"Whatever you are doing, it is not more important than your family," that is what my reminder to go home says. Sometimes, we all need a reminder. If your employer does not agree, fuck 'em!
I just setup ndiswrapper for use with the realtek chipset. I had tried to get the bleeping thing to work with the Linux drivers, but without the correct kernel version, you are SOL! (despite claims by realtek).
The ndiswrapper setup was not pain-free, but not that bad either.
I have a two-year-old and I played the part of stay-at-home dad. Just get a simple audiable baby monitor and call it good. If you do not trust your baby sitter, get someone else. A close friend, or relative is best. I would not really trust my infant with a young teen-ager.
Also, try a practice run with the baby sitter. Seriously. Rent a movie, and make dinner. Hire the baby sitter to come over to watch the kid while you both have a relaxing evening at home. This way you build confidence in the baby sitter, you get used to the idea of not running to see the baby, etc., etc. After a few times of doing this, you should feel confident enough to leave the baby with the sitter.
And my final piece of advice is to closely examine your personal life and bid it a fond fairwell, because it's gone! Most of the time you will be too tired and/or sick to do anything anyway!:-)
I have to say that I have used Sybase over the past five years and I am definately not a Sybase fan. I think that I'd rather be drawn and quartered than use Sybase. I am not a huge fan of databases to begin with but Sybase (11.9.2) was just aweful from my point of view.
I am constantly chasing my daughter away from my computer. Of course, she is not quite two and her best trick is to press the power button. Thank god for autosave and journalled filesystems!
While I agree the beginner should avoid over spending, I would add that good running clothes are a must. Nothing is worse than a wet cotten t-shirt (whether from the weather or for other reasons!) Look for sales though. A good running shirt could run you anywhere from $50 to $70, but I have found some for $15 on sale.
Also, for me at least, some sort of audio entertainment is a must. Motivating music for intense runs, books on tape are nice for easy going jogs.
I wish i had thousands to spend on a bike. Watching those guys toss those bikes around as they were riding in the tour this morning really wish i had it that easy.
I'll give you that top of the line bike and buy some POS from walmart and give it to Lance, and laugh me ass off as he proceeded to kick your ass. Hell, he could probably kick my ass dragging a fscking boat anchor!!
I am no slouch, but I serious doubt that I would do vastly better on that 5000 dollar bike, than I would do an a well tuned 700 dollar bike.
I have several of the books in the this series. I enjoy the advanced topics, yet I am saddened when I realize many of the techniques discussed seem to be yet another way to beat the C++ into submission. (i.e., the books seem to point out the numerous holes in the C++ language and ways to avoid them. Which makes me wonder what can be done to the language itself to address some of those issues...).
Gosh, are you telling me I have to think up keyword and the like? Smells like work to me.
Wouldn't it be great if this overpower POS (piece of silicon) could catagorize the document itself? It would not really need "natural language" ability; just steal (er, borrow) ideas from web search engines and have a thesaurus handy.
Combine this with the idea that the "save" button is outdated (there was a/. article about this some months ago), and the user could really be confused! It might be neat to have the system automatically find neighborhoods of documents (by content matching and by time).
Maybe not. At least in the US (again, bad example), there are many people in permanent limbo (many in jail), because they committed a crime in the US but are not US critizens, and the persons' country of origin refused to allow them to return home.
No seriously, I bought one of these Nex II players (w/ a 265 meg card). I have used mine extensively on runs. Even long runs. *pause* Very long runs. I once took mine on a 50-miler. It worked great. (Of course, I swapped out the batteries and listened to all the music about 3 or 4 times). I want to get another compact flash card, but haven't been able to scrap together the dough.
I wonder if the VC could track modules (i.e., classes and namespaces to use a C++ reference) instead of files? Granted the VC would need the ability to parse the material which is being controlled, but changes can be tracked per module (i.e., new function added, base class derived, etc.) Just a thought (seems rather complicated)
Over the past couple of years, I have started to become a Disciple of extreme programming (silly name, great concept). I envision a system where many of the features of XP are integrated with the revision control system. Essentially, code must have tests and modicum of documentation (a paragraph explaining what the hell is going on would suffice).
At a slightly higher level, integrating the requirements ("stories" in XP speak) into the system would allow better tracking of progress of both subsystems and parts as a whole.
For example, a project starts with 50 "stories". In the first few weeks, 30 stories are completed (i.e., code exists with tests which statisfy each of the stories). The customer (or managers, etc.) could bring up a story and review all the unit tests, acceptance tests, etc., for a particular story. Should the customer discover a new special case, they can extend (or append to) the acceptance tests for particular story (or set of stories). In this way, nothing gets left out or overlooked and every part of the system is verified automagically. (Plus, the programmer gains a bit of safety from poorly specified projects.)
As the number of outstanding stories decreases, projection can be made as to project completion. Stories which are getting left behind can receive additional resources, etc. The revision control system could actually answer the age old question "is it done, yet?".
Anyone what to help me write this?
(I have actually spec'ed some of the system out, but I have been too busy to do anything about it...)
I actually did some research on this very topic (I was a student of Dr. Murphy while she was at the Colorado School of Mines). I have tried operating some of these very robots. Not an easy task at all.
My research focused on using AI to assist the operator, for example, in very cluttered environment with many sharp corners, the robot would automatically lower its top speed. Other people I worked with, were researching AI assisted tele-presence.
I am torn that this research is being put to use. Kind of like knowing first-aid; you are glad you know what to do and glad to help, but hope like hell you never have to apply it.
These are only formatting languages. DVI would have been a more appropriate suggestion, but even that has limitations compared to PDF (i.e., linking, bookmarks, notes, etc). For nice looking "print quality" output which both prints and views well, it is hard to beat PDF at the present time.
(A little off-topic: IMHO, Docbook is a better choice for this sort of thing -- TeX/LaTeX are nice, but they are showing their age. I have written a thesis and many articles in LaTeX, and have found Docbook to be far superior even if a bit immature).
"Gaming" defined in this sense is a good answer to the ask/. question. I had been kind of pondering this question for a while and with respect to the actual players, many (if not most) role-playing games would qualify as "Non-Zero Sum". It is interesting that in the US there is an overwhelming (and depressing) emphasis on capitalism. And this permeates to every level of society. One could argue that most of the social problems can be blamed on capitalism run amuck.
Capitalism demands focus on the individual ("how do I become wealthy/better/more successful than my peers?"). In the case above, that would mean having more power (i.e., be in the tougher gang) and to oppress weaker individuals.
Role-playing (as a group in pen and paper format) is probably one of the best examples of an activity which is "unamerican" (WRT capitalism) because the need for cooperation to better the group, not to mention the need for thinking outside the box, imagination, and creativity. These last are also being forced out of US society (take a look at the emphasis on the current standardized testing debate!)
It would certainly be interesting to turn this into some sort of educational introduction to UNIX. And could be quite fun for younger kids. At least after "playing" they would be familiar with some of the concepts.
On the other hand, there were some interesting concepts in the MUDs which could migrate back into the command-line. The idea of levels was kind of cool. A particular user could be deemed an http "wizard" (i.e., full access to all things http) but a newbie WRT init, users,/etc, mail, etc. Essentially, designing multiple disciplines at various levels. "root" could become a much less necessary account (I have always felt root is a bad idea; hard to see who did what (and yes I know about sudo and its like), and it is too much of a target -- get root and you have the keys to the kingdom).
No here is a beauty. And yes it is a college loan problem to boot.
After finishing my undergraduate degree, I was offered an RA to
continue on to get my graduate degree (master's program in this case).
Well, this offer came up late and I was ill prepared and uninformed
about how grad school worked. At my institution graduate students are
considered full-time if they are taking 13 credit hours per semester.
Unbelievable! What I did not release is that graduate student pad
this total by taking "thesis" hours. Of course, I assumed a rational
world and did not even realize there was minimum number of hours to
make the student loan people happy as well.
To make a long, painful story somewhat shorter, I was screwed. It was
too late to sign up for more hours and my student loans were coming
due. To this day I still live in an apartment on a dual professional
income because the whole credit situation is ridiculous. I keep
hoping that someone would have the intelligence to understand the
situation and the courage to do something about it!
(I occasionally think about the Bloom County episode where Steve
Dallas ended up in the hacker tank and had his credit threatened. I
had never before realized how scary that threat could really be.)
I wonder if some the band (particularly TMBG, whose website I visit regularly anyway), might be happier if all the mp3's had links back to the artist's homepage. That might be cool thing. The players could provide an easy means to bring up the artist's/song's webpage in a browser.
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"Whatever you are doing, it is not more important than your family," that is what my reminder to go home says. Sometimes, we all need a reminder. If your employer does not agree, fuck 'em!
Dude, I'll backup your data. I have a stack of floppies here and nothing but time.
Jesus, who in the hell designed this "slide-show" crap! They should immediately append a link to their own freaking site!
I just setup ndiswrapper for use with the realtek chipset. I had tried to get the bleeping thing to work with the Linux drivers, but without the correct kernel version, you are SOL! (despite claims by realtek).
The ndiswrapper setup was not pain-free, but not that bad either.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
-Dale
I have a two-year-old and I played the part of stay-at-home dad. Just get a simple audiable baby monitor and call it good. If you do not trust your baby sitter, get someone else. A close friend, or relative is best. I would not really trust my infant with a young teen-ager.
:-)
Also, try a practice run with the baby sitter. Seriously. Rent a movie, and make dinner. Hire the baby sitter to come over to watch the kid while you both have a relaxing evening at home. This way you build confidence in the baby sitter, you get used to the idea of not running to see the baby, etc., etc. After a few times of doing this, you should feel confident enough to leave the baby with the sitter.
And my final piece of advice is to closely examine your personal life and bid it a fond fairwell, because it's gone! Most of the time you will be too tired and/or sick to do anything anyway!
-Dale
I have to say that I have used Sybase over the past five years and I am definately not a Sybase fan. I think that I'd rather be drawn and quartered than use Sybase. I am not a huge fan of databases to begin with but Sybase (11.9.2) was just aweful from my point of view.
I am constantly chasing my daughter away from my computer. Of course, she is not quite two and her best trick is to press the power button. Thank god for autosave and journalled filesystems!
While I agree the beginner should avoid over spending, I would add that good running clothes are a must. Nothing is worse than a wet cotten t-shirt (whether from the weather or for other reasons!) Look for sales though. A good running shirt could run you anywhere from $50 to $70, but I have found some for $15 on sale.
Also, for me at least, some sort of audio entertainment is a must. Motivating music for intense runs, books on tape are nice for easy going jogs.
I'll give you that top of the line bike and buy some POS from walmart and give it to Lance, and laugh me ass off as he proceeded to kick your ass. Hell, he could probably kick my ass dragging a fscking boat anchor!!
I am no slouch, but I serious doubt that I would do vastly better on that 5000 dollar bike, than I would do an a well tuned 700 dollar bike.
I have several of the books in the this series. I enjoy the advanced topics, yet I am saddened when I realize many of the techniques discussed seem to be yet another way to beat the C++ into submission. (i.e., the books seem to point out the numerous holes in the C++ language and ways to avoid them. Which makes me wonder what can be done to the language itself to address some of those issues...).
Gosh, are you telling me I have to think up keyword and the like? Smells like work to me.
/. article about this some months ago), and the user could really be confused! It might be neat to have the system automatically find neighborhoods of documents (by content matching and by time).
Wouldn't it be great if this overpower POS (piece of silicon) could catagorize the document itself? It would not really need "natural language" ability; just steal (er, borrow) ideas from web search engines and have a thesaurus handy.
Combine this with the idea that the "save" button is outdated (there was a
Need removable media for those really long ass runs.
n 100s.com/HR/.
http://www.lakecity50.com/, http://www.leadvilletrail100.com/,
http://www.ru
With one of these things, I will have listened to the save songs at least a dozen times.
Maybe not. At least in the US (again, bad example), there are many people in permanent limbo (many in jail), because they committed a crime in the US but are not US critizens, and the persons' country of origin refused to allow them to return home.
No seriously, I bought one of these Nex II players (w/ a 265 meg card). I have used mine extensively on runs. Even long runs. *pause* Very long runs. I once took mine on a 50-miler. It worked great. (Of course, I swapped out the batteries and listened to all the music about 3 or 4 times). I want to get another compact flash card, but haven't been able to scrap together the dough.
I wonder if the VC could track modules (i.e., classes and namespaces to use a C++ reference) instead of files? Granted the VC would need the ability to parse the material which is being controlled, but changes can be tracked per module (i.e., new function added, base class derived, etc.) Just a thought (seems rather complicated)
Over the past couple of years, I have started to become a Disciple of extreme programming (silly name, great concept). I envision a system where many of the features of XP are integrated with the revision control system. Essentially, code must have tests and modicum of documentation (a paragraph explaining what the hell is going on would suffice).
At a slightly higher level, integrating the requirements ("stories" in XP speak) into the system would allow better tracking of progress of both subsystems and parts as a whole.
For example, a project starts with 50 "stories". In the first few weeks, 30 stories are completed (i.e., code exists with tests which statisfy each of the stories). The customer (or managers, etc.) could bring up a story and review all the unit tests, acceptance tests, etc., for a particular story. Should the customer discover a new special case, they can extend (or append to) the acceptance tests for particular story (or set of stories). In this way, nothing gets left out or overlooked and every part of the system is verified automagically. (Plus, the programmer gains a bit of safety from poorly specified projects.)
As the number of outstanding stories decreases, projection can be made as to project completion. Stories which are getting left behind can receive additional resources, etc. The revision control system could actually answer the age old question "is it done, yet?".
Anyone what to help me write this?
(I have actually spec'ed some of the system out, but I have been too busy to do anything about it...)
Just for fun, fire up the "original browser".
telnet msn.com 80
This is some sort of test page! Very funny!
I actually did some research on this very topic (I was a student of Dr. Murphy while she was at the Colorado School of Mines). I have tried operating some of these very robots. Not an easy task at all.
My research focused on using AI to assist the operator, for example, in very cluttered environment with many sharp corners, the robot would automatically lower its top speed. Other people I worked with, were researching AI assisted tele-presence.
I am torn that this research is being put to use. Kind of like knowing first-aid; you are glad you know what to do and glad to help, but hope like hell you never have to apply it.
These are only formatting languages. DVI would have been a more appropriate suggestion, but even that has limitations compared to PDF (i.e., linking, bookmarks, notes, etc). For nice looking "print quality" output which both prints and views well, it is hard to beat PDF at the present time.
(A little off-topic: IMHO, Docbook is a better choice for this sort of thing -- TeX/LaTeX are nice, but they are showing their age. I have written a thesis and many articles in LaTeX, and have found Docbook to be far superior even if a bit immature).
Breathing a sigh of relief...
Capitalism demands focus on the individual ("how do I become wealthy/better/more successful than my peers?"). In the case above, that would mean having more power (i.e., be in the tougher gang) and to oppress weaker individuals.
Role-playing (as a group in pen and paper format) is probably one of the best examples of an activity which is "unamerican" (WRT capitalism) because the need for cooperation to better the group, not to mention the need for thinking outside the box, imagination, and creativity. These last are also being forced out of US society (take a look at the emphasis on the current standardized testing debate!)
Links:
Can You Suggest Any Non-Zero Sum Games?
While the Pig Latin filter is a good start, a more advanced filter such as the & gt;Swedish Chef, et. al.</a> filters would be much tougher to "crack". And lets not forget rot13.
Seriously, though, if the user is given a method to find songs (i.e., "encript" the song name), couldn't the RIAA use the same technic to find the songs? The only viable alternative would be for everyone to have there own encoding (obfuscation) scheme and share this with their friends, requiring the RIAA to "decode" the names. Telling how the encoding works would defeat the protection offered by the DMCA.
It would certainly be interesting to turn this into some sort of educational introduction to UNIX. And could be quite fun for younger kids. At least after "playing" they would be familiar with some of the concepts.
/etc, mail, etc. Essentially, designing multiple disciplines at various levels. "root" could become a much less necessary account (I have always felt root is a bad idea; hard to see who did what (and yes I know about sudo and its like), and it is too much of a target -- get root and you have the keys to the kingdom).
On the other hand, there were some interesting concepts in the MUDs which could migrate back into the command-line. The idea of levels was kind of cool. A particular user could be deemed an http "wizard" (i.e., full access to all things http) but a newbie WRT init, users,
No here is a beauty. And yes it is a college loan problem to boot.
After finishing my undergraduate degree, I was offered an RA to
continue on to get my graduate degree (master's program in this case).
Well, this offer came up late and I was ill prepared and uninformed
about how grad school worked. At my institution graduate students are
considered full-time if they are taking 13 credit hours per semester.
Unbelievable! What I did not release is that graduate student pad
this total by taking "thesis" hours. Of course, I assumed a rational
world and did not even realize there was minimum number of hours to
make the student loan people happy as well.
To make a long, painful story somewhat shorter, I was screwed. It was
too late to sign up for more hours and my student loans were coming
due. To this day I still live in an apartment on a dual professional
income because the whole credit situation is ridiculous. I keep
hoping that someone would have the intelligence to understand the
situation and the courage to do something about it!
(I occasionally think about the Bloom County episode where Steve
Dallas ended up in the hacker tank and had his credit threatened. I
had never before realized how scary that threat could really be.)
I wonder if some the band (particularly TMBG, whose website I visit regularly anyway), might be happier if all the mp3's had links back to the artist's homepage. That might be cool thing. The players could provide an easy means to bring up the artist's/song's webpage in a browser.