My best teacher? That one's easy. Name's Mark Schroll. He was my instructor for Electronics and, later, R&D in high school. This guy had to be the coolest teacher in the world. When a friend of mine mentioned to him that stawberry poptarts would shoot big, scary flames when toasted for too long, he brought in an old toaster the next day. For the last 6weeks of electronics, he taught us how to create holograms, using the laser equipment the school had purchased at his recommendation. Every one of us took one of our own design home. He actually knew his subject, in and out, and he never forgot a single one of his students. (I went back 3 years later, he greeted me by name. He was the only teacher that did.)
It was in his class that I first saw the ENTIRE "Connections" series, and also the movie "Sneakers". He was friendly, outgoing, funny as hell, and very, very good at passing on his knowledge. He was the only teacher I had that made sure that we didn't just repeat back what he said, but that we actually UNDERSTOOD it. I hope everyone has a teacher like this guy; if I had had more teachers like him, I would have enjoyed school a lot more.
I let them get about half-way through, then suddenly propose to them (male or female, though the males take it with considerably less poise). If this isn't enough, I wax poetic about their voice, etc etc.. I've never had the same company call me twice (Except for the longdistance companies, who never give up short of death threats).
The question is, can Microsoft find a way to sue the developers for "reverse-engineering" a product? You know, and I know, and Microsoft probably knows, that no reverse engineering is involved, but if Microsoft want to sue someone into the ground, especially someone like an open source developer... There's not much said developer can do to defend themselves without major assets...
Yeap, it rots your brain... My first distro was slack... Later I tried to install Debian on my laptop, but it wouldn't load the right module for my network card. And of course, it wouldn't compile the driver supplied by the manufacturer because wonderful lovely apt-get stuck the PCMCIA source in some weird place. Screw it, got slack back, installed it, installed PCMCIA support, had the thing up and running in X in about half an hour. apt-get is great... FOR ME TO POOP ON!
IIRC brown dwarfs don't form the same way as planets, and that process of formation prevents them from being found near true stars. Been a while since I was into astronomy, though.
Well, this actually touches upon one of the odd facts about the universe. Galaxies like our milky way do not behave as scientists and simulations expect them too; they behave more like spheres than discs/flat spirals. If you take this into account, then merging galaxies make more sense. They do have center of gravities as a unit, and therefore can orbit each other, spiralling inward until they merge. You're right about it having to be a fairly "gentle" meeting, though. If it went too fast, it would rip right through, disrupting the path of many stars in both galaxies... and moving on.
Other companies do this, too, and weirder things. A few years back I worked tier-2 tech support at the HQ of a huge multinational corporation that makes big green tractors. One peaceful Friday, my trusty keycard wouldn't let me out of the damn building. Someone else let me out with their card. I didn't find out until the next Monday that I no longer had a job. And they couldn't fire me for some simple reason, like, "upper management doesn't like the idea of a 19-year-old doing all the technical work in a 100+ user zone". Oh no. It was "breach of network security". A year later a friend of mine who started work there said that I had become a sort of example of what not to do, and my exploits ranged from "hacking a server" in South Korea to telling off users. Of course, until that Friday, all my reviews/reports had been full of glowing compliments...
Hear, hear. I watch TV solely for the occassional movie and maybe one or two shows a month. Whenever I actually watch anything (usually at a friend's house) it's easy to see how inane and IQ-draining most television is... It's a magical box that saps intelligence.
I wrote to Macromedia a short time back, asking about the existence/development of a Flash5 player for Linux (could be very important to a project I'm working on) and got back two e-mails...
"At this time, we have not made any public announcements on that."
It's about time someone remembered Wing Commander... That game was absolutely mindblowing in its time. Too bad you need a go-slow prog to play it today...
I must agree. I had messed briefly with Slackware ages and ages ago, but never really gotten into linux per se. Recently I acquired a laptop at the best cost (free) and decided to install linux on it. I snagged Debian, having heard lots of good things about it, and proceeded to be amazed by how much linux had changed. More than this, though, I discovered (being a newbie) that a lot of stuff was moved around, and that dselect made it hard to find stuff that I installed. So I remembered good 'ole slackware, got it, never went back. I learned an incredible amount about Linux in a very short timeframe. I credit this 100% to slackware's do-it-yourself mindset.
Of course, I think everyone who wants to understand Windows should spend 2+ years working in DOS first, too.
This reminds me of Fahreinheit 451. One of the attributes of the "future-is-hell" society is that advertising was everywhere and had gone beyond unavoidable to being the only real form of entertainment. Specifically I remember a scene in which Guy is riding on some kind of mass transit (I think it was a train, it's been a while) and a song for something called "Denton's" came on. Everyone on the train started singing it, and enjoying it, but it was just the same lines over and over and over again...
The only careers you could make real money in were entertainment and advertising... But there was no different between them. This concept, frankly, terrifies me.
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Wrong. They will automatically win against any company that has less money than they do. This isn't pessimism, this is theory based on observation...
My best teacher? That one's easy. Name's Mark Schroll. He was my instructor for Electronics and, later, R&D in high school. This guy had to be the coolest teacher in the world. When a friend of mine mentioned to him that stawberry poptarts would shoot big, scary flames when toasted for too long, he brought in an old toaster the next day. For the last 6weeks of electronics, he taught us how to create holograms, using the laser equipment the school had purchased at his recommendation. Every one of us took one of our own design home. He actually knew his subject, in and out, and he never forgot a single one of his students. (I went back 3 years later, he greeted me by name. He was the only teacher that did.)
It was in his class that I first saw the ENTIRE "Connections" series, and also the movie "Sneakers". He was friendly, outgoing, funny as hell, and very, very good at passing on his knowledge. He was the only teacher I had that made sure that we didn't just repeat back what he said, but that we actually UNDERSTOOD it. I hope everyone has a teacher like this guy; if I had had more teachers like him, I would have enjoyed school a lot more.
The law IS on their side. They have more money than you. Therefore, they win.
I let them get about half-way through, then suddenly propose to them (male or female, though the males take it with considerably less poise). If this isn't enough, I wax poetic about their voice, etc etc.. I've never had the same company call me twice (Except for the longdistance companies, who never give up short of death threats).
The question is, can Microsoft find a way to sue the developers for "reverse-engineering" a product? You know, and I know, and Microsoft probably knows, that no reverse engineering is involved, but if Microsoft want to sue someone into the ground, especially someone like an open source developer... There's not much said developer can do to defend themselves without major assets...
Debian is like crack.
Yeap, it rots your brain... My first distro was slack... Later I tried to install Debian on my laptop, but it wouldn't load the right module for my network card. And of course, it wouldn't compile the driver supplied by the manufacturer because wonderful lovely apt-get stuck the PCMCIA source in some weird place. Screw it, got slack back, installed it, installed PCMCIA support, had the thing up and running in X in about half an hour. apt-get is great... FOR ME TO POOP ON!
rpm? Heh. apt-get? Heh. A Jedi craves not these things...
IIRC brown dwarfs don't form the same way as planets, and that process of formation prevents them from being found near true stars. Been a while since I was into astronomy, though.
Well, this actually touches upon one of the odd facts about the universe. Galaxies like our milky way do not behave as scientists and simulations expect them too; they behave more like spheres than discs/flat spirals. If you take this into account, then merging galaxies make more sense. They do have center of gravities as a unit, and therefore can orbit each other, spiralling inward until they merge. You're right about it having to be a fairly "gentle" meeting, though. If it went too fast, it would rip right through, disrupting the path of many stars in both galaxies... and moving on.
"Sir, are you classified as human?"
"Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
Whoops. Minus several million, redundant. Good reason to read the current posts before posting.
These sorts of attacks have been hitting efnet across the board for the past year or two, though nothing quite on this scale from a single source...
Other companies do this, too, and weirder things. A few years back I worked tier-2 tech support at the HQ of a huge multinational corporation that makes big green tractors. One peaceful Friday, my trusty keycard wouldn't let me out of the damn building. Someone else let me out with their card. I didn't find out until the next Monday that I no longer had a job. And they couldn't fire me for some simple reason, like, "upper management doesn't like the idea of a 19-year-old doing all the technical work in a 100+ user zone". Oh no. It was "breach of network security". A year later a friend of mine who started work there said that I had become a sort of example of what not to do, and my exploits ranged from "hacking a server" in South Korea to telling off users. Of course, until that Friday, all my reviews/reports had been full of glowing compliments...
Hear, hear. I watch TV solely for the occassional movie and maybe one or two shows a month. Whenever I actually watch anything (usually at a friend's house) it's easy to see how inane and IQ-draining most television is... It's a magical box that saps intelligence.
I wrote to Macromedia a short time back, asking about the existence/development of a Flash5 player for Linux (could be very important to a project I'm working on) and got back two e-mails...
8 4/flash/download.html
For a list of supported platforms, please visit:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alter nates/"
"At this time, we have not made any public announcements on that."
And this one...
"The following is a link to a third party site that has developer versions of the player for systems such as WindowsCE, UP-UX, BeOS, Amiga, freeBSD & Linux: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Labyrinth/50
Hard to say whether this is encouraging, but at least they didn't say "No, we're not gonna make one."
It's about time someone remembered Wing Commander... That game was absolutely mindblowing in its time. Too bad you need a go-slow prog to play it today...
I can sing all the bass and baritone parts of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular plays, and sing 'em well. Does that count?
I must agree. I had messed briefly with Slackware ages and ages ago, but never really gotten into linux per se. Recently I acquired a laptop at the best cost (free) and decided to install linux on it. I snagged Debian, having heard lots of good things about it, and proceeded to be amazed by how much linux had changed. More than this, though, I discovered (being a newbie) that a lot of stuff was moved around, and that dselect made it hard to find stuff that I installed. So I remembered good 'ole slackware, got it, never went back. I learned an incredible amount about Linux in a very short timeframe. I credit this 100% to slackware's do-it-yourself mindset.
Of course, I think everyone who wants to understand Windows should spend 2+ years working in DOS first, too.
Well, here's a link to IBM's story on the thing. It delves a LITTLE more into the technical side of it but not much more than the CNN article.
It's using IBM's DB2 Universal Database.. which runs on....... various ***x's, Windows, and OS/2. So we still don't know. Damn.
They keep this kind of thing up and soon we'll be finishing stuff before we start it, and who knows what sorts of embarassment that will cause.
And the Golgafrincham planet was wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
This reminds me of Fahreinheit 451. One of the attributes of the "future-is-hell" society is that advertising was everywhere and had gone beyond unavoidable to being the only real form of entertainment. Specifically I remember a scene in which Guy is riding on some kind of mass transit (I think it was a train, it's been a while) and a song for something called "Denton's" came on. Everyone on the train started singing it, and enjoying it, but it was just the same lines over and over and over again...
The only careers you could make real money in were entertainment and advertising... But there was no different between them. This concept, frankly, terrifies me.
First one I found, on NASA's site.
Excellent. Now we can find out exactly where Bill Gates is for the orbital cream pie drop.