Man, some people just won't let things go... I think that your man Kerry (making an assumption here based upon the parent post's content) did the proper and honorable thing by conceding the election in a timely manner.
... according to a recent (clearly ficitonal) report, over 90% of *all* of last year's crimes, including murder, rape, petty larceny, and letting your dog poop in the park were committed by people dressed up like those in the (not so) popular video game The Sims (tm)
On an odd side note, I shudder to ask, but is there a Sims Jail Edition coming out?
So, wait... having "expertise" or past experience in being a politician is a good thing? If we want a change, then why [informally] require that people have been part of the system as it is now?
Only an incumbent President has "experience" in being *the* president. Does it make sense to require that people have experience to get elected? (Is this not an inherent catch-22?) Does it not "breed" career politicians---the worst kind?
Imagine this: what if all of the people who were deemed as successful (by some independent crieteria, such as income, no/little time on welfare, moderate level of education, etc.) were put into a lottery and then elected to a 2-year term as US President?
It would, over time if not immediately, get us an african-american president, a female president, etc. It would give us a diversity of opinion and background, and would definitely provide new insight, much different than that of career politicians. This person would have a panel of assistants / advisors so that we did not nuke the rest of the world on day 1, and there would have to be some sort of psychiatric evaluation...
I believe that I have seen this before, in both the "Truck Dismount" (Rekkaturvat) and "Stair Dismount" (Porrasturvat) versions. They are available for download.
My favorite was trying to get the truck to throw the guy *completely* over the wall, or go for bonus points getting the guy's head to rattle back and forth between the wall and the truck grill.
Great for getting stress out on a boss (at the time) whom we imagined we were putting on the truck, etc.
Just to clarify... While (sad) Max Cleland did indeed lose three limbs while serving in the military on behalf of our country while in the country of Vietnam, none of these were during a combat battle.
If I recall correctly, he jumped out of a helicopter on a mission, saw a grenade laying in the spot from where the helicopter took off, thought to himself "That must be my grenade" as they had fallen off his web gear before and then picked it up.
While I do not wish to diminish the tragedy of what happened, there is a difference between what may be implied in the statement that "[he] lost three limbs in Vietnam" and what really happened (in his own words.)
An organized group could go out, buy the software at the most expensive price they could, then wait 29 days, and mass return... kind of like a flashmob, but political.
And if you were to have a receipt that said that you bought the software at $100.00 that was a created by scanning and photoshopping your $50.00 receipt, who am I to say what is right and what is wrong...?
Wasn't this kind of "interactive story telling" very popular in the 70s and 80s, but known as D&D (Dungeons and Dragons)?
Additionally, in the late 90s or so, LARP (Live Ation Role Playing) had a surge in popularity, where instead of rolling dice to see if you whack the Orc, your friend Bob is the Orc, you both have boffer (foam) swords, and you just swing--if you hit, you hit!
Sheesh... after bell bottoms, it seems everything from that time period is coming back around full circle.
The 2.8 Ghz machines probably went to high politico profs or their administrative assistants who gave their 2.0 Ghz machines to the next tier, who gave theirs to the less fortunate (read : student workers) who were previously working on a 286 SX with 2.0MB of memory.
It is called the "trickle down" effect, and works for more than just economics!
When I worked in the banking insudtry (ugh!) we were charged by our (unscrupulous?) vendor on an interesting licensing scheme... not # of boxes or # of CPUs, but by computing units.
They said that 1 CPU at 1GHz was the unit of measure, and it cost $n/year. If you had 2 @ 500MHz, that was 1 unit. 5 @ 2.0GHz was 10 units, etc.
This may be a solution to the above... instead of having levels for the computer's various parts (CPU of a level 6, but video of an 8, etc.), a standards body could come up with a weighted average of the computational effectiveness of the various parts... CPU is 50% of the average, memory 25%, video 15%, HDD space 10%, etc., and then rate them on a scale based upon a fixed point in time.
For example, if 1GHz PIII / 64 MB Video memory / 128 MB system memory / 40 GB HDD was the "standard", then a 2.0 GHz PIV with 256 MB vid / 1 GB memory / 200 GB drive space would have a rating of (2x @ 50%, 4x @ 15%, 8x @ 25% and 5x @ 10%) of 4.1 units.
As a test for the s(h)ituation described anecdotally at the end of the initial post, my company has tested a Neowaredevice for just this purpose: to use RDP5 to connect to a Terminal Services server. They are well built, inexpensive (not cheap!) boxen that do the job. They also have a great management interface.
Although we did not go with them (we are doing a technology refresh and pushing apps back out to desktops... sigh...) I did wish that I could keep the box.
It's core is linux / running an X client to enable RDP. 1600x1200.
(And, no, I don't work for Neoware, just think that their product is most cool.)
My guess is that you don't live in a large metro area... some people where I work drive for over an hour each way in traffic, to get to their job. Being able to check email and hit hotspots to actually be a little productive along the way would make their lives much easier.
Now, I am not saying that the driver would be typing out emails on 285W, but getting up to date on what happened over the evening and so far this morning could definitely give someone the edge.
And think of the MP3 Library a 60GB HDD could hold!
Did you even read the article? Methinks not. Perhaps you should post in the political section on slashdot...
This article was describing an attempt to close a loophole in previously exclusive data. This is not additionally restricting the data. I do not believe that this is "hiding" anything.
The article clearly states that this proposed law will prohibit documents/data that are currently exclusive to the US Govt from being requested through the Freedom of Information Act.
As for the media being "complacent," my $0.02 would say that that would depend upon which side of the Liberal/Conservative fence you currently are... but that's another story...
Banana math must be the "new" math...
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33.3 ^2 = 1108.89
(1000) ^ (1/2) = 31.62.
If you are going to quote numbers, at least pretend to do the math...
I think that a lot of schools recognize this, such as RIT's college of science. They offer a "Computational Mathematics" degree, a 5-year (ouch!) program that combines their Applied Math (also College of Science) and their College of Applied Science and Technology's Computer Science program.
The enrollment has traditionally been rather small in size; when I started (transferring in with a 2-year degree), there were only 7 people in the program; the Applied math had some 40, the Applied Statistics had some 30 people. When I graduated, there were only 3 of us--some had transferred to Applied Math, or to straight Comp-Sci.
The challenge was that most math people did NOT like computer science; and that most comp sci people took only the required maths, and nothing else. Being able to bridge both worlds did my career a lot of good!
The critical thinking imparted in a Numerical Methods course or an Abstract Algebra course is invaluable to a computer scientist. While you may never have to use the maths presented in a Real Variables course, twisting your brain around the topics really trains you to learn new things.
What did my math degree get me? It taught me how to learn. In any straight comp sci degree, if you learn the technology du jour, it will be good for (insert number) of months. You need to learn how to learn new technology.
RIT's Computational Math program can be found here.
Of course, if you see that the price is $5 higher than the competitor, and it costs $4.95 to ship the unit with him, are you really getting a good bargain?
Take your time, do the math. I'll wait.
Sometimes "free" shipping aint so free. That is why pricewatch.com is listing by the "total cost," and not just the list price.
You are laughing... but this might be a workable solution.
Don't shrink the audience... expand the keyboard!
Get an industrial-strength keyboard, and dissect it. Thoroughly. Read the previous slashdot post from the guy who took his keyboard and an old typewriter, and made the typewriter act *as* the keyboard.
Then give each member of the audience a "key" (whammy-happy-button) to press when fun things happen. Have a few PCs that "read" the keys pressed from the keyboard, and do a frequency analysis comapred to events that happened during the show. Depending upon how fast/repetetively they hit the key and how fast the kayboard could register keystrokes, you could be in business.
You could track each individual user (PC#3, 'f')'s responses, and the set in aggregate.
With respect to hardware, you would need enough PCs to cover the audience / (max freq read), iven that there were enough keys per keyboard. have extra / sufficient $ and time? Give them 2-3 keys (happy, sad, funny, etc.) and do more in depth statistical analysis.
The one item that you would have to "record" would be the timing... some sort of an FFT (fast fourier analysis) would most likely be appopriate, depending on how you captured the information. You would need to capture/indicate the times when they *weren't* pressing the button--this is important as the times they were!
Um,
Are your replying to this current story about "Court Rejects Intel Electronic Trespass Charge", or a previous one about the TVBrick?
Beuller? Beuller? Anyone?
Is it just me, or does Gates' desire to control sound a bit like the Prometheans in Robert Ludlum's Prometheus Deception. Oddly enough, the fictional huge software company is mentioned as a once-competitor to Microsoft...
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Man, some people just won't let things go... I think that your man Kerry (making an assumption here based upon the parent post's content) did the proper and honorable thing by conceding the election in a timely manner.
When are you going to follow his lead?
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... according to a recent (clearly ficitonal) report, over 90% of *all* of last year's crimes, including murder, rape, petty larceny, and letting your dog poop in the park were committed by people dressed up like those in the (not so) popular video game The Sims (tm)
On an odd side note, I shudder to ask, but is there a Sims Jail Edition coming out?
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wwjd? jwrtfm!
Since when are we a Democracy? All this time, I thought that we were a Republic... Albeit a democratic Republic, a Republic just the same...
People should RTFC!
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wwjd? jwrtfm!
So, wait... having "expertise" or past experience in being a politician is a good thing? If we want a change, then why [informally] require that people have been part of the system as it is now?
Only an incumbent President has "experience" in being *the* president. Does it make sense to require that people have experience to get elected? (Is this not an inherent catch-22?) Does it not "breed" career politicians---the worst kind?
Imagine this: what if all of the people who were deemed as successful (by some independent crieteria, such as income, no/little time on welfare, moderate level of education, etc.) were put into a lottery and then elected to a 2-year term as US President?
It would, over time if not immediately, get us an african-american president, a female president, etc. It would give us a diversity of opinion and background, and would definitely provide new insight, much different than that of career politicians. This person would have a panel of assistants / advisors so that we did not nuke the rest of the world on day 1, and there would have to be some sort of psychiatric evaluation...
Thoughts?
I believe that I have seen this before, in both the "Truck Dismount" (Rekkaturvat) and "Stair Dismount" (Porrasturvat) versions. They are available for download.
My favorite was trying to get the truck to throw the guy *completely* over the wall, or go for bonus points getting the guy's head to rattle back and forth between the wall and the truck grill.
Great for getting stress out on a boss (at the time) whom we imagined we were putting on the truck, etc.
---
wwjd? jwrtfm!
Just to clarify... While (sad) Max Cleland did indeed lose three limbs while serving in the military on behalf of our country while in the country of Vietnam, none of these were during a combat battle.
If I recall correctly, he jumped out of a helicopter on a mission, saw a grenade laying in the spot from where the helicopter took off, thought to himself "That must be my grenade" as they had fallen off his web gear before and then picked it up.
While I do not wish to diminish the tragedy of what happened, there is a difference between what may be implied in the statement that "[he] lost three limbs in Vietnam" and what really happened (in his own words.)
--
WWJD? JWRTFM!
Would not this be a way to protest?
An organized group could go out, buy the software at the most expensive price they could, then wait 29 days, and mass return... kind of like a flashmob, but political.
And if you were to have a receipt that said that you bought the software at $100.00 that was a created by scanning and photoshopping your $50.00 receipt, who am I to say what is right and what is wrong...?
Wasn't this kind of "interactive story telling" very popular in the 70s and 80s, but known as D&D (Dungeons and Dragons)?
Additionally, in the late 90s or so, LARP (Live Ation Role Playing) had a surge in popularity, where instead of rolling dice to see if you whack the Orc, your friend Bob is the Orc, you both have boffer (foam) swords, and you just swing--if you hit, you hit!
Sheesh... after bell bottoms, it seems everything from that time period is coming back around full circle.
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WWJD? JWRTFM!
Phrases indeed. I long for a day when the President of the United States can speak in complete sentances.
*I* long for the day that when people pick on the grammar of others, that they make sure their sh1t don't stank.
The 2.8 Ghz machines probably went to high politico profs or their administrative assistants who gave their 2.0 Ghz machines to the next tier, who gave theirs to the less fortunate (read : student workers) who were previously working on a 286 SX with 2.0MB of memory.
It is called the "trickle down" effect, and works for more than just economics!
--
WWJD? JWRTFM!
When I worked in the banking insudtry (ugh!) we were charged by our (unscrupulous?) vendor on an interesting licensing scheme... not # of boxes or # of CPUs, but by computing units.
They said that 1 CPU at 1GHz was the unit of measure, and it cost $n/year. If you had 2 @ 500MHz, that was 1 unit. 5 @ 2.0GHz was 10 units, etc.
This may be a solution to the above... instead of having levels for the computer's various parts (CPU of a level 6, but video of an 8, etc.), a standards body could come up with a weighted average of the computational effectiveness of the various parts... CPU is 50% of the average, memory 25%, video 15%, HDD space 10%, etc., and then rate them on a scale based upon a fixed point in time.
For example, if 1GHz PIII / 64 MB Video memory / 128 MB system memory / 40 GB HDD was the "standard", then a 2.0 GHz PIV with 256 MB vid / 1 GB memory / 200 GB drive space would have a rating of (2x @ 50%, 4x @ 15%, 8x @ 25% and 5x @ 10%) of 4.1 units.
Any thoughts?
As a test for the s(h)ituation described anecdotally at the end of the initial post, my company has tested a Neoware device for just this purpose: to use RDP5 to connect to a Terminal Services server. They are well built, inexpensive (not cheap!) boxen that do the job. They also have a great management interface.
Although we did not go with them (we are doing a technology refresh and pushing apps back out to desktops... sigh...) I did wish that I could keep the box.
It's core is linux / running an X client to enable RDP. 1600x1200.
(And, no, I don't work for Neoware, just think that their product is most cool.)
--
WWJD? JWRTFM!
My guess is that you don't live in a large metro area... some people where I work drive for over an hour each way in traffic, to get to their job. Being able to check email and hit hotspots to actually be a little productive along the way would make their lives much easier.
Now, I am not saying that the driver would be typing out emails on 285W, but getting up to date on what happened over the evening and so far this morning could definitely give someone the edge.
And think of the MP3 Library a 60GB HDD could hold!
Anal bum cover (an album cover) for $200, you scurvy dog!
Did you even read the article? Methinks not. Perhaps you should post in the political section on slashdot...
This article was describing an attempt to close a loophole in previously exclusive data. This is not additionally restricting the data. I do not believe that this is "hiding" anything.
The article clearly states that this proposed law will prohibit documents/data that are currently exclusive to the US Govt from being requested through the Freedom of Information Act.
As for the media being "complacent," my $0.02 would say that that would depend upon which side of the Liberal/Conservative fence you currently are... but that's another story...
33.3 ^2 = 1108.89
(1000) ^ (1/2) = 31.62.
If you are going to quote numbers, at least pretend to do the math...
My favorite grafitti[o]?
"I only wish my wife were this dirty..."
I think that a lot of schools recognize this, such as RIT's college of science. They offer a "Computational Mathematics" degree, a 5-year (ouch!) program that combines their Applied Math (also College of Science) and their College of Applied Science and Technology's Computer Science program.
The enrollment has traditionally been rather small in size; when I started (transferring in with a 2-year degree), there were only 7 people in the program; the Applied math had some 40, the Applied Statistics had some 30 people. When I graduated, there were only 3 of us--some had transferred to Applied Math, or to straight Comp-Sci.
The challenge was that most math people did NOT like computer science; and that most comp sci people took only the required maths, and nothing else. Being able to bridge both worlds did my career a lot of good!
The critical thinking imparted in a Numerical Methods course or an Abstract Algebra course is invaluable to a computer scientist. While you may never have to use the maths presented in a Real Variables course, twisting your brain around the topics really trains you to learn new things.
What did my math degree get me? It taught me how to learn. In any straight comp sci degree, if you learn the technology du jour, it will be good for (insert number) of months. You need to learn how to learn new technology.
RIT's Computational Math program can be found here.
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wwjd? jwrtfm!
Um, isn't Morse Code prior art as well?
/. "filter" won't let me place disparaging remarks about Bill Gates in this post in Morse Code. Bummer.
Unfortunately, the
The first image is a striking 275(ish)k, all for a 75x75 image.
Good thing that this is not a technology company.... hey, wait....
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WWJD? JWRTFM!
Um, on the page http://www.kuka-roboter.de/robocoaster/english/dat en.html, it lists the device's features, including:
"Microsoft Windows operating system"
Am I the only one that this would worry? I mean, the BSOD could become literal, or to a lesser extreme, a "hang" could get boring / nauseating.
Of course, if you see that the price is $5 higher than the competitor, and it costs $4.95 to ship the unit with him, are you really getting a good bargain?
Take your time, do the math. I'll wait.
Sometimes "free" shipping aint so free. That is why pricewatch.com is listing by the "total cost," and not just the list price.
You are laughing... but this might be a workable solution.
Don't shrink the audience... expand the keyboard!
Get an industrial-strength keyboard, and dissect it. Thoroughly. Read the previous slashdot post from the guy who took his keyboard and an old typewriter, and made the typewriter act *as* the keyboard.
Then give each member of the audience a "key" (whammy-happy-button) to press when fun things happen. Have a few PCs that "read" the keys pressed from the keyboard, and do a frequency analysis comapred to events that happened during the show. Depending upon how fast/repetetively they hit the key and how fast the kayboard could register keystrokes, you could be in business.
You could track each individual user (PC#3, 'f')'s responses, and the set in aggregate.
With respect to hardware, you would need enough PCs to cover the audience / (max freq read), iven that there were enough keys per keyboard. have extra / sufficient $ and time? Give them 2-3 keys (happy, sad, funny, etc.) and do more in depth statistical analysis.
The one item that you would have to "record" would be the timing... some sort of an FFT (fast fourier analysis) would most likely be appopriate, depending on how you captured the information. You would need to capture/indicate the times when they *weren't* pressing the button--this is important as the times they were!
Good luck!
Um,
Are your replying to this current story about "Court Rejects Intel Electronic Trespass Charge", or a previous one about the TVBrick?
Beuller? Beuller? Anyone?
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wwjd? jwrtfm!
Is it just me, or does Gates' desire to control sound a bit like the Prometheans in Robert Ludlum's Prometheus Deception. Oddly enough, the fictional huge software company is mentioned as a once-competitor to Microsoft...