I have a nearly non-existent knowledge of real programming. Sure, I can get around Windows just fine, but can I really make it do what I want? No.
This summer, the IT department of a Fortune 500 company may offer me a (volunteer...) position programming an MS Access database. I don't know Access at all, but the beauty lies in the fact that there will be on-the-job learning.
In my spare time, Linux is on the list of "things to learn" for curiosity's sake and for practicality. (My family lived in a Commodore world from about 1986 to 1992, and then Windows from now until the present. Jay [brother] has gone on to higher education and picked up experience in all sorts of different environments.) That'd help me out, too, in the future...
My plan currently is to obtain a cognitive science degree focusing in linguistics and computational approaches to cognition. But there'll be a lot to learn on the way there.
It would make more sense, IMHO, for LiPalm to be a battery. JEDIs can throw used/dead batteries at enemies, burn them for heat, ad infinitum! If being used as heat, then the phrase "I love the smell of LiPalm in the morning" would make even more sense!:-)
Let's say Kid A turns in Kid B, for grudge/amusement/prank/bullying. Kid B gets screwed over by the WAVE, having to undergo psych testing and therapy. Kid A grins like an idiot on the sidelines and wins a free t-shirt. Kid B has some friends, C & D, who seek vengeance. Kid A thinks he's "the bomb" so he starts wearing his "I Helped Out WAVE" t-shirt around school. C & D end up beating the snot out of A, because he used the WAVE for not-so-nice purposes, namely to get B into trouble. Consequence: WAVE indirectly causes violence, because it can be easily abused.
Actually, all the things in the Wash. Post story _did_ happen. Bread was invented. Plumbing exists. Gutenberg's printing press was pretty revolutionary. And immunization isn't such a bad thing....
We _are_, btw, pretty humor-aware. (Cf. laugh-it's-funny dep't)
Neil
So much more out there...
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But remember, all you multi-millionaire/. readers who don't quite know what to do with all your extra cash...
There's many more charities/.orgs who you can really help, tech-related and non. I remember reading, back in August, about a LUG in Baltimore(I think?) who helped inner-city, disadvantaged kids get online and get the technological know-how that they'll need to get ahead, 15-30 years from now in the workplace. I'd love to hear of more people giving to that sort of group, both time, money, and material goods(read: boxes =)
On the non-tech side, think of everything that's helped you along the way. Did you grow up watching Sesame Street? I'm sure your local public TV station would give you a coffee mug if you threw $25 at them.. Habitat for Humanity prefers time/work donated, but $ probably won't hurt them...
"It outperforms many turntables 2 or 3 times its price" -- Dr. CP Yu.(www.elpj.com/welcome.html)
OK, so this guy claims he knows of turntables out there that cost >US$27,000? Wow... I think it'd be a rare audiophile who threw out cash for one of those. He also claims that it makes CDs "unlistenable." Oh really? Hmm... seems to me that even a clean vinyl record (played with a laser) would sound worse than a dirty CD. Remember that a CD has a protective coating on it, and it's impossible to keep those records PERFECTLY clean.
Nice concept though, and awfully weird how it follows my dream last night of listening to my record collection.
This summer, a bunch of friends (at a summer program) who were all really big readers wanted to share with each other their fave books. Thus was created the 4A booklist(fourth floor, building A)... I hung out with the girls a lot, and had made some recommendations to one of them, and she said "Just write them all down, and we'll put them on the booklist." This thing is pretty big, thanks to Jodie's love of sci-fi, SF, and fantasy. Somehow she distinguishes between the former two. Here's the site, run off my box.
I hate to sound ignorant, but what's a MAX tunnel? Is it similar to a Lincoln Tunnel? If so, how does such a thing contain pi digits? *pondering weird such things too early on Saturday AM*
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I have a nearly non-existent knowledge of real programming. Sure, I can get around Windows just fine, but can I really make it do what I want? No.
This summer, the IT department of a Fortune 500 company may offer me a (volunteer...) position programming an MS Access database. I don't know Access at all, but the beauty lies in the fact that there will be on-the-job learning.
In my spare time, Linux is on the list of "things to learn" for curiosity's sake and for practicality. (My family lived in a Commodore world from about 1986 to 1992, and then Windows from now until the present. Jay [brother] has gone on to higher education and picked up experience in all sorts of different environments.) That'd help me out, too, in the future...
My plan currently is to obtain a cognitive science degree focusing in linguistics and computational approaches to cognition. But there'll be a lot to learn on the way there.
So he & his lawyers are logging on to Napster (this means they have to download it first!) to look at users' lists? Surely you can't be serious.
They would have to repeatedly log on and search for his name & songs.
And then TARGETTING specific users?
Well, at least he's realizing that Napster the company doesn't have control over how their users "abuse" their software.
Good thing I "Forgot About Dre" when I last went on a Napster spree...
If each company can still develop IE, can't the Windows baby STILL get away with packaging IE in Windows? Isn't that what the DOJ wants to avoid?
It would make more sense, IMHO, for LiPalm to be a battery. :-)
JEDIs can throw used/dead batteries at enemies, burn them for heat, ad infinitum!
If being used as heat, then the phrase "I love the smell of LiPalm in the morning" would make even more sense!
Let's say Kid A turns in Kid B, for grudge/amusement/prank/bullying. Kid B
gets screwed over by the WAVE, having
to undergo psych testing and therapy.
Kid A grins like an idiot on the sidelines
and wins a free t-shirt. Kid B has some
friends, C & D, who seek vengeance.
Kid A thinks he's "the bomb" so he starts
wearing his "I Helped Out WAVE" t-shirt around
school. C & D end up beating the snot out of
A, because he used the WAVE for not-so-nice
purposes, namely to get B into trouble.
Consequence: WAVE indirectly causes violence,
because it can be easily abused.
Actually, all the things in the Wash. Post story _did_ happen. Bread was invented. Plumbing exists. Gutenberg's printing press was pretty revolutionary. And immunization isn't such a bad thing....
We _are_, btw, pretty humor-aware. (Cf. laugh-it's-funny dep't)
Neil
But remember, all you multi-millionaire /. readers who don't quite know what to do with all your extra cash...
There's many more charities/.orgs who you can really help, tech-related and non. I remember reading, back in August, about a LUG in Baltimore(I think?) who helped inner-city, disadvantaged kids get online and get the technological know-how that they'll need to get ahead, 15-30 years from now in the workplace. I'd love to hear of more people giving to that sort of group, both time, money, and material goods(read: boxes =)
On the non-tech side, think of everything that's helped you along the way. Did you grow up watching Sesame Street? I'm sure your local public TV station would give you a coffee mug if you threw $25 at them.. Habitat for Humanity prefers time/work donated, but $ probably won't hurt them...
Give till it hurts!--
Neil
"It outperforms many turntables 2 or 3 times its price" -- Dr. CP Yu.(www.elpj.com/welcome.html)
OK, so this guy claims he knows of turntables out there that cost >US$27,000? Wow... I think it'd be a rare audiophile who threw out cash for one of those. He also claims that it makes CDs "unlistenable." Oh really? Hmm... seems to me that even a clean vinyl record (played with a laser) would sound worse than a dirty CD. Remember that a CD has a protective coating on it, and it's impossible to keep those records PERFECTLY clean.
Nice concept though, and awfully weird how it follows my dream last night of listening to my record collection.
This summer, a bunch of friends (at a summer program) who were all really big readers wanted to share with each other their fave books. Thus was created the 4A booklist(fourth floor, building A)... I hung out with the girls a lot, and had made some recommendations to one of them, and she said "Just write them all down, and we'll put them on the booklist." This thing is pretty big, thanks to Jodie's love of sci-fi, SF, and fantasy. Somehow she distinguishes between the former two. Here's the site, run off my box.
I agree, except:
tsch == tea sea ess aitch
~ == til dee
# == pound, or channel, or number
! == egads
Who really wants a high uptime anyways? I, for one, derive a beautiful pleasure from rebooting my box. :)
check out my tapes page and be sure to let me know that you found me on /. :)
I hate to sound ignorant, but what's a MAX tunnel? Is it similar to a Lincoln Tunnel? If so, how does such a thing contain pi digits?
*pondering weird such things too early on Saturday AM*
Neil
No way! There's 60 minutes in an hour. 92-60=32, last I checked. So it'd be 16:32.
Sounds romantic enough to me. For geek love, see Real Genius. Jordan == hot *grin*