But, here's my apt-get upgrade log from this morning, just in case...
# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded slashdot.org 1 packages to upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded Need to get 15kiB of archives After unpacking 10kiB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main slashdot.org 2.2.6-2 [15kB] Fetched 15kB in 0s (100kB/s) (Reading database... 117894 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking slashdot.org (from.../slashdot.org_2.2.6-2_all.deb)... Setting up slashdot.org (2.2.6-2)... Unpacking moderation module...done. Unpacking plus5funny module...done.
Thanks to the Debian team of programmers for a job well done. I've been using Debian for the past 4 years, and have found it to be an extremely easy to use distribution.
I've tried, as many other have, i'm sure, to edit the front page of the Wiki, but to no avail---each time i edited it, the text was almost immediately changed back to the distasteful goatse page. Hopefully, the Wiki's administrators will attempt to shut down access to the offending user(s) so as to stop this nonsense.
My Mom did hours of research to try to find a good cell phone for Maine. My sister hiked the Appalachian Trail there this spring, and she wanted to have a good cell phone with her. No luck. In the boonies of Maine, there aren't nearly enough people to make it worth the cell companies while to erect towers.
Especially Homeschoolers who "drop out" of high school and complete their education at home. As a life-long homeschooler, i have many friends who, dispite being excellent students, decided to stop attending school and start learning at home.
Will the system be able to detect and predict the "dropping out" of those students as well? Should it be able to? Or, because the number of Homeschoolers is relatively few, will those students be completely ignored.
Personally, i hope the latter is true: it's the student's and parent's choice that they homeschool, a busy-body school official has no reason questioning their rationale.
The basics are good to know, and will probably be the most attended classes you'll offer (Internet 101 and E-mail 101 are gonna be popular).
As a humble/.er, i would humbly ask you to offer something with a bit more meat as well. Maybe "Beginning C++" or ".NET". I'm sure the teenaged computer geek in your town will thank you for teaching them the real basics. Heck, it'll probably serve as a recruitment vehicle if you ever need to hire competent computer lab monitors who can also fix things in a pinch, just look up a few of your former advanced students.
That's the point of Perl. If you don't want to use the verbosity of:
sub Fahrenheit_to_Kelvin (Num $temp is rw) {
You don't have to! You could just as well use:
sub f2k ($temp) {
Perl will allow either. It's your choice. You can do the quick one-off-hack-it-up-at-3am-after-two-large-pots-of- coffee, and you can have a large programming project that must be maintained for years to come.
You have the choice. Pick whichever method fits the task at hand.
In other words, i think most/.ers feel like the rest of the world doesn't understand them or their issues, and hence they feel left out. We comprehend the vast techological difficulties with properly implementing a secure voting system, however, the average Joe Bloe doesn't give a hoot whether it's DES encrypted or if there is a paper trail.
It's what Slashdot pundits have been saying all along: SCO's shipment of a Linux distribution undermines its demands for Unix license payments. Nothing new here for the well-informed Slashdot reader.
SCO counters with the expected: they didn't contribute the code knowingly, and thus the code was never officially released under the GPL.
If everyone learnt an international second language, such as Esperanto, then the need for a translators and translating programs would be greatly reduced.
For those of you wanting to learn a language that is spoken by approximately 2 million people around the world, start learningEsperanto today!
...here is a link to the Universal Networking Language (UNL). UNL is a computer markup language that allows the author of the text to specify how exactly the text should be translated (i.e. what the precise definition of the words in the text are). Taking this specification, a machine is able to produce a readable version of the text in a variety of languages.
It's not quite done yet, but the system does show promise. Dictionaries have already been created in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Italian, French and several other languages.
According to articles at Wired and Forbes, the contract is for $290M.
From Wired:
The U.S Department of Energy announced Tuesday that IBM has won a $290 million contract to build two of the first computers capable of equaling the theoretical processing power of the human brain.
The combined processing power of the two computers will be half a quadrillion (500 trillion) calculations per second, more than
1.5 times the combined processing power of all 500 machines on the recently released Top 500 list of supercomputers. (emphasis added)
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My hat is off to you, Ian Murdock.
...sounds like the Easy choice.
I've tried, as many other have, i'm sure, to edit the front page of the Wiki, but to no avail---each time i edited it, the text was almost immediately changed back to the distasteful goatse page. Hopefully, the Wiki's administrators will attempt to shut down access to the offending user(s) so as to stop this nonsense.
...just as long as it starts with "X"!
Yes, you should be. And, you should be thankful that SCO hasn't gotten a hold of your code yet...
My Mom did hours of research to try to find a good cell phone for Maine. My sister hiked the Appalachian Trail there this spring, and she wanted to have a good cell phone with her. No luck. In the boonies of Maine, there aren't nearly enough people to make it worth the cell companies while to erect towers.
Especially Homeschoolers who "drop out" of high school and complete their education at home. As a life-long homeschooler, i have many friends who, dispite being excellent students, decided to stop attending school and start learning at home.
Will the system be able to detect and predict the "dropping out" of those students as well? Should it be able to? Or, because the number of Homeschoolers is relatively few, will those students be completely ignored.
Personally, i hope the latter is true: it's the student's and parent's choice that they homeschool, a busy-body school official has no reason questioning their rationale.
The basics are good to know, and will probably be the most attended classes you'll offer (Internet 101 and E-mail 101 are gonna be popular).
/.er, i would humbly ask you to offer something with a bit more meat as well. Maybe "Beginning C++" or ".NET". I'm sure the teenaged computer geek in your town will thank you for teaching them the real basics. Heck, it'll probably serve as a recruitment vehicle if you ever need to hire competent computer lab monitors who can also fix things in a pinch, just look up a few of your former advanced students.
As a humble
You don't have to! You could just as well use:
Perl will allow either. It's your choice. You can do the quick one-off-hack-it-up-at-3am-after-two-large-pots-of- coffee, and you can have a large programming project that must be maintained for years to come.
You have the choice. Pick whichever method fits the task at hand.
In other words, i think most /.ers feel like the rest of the world doesn't understand them or their issues, and hence they feel left out. We comprehend the vast techological difficulties with properly implementing a secure voting system, however, the average Joe Bloe doesn't give a hoot whether it's DES encrypted or if there is a paper trail.
Yet Another Patent Article == YAPA YAPA YAPA
Haven't we had enough yet?
Of course i am. Why do you ask? (-;
...oh...righ^H^H^H^Hleft. (-; (-; (-;
I am left-handed, -footed, -eared, -toed, -kneed, -minded and -(*censored*)ed. And, like most /.ers, i often feel left out.
Does that count? Heck, i'm usually even honest in those polls. (-;
Does it have an OS?
I just need one more OS to reach the "21+ - We don't believe you." level of the latest poll...
So i won't try. (-;
The whole world is literally at your finger tips. Here are a few examples.
It's what Slashdot pundits have been saying all along: SCO's shipment of a Linux distribution undermines its demands for Unix license payments. Nothing new here for the well-informed Slashdot reader.
SCO counters with the expected: they didn't contribute the code knowingly, and thus the code was never officially released under the GPL.
For those of you wanting to learn a language that is spoken by approximately 2 million people around the world, start learning Esperanto today!
It's not quite done yet, but the system does show promise. Dictionaries have already been created in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Italian, French and several other languages.
...to deal with the nuculear waste products left behind by my roommates!
From Wired:
...to this recent Slashdot article.
Quake is responsible for all the slow-down on the Internet?!? For some reason, i thought that Counter Strike was more popular...
Pretty funny! Interesting that they couldn't find NatureTech's real homepage