex post facto protests and lawsuits, but making sure that geek-friendly laws are made from the beginning.
Why does it seem that geeks are unwilling (or maybe it's unable) to organize. If anyone hasn't noticed, WE are the ones with the power. Geeks run the world. If only we could get organized we could change the way things work. What we need is a geek union. We'll call it something like the American Federation of Computer Professionals (AFCP). Then, we display our power with a strike. Suddenly, the United States grinds to a halt. Trading ceases on Wall Street because they fear we will crash the NASDAQ in a firey blaze. Major companies go down because there is no one around to monitor the systems. Script kiddies have a field day with security pros off the job. Then, we will return to our jobs having shown the country just how much they need us. After that, Washington with have to listen to us. We will have become a lobbying force just like the AFL/CIO. But as long as IT pros and Programmers are a dime a dozen this will not happen. We'll need to recruit in the colleges. We won't allow the companies to replace us so easily. Then we can have legislation passed that protects our up-and-coming tech community still in school. It will be glorious.
I appologize for this being slightly US-centric. I'm sure if your country allows for unions and lobbying this will work there, too.
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Coke isn't "more southern" but here in Atlanta (as I write this in the shadow of the Coke building) Pepsi really doesn't stand a chance. Coke has put so much money into this town (they basically built Georgia Tech and Emory...Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering here at Tech, for example) and has been around so long that many people just don't drink anything else. As the lecturer I'm listening to said yesterday, "Coke doesn't need to sell you Coke". Sure, Pepsi advertises here and if I go to Taco Bell I have to drink Pepsi but they still really don't stand a chance with born-and-raised southerners around here. Around here if you want a soda, you ask for a Coke. If you want Sprite, you ask for a Coke. "I'd like a Coke" "What kind?" "Sprite, please".
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I don't know. If the service was reliable and had the content I wanted, I'd be happy to pay a modest fee for Napster. If it's easier to use than the old alternatives of web searching and irc then it's a service worth paying for. If it sucks and doesn't have any obscure content I want then it's not. People have to be willing to pay for something...it's the way the world works. You can't get everything for free (as much as we might like to).
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A few years ago, the Texas state legislature official rounded Pi to 3.14 because it was "easier". The have since undone that but just think about what that says about the man leading my country. I didn't vote for him.
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Great. As if k5 wasn't slow enough already recently but now it's been slashdotted. Now I'll never get my news from the trenches.
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If you actually spend the time to read the article (which I have, so we'll have to see what CID this gets...but it should be low because the article is short...but I digress...and now I've been sidetracked so this test won't work anyway) then you won't have your comment in the first 100. If your CID isn't low enough, people won't read it as much. Thus, you won't get the attention of the moderators that don't read the comments correctly anyway (-1, nested or flat, newest first). So the people who do the most and earliest postings are the Karma whores and I think this is an indication of how Slashdot has gone downhill recently.
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He isn't a tech writer. It said at the bottom he's a medical writer.
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You're delusionally idealistic. I'd like to know when the last time writing your representatives actually accomplished anything against the corporations that are lining the politicians pockets.
"Oh look! Here on my desk I have a bag of money from Sony and Warner Brothers. I also have this letter from Joe Shmoe in my district back in Georgia. Look at all this money."
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