Yeah, I know, but you just can't go calling something an Aardvark in mixed company:-)
I liked Moebius (?) and the french guy that wrote for him, (or *was* he the french guy?) myself. The one who did all the pastels.
I stopped buying comics after high school. When I got to college I wished I had the $5000 I spent on them, big time. I've still got them. I have fond memories of those days, but my psyche is so different now, the sort of mindset going on in "American Splendor" is just not who I am anymore. It's nice to see hollywood making a sincere effort to reach out to the (former) comic-reading crowd, but really, they're about as far off as Playboy is from sex.
I liked "Unbreakable", especially how Sam Jackson turned out to be the bad guy!
Yeah, Micracleman (rocks). But what about Tales of the Beanworld? Or Cerberus the Pope, the comic you had to read with surgical gloves, or the oils in your fingers would stain the covers? Flaming Carrot? Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children? Concrete? Grendel? Stickboy: Fuck the World?
What's with the Judy Tenuda referenece? She was just some random comic from the 80s, before Pauly Shore was invented. She's not (particularly) geek-cool.
I was born in 71, my older sister in 62. Sometime in the late 70's, I was playing with legos, and listening to my sister's "Grease" album on my fabric-covered folding record player, I remember looking up and seeing this poster on the wall: ARE YOU A NERD? kind of like "you might be a redneck...": the guy had a pocket protector, broken glasses, booger on finger for later eating, briefcase, &c. It was some trend thing.
A couple years later she had a "are you a preppie" poster, of the same kind of thing. Damn she wore a lot of pink and green that year.
I'm just glad he's going to be dead soon. I'm going to punish the baby boomers (I know he's not one) when they go into the nursing homes for all the bullshit they've caused and attention they've demanded. It's gonna be soylent green time baybe!
(I'm only half joking. But it's gonna be fun getting the last laugh. I say we have mass execution chambers. Just for anyone who's been through hippies, disco, yuppies, clinton and believed *all* of it)
If you think that's ever going to be something you can slap up on the blackboard in an hour, you're wrong.
All I'm saying is that 2000 years ago it took a 60 year old man hundreds of pages to describe techniques for long division, and they had LONG, LONG discussions about how stuff was made of earth, wind, and fire . You *seriously* believe similar advancements won't be made 1000 years from now that put our science in a similar light?
I'm not saying the techniques 2000 years ago weren't valid, or the ones today are offbase. But odds are it is possible (from the correct perspective) to express them in plain english, to a preschooler. Thats all I'm saying: not that we're *wrong*, only that it's possible to explain it all, much, much simpler.
This article is about linguistics, and he said "go read Chomsky", so I went and read Chomsky's bibliography. What I'm about to say applies to all modern philosophers and mathematicians:
God damn, them are some fancy-schmancy sounding titles! Does anybody ever get the feeling sometimes that maybe things are simpler than our smartest people currently make them out to be? If you can't talk as simple as I'm talking now, you ain't really "nailed it."
The reason I think this is true: back when all mathematicians only had Roman Numerals, the process for explaining how to multiple 3-digit numbers was extremely opaque, and it was nearly impossible to describe how to do long division. Now we can teach 3rd/4th graders how to do it before they watch "Barney".
I saw some links about all the math they never teach anymore (compound arithmatic, like pounds shillings pence comes to mind). I think something similar will be the case in 1000 years with everything Chomsky and any arbitrary math guy says: they just haven't thought about how to say it simply yet. Life just *ain't* that complicated (if you have the right way to think.)
There's a couple of tricks I discovered that really simplify things:
(1) Pretty much ignore "libs" and "libs-devel"; those are just noise; real apps will bring those in as needed, with aptitude.
(2) Use "tasksel" to get a "C/C++ environment". Then, type "apt-get build-dep mozilla; apt-get build-dep kcontrol; apt-get build-dep gnome-control-center" to bring in almost all the headers and libs for most things.
There are still a few heuristics I follow, but they're harder to describe: basically, ignore most stuff. If you follow (1) and (2) you'll find the # of packages doesn't seem mind-boggling vast; just huge.
Obviously they must mean something besides the traditional notion of "private key" when they say "a private key is sent in the header, and the public key is used to decrypt it".
Is this a mistake, or is there some other terminology this is following?
In NC there is (was?) a district that was artificially constructed to get a Minority (black) Majority district. It ran from one largely minority area, up a highway (no wider than a mile on either side of the highway), and connected with another minority area many many miles away.
I like AT&T too. I travel nationwide and like to be able to use my phone anywhere. Service is reliable (that's super-important to me). $45/month for 550 minutes FROM anywhere in the country TO anywhere in the country, and all you can eat on the weekends.
The other services seem to offer identical services at the same price scale, and at least with Sprint I've seen more people have connectivity issues.
I remember in fall semester 1993 / spring semester 1994 when Yahoo was a static html page. "yahoo.html" and it wasn't that long.
I remember HTML 1.0, before you could have inline images. The first month or two, the most popular thing on the net (besides physics papers) were "X's list of links), just a bullet list of hyperlinks.
They were imitating the "gopher" style pages. The first yahoo.html page was about 50 links.
Have you ever been to a grateful dead show? All hippie/bohemian activities are kind of "wierd".
I like Carla. There was another kind of strange girl with a boob job that showed up "Anna" I think. She was a flake (kind of stupid). The rest of us were just intellectuals.
Hey, it was big enough to make a headline on Slashdot. Basically anything that absorbs the nation's attention is worth paying attention to, just to see what the fuss is about.
In (1999) I think, I went to a JenniCon. It was fun. She had a timeshare place in Virginia. There were about 14 people there. All the other guys were crashing on the floor of her timeshare -- I rented a place on the other side of the complex.
She's just a gen-Y pothead. (She and her then boyfriend smoked Pot the whole time, and didn't offer us any. I finally got her to pass me the bong and TreeH got nervous in case they saw me doing it on the cam).
I think she was part of some national psychological program to profile us Internet Whackos. Whatever. I was there.
I wouldn't be surprised if within 100 years the "internet" has been completely superceded by something completely different, which we cannot even comprehend now.
It'll be similar; but as different as a hand-cranked horseless carriage and Formula 1.
I would think there is a different between creating a FAT table on something (i.e. software that formats a device for FAT) and using a FAT table (reading or writing files on disk formatted with Microsoft tools).
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I know, but you just can't go calling something an Aardvark in mixed company :-)
I liked Moebius (?) and the french guy that wrote for him, (or *was* he the french guy?) myself. The one who did all the pastels.
I stopped buying comics after high school. When I got to college I wished I had the $5000 I spent on them, big time. I've still got them. I have fond memories of those days, but my psyche is so different now, the sort of mindset going on in "American Splendor" is just not who I am anymore. It's nice to see hollywood making a sincere effort to reach out to the (former) comic-reading crowd, but really, they're about as far off as Playboy is from sex.
I liked "Unbreakable", especially how Sam Jackson turned out to be the bad guy!
The sky is blue.
I think you just dropped a name of an object :-)
Aw, don't be a drip.
The largest DB I've done was about 1 billion rows, processing the weblogs of a large ISP into SQL Server. It was about 1.5 TB.
:-)
I wrote some queries that reduced the processing time from 6 hours to 45 minutes
Me = smart
Yeah, Micracleman (rocks). But what about Tales of the Beanworld? Or Cerberus the Pope, the comic you had to read with surgical gloves, or the oils in your fingers would stain the covers? Flaming Carrot? Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children? Concrete? Grendel? Stickboy: Fuck the World?
What's with the Judy Tenuda referenece? She was just some random comic from the 80s, before Pauly Shore was invented. She's not (particularly) geek-cool.
I was born in 71, my older sister in 62.
Sometime in the late 70's, I was playing with legos, and listening to my sister's "Grease" album on my fabric-covered folding record player, I remember looking up and seeing this poster on the wall: ARE YOU A NERD? kind of like "you might be a redneck...": the guy had a pocket protector, broken glasses, booger on finger for later eating, briefcase, &c. It was some trend thing.
A couple years later she had a "are you a preppie" poster, of the same kind of thing. Damn she wore a lot of pink and green that year.
I guess it was around 1976.
What are the legality of clever plays on words?
If it was called "Doors", would that be infringing?
How about if it was called "Shutters"?
How about "Macrohard?"
Let me tell you my plans are uniquely my own. My grief has nothing to do with right or left. I'm gonna turn 'em into fertiziler :-)
I'm just glad he's going to be dead soon.
I'm going to punish the baby boomers (I know he's not one) when they go into the nursing homes for all the bullshit they've caused and attention they've demanded. It's gonna be soylent green time baybe!
(I'm only half joking. But it's gonna be fun getting the last laugh. I say we have mass execution chambers. Just for anyone who's been through hippies, disco, yuppies, clinton and believed *all* of it)
Quick: in your head: how much is 6 dozen and 3 times 7 and 1/2 score? This is the kind of math they used to teach in elementary school in the 1800s.
They don't anymore.
If you think that's ever going to be something you can slap up on the blackboard in an hour, you're wrong.
All I'm saying is that 2000 years ago it took a 60 year old man hundreds of pages to describe techniques for long division, and they had LONG, LONG discussions about how stuff was made of earth, wind, and fire . You *seriously* believe similar advancements won't be made 1000 years from now that put our science in a similar light?
I'm not saying the techniques 2000 years ago weren't valid, or the ones today are offbase. But odds are it is possible (from the correct perspective) to express them in plain english, to a preschooler. Thats all I'm saying: not that we're *wrong*, only that it's possible to explain it all, much, much simpler.
This article is about linguistics, and he said "go read Chomsky", so I went and read Chomsky's bibliography. What I'm about to say applies to all modern philosophers and mathematicians:
God damn, them are some fancy-schmancy sounding titles! Does anybody ever get the feeling sometimes that maybe things are simpler than our smartest people currently make them out to be? If you can't talk as simple as I'm talking now, you ain't really "nailed it."
The reason I think this is true: back when all mathematicians only had Roman Numerals, the process for explaining how to multiple 3-digit numbers was extremely opaque, and it was nearly impossible to describe how to do long division. Now we can teach 3rd/4th graders how to do it before they watch "Barney".
I saw some links about all the math they never teach anymore (compound arithmatic, like pounds shillings pence comes to mind). I think something similar will be the case in 1000 years with everything Chomsky and any arbitrary math guy says: they just haven't thought about how to say it simply yet. Life just *ain't* that complicated (if you have the right way to think.)
There's a couple of tricks I discovered that really simplify things:
(1) Pretty much ignore "libs" and "libs-devel"; those are just noise; real apps will bring those in as needed, with aptitude.
(2) Use "tasksel" to get a "C/C++ environment". Then, type "apt-get build-dep mozilla; apt-get build-dep kcontrol; apt-get build-dep gnome-control-center" to bring in almost all the headers and libs for most things.
There are still a few heuristics I follow, but they're harder to describe: basically, ignore most stuff. If you follow (1) and (2) you'll find the # of packages doesn't seem mind-boggling vast; just huge.
use aptitude (console) or synaptic (gtk)
I'm amazed that more people don't know this. I used dselect for about a day, then quickly discovered apt+tasksel, then aptitude. Dselect is awful.
The cheesiest thing about the ending to 3001 was he destroyed the Monolith -- wait for it -- a VIRUS!
A Cantor connundrum I think!
He wrote such a great story only to have it fall completely apart at the end.
Obviously they must mean something besides the traditional notion of "private key" when they say "a private key is sent in the header, and the public key is used to decrypt it".
Is this a mistake, or is there some other terminology this is following?
In NC there is (was?) a district that was artificially constructed to get a Minority (black) Majority district. It ran from one largely minority area, up a highway (no wider than a mile on either side of the highway), and connected with another minority area many many miles away.
I think they threw it out.
I like AT&T too. I travel nationwide and like to be able to use my phone anywhere. Service is reliable (that's super-important to me). $45/month for 550 minutes FROM anywhere in the country TO anywhere in the country, and all you can eat on the weekends.
The other services seem to offer identical services at the same price scale, and at least with Sprint I've seen more people have connectivity issues.
Comments?
I remember in fall semester 1993 / spring semester 1994 when Yahoo was a static html page.
"yahoo.html" and it wasn't that long.
I remember HTML 1.0, before you could have inline images. The first month or two, the most popular thing on the net (besides physics papers) were "X's list of links), just a bullet list of hyperlinks.
They were imitating the "gopher" style pages. The first yahoo.html page was about 50 links.
And shit, that was like, so nouveau.
Nah, there was nothing really sexual about it.
Have you ever been to a grateful dead show? All hippie/bohemian activities are kind of "wierd".
I like Carla. There was another kind of strange girl with a boob job that showed up "Anna" I think. She was a flake (kind of stupid). The rest of us were just intellectuals.
Hey, it was big enough to make a headline on Slashdot. Basically anything that absorbs the nation's attention is worth paying attention to, just to see what the fuss is about.
It's gay if you go back.
It was kinda gay, which is why I made a big point about saying I got my own $300/night timeshare on the other side of the timeshare.
What are you, afraid of yourself or something?
In (1999) I think, I went to a JenniCon. It was fun. She had a timeshare place in Virginia. There were about 14 people there. All the other guys were crashing on the floor of her timeshare -- I rented a place on the other side of the complex.
She's just a gen-Y pothead. (She and her then boyfriend smoked Pot the whole time, and didn't offer us any. I finally got her to pass me the bong and TreeH got nervous in case they saw me doing it on the cam).
I think she was part of some national psychological program to profile us Internet Whackos. Whatever. I was there.
I wouldn't be surprised if within 100 years the "internet" has been completely superceded by something completely different, which we cannot even comprehend now.
It'll be similar; but as different as a hand-cranked horseless carriage and Formula 1.
I would think there is a different between creating a FAT table on something (i.e. software that formats a device for FAT) and using a FAT table (reading or writing files on disk formatted with Microsoft tools).
Dude, this is like so little cash. This is roughly the salary of one person for a year. In exchange for that, you get hundreds of worker bees.