One more rule...don't take any transaction off ebay. If you aren't listed on ebay as the winning bidder, you get no protection from ebay. If the seller says "I have 5 more" and you email and buy one of those and he scams you...you're even more SOL than before. This is a pretty common scam and ebay will just laugh at you if you complain.
The most rewarding math class I took in college was called "Advanced Calculus" where we basically proved why everything in calculus works, start at a very low level. The thinking required for making proofs is very close to the thinking required for making algorithms...only much more defined. I'd highly recommend getting a background in writing mathematical proofs.
And I think everyone on the planet should take simple probability and estimation courses. People are really clueless when it comes to estimation. Like if I asked how many hairs are on your head...I don't expect the right number...but there are logical ways you could come within an order of magnitude or two. Just simple things like this are useful every day. Estimation is good just for a simple check if your numbers are even in the ballpark. Or just trying to judge how far away something is. People seem to think that a smart person is someone who knows everything..but its more a person who knows how to figure out anything...whether it be by looking in books or asking a friend for help.
Well, ok, the software being used is new...but I was trading legal live music over internet2 years ago. Theres a well known community called etree where people list ftp servers and listings of what they have and rules for there server. Someone came up with the idea of trying it with just internet2 users, so i2shn was born. Obviously, the amount of content was kind of small on i2shn...but I guess ftp could be described as p2p. It was still cool and I support this effort. And if people wanted to keep i2 strictly for educational use, they wouldn't allow dorm computers to automatically route through i2. When you give any student at a college the ability to use i2...of course they're going to do whatever they want with it. I checked network graphs for i2 at my school...and we probably never used more than a fraction of 1% of the total resources it provided us. Wicked cool.
do something useful with the Caps Lock key. I mean, come on, how many people need a big button like that for caps lock? I don't know why more people don't remap it. For a while I used it as backspace. Currently, its escape (I'm a vi user). For emacs users, you can remap it to control, (where control should have always been anyways).
I've never had a problem switching between dvorak at home and qwerty in labs. Its like speaking two languages. You don't accidentally say something in spanish in the middle of a conversation in english.
I was always told back in high school that we couldn't access message boards or use email from the computers because we could use them to make threats, and the school would be liable. Its like using the school's phone to make a bomb threat. Obviously, phones should be banned then.
Well, my school was just happy to announce that they are the first university in the world to use Segways. Campus police is using them for patrols (I haven't seen this yet, but I hear they're out there), and the press release even says they plan to use them for tours. Tours? Come on...no one wants to follow one of these around unless the whole damn tour group gets them.
You obviously don't go to a tech school. Here, we get our choice of anime soundtracks OR video game music. And people wonder why our radio station usually has 0 listeners.
Since this has just turned into an RSI discussion, I thought I'd add another overlooked point. In my own personal experience, I feel more pain from using a mouse than a flat keyboard. Resting your wrist on the mousepad with your hand bent up and forward, over the mouse, is very bad. I think its the act of having your wrist bent awkwardly while using your fingers that leads to RSI. Gel mouse and keyboard rests shouldn't be used *while* typing/using the mouse, only to rest when you *aren't* doing that. I switched to a trackball from a mouse and I always try to keep my wrist straight (not bent) when using it, and its made a big difference (in addition to my kinesis keyboard). Figure I'd mention this, as the mouse often gets overlooked.
I'll put in a good word for kinesis too. I love mine and it made my wrists feel better (not perfect....typing is still bad for you, no matter how you do it). When I'm forced to use a flat keyboard, I feel it after even just a few minutes.
I probably went a year without typing qwerty, once I started using dvorak. It took me a couple minutes to get used to qwerty again, but I can still type just as fast as I used to. Its kind of weird too....when I picked up dvorak, I started typing more correctly...ie, fingers on home row, using the correct fingers to hit the keys. When I go back to qwerty, I still use only about 2 fingers on each hand and fly all over the place just like I used to. Switching keyboards is a fun mental experiment.
For fun, try remapping caps lock to backspace and vice versa. That alone will screw you up for a while, but is worth it in the long run. (til you use another keyboard).
This isn't exactly the first bayesian mail filter out there. I've been using ESR's bogofilter for weeks now, and I must say it works better than I could have ever imagined. Bogofilter however is simply for sorting out spam, while it appears this filter can sort out other things. But honestly, I can setup some simple filters to separate personal emails from work emails, so I'm not entirely sure the extra stuff is that useful.
These people didn't pay E100,000 for the good of the community. I agree that in true open source, everything is free. But a lot of people have already put a lot of money into this, and its only fair to let them have access to the good stuff.
I admit blender is hard to use. It has a steep learning curve, indeed. But if you want to find the documentation, you're going to have to pay for it. You can get the blender manual at amazon for about $50. If you want to learn blender, you really need it.
They could be a tad redundant if you have a window list on your screen. But I personally do not. I use multiple desktops and rarely have windows overlapping other windows, but browsers are the big exception. Web browsers are the only application I use (that I can think of) where I frequently open more than one window and need an easy way to switch between them. Tabbed browsing fixes this (I used to just alt-tab between em).
We should start a club...round here I think I'm the only one who hated it (well, my whole family hated it actually) so I generally have to keep my mouth shut when I bash it. The funny part? They agree with every point I make. They agree it was too long, they agree lots was cut out of the book, they agree that most things aren't explained that well and that there wasn't much action. But they still liked it...oh well.
From the point of view of someone who hasn't read the books, I would agree too. Ok, so before you start telling me to shut up because I can't talk about adapting something that I haven't read, just listen. There were a lot of things about the movie I liked...it was really well made, but I thought the screenplay was the biggest fault. I felt like there was a *lot* that was being left out. For a 3-hour long movie, I expected better explanations of things and more character development, but I thought there was way too little. I wouldn't have cared if it won every award there...as long as it doesn't get best screenplay, and as a result of that, best picture, I was happy.
To everyone who has read the book....you have to imagine seeing this movie without all the extra knowledge you have. I was really disappointed. Everyone tells me that the movie is so much better if you have read the books...well, in my mind, that means the screenplay was severely lacking. And if the people who didn't vote for it haven't read the books, then thats just too bad for the screenplay writer. It should have been more universal.
furthur does use md5's to tell concerts apart. I've seen a lot of incomplete files on other programs with the same name that get mixed up with the complete ones, but furthur makes it really hard to access files before the download is done. It doesn't really get the files in order necesarily. Its possibly the greatest piece of code made my hippies since unix.
Go to google, click on preferences and change your language to "bork, bork, bork." From now on the site is completely in Swedish Chef (no joke). -Stype
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In my town, Route 1 North already points South. We're ahead of the game I guess.
One more rule...don't take any transaction off ebay. If you aren't listed on ebay as the winning bidder, you get no protection from ebay. If the seller says "I have 5 more" and you email and buy one of those and he scams you...you're even more SOL than before. This is a pretty common scam and ebay will just laugh at you if you complain.
Dude, you're my favorite weather man. Rock on. Ok its a toss up between you and Dr. Mel.
The most rewarding math class I took in college was called "Advanced Calculus" where we basically proved why everything in calculus works, start at a very low level. The thinking required for making proofs is very close to the thinking required for making algorithms...only much more defined. I'd highly recommend getting a background in writing mathematical proofs.
And I think everyone on the planet should take simple probability and estimation courses. People are really clueless when it comes to estimation. Like if I asked how many hairs are on your head...I don't expect the right number...but there are logical ways you could come within an order of magnitude or two. Just simple things like this are useful every day. Estimation is good just for a simple check if your numbers are even in the ballpark. Or just trying to judge how far away something is. People seem to think that a smart person is someone who knows everything..but its more a person who knows how to figure out anything...whether it be by looking in books or asking a friend for help.
Well, ok, the software being used is new...but I was trading legal live music over internet2 years ago. Theres a well known community called etree where people list ftp servers and listings of what they have and rules for there server. Someone came up with the idea of trying it with just internet2 users, so i2shn was born. Obviously, the amount of content was kind of small on i2shn...but I guess ftp could be described as p2p. It was still cool and I support this effort. And if people wanted to keep i2 strictly for educational use, they wouldn't allow dorm computers to automatically route through i2. When you give any student at a college the ability to use i2...of course they're going to do whatever they want with it. I checked network graphs for i2 at my school...and we probably never used more than a fraction of 1% of the total resources it provided us. Wicked cool.
do something useful with the Caps Lock key. I mean, come on, how many people need a big button like that for caps lock? I don't know why more people don't remap it. For a while I used it as backspace. Currently, its escape (I'm a vi user). For emacs users, you can remap it to control, (where control should have always been anyways).
I've never had a problem switching between dvorak at home and qwerty in labs. Its like speaking two languages. You don't accidentally say something in spanish in the middle of a conversation in english.
I was always told back in high school that we couldn't access message boards or use email from the computers because we could use them to make threats, and the school would be liable. Its like using the school's phone to make a bomb threat. Obviously, phones should be banned then.
I think laptop stands are good for one great reason:
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Well, my school was just happy to announce that they are the first university in the world to use Segways. Campus police is using them for patrols (I haven't seen this yet, but I hear they're out there), and the press release even says they plan to use them for tours. Tours? Come on...no one wants to follow one of these around unless the whole damn tour group gets them.
You obviously don't go to a tech school. Here, we get our choice of anime soundtracks OR video game music. And people wonder why our radio station usually has 0 listeners.
Since this has just turned into an RSI discussion, I thought I'd add another overlooked point. In my own personal experience, I feel more pain from using a mouse than a flat keyboard. Resting your wrist on the mousepad with your hand bent up and forward, over the mouse, is very bad. I think its the act of having your wrist bent awkwardly while using your fingers that leads to RSI. Gel mouse and keyboard rests shouldn't be used *while* typing/using the mouse, only to rest when you *aren't* doing that. I switched to a trackball from a mouse and I always try to keep my wrist straight (not bent) when using it, and its made a big difference (in addition to my kinesis keyboard). Figure I'd mention this, as the mouse often gets overlooked.
I'll put in a good word for kinesis too. I love mine and it made my wrists feel better (not perfect....typing is still bad for you, no matter how you do it). When I'm forced to use a flat keyboard, I feel it after even just a few minutes.
I probably went a year without typing qwerty, once I started using dvorak. It took me a couple minutes to get used to qwerty again, but I can still type just as fast as I used to. Its kind of weird too....when I picked up dvorak, I started typing more correctly...ie, fingers on home row, using the correct fingers to hit the keys. When I go back to qwerty, I still use only about 2 fingers on each hand and fly all over the place just like I used to. Switching keyboards is a fun mental experiment.
For fun, try remapping caps lock to backspace and vice versa. That alone will screw you up for a while, but is worth it in the long run. (til you use another keyboard).
And don't forget about pico (pine composer), which has been making bad programmers worse for more years than I care to remember.
This isn't exactly the first bayesian mail filter out there. I've been using ESR's bogofilter for weeks now, and I must say it works better than I could have ever imagined. Bogofilter however is simply for sorting out spam, while it appears this filter can sort out other things. But honestly, I can setup some simple filters to separate personal emails from work emails, so I'm not entirely sure the extra stuff is that useful.
These people didn't pay E100,000 for the good of the community. I agree that in true open source, everything is free. But a lot of people have already put a lot of money into this, and its only fair to let them have access to the good stuff.
I admit blender is hard to use. It has a steep learning curve, indeed. But if you want to find the documentation, you're going to have to pay for it. You can get the blender manual at amazon for about $50. If you want to learn blender, you really need it.
They could be a tad redundant if you have a window list on your screen. But I personally do not. I use multiple desktops and rarely have windows overlapping other windows, but browsers are the big exception. Web browsers are the only application I use (that I can think of) where I frequently open more than one window and need an easy way to switch between them. Tabbed browsing fixes this (I used to just alt-tab between em).
We should start a club...round here I think I'm the only one who hated it (well, my whole family hated it actually) so I generally have to keep my mouth shut when I bash it. The funny part? They agree with every point I make. They agree it was too long, they agree lots was cut out of the book, they agree that most things aren't explained that well and that there wasn't much action. But they still liked it...oh well.
From the point of view of someone who hasn't read the books, I would agree too. Ok, so before you start telling me to shut up because I can't talk about adapting something that I haven't read, just listen. There were a lot of things about the movie I liked...it was really well made, but I thought the screenplay was the biggest fault. I felt like there was a *lot* that was being left out. For a 3-hour long movie, I expected better explanations of things and more character development, but I thought there was way too little. I wouldn't have cared if it won every award there...as long as it doesn't get best screenplay, and as a result of that, best picture, I was happy.
To everyone who has read the book....you have to imagine seeing this movie without all the extra knowledge you have. I was really disappointed. Everyone tells me that the movie is so much better if you have read the books...well, in my mind, that means the screenplay was severely lacking. And if the people who didn't vote for it haven't read the books, then thats just too bad for the screenplay writer. It should have been more universal.
furthur does use md5's to tell concerts apart. I've seen a lot of incomplete files on other programs with the same name that get mixed up with the complete ones, but furthur makes it really hard to access files before the download is done. It doesn't really get the files in order necesarily. Its possibly the greatest piece of code made my hippies since unix.
Go to google, click on preferences and change your language to "bork, bork, bork." From now on the site is completely in Swedish Chef (no joke).
-Stype
Courtesy of dialectalizer, heres my local mirror in swedish chef:
Reedeeng Betveee zee Leenes:
Lessuns frum zee SDMI Chellenge-a
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but I bet they'll have one heck of a nice internet connection (with a nice bottleneck at the bottom)
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