It's obvious--if you enjoy what you study, your colleagues, and your professors, then your work as a student is (and should be) enjoyable.
What you ACTUALLY wrote in your original post was:
Late nights, early mornings, incredible stress, terrible teachers, worse TAs, hours upon hours of assignments, labs, and exams, not to mention all the project work, and the only respite the odd drunken party with my friends?
Late nights, early mornings, stress, etc I think speaks more about you than the college, it's true. But, "terrible teachers" and "worse TAs"? That's entirely your college selection.. Good teachers DO make a huge difference, and I virtually never had to interact with TAs at either of my schools. So yeah, I can see how if you were miserable in that regard, you wouldn't be happy. Goes right back to what I said about college fit.
Dibs-the-fuck-out. Anyone who looks wistfully looks back on college/university either a) doesn't remember what it was actually like, or b) didn't work very hard when they were there.
Or went to a college that was a good fit for them? I loved both undergrad and grad school... (and more for the academic parts than anything else)
You should look up "BGTutu." It lets you play through the original Baldur's Gate using the BG2/ToB engine. That solves a lot of the resolution/interface issues.
Of course I do agree that a full modernization of the games would be best... I gotta say though, I think BG would lose something in a full 3d engine.
Exactly what the other poster said--header injection.
The form asked for a "From" name and email address, and had a textarea for the email body.
The form then used the PHP's mail function (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php) including the additional_headers field to add the From name and email address to the mail (so that the recipient could just click reply to reply to the sender). The subject line and "to" parameters were set by the program to a limited number of possibilities. I'm assuming that's how the injection was done, so that by crafting a message correctly, the person could send an email to not just to the person in the "to" field, but to anybody.
I run a website for a small company. It does around $50k in ecommerce sales a year, so not a huge volume site by any means. I had a custom written contact form so that the staff directory page didn't have employee emails listed in the HTML. About a year ago, a couple employees reported getting weird emails, that had jibberish subject lines and bodies. A day or so after that, the hosting provider (pair.com -- highly recommend) blocked access to that page, and alerted me that it had been compromised and had been sending junk mail to outside addresses. I fixed up the security hole (very stupid on my part...guilty of NIH too!) and added some additional tricks (used CSS to hide a textbox and a checkbox and if there is anything in them, disregard the submit, etc) and no problems since.
It was rather a wake up call to me that even this small website could become a hacking target.
The last native (PPC, not intel) version of IE for the mac was version 5, and is maybe 5 years old. It also differed significantly from windows IE5 in terms of rendering, features, Javascript support, etc.
You can--to a degree--run old versions of IE through WINE on OSX, but that's it.
p.s. I loved your "Internet Exploder" joke--so fresh!
I gotta say, that sounds really appealing! Well, maybe not the -100F, but the rest of it!
My family up there (St Paul) are not at all "out-doorsy" and would probably rather shoot themselves than go ice fishing, but I'm hopeful I'll give it a shot one day.
I don't live up there, but I have spent a good bit of time, and have family there. Closest I lived was in Chicago.
A couple thoughts--there's a reason why those of us in the sunbelt are inundated with refugees from the dismal north:-)
In all seriousness though, you get used to it. The clothes people wear (and the amount of them) are different from what anyone wears in colder climates. In my experience, people in Chicago used to laugh at southern winters, but they started pulling out the scarves and all when it hit 50 too. They just have to keep wearing them when it hits 0 and -20 windchill (and below!)! People often wear longer underwear, heavy pants, undershirt(s), shirt, sweaters, and a thick long jacket on top of that (not to mention scarves, hats, etc). Buildings also tend to be better insulated.
Additionally, due to temperatures tending to stay below freezing (and not fluctating right around 32) ice is not nearly as big as a problem as it is in some parts of the country. Different road materials mean they can use different solutions to keep the roads clean.
Beyond that, I've always had a bit of a thing for extreme environments, so I can see why it's appealing. It also makes spring/summer seem unbelievably great when you realize 4-6 months of the year are going to be rough. The Twin Cities in particular are really nice cities...good standard of living, pretty, good local and state government. I can definitely see the appeal.
Most of the time you do not need a block heater, if you have a garage, and even without a garage, not in many parts of the state (like the Twin Cities, where most of the population lives)
Out of curiosity, why is it irritating that some people dont care about 30fps vs 60fps?
Anyway, I think the real issue is whether you have a constant rate of frames, jerkiness, blurring, etc.
if you're at 60fps one second and 20fps the next and then right back up to 60fps, it looks very jerky--even in comparison with a constant lower fps. Saying 120fps would be "even better" is kind of silly for most people now anyway since most people use LCDs that can't get close to displaying that. (try ~60fps afaik). I would wager most people with CRTs cant even get close to that either.
No, I don't have one. I have a $15 (USD) Motorola that is faster at making telephone calls (that's what I use my phone for) than the iPhone. If I wanted a smartphone I'd get a functional, cheap, not-very-pretty Nokia. Then again I"m poor, I have a steady girlfriend, and I don't need to pretend I'm wealthy.
On the other hand, you feel it necessary to explain why you're so much better than other people on an anonymous internet forum? Congratulations on being thrifty and having a girlfriend--we're all very, VERY proud of you.
I still think it's somewhat useless since they had various versions of the compiler, you can't draw any conclusion about the kernel/OS speed when the compiler varies and you can't draw any conclusions on the compiler when the kernel/OS differ. So...
I disagree. While these benchmarks are indeed of limited complexity and utility, they offer a snapshot of out of the box performance on 3 OSes. Obviously you can optimize all of them substantially, try bleeding edge kernels, later revisions, etc.
What I don't understand is why does Apple even have iTunes as a program.
To play mp3s (originally). To be a music store. To interface with the iphone and ipod. iTunes has been around since pre-ipod and pre-OSX days. I think a lot of people don't realize this..
Honestly the most logical way of making an iPod would it would conform to USB mass storage device specs
Does it not? Do you have trouble using it this way? I used to use mine (2g? 3g? I forget) as a usb disk on my PCs...
and could use whatever machine (OS X, Linux, Windows, BSD, etc) and have iTunes be a music store along with an optional player where the iTunes store is accessed via a web browser or via the iPod (in the case of the touch).
So you want apple to split up one easy to use app into several that do the same thing. What's the point of that?
And even then, why does Apple even care about people wanting to use the iPod without iTunes, its a small minority.
Copyright concerns. Are you forgetting that Apple with the itunes store was the breakthrough app for selling mp3s? It's all about adding value to the apple brand and the ipod, and keeping itunes/ipod VERY easy to use. A task at which they succeed fairly well!
Who knew that a company based in the same city as MIT and Harvard might be able to find a few people who are good technologists AND some who are good at business
MIT and Harvard relocated to the Triangle too? Jeez!;-)
That's why I finally got a Mac. There still is a learning curve here with OSX but I'm willing to take it because knowing my way around OSX is something I can use at work.
I use OSX too. For my server usage I prefer FreeBSD. Point taken about Redhat/CentOS/etc for server vs desktop usage.
Well, the problem with Red Hat is it isn't as popular. Most people who know Linux know or at least have heard of Ubuntu, and know that it is easy to use, on the other hand Red Hat isn't as popular and so while there might be a small number of people who would only use it if it was based off of Red Hat, more people use Ubuntu than Red Hat and so it only is logical to base it off of Ubuntu.
That's one of my problems with Linux. Ubuntu has been out for what--less than 4 years, and popular for less than that? Before Ubuntu was the big thing, it was Gentoo. Etc etc, and before that, Redhat. (ignoring, Fedora, Suse, etc and of course the parent distro of Ubuntu--debian--has been around forever as well)...before that, slackware. And so on.
So far Ubuntu seems to have decent staying power (and most importantly--*one* man with money behind it). It just seems crazy to me that Red Hat which virtually WAS linux for the first decade of Linux has been relegated to near irrelevance?
Thanks for taking the time to explain your pov--I always appreciate it when people on slashdot will reply more than once or twice..most people will not.
I don't agree that believing that marriage is only one man plus one woman makes one guilty of advocating hate...that makes an awful lot of people around the world (including many who are supporters of gay rights) hate mongers.
Think we're both clear on where the other stands though--thanks.
Calling him a massive douchebag because I happen to disagree with his (flawed) stance on gay marriage and not buying his books are my prerogatives as a consumer.
Absolutely your perogative. That doesn't disagree with you being intolerant or trashing Card. I don't think I claimed more than this?
You didn't read the article, then? Thanks for fulfilling my expectations.
I did.
Or if you did read it and find nothing particularly wrong with it, then let's just agree to to disagree.
Nope, you're moving off-topic. You specifically claimed that Card advocates hate. In this entire thread--every single post I have made--I have very specifically not brought a single one of my opinions on the subject matter into the mix. I happen to NOT agree with Card on a lot of things he says. My opinion is utterly irrelevant however. If you believe Card is advocating hate and continually claim this--while ad hominem insulting him and his faith--the onus is entirely on you to make your case. Otherwise you look just as much a radical fanatic as you say Card is.
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It's obvious--if you enjoy what you study, your colleagues, and your professors, then your work as a student is (and should be) enjoyable.
What you ACTUALLY wrote in your original post was:
Late nights, early mornings, incredible stress, terrible teachers, worse TAs, hours upon hours of assignments, labs, and exams, not to mention all the project work, and the only respite the odd drunken party with my friends?
Late nights, early mornings, stress, etc I think speaks more about you than the college, it's true. But, "terrible teachers" and "worse TAs"? That's entirely your college selection.. Good teachers DO make a huge difference, and I virtually never had to interact with TAs at either of my schools. So yeah, I can see how if you were miserable in that regard, you wouldn't be happy. Goes right back to what I said about college fit.
Dibs-the-fuck-out. Anyone who looks wistfully looks back on college/university either a) doesn't remember what it was actually like, or b) didn't work very hard when they were there.
Or went to a college that was a good fit for them? I loved both undergrad and grad school... (and more for the academic parts than anything else)
You should look up "BGTutu." It lets you play through the original Baldur's Gate using the BG2/ToB engine. That solves a lot of the resolution/interface issues.
Of course I do agree that a full modernization of the games would be best ... I gotta say though, I think BG would lose something in a full 3d engine.
I would LOVE remastered versions of Ultima IV-VI in DS form.. I think they would be perfect for it.
Exactly what the other poster said--header injection.
The form asked for a "From" name and email address, and had a textarea for the email body.
The form then used the PHP's mail function (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php) including the additional_headers field to add the From name and email address to the mail (so that the recipient could just click reply to reply to the sender). The subject line and "to" parameters were set by the program to a limited number of possibilities. I'm assuming that's how the injection was done, so that by crafting a message correctly, the person could send an email to not just to the person in the "to" field, but to anybody.
Well, a counter story...
I run a website for a small company. It does around $50k in ecommerce sales a year, so not a huge volume site by any means. I had a custom written contact form so that the staff directory page didn't have employee emails listed in the HTML. About a year ago, a couple employees reported getting weird emails, that had jibberish subject lines and bodies. A day or so after that, the hosting provider (pair.com -- highly recommend) blocked access to that page, and alerted me that it had been compromised and had been sending junk mail to outside addresses. I fixed up the security hole (very stupid on my part...guilty of NIH too!) and added some additional tricks (used CSS to hide a textbox and a checkbox and if there is anything in them, disregard the submit, etc) and no problems since.
It was rather a wake up call to me that even this small website could become a hacking target.
The last native (PPC, not intel) version of IE for the mac was version 5, and is maybe 5 years old. It also differed significantly from windows IE5 in terms of rendering, features, Javascript support, etc.
You can--to a degree--run old versions of IE through WINE on OSX, but that's it.
p.s. I loved your "Internet Exploder" joke--so fresh!
I gotta say, that sounds really appealing! Well, maybe not the -100F, but the rest of it!
My family up there (St Paul) are not at all "out-doorsy" and would probably rather shoot themselves than go ice fishing, but I'm hopeful I'll give it a shot one day.
I don't live up there, but I have spent a good bit of time, and have family there. Closest I lived was in Chicago.
A couple thoughts--there's a reason why those of us in the sunbelt are inundated with refugees from the dismal north :-)
In all seriousness though, you get used to it. The clothes people wear (and the amount of them) are different from what anyone wears in colder climates. In my experience, people in Chicago used to laugh at southern winters, but they started pulling out the scarves and all when it hit 50 too. They just have to keep wearing them when it hits 0 and -20 windchill (and below!)! People often wear longer underwear, heavy pants, undershirt(s), shirt, sweaters, and a thick long jacket on top of that (not to mention scarves, hats, etc). Buildings also tend to be better insulated.
Additionally, due to temperatures tending to stay below freezing (and not fluctating right around 32) ice is not nearly as big as a problem as it is in some parts of the country. Different road materials mean they can use different solutions to keep the roads clean.
Beyond that, I've always had a bit of a thing for extreme environments, so I can see why it's appealing. It also makes spring/summer seem unbelievably great when you realize 4-6 months of the year are going to be rough. The Twin Cities in particular are really nice cities...good standard of living, pretty, good local and state government. I can definitely see the appeal.
Most of the time you do not need a block heater, if you have a garage, and even without a garage, not in many parts of the state (like the Twin Cities, where most of the population lives)
Oh I see--I had already had digital cable, so my costs didn't change (no higher monthlies, not box fees, etc)
HD cable is $60 more than what you have? How much are you paying for cable??
Agree about the 120hz. Overall I found that I just didn't like the effect and havent used it much.
Hmmm.. interesting. My cable provider (Time warner, FWIW) doesnt charge anything more for HDTV.
Out of curiosity, why is it irritating that some people dont care about 30fps vs 60fps?
Anyway, I think the real issue is whether you have a constant rate of frames, jerkiness, blurring, etc.
if you're at 60fps one second and 20fps the next and then right back up to 60fps, it looks very jerky--even in comparison with a constant lower fps. Saying 120fps would be "even better" is kind of silly for most people now anyway since most people use LCDs that can't get close to displaying that. (try ~60fps afaik). I would wager most people with CRTs cant even get close to that either.
I am not willing to pay the price difference for HD tv shows
What's the price difference if you already have an HDTV??
No, I don't have one. I have a $15 (USD) Motorola that is faster at making telephone calls (that's what I use my phone for) than the iPhone. If I wanted a smartphone I'd get a functional, cheap, not-very-pretty Nokia. Then again I"m poor, I have a steady girlfriend, and I don't need to pretend I'm wealthy.
On the other hand, you feel it necessary to explain why you're so much better than other people on an anonymous internet forum? Congratulations on being thrifty and having a girlfriend--we're all very, VERY proud of you.
I absolutely agree with you.
I still think it's somewhat useless since they had various versions of the compiler, you can't draw any conclusion about the kernel/OS speed when the compiler varies and you can't draw any conclusions on the compiler when the kernel/OS differ. So ...
I disagree. While these benchmarks are indeed of limited complexity and utility, they offer a snapshot of out of the box performance on 3 OSes. Obviously you can optimize all of them substantially, try bleeding edge kernels, later revisions, etc.
The music dircetory is hidden, and just copying files does not update the database--true.
the ipod IS a standard USB mass storage device though--I know of no special drivers required to access it. Am I missing someething?
What I don't understand is why does Apple even have iTunes as a program.
To play mp3s (originally). To be a music store. To interface with the iphone and ipod. iTunes has been around since pre-ipod and pre-OSX days. I think a lot of people don't realize this..
Honestly the most logical way of making an iPod would it would conform to USB mass storage device specs
Does it not? Do you have trouble using it this way? I used to use mine (2g? 3g? I forget) as a usb disk on my PCs...
and could use whatever machine (OS X, Linux, Windows, BSD, etc) and have iTunes be a music store along with an optional player where the iTunes store is accessed via a web browser or via the iPod (in the case of the touch).
So you want apple to split up one easy to use app into several that do the same thing. What's the point of that?
And even then, why does Apple even care about people wanting to use the iPod without iTunes, its a small minority.
Copyright concerns. Are you forgetting that Apple with the itunes store was the breakthrough app for selling mp3s? It's all about adding value to the apple brand and the ipod, and keeping itunes/ipod VERY easy to use. A task at which they succeed fairly well!
Who knew that a company based in the same city as MIT and Harvard might be able to find a few people who are good technologists AND some who are good at business
MIT and Harvard relocated to the Triangle too? Jeez! ;-)
That's why I finally got a Mac. There still is a learning curve here with OSX but I'm willing to
take it because knowing my way around OSX is something I can use at work.
I use OSX too. For my server usage I prefer FreeBSD. Point taken about Redhat/CentOS/etc for server vs desktop usage.
Well, the problem with Red Hat is it isn't as popular. Most people who know Linux know or at least have heard of Ubuntu, and know that it is easy to use, on the other hand Red Hat isn't as popular and so while there might be a small number of people who would only use it if it was based off of Red Hat, more people use Ubuntu than Red Hat and so it only is logical to base it off of Ubuntu.
That's one of my problems with Linux. Ubuntu has been out for what--less than 4 years, and popular for less than that? Before Ubuntu was the big thing, it was Gentoo. Etc etc, and before that, Redhat. (ignoring, Fedora, Suse, etc and of course the parent distro of Ubuntu--debian--has been around forever as well)...before that, slackware. And so on.
So far Ubuntu seems to have decent staying power (and most importantly--*one* man with money behind it). It just seems crazy to me that Red Hat which virtually WAS linux for the first decade of Linux has been relegated to near irrelevance?
Thanks for taking the time to explain your pov--I always appreciate it when people on slashdot will reply more than once or twice..most people will not.
I don't agree that believing that marriage is only one man plus one woman makes one guilty of advocating hate...that makes an awful lot of people around the world (including many who are supporters of gay rights) hate mongers.
Think we're both clear on where the other stands though--thanks.
Calling him a massive douchebag because I happen to disagree with his (flawed) stance on gay marriage and not buying his books are my prerogatives as a consumer.
Absolutely your perogative. That doesn't disagree with you being intolerant or trashing Card. I don't think I claimed more than this?
You didn't read the article, then? Thanks for fulfilling my expectations.
I did.
Or if you did read it and find nothing particularly wrong with it, then let's just agree to to disagree.
Nope, you're moving off-topic. You specifically claimed that Card advocates hate. In this entire thread--every single post I have made--I have very specifically not brought a single one of my opinions on the subject matter into the mix. I happen to NOT agree with Card on a lot of things he says. My opinion is utterly irrelevant however. If you believe Card is advocating hate and continually claim this--while ad hominem insulting him and his faith--the onus is entirely on you to make your case. Otherwise you look just as much a radical fanatic as you say Card is.