Many people fail to realise that the 'laws of entropy' aren't laws, they're statements of statistical likelihoods. Entryopy can spontaneously decrease, its just incredibly incredibly incredibly unlikely to do so by any statistically significant amount. But in this case entropy isnt realy relevent. If you want every partical in your body to simultaneously 'jump' one foot to the left. All you have to do is... jump one foot to the left.
Having tried several mud clients, I find myself stuck with ELF, since while its scripting language is based on conditional relative gotos (ugh)... i havent found another client which does good Always On Top sub windows for redirecting text to... Mudding 1600x1200 resolution, you need something for the other half the screen - a couple of always on top windows works nicely.
The fact that wine doesnt do always on top windows properly is one of the reasons i've stuck with windows as my primary OS for so long.
Ofcourse theres also the reason that having written Go Chess checkers connect4 othello and conquest in ELF's trigger language, rewriting them all again just sounds like too much of a waste of time. (note: ELF script has no arrays - i had to do all the above with string manipulations - maximum string length being reached storing half of the Go board... - did i mention conditional line count skips yet?)
ELF has a great trigger system - just wish i had the source so i could add real if statements! (and a couple of other things) (shameless plug: dead.sedmonds.org:5000)
Actually no - I tried to run cygwin under WINE - but WINE doesnt like it at all... in part I guess because cygwin calls cmd.exe(or command.com) which isnt the kind of thing that is the main focus of the WINE support layer.
I look... and wonder how the judging criteria worked... since I would have to agree with the guy from the dylan team about who should have won. Based on the results I can see that is...
Admitedly the algorithm of the winning team sounds kinda cool...
Seeing a couple of people come up with a few moderation methods, I thought, huh i can come up with one as well...
My new system would moderate with the ability to specify exactly which parts of the post were worth points... thus with the appropriate moderation and browsing at +1.
is there any more people i can try and fool with this great link.
would become ->
i am a troll.
Tilps - yes its split backwards - no you dont want to know why.
kilbits per per second... per inverts the following so... thats kilobit-seconds...
hmmm how to measure this...
since its over any given 24 hour period, I guess we start our graph (to maximise scam value) of kilobits (total) vs time whenever we get a hit. The area on this graph will be the kilobit-seconds. For simplicity assume this is the only hit in 24 hours, and that the hit downloads a measly 10kb, now kilobit-seconds for the 24 hour period are... 10*60*60*24 or 864100
Now under the TOS you are over the 30 kbp/s limit... and are up for... close to a million dollars in charges...
Lucky this guy doesnt really understand his own scam.:P
hmm since we are 550 posts in... not like anyone will read this anyway... but my thoughts.
I was/maybe wasnt a child prodigy... depends on your point of view I guess... but that i think is probably irellivent... (yes I cant spell:P)
When I was going through primary school, I had few friends and was abused by many... In high school I atempted to turn things around a bit, but I got the following... I would talk to people, and would get on really well with them, then someone would come over, and for no reason ask me... whats 256*23=... whatever I did at that point, it tainted any friendship I atempted to form... and this was in a school which was for people who were academically capable. Social skills in my opinion, dont do you much good if you can't work off a clean slate, when it comes to general open society. What is an important thing to learn, is to enjoy life, whatever it throws at you. Learn to live positively, in a negative environment, without 'rose coloured glasses'.
anyway on a different point...
teaching the gifted in my mind, its easy to get distracted into teaching them 'things' like c++ or assembly... or blah...
none of these are going to be very good unless they can really learn to think. What you should be thinking of, is using 'Blah' as a platform to help them learn fundamental skill 'blah'... This is a difficult thing to really achieve, but its what should be aimed for. The basic skills in learning how to learn, how to apply logic and when, when to trust creative inspiration and how to apply it, etc etc... are the hardest to teach, but the most important to know. At a young age I would think its hard for the student to understand that, I know that all I wanted was to learn this and learn that... things. So therefore its best to help them learn 'things', you as a tutor, just have to try and see that an understanding of the fundamental skills of learning get taught. Otherwise once the 'drive to learn everything' slowly fades... as it often does. You end up with someone who knows alot, but finds more difficulty in going beyond what has been taught and into the unkown, then they would otherwise. Which ultimately, is the rewarding part in my mind.
Random additional bit - 'lateral thinking' is a very good skill to be capable in.
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Many people fail to realise that the 'laws of entropy' aren't laws, they're statements of statistical likelihoods. Entryopy can spontaneously decrease, its just incredibly incredibly incredibly unlikely to do so by any statistically significant amount. ... jump one foot to the left.
But in this case entropy isnt realy relevent.
If you want every partical in your body to simultaneously 'jump' one foot to the left. All you have to do is
and amusingly, it got its first task wrong...
what ... i'm amazed no one mentioned him in this topic yet.
oh and personally, i found the 36 hour day very effective (At achieving nothing)
I wonder which cmd.exe your using ...
mine has custom ansi colors - easy cut-n-paste and can be resized however i like...
ofcourse rxvt comes with cygwin anyway..
Having tried several mud clients, I find myself stuck with ELF, since while its scripting language is based on conditional relative gotos (ugh) ... i havent found another client which does good Always On Top sub windows for redirecting text to... Mudding 1600x1200 resolution, you need something for the other half the screen - a couple of always on top windows works nicely.
The fact that wine doesnt do always on top windows properly is one of the reasons i've stuck with windows as my primary OS for so long.
Ofcourse theres also the reason that having written Go Chess checkers connect4 othello and conquest in ELF's trigger language, rewriting them all again just sounds like too much of a waste of time. (note: ELF script has no arrays - i had to do all the above with string manipulations - maximum string length being reached storing half of the Go board... - did i mention conditional line count skips yet?)
ELF has a great trigger system - just wish i had the source so i could add real if statements! (and a couple of other things)
(shameless plug: dead.sedmonds.org:5000)
well no - microsoft release schedules are compiled on 64bit machines. Using unsigned variables too.
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Lucky I dont need this web page to be able to reminise about the good ol days...
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Actually no - I tried to run cygwin under WINE - but WINE doesnt like it at all... in part I guess because cygwin calls cmd.exe(or command.com) which isnt the kind of thing that is the main focus of the WINE support layer.
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I look ... and wonder how the judging criteria worked ... since I would have to agree with the guy from the dylan team about who should have won. Based on the results I can see that is...
Admitedly the algorithm of the winning team sounds kinda cool...
*wont possibly consider anti-c++ bias...*
Seeing a couple of people come up with a few moderation methods, I thought, huh i can come up with one as well...
My new system would moderate with the ability to specify exactly which parts of the post were worth points... thus with the appropriate moderation and browsing at +1.
is there any more people i can try and fool with this great link.
would become ->
i am a troll.
Tilps - yes its split backwards - no you dont want to know why.
hmmm let me see
... per inverts the following so ... thats kilobit-seconds...
...
:P
kilbits per per second
hmmm how to measure this
since its over any given 24 hour period, I guess we start our graph (to maximise scam value) of kilobits (total) vs time whenever we get a hit. The area on this graph will be the kilobit-seconds. For simplicity assume this is the only hit in 24 hours, and that the hit downloads a measly 10kb, now kilobit-seconds for the 24 hour period are... 10*60*60*24 or 864100
Now under the TOS you are over the 30 kbp/s limit... and are up for... close to a million dollars in charges...
Lucky this guy doesnt really understand his own scam.
They did say that a perfect score was without losing a life. The above doesnt fit that.
Impressive none the less.
hmm since we are 550 posts in ... not like anyone will read this anyway ... but my thoughts.
... depends on your point of view I guess... but that i think is probably irellivent... (yes I cant spell :P)
... whats 256*23= ... whatever I did at that point, it tainted any friendship I atempted to form ... and this was in a school which was for people who were academically capable. Social skills in my opinion, dont do you much good if you can't work off a clean slate, when it comes to general open society. What is an important thing to learn, is to enjoy life, whatever it throws at you. Learn to live positively, in a negative environment, without 'rose coloured glasses'.
... or blah ...
... things. So therefore its best to help them learn 'things', you as a tutor, just have to try and see that an understanding of the fundamental skills of learning get taught. Otherwise once the 'drive to learn everything' slowly fades ... as it often does. You end up with someone who knows alot, but finds more difficulty in going beyond what has been taught and into the unkown, then they would otherwise. Which ultimately, is the rewarding part in my mind.
I was/maybe wasnt a child prodigy
When I was going through primary school, I had few friends and was abused by many... In high school I atempted to turn things around a bit, but I got the following... I would talk to people, and would get on really well with them, then someone would come over, and for no reason ask me
anyway on a different point...
teaching the gifted in my mind, its easy to get distracted into teaching them 'things' like c++ or assembly
none of these are going to be very good unless they can really learn to think. What you should be thinking of, is using 'Blah' as a platform to help them learn fundamental skill 'blah'... This is a difficult thing to really achieve, but its what should be aimed for. The basic skills in learning how to learn, how to apply logic and when, when to trust creative inspiration and how to apply it, etc etc... are the hardest to teach, but the most important to know. At a young age I would think its hard for the student to understand that, I know that all I wanted was to learn this and learn that
Random additional bit - 'lateral thinking' is a very good skill to be capable in.
Ofcourse listen to me at your own peril!
10 exabytes is enough to reproduce a small country worth of people electronically (10 terrabytes per person ... in the book 3001 - in the sources bit)
Why am I thinking of having the world in my bathtub?