Their tour graphic, while somewhat lacking on details, places the developer squarely at the U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. Which doesn't totally surprise me (home of NCSA Mosaic, NCSA Telnet, etc.).
But if they honestly think we believe there'll be that many young, good-looking women logged onto this thing at once, they're utterly insane....
Remeber folks, this is the man who is responsible for the aisles and aisles of "blueberry" and "lime" and other fruit colored office suplies in the past few years.
No, he was responsible for the iMac which countless office supply companies imitated, often badly. Blaming Ives for their existence is like blaming England's King George for G.W. Bush.
...especially on college campuses. If you get a laptop, be militant about security. Keep it in a bag on your person at all times unless you're actually using it. If you're keeping it in your dorm, get a lock for it. I kid you not, leaving your laptop alone on a table ANYWHERE -- dorm, cafeteria, library, study lounge -- for sixty seconds is an invitation to have it and all your notes, email and passwords stolen.
Even if it's not stolen, a careless friend with a soda is all you need to have it ruined completely. So keep all your vital data for the entire semester online as a backup -- you should get a healthy storage quota just for enrolling as a student.
One good suggestion I heard was to keep your laptop in an ordinary knapsack instead of a special laptop case, to make it less obvious that you're carrying one. Pad it with a couple of shirts on either side and you're good to go.
...get a folding full-size keyboard with it as well. (Keep in mind that the Palm notepad can only hold 32K of text at a time.) Assuming you can touch-type, taking notes on a full-size keyboard during lectures is much faster than anything besides shorthand.
My folding keyboard is only slightly larger than my Palm m500, cost less than $100 and fits into my other jacket pocket. Together, they make an excellent note-taking device with several day's worth of rechargable battery life (unless you need the backlight). Bring it back to your desktop computer and sync it, keeping all your notes for a single class in a single category.
By rewriting existing scientific programs, they say, researchers will be able to get powerful computing from inexpensive clusters of personal computers that are running the free Linux software operating system. Many scientists are now adapting their work to these parallel computing systems, known as Beowulfs
The remote administrators rarely know your true intentions, and do sometimes get suspicious. The best approach is to get permission first.
This is so obvious, I can't believe it needed to be said. And yet it does, because Geeks Like Us usually assume that other people Just Wouldn't Understand. The difference between extortion and contracting for services is that one does the job before asking for money, the other asks for money and then does the job. And this isn't very different.
There are a zillion dangerous uses of a detectable port scan, and a zillion legitimate ones. The best way to make sure your legitimate uses are understood is to tell people what you're doing before you do it. Incidentally, this also goes for copying someone else's original works, buying dangerous substances at the hardware store, and the like. Yet I'm surprised at how few people bother (er, myself included).
Guglielmo Marconi has released a new system for music delivery, its called "Radio". Unfortunately, it doesn't provide the ability to select a particular song, but it does provide the ability to choose genre.
Maybe in your city. The spectrum of musical genres in my area consists entirely of pop, classic rock, country, adult contemporary, and news. Internet mp3 streaming is, IMO, the greatest thing to happen to music since the LP.
The second-to-last Mac OS X update had a glitch where, on many portables, it would reset the system clock to the epoch on restart. The update after that corrected the problem, of course.
This is somewhat minor compared to losing network access, but only somewhat. This sort of thing happens often when OS updates move from the lab to the real world, and the fact that Microsoft responded the way it did should be considered a virtue rather than a vice.
That's what made Eva great; it wasn't the angels or the fight scenes.
Yeah, like anyone would have wanted to watch Shinji and Asuka grouse about their self-esteem for twenty-six episodes without Angels and fight scenes to break the monotony.
Record companies also serve the useful purpose of getting artists together.
Yeah, there are lots of rock bands that try to break into the scene fully-formed, but where do the record companies put their muscle? Behind pop artists, and pop music almost never appears as a single band. There's a singer, or a group of singers, who almost never performs his/her/their own compositions. The band playing the music is assembled, often from a large pool of artists who do nothing but back up pop artists quasi-anonymously. The music and lyrics themselves are written by someone else who never meets the musicians, although they're usually written and/or arranged just for the performer. And then there's the engineers who run the equipment to put it all together so that the artists don't have to worry about the technical aspect.
Put them all together, wrap it up in oodles of makeup, clothes and album covers, and you have a record company. They not only provide promotion, they make it possible for singers to be singers without having to be technicians and songwriters and bandleaders at the same time. Whether this is good or bad is a matter of opinion, of course, but it's still something that only they can do.
Unless the scriptwriter, director, and producer are willing to portray this story in all its gory beauty, they shouldn't even bother. I can't see them doing *HALF* of the things I listed above, and you really need *ALL* of them to get the story right.
You're probably one of those people who became livid when Tom Bombadil was stripped from "Fellowship of the Ring", too. Do you really intend to hold it against them if they don't develop every last character in exactly the same way as the 13-hour series during a 2-hour movie?
It'll be a translation of the story idea, the same as the X-Men movies had to do, and they'll reduce the number of developed characters to two or three and probably throw away most of the Angels and half of the Evas to keep it simple. If this movie works, it'll invite people to go back and watch the original animated series and manga, and that's good enough for me.
Quitcherbitching. We don't need ALL of those elements to get the story right; you do. The rest of us have learned that if you want to turn anything longer than a short story into a feature film, compromises need to be made, and not all of them are necessarily bad.
You did notice none of this organic life happened to be unfit
Generally speaking, you don't get a lot of fat people in a refugee city where food and water are scarce to begin with. (Ugly people, yes, but that's Hollywood for you.)
You're proceeding from the false assumption that we don't wan't to DoS their web server.
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Instead of doing some random puzzle, why not kill two birds with one stone and have machines that want to send email or have access to other services do a small work unit for folding@home or something.
The idea is to authorize the querying computer by giving them a problem to solve for which the answer is already known. Something like Folding@home involves puzzles for which the answers aren't yet known, so if the querying computer avoided solving it and just sent back a garbage solution the host machine wouldn't know the difference.
Mac Advocacy doesn't have to just be ignorant. It can be sexist, too.
"Flamebait" is right. Where did I say that most/all women are computer-illiterate, or that most/all computer illiterates are women? It just happens that these two individuals are both.
It's only fair use if you're citing part of the lyric for a paper or an article. Copying the whole thing, for the sole purpose of having a copy of the whole thing, is simple infringement. Poetry is protected the same way, and you'll find that there are in fact several popular poets (or their estates) who aggressively protect their work from online reproduction.
Music is heard, but the words are still copy and are fairly copyrighted.
Slashdot Mirror
Nearly useless, since BitTorrent doesn't have a functional OS X client. But thanks. ;-)
Their tour graphic, while somewhat lacking on details, places the developer squarely at the U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. Which doesn't totally surprise me (home of NCSA Mosaic, NCSA Telnet, etc.).
But if they honestly think we believe there'll be that many young, good-looking women logged onto this thing at once, they're utterly insane....
Since this is basically an IM crossed with a personals site, let's make it useful:
- A profile that's separated into individual interests that you can search on, or at least individual keywords
- Option to list only members of your preferred gender, a certain age group, sexual orientation, etc.
- A "hot-or-not" rating where, to be fair, you can only vote if you allow others to vote on you
- The ability to FORGET YOUR PASSWORD WHEN YOU DISCONNECT. For gods' sake, how about some basic security here?
Remeber folks, this is the man who is responsible for the aisles and aisles of "blueberry" and "lime" and other fruit colored office suplies in the past few years.
No, he was responsible for the iMac which countless office supply companies imitated, often badly. Blaming Ives for their existence is like blaming England's King George for G.W. Bush.
...especially on college campuses. If you get a laptop, be militant about security. Keep it in a bag on your person at all times unless you're actually using it. If you're keeping it in your dorm, get a lock for it. I kid you not, leaving your laptop alone on a table ANYWHERE -- dorm, cafeteria, library, study lounge -- for sixty seconds is an invitation to have it and all your notes, email and passwords stolen.
Even if it's not stolen, a careless friend with a soda is all you need to have it ruined completely. So keep all your vital data for the entire semester online as a backup -- you should get a healthy storage quota just for enrolling as a student.
One good suggestion I heard was to keep your laptop in an ordinary knapsack instead of a special laptop case, to make it less obvious that you're carrying one. Pad it with a couple of shirts on either side and you're good to go.
...get a folding full-size keyboard with it as well. (Keep in mind that the Palm notepad can only hold 32K of text at a time.) Assuming you can touch-type, taking notes on a full-size keyboard during lectures is much faster than anything besides shorthand.
My folding keyboard is only slightly larger than my Palm m500, cost less than $100 and fits into my other jacket pocket. Together, they make an excellent note-taking device with several day's worth of rechargable battery life (unless you need the backlight). Bring it back to your desktop computer and sync it, keeping all your notes for a single class in a single category.
By rewriting existing scientific programs, they say, researchers will be able to get powerful computing from inexpensive clusters of personal computers that are running the free Linux software operating system. Many scientists are now adapting their work to these parallel computing systems, known as Beowulfs
Man, I'd like to see a... um... damn.
The remote administrators rarely know your true intentions, and do sometimes get suspicious. The best approach is to get permission first.
This is so obvious, I can't believe it needed to be said. And yet it does, because Geeks Like Us usually assume that other people Just Wouldn't Understand. The difference between extortion and contracting for services is that one does the job before asking for money, the other asks for money and then does the job. And this isn't very different.
There are a zillion dangerous uses of a detectable port scan, and a zillion legitimate ones. The best way to make sure your legitimate uses are understood is to tell people what you're doing before you do it. Incidentally, this also goes for copying someone else's original works, buying dangerous substances at the hardware store, and the like. Yet I'm surprised at how few people bother (er, myself included).
It's just courtesy, really. Keep it in mind.
Guglielmo Marconi has released a new system for music delivery, its called "Radio". Unfortunately, it doesn't provide the ability to select a particular song, but it does provide the ability to choose genre.
Maybe in your city. The spectrum of musical genres in my area consists entirely of pop, classic rock, country, adult contemporary, and news. Internet mp3 streaming is, IMO, the greatest thing to happen to music since the LP.
The second-to-last Mac OS X update had a glitch where, on many portables, it would reset the system clock to the epoch on restart. The update after that corrected the problem, of course.
This is somewhat minor compared to losing network access, but only somewhat. This sort of thing happens often when OS updates move from the lab to the real world, and the fact that Microsoft responded the way it did should be considered a virtue rather than a vice.
it seems a "No-Contact Jacket" has been developed for women by MIT
Only at a college where the women are outnumbered by the men about ten-to-one would something like this even be conceived.
That's what made Eva great; it wasn't the angels or the fight scenes.
Yeah, like anyone would have wanted to watch Shinji and Asuka grouse about their self-esteem for twenty-six episodes without Angels and fight scenes to break the monotony.
Can someone in the audience shed more light into the matter?
No doubt it'll become more transparent as Slashdot editors repost it with increasing frequency.
Record companies also serve the useful purpose of getting artists together.
Yeah, there are lots of rock bands that try to break into the scene fully-formed, but where do the record companies put their muscle? Behind pop artists, and pop music almost never appears as a single band. There's a singer, or a group of singers, who almost never performs his/her/their own compositions. The band playing the music is assembled, often from a large pool of artists who do nothing but back up pop artists quasi-anonymously. The music and lyrics themselves are written by someone else who never meets the musicians, although they're usually written and/or arranged just for the performer. And then there's the engineers who run the equipment to put it all together so that the artists don't have to worry about the technical aspect.
Put them all together, wrap it up in oodles of makeup, clothes and album covers, and you have a record company. They not only provide promotion, they make it possible for singers to be singers without having to be technicians and songwriters and bandleaders at the same time. Whether this is good or bad is a matter of opinion, of course, but it's still something that only they can do.
Is anybody going to watch a live action movie so filled with angst and self-loathing as Evangelion?
You've never watched daytime soap operas, have you?
I'm a Matrix fan, and as such, i downloaded The Animatrix: The Second Generation, Part I.
;-)
I think you meant "The Second Renaissance." Some fanboy.
Unless the scriptwriter, director, and producer are willing to portray this story in all its gory beauty, they shouldn't even bother. I can't see them doing *HALF* of the things I listed above, and you really need *ALL* of them to get the story right.
You're probably one of those people who became livid when Tom Bombadil was stripped from "Fellowship of the Ring", too. Do you really intend to hold it against them if they don't develop every last character in exactly the same way as the 13-hour series during a 2-hour movie?
It'll be a translation of the story idea, the same as the X-Men movies had to do, and they'll reduce the number of developed characters to two or three and probably throw away most of the Angels and half of the Evas to keep it simple. If this movie works, it'll invite people to go back and watch the original animated series and manga, and that's good enough for me.
Quitcherbitching. We don't need ALL of those elements to get the story right; you do. The rest of us have learned that if you want to turn anything longer than a short story into a feature film, compromises need to be made, and not all of them are necessarily bad.
You did notice none of this organic life happened to be unfit
Generally speaking, you don't get a lot of fat people in a refugee city where food and water are scarce to begin with. (Ugly people, yes, but that's Hollywood for you.)
But they sell anyway, because they fill an important vacuum in the product line.
Here is a mirror location for the letter.
You're proceeding from the false assumption that we don't wan't to DoS their web server.
Instead of doing some random puzzle, why not kill two birds with one stone and have machines that want to send email or have access to other services do a small work unit for folding@home or something.
The idea is to authorize the querying computer by giving them a problem to solve for which the answer is already known. Something like Folding@home involves puzzles for which the answers aren't yet known, so if the querying computer avoided solving it and just sent back a garbage solution the host machine wouldn't know the difference.
I stopped eating primordial soup because the amino acids keep giving me heartburn.
You should have tried synthesizing some of those a-nicer acids instead. (boom-boom)
...could someone tell us if and how the remaining 8 essential amino acids can be formed?
Mac Advocacy doesn't have to just be ignorant. It can be sexist, too.
"Flamebait" is right. Where did I say that most/all women are computer-illiterate, or that most/all computer illiterates are women? It just happens that these two individuals are both.
I mean isn't this fair use?
It's only fair use if you're citing part of the lyric for a paper or an article. Copying the whole thing, for the sole purpose of having a copy of the whole thing, is simple infringement. Poetry is protected the same way, and you'll find that there are in fact several popular poets (or their estates) who aggressively protect their work from online reproduction.
Music is heard, but the words are still copy and are fairly copyrighted.