Unfortunately they built the one Fry's in Illinois as far away from public transit as possible, so I guess I will have to shop elsewhere. Good work, guys.
No man, you've got this completely wrong. This is slashdot! We all know that if a slashdotter were given the day off, a credit card, and orders to go to a computer store and buy shit until the card is maxed out, that's what he would do! Are you really telling me that you'd rather see some girls take off their bathing suits instead of setting a up a massively parallel RAID-5 array of 300G SATA-150 disks!?
Wrong. In Chicago, electricity is $0.08275 per kilowatt hour. Let's just say 8 cents to make the math easier. My Linux box uses about 200W of power (it's a 420W PSU, but I'll assume I'm not maxing it out). This is 0.2KWh / h or 144KWh per month. Multiplied by that rate, it's $11.52 an hour. Over a year, that's $138.24. For a college student like me, that's not pocket change!
Needless to say, I've decommissioned that machine and only turn it on when I need to use it. My fileserver / e-mail / web server is now running on an NSLU2 -- which uses 8 watts. That costs only about $5 a year to run.
What he really means is, "I made all this up. I didn't really write any code. If I did, I would have published in a scholarly journal and would gladly show you the code." That's how I read it, anyway. What the hell does he care if people break CAPTCHAs?
In other news, I've solved every known open mathematical problem. Unfortunately, I can't publish the information because I don't want terrorists to get it.
Personally, I'm going to use this to build a slient PC. You see, I'll have an entire wall of fans, and then just put my PC in front of it. The PC will then be silent and very cool. Did I mention that this will also effectively increase the size of my penis?
Whether or not my apartment can stand the pressure increase that a 1KW wall array of fans will produce is another issue all together. I'm not worried though... this is FOR SCIENCE!
No it won't. However, you do compromise disk space for quality here. To get non-DRM files, you have to take the compressed, encrypted file and decompress it (burn to CD) and then keep it decompressed (re-rip to lossless). There is no sound quality loss here, but it is a waste of disk space.
Really, you're just wasting your time doing this. Get Hymn and be done with it.
> But in the time it takes to become an emacs guru alone, you could have become a Photoshop guru five times over.
I don't think so. There are three reasons for this.
1) I never have a need to use Photoshop. 2) I don't have much graphics manipulation sense. 3) Photoshop isn't self-documenting.
I learned emacs and LaTeX because I needed to write code and produce documents. I had no other way of doing this (OK, vi, but I didn't really like it). So I learned them. Emacs has TONS of online documentation and a built-in tutorial. LaTeX ships with excellent documentation. I read it, tried the examples on things I was working on, and now I know it pretty well.
Photoshop doesn't work this way. First of all, you need some reason to use it. I have none. (I take digital photos, but they look fine to me. I don't think I need much enhancement besides cropping.) While it would be great to "know Photoshop", I just have no reason to, and use my time and mental capacity for something more pertinent. Even if I knew how the tools worked, I don't have any design sense that would tell me what to use them for. ("Oh, let's replace this stop sign with a logo." What?)
Secondly, even if I did need to use Photoshop, I wouldn't know how to do it, and Photoshop wouldn't tell me. There's hardly any online documentation for a n00b like me. If I mouse over, Photoshop provides helpful hints like, "Eyedropper Tool". What the hell is an Eyedropper Tool?
I'm not blaming Photoshop for this though, if I'm using the program I should learn how to use it. Unfortunately, I just haven't. So it's useless for me. Which makes me not need/want to learn it. The cycle continues:)
So anyway, let me revise your comment:
"In the time it takes me to learn Photoshop 5 times over, you could become an emacs guru."
Yes. I'm an emacs guru and you're a photoshop guru. Next time I need something photoshopped, I'll ask you. Next time you need a book typeset, let me know:)
Stuff I don't know about? I'm just writing about my experience. Considering that I experience my life nearly every second of every day, I think I do know what I'm talking about.
Emacs and LaTeX work the way my brain does. I like a good looking document and Word continually disappoints me. That doesn't mean it has to disappoint you, though. If you like Word, then great! To each his own!
If you like Windows, go ahead and use it. I like Linux. Like I said, I'm merely recounting my own experience. Everyone is free to make their own decision -- I'm not even saying Linux is better than Windows. I'm just saying that it ended up working for me.
I'm not a big gamer. UT is a game that I can play for 15 minutes when I feel like it, and then not play for a month.
I've played CS (and kin) a few times and just get killed within the first 20 seconds. That's not too fun for an occasional gamer. UT at least lets you have fun despite the fact that you suck royally. Actually, considering I hardly ever play UT, I'm not that bad... but not an uber gamer like most CS players.
Yes. I've never used Windows extensively myself. I was forced to at work, but I won't count that:)
Anyway, many years ago I migrated from MacOS 8 to Linux. It was hard at first... there weren't any GUI word processors for Linux back then. Instead of whining about it and dumping Linux, I learned LaTeX and haven't looked back since. Converting to Linux means you're going to have to re-learn some common tasks. That's too hard for some people, and for them, I recommend that they stick to having a virus-infected Windows machine.
All in all, learning emacs and LaTeX let me write better looking documents (and code) with less effort. It just takes a bit of initial learning and the willingness to change your mindset.
As for games, I guess I got lucky -- the only game I ever really liked was Unreal Tournament, and there are excellent Linux versions available (original, 2003, 2004). Personally, I think the hardcore gamers should just use consoles; they're cheaper than computers, Just Work, use less power, and turn on instantly. Use your computer for work and your game system for gaming. That's what I would do.
In case you haven't noticed, Slashdot is like Playboy -- you're missing the point if you read it for the articles. You can get links to news stories anywhere; Slashdot is worth reading because of the comments. Nowhere else do I notice such a high concentration of interesting commentary, and because of that, I read it every day.
If you don't like it, just read BoingBoing and comment there. The Slashdot community can probably live without your complaining.
How can a list of player's names be someone's property? The phonebook isn't anyone's property; what's the difference between a roster and the phonebook?
Personally, if I were a small game studio, I would make up rosters and team names that were confusing similar to NFL rosters and teams. For example, the "Chicago Bares" could contain players with, coincidentally, the same stats as "Chicago Bears" players'. You could then name these players so that they have the same initials as the real player.
Slimy? Yes. But no slimier than copyrighting someone's name.
Not to mention that its -dumpstream option is great for the pay-per-minute movie sites. You pay for 60 minutes (like $3 in quantity) and can save an entire movie and watch it again and again:) Not that I personally would know anything about this, though. X_X
(Even if mplayer for some reason can't decode the stream, you can at least save it with mplayer and watch it with $MOVIE_PLAYER_DU_JOUR.)
All of these problems are caused by the Human.ImDum virus. You can wipe out the ImDum virus by using your brain or, in severe cases, by reading a book or two.
You too are just 30 short keystrokes away from submitting 50,000 lines of code to the Firefox team:)/* Hello C-u 50000 C-j */ C-x C-s M-x mail-to-firefox-developers
Or in vi:
ESC:q!!!!!!!!!! emacs
(Ah, I love vi. Sometimes when it upsets me, I type a bunch of extra exclamation marks after the q, but it just complains about it (E488: Trailing characters and moron at the keyboard). That's OK. That's why God made killall:)
Not quite. If there are no clients using the network, then it's "undetectable". Under normal conditions, i.e. SSID broadcast is on, the AP sends a messages every so often containing the SSID. When you tune to the channel the AP is on, you can see these messages and see that an AP with whatever the SSID is is around. When you turn SSID broadcast off, these messages are not transmitted. Hence, you are undetectable.
Advanced scanners detect no-SSID-broadcast APs by looking at traffic; if there's traffic addressed to an AP with SSID "Hello", then the scanner presumes that there is a network named "Hello" around:)
Most sane webservers GZIP the content. XML compresses extremely well. (In other words, gzipped XML is just as efficient space-wise as a binary memory dump. And much easier for mere people to understand.)
Your algorithm is terrible. I typed "four plus four is eight", and none of the numbers were recognized. Then I typed "11 plus 22 is 33" and it said the sum was 12. No. That's wrong (the correct sum is 11+22+33 = 66).
A simple s/[0-9]/\1/g; is all your program does... and that's not even right. Try adding a + after the [0-9] so NUMBERS are recognized and summed, not DIGITS. There's a difference!
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He's a QBasic guru. Admitting like that is like admitting that you're an expert at accidentally drowning yourself in the toilet. In other words, dumb.
I agree. I'd go to Fry's.
Unfortunately they built the one Fry's in Illinois as far away from public transit as possible, so I guess I will have to shop elsewhere. Good work, guys.
> Everybody's happy!
:)
No man, you've got this completely wrong. This is slashdot! We all know that if a slashdotter were given the day off, a credit card, and orders to go to a computer store and buy shit until the card is maxed out, that's what he would do! Are you really telling me that you'd rather see some girls take off their bathing suits instead of setting a up a massively parallel RAID-5 array of 300G SATA-150 disks!?
If so, you fail at being a computer nerd!
$11.52 per month, I mean.
:)
Note to self: Engage brain before posting, please
Wrong. In Chicago, electricity is $0.08275 per kilowatt hour. Let's just say 8 cents to make the math easier. My Linux box uses about 200W of power (it's a 420W PSU, but I'll assume I'm not maxing it out). This is 0.2KWh / h or 144KWh per month. Multiplied by that rate, it's $11.52 an hour. Over a year, that's $138.24. For a college student like me, that's not pocket change!
Needless to say, I've decommissioned that machine and only turn it on when I need to use it. My fileserver / e-mail / web server is now running on an NSLU2 -- which uses 8 watts. That costs only about $5 a year to run.
What he really means is, "I made all this up. I didn't really write any code. If I did, I would have published in a scholarly journal and would gladly show you the code." That's how I read it, anyway. What the hell does he care if people break CAPTCHAs?
In other news, I've solved every known open mathematical problem. Unfortunately, I can't publish the information because I don't want terrorists to get it.
Riiiight.
That reminds me of some code I saw the other day:
...
try {
do_something();
}
catch (MyProgrammingIsBadException e){
throw new Exception(e.getMessage());
}
I'm surprised that's even legal.
Buildings secure computers? Computers secure building? What?
Oh, you meant "building secure computers".
It's called a `link'.
Watch this. I can share an entire search with just a few HTML tags!
How cool is this?
Personally, I'm going to use this to build a slient PC. You see, I'll have an entire wall of fans, and then just put my PC in front of it. The PC will then be silent and very cool. Did I mention that this will also effectively increase the size of my penis?
Whether or not my apartment can stand the pressure increase that a 1KW wall array of fans will produce is another issue all together. I'm not worried though... this is FOR SCIENCE!
No it won't. However, you do compromise disk space for quality here. To get non-DRM files, you have to take the compressed, encrypted file and decompress it (burn to CD) and then keep it decompressed (re-rip to lossless). There is no sound quality loss here, but it is a waste of disk space.
Really, you're just wasting your time doing this. Get Hymn and be done with it.
> But in the time it takes to become an emacs guru alone, you could have become a Photoshop guru five times over.
:)
:)
I don't think so. There are three reasons for this.
1) I never have a need to use Photoshop.
2) I don't have much graphics manipulation sense.
3) Photoshop isn't self-documenting.
I learned emacs and LaTeX because I needed to write code and produce documents. I had no other way of doing this (OK, vi, but I didn't really like it). So I learned them. Emacs has TONS of online documentation and a built-in tutorial. LaTeX ships with excellent documentation. I read it, tried the examples on things I was working on, and now I know it pretty well.
Photoshop doesn't work this way. First of all, you need some reason to use it. I have none. (I take digital photos, but they look fine to me. I don't think I need much enhancement besides cropping.) While it would be great to "know Photoshop", I just have no reason to, and use my time and mental capacity for something more pertinent. Even if I knew how the tools worked, I don't have any design sense that would tell me what to use them for. ("Oh, let's replace this stop sign with a logo." What?)
Secondly, even if I did need to use Photoshop, I wouldn't know how to do it, and Photoshop wouldn't tell me. There's hardly any online documentation for a n00b like me. If I mouse over, Photoshop provides helpful hints like, "Eyedropper Tool". What the hell is an Eyedropper Tool?
I'm not blaming Photoshop for this though, if I'm using the program I should learn how to use it. Unfortunately, I just haven't. So it's useless for me. Which makes me not need/want to learn it. The cycle continues
So anyway, let me revise your comment:
"In the time it takes me to learn Photoshop 5 times over, you could become an emacs guru."
Yes. I'm an emacs guru and you're a photoshop guru. Next time I need something photoshopped, I'll ask you. Next time you need a book typeset, let me know
Stuff I don't know about? I'm just writing about my experience. Considering that I experience my life nearly every second of every day, I think I do know what I'm talking about.
Emacs and LaTeX work the way my brain does. I like a good looking document and Word continually disappoints me. That doesn't mean it has to disappoint you, though. If you like Word, then great! To each his own!
If you like Windows, go ahead and use it. I like Linux. Like I said, I'm merely recounting my own experience. Everyone is free to make their own decision -- I'm not even saying Linux is better than Windows. I'm just saying that it ended up working for me.
I'm not a big gamer. UT is a game that I can play for 15 minutes when I feel like it, and then not play for a month.
I've played CS (and kin) a few times and just get killed within the first 20 seconds. That's not too fun for an occasional gamer. UT at least lets you have fun despite the fact that you suck royally. Actually, considering I hardly ever play UT, I'm not that bad... but not an uber gamer like most CS players.
Yes. I've never used Windows extensively myself. I was forced to at work, but I won't count that :)
Anyway, many years ago I migrated from MacOS 8 to Linux. It was hard at first... there weren't any GUI word processors for Linux back then. Instead of whining about it and dumping Linux, I learned LaTeX and haven't looked back since. Converting to Linux means you're going to have to re-learn some common tasks. That's too hard for some people, and for them, I recommend that they stick to having a virus-infected Windows machine.
All in all, learning emacs and LaTeX let me write better looking documents (and code) with less effort. It just takes a bit of initial learning and the willingness to change your mindset.
As for games, I guess I got lucky -- the only game I ever really liked was Unreal Tournament, and there are excellent Linux versions available (original, 2003, 2004). Personally, I think the hardcore gamers should just use consoles; they're cheaper than computers, Just Work, use less power, and turn on instantly. Use your computer for work and your game system for gaming. That's what I would do.
In case you haven't noticed, Slashdot is like Playboy -- you're missing the point if you read it for the articles. You can get links to news stories anywhere; Slashdot is worth reading because of the comments. Nowhere else do I notice such a high concentration of interesting commentary, and because of that, I read it every day.
If you don't like it, just read BoingBoing and comment there. The Slashdot community can probably live without your complaining.
How can a list of player's names be someone's property? The phonebook isn't anyone's property; what's the difference between a roster and the phonebook?
Personally, if I were a small game studio, I would make up rosters and team names that were confusing similar to NFL rosters and teams. For example, the "Chicago Bares" could contain players with, coincidentally, the same stats as "Chicago Bears" players'. You could then name these players so that they have the same initials as the real player.
Slimy? Yes. But no slimier than copyrighting someone's name.
Not to mention that its -dumpstream option is great for the pay-per-minute movie sites. You pay for 60 minutes (like $3 in quantity) and can save an entire movie and watch it again and again :) Not that I personally would know anything about this, though. X_X
(Even if mplayer for some reason can't decode the stream, you can at least save it with mplayer and watch it with $MOVIE_PLAYER_DU_JOUR.)
I think the "profit" part comes from people paying you to leave before the week has ended
All of these problems are caused by the Human.ImDum virus. You can wipe out the ImDum virus by using your brain or, in severe cases, by reading a book or two.
> I run ./rebuild and it rebuilds all my pages based on the template and content.tmpl file.
/.rebuild as well :)
Speaking of which, I think this site could use a
You too are just 30 short keystrokes away from submitting 50,000 lines of code to the Firefox team :) /* Hello C-u 50000 C-j */ C-x C-s M-x mail-to-firefox-developers
:q!!!!!!!!!! emacs
:)
Or in vi:
ESC
(Ah, I love vi. Sometimes when it upsets me, I type a bunch of extra exclamation marks after the q, but it just complains about it (E488: Trailing characters and moron at the keyboard). That's OK. That's why God made killall
Not quite. If there are no clients using the network, then it's "undetectable". Under normal conditions, i.e. SSID broadcast is on, the AP sends a messages every so often containing the SSID. When you tune to the channel the AP is on, you can see these messages and see that an AP with whatever the SSID is is around. When you turn SSID broadcast off, these messages are not transmitted. Hence, you are undetectable.
:)
Advanced scanners detect no-SSID-broadcast APs by looking at traffic; if there's traffic addressed to an AP with SSID "Hello", then the scanner presumes that there is a network named "Hello" around
Most sane webservers GZIP the content. XML compresses extremely well. (In other words, gzipped XML is just as efficient space-wise as a binary memory dump. And much easier for mere people to understand.)
Your algorithm is terrible. I typed "four plus four is eight", and none of the numbers were recognized. Then I typed "11 plus 22 is 33" and it said the sum was 12. No. That's wrong (the correct sum is 11+22+33 = 66).
:)
A simple s/[0-9]/\1/g; is all your program does... and that's not even right. Try adding a + after the [0-9] so NUMBERS are recognized and summed, not DIGITS. There's a difference!
Good luck in future contests