My 12" PowerBook travels in style, or more precisely, in a Marware SportFolio Sleeve, which goes in my Land's End Square Rigger Classic Attache. No complaints on either; the Marware case fits like a glove and the Land's End attache is ridiculously durable. (As is its warranty; this one's been in use for about four years, and its predecessor made it to five before one of the clips for the shoulder strap broke and they replaced it for free.) Bit spendy, but you've got a Mac, so you clearly don't mind laying down a few more ducats for quality.:-)
Thank you, sir. The only way your comment could have made my day brighter is if I had read it at home instead of during my lunch break, so that I could have given it the hearty three-minute belly laugh it deserved.
I expect the first worm to invade this variant of Windows to be called "Imperius."
Or, to be more accurate, completely outclassed. I'm still in the game, however.
Early on in college, I got diabetes, which I ended up treating with an H-Tron Plus insulin pump, from Disetronic. After trying a few different schemes for securing it to my person, I decided to park it on my belt.
Shortly thereafter I switched to a different blood glucose meter, which I discovered had a belt loop on its pouch. This made carrying it around much easier and more reliable. Sometime in here I found I needed my Leatherman more often than I happened to have it around. On the belt it goes.
The Palm and its belt case came shortly thereafter, rounding out the utility belt. It's served me well, but I'm not a student any more, and it's starting to get a bit awkward. (Yes, I probably ought to have realized this sooner.)
I'm hoping to consolidate, using a Visor and a FreeStyle Tracker for the meter (coolest device ever), but I'm also looking at a wireless telephone . . . maybe I should just give up and get a nice vest instead. Hmm.
Oh--yes, going through airport security is a royal pain.
Desk: Two two-drawer file cabinets, supporting a 2' x 6' piece of plywood.
Coffee table: Two cardboard boxes, supporting an identical piece of plywood.
Bookshelf: Metal. Wal-Mart. 55 bolts. Listing alarmingly. Not recommended.
Stereo shelf: Plastic. Wal-Mart. Assembles in one minute. Bending alarmingly. Not recommended.
Junk drawer: Three-drawer module purchased at Target for $10, intended to designate one junk drawer, ended up creating one electronics junk drawer, one computer junk drawer, and one general junk drawer. Purchased two more modules next Target run for expansion.
Filing system: Multi-layered cellulose-based platform, powered by light brown carpet, rented with apartment.
I agree that they're excellent books, but I don't think they're fantasy books--they've got magic, dragons, castles, and all the usual fantasy trappings, but at bottom, they're mysteries.
You are right to be looking forward to the fourth book, however . . . if the first three were Star Wars, the fourth is The Empire Strikes Back. Darker, much cooler, and way more interesting.
Everyone out there who's been resisting reading Harry Potter, give in . . . it's not Tolstoy, or Tolkien, but wow, is it fun.
The ink's not yet dry on my BS, so all of the following are still fresh in my mind:
Spend at least one semester abroad. After you graduate, taking long-term trips will become vastly more difficult, and the experience is unlike any other.
If you got into a really great school but decided to matriculate at a less well-regarded one due to cost, get on the phone now and transfer. Debt goes away; the knowledge that you went to a second-rate institution doesn't.
That said, no matter where you go, make your degree count. While putting forth the minimum effort to get the grade seems like a good tactic, you'll rue yourself for it later.
By the time you graduate, you must have at least three professors who like you, preferably in your major. This is critical; these people are your references. If you're going to grad school, academic references are mandatory, and they don't look half bad on a professional resume either. To this end, visit professors during their office hours (few people do), and keep in touch after the class is over, even if you didn't do as well as you thought you would.
Another benefit of keeping in contact with your professors is the possibility of finding mentors. Mentors are great; you can learn a great deal that isn't taught in classrooms.
You will regret the things you don't do more than the things you do, and you will feel great fear and trepidation shortly before you have the greatest experiences of your college career.
Do something out of character for you. Join some student organizations you find interesting, even if (or rather, especially if) you don't know anything about what they focus on. Change your wardrobe, hang out with some different people, stop reloading Slashdot and get some fresh air.
Keep busy, but stop and smell the roses every so often.
View your course requirements not as arbitrary hoops to jump through, but as opportunities to take courses (and meet people) outside your major. Are you sure you know everything you want to know about art? About business? About law? About theatre? About literature? About journalism? About biology? About history? If you're sure now, will you be in a year or three?
Do not declare a major, either formally or in your mind, until the end of your first year at least. College is all about change, and yes, you will change. Making a four- or five-year plan is a good idea, but try to stay away from listing courses and instead list things you'd like to do or achieve.
You are not Carl Gauss. Do not take five upper-level mathematics courses in one term, no matter how smart you think you are. (I'm not Carl Gauss either, in case you haven't already figured it out. I know I hadn't.:-) )
On a more general note, if you've coasted through high school, you might be able to coast through your first and possibly second year as well. Eventually, however, you'll have to work. I know they've been saying that since you started middle school, but they mean it this time.
Learn how to navigate your school. Universities provide a mind-boggling range of resources, and most students don't take advantage of everything that's there for them. Remember, some resources (e.g. advising) won't do you any good if you get to them late.
Please email me if you have any further questions; I'm always happy to point out hazards.
I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It's a high desert region; the altitude is seven thousand feet and we get about a dozen inches of rain this year.
If you don't want to get seriously sick here, you must drink mass quantities of water. My first visit to New Mexico was a hiking trip I took when I was fourteen. The rangers recommended eight liters of water a day, which probably was overkill--but not by so much as one of my companions thought, who ended up spending a night with some pretty bad nausea from the altitude and lack of humidity.
It's true that you might not need quite so much in less extreme climates, but it's a great deal harder to give yourself water intoxication than to get dehydrated. Besides, it gives you an excuse to get away from that accursed keyboard.
One cubicle resident I knew once took the large collection of pop cans he'd accumulated and extended the walls of his cubicle skyward. If you wanted to get really creative, you could add little battlements and towers and the like.
In 1995, my family bought a computer from Gateway, then Gateway 2000. It came with a fairly good selection of M$ software, including Windows 95 (oooh! no more Program Manager) and Microsoft Bob (what the hell is this?). It also included one of the Entertainment Packs, which included a chess program. I had downloaded GNU winchess and played it on the old computer, and I noticed that the chess program in the Entertainment Pack was disturbingly similar . . . in fact, when I tried to run them simultaneously, they generated error messages saying that only one copy of the program could be run at a time. I think I still have the original CDs somewhere, actually. Does anybody else remember this, or am I just hallucinating from too much coffee?
Keep in mind that Slashdot is a pretty geek-heavy community, and many of us had a lousy time in high school and college courtesy of the people who are now playing football. This can make for extended bitterness. Q.v. Beer and Circus.
Upon reading this article, my first comment was, "You know, if only there were a little more rotting meat, this would be The Jungle."
It's true that we've come a long way since the bad old days, but stories like this prove that corporations will take as much rope as we'll give them--and they're hanging us with it. We're skilled workers who are proud of our knowledge and abilities, and we can't afford to be treated like this.
The solution: unionization. While it's usually not associated with high-tech employment, it's helped countless workers reclaim their rights and is currently making inroads into the field. In fact, in the Bay Area, one is already set up.
It won't be easy, but that's just more evidence that you're going down the right path. No union is perfect, but they're fatal to labor practices like this. If businesses like this unionized, employment, it would be a great step towards making the industry a better place to work.
Slashdot Mirror
My 12" PowerBook travels in style, or more precisely, in a Marware SportFolio Sleeve, which goes in my Land's End Square Rigger Classic Attache. No complaints on either; the Marware case fits like a glove and the Land's End attache is ridiculously durable. (As is its warranty; this one's been in use for about four years, and its predecessor made it to five before one of the clips for the shoulder strap broke and they replaced it for free.) Bit spendy, but you've got a Mac, so you clearly don't mind laying down a few more ducats for quality. :-)
Thank you, sir. The only way your comment could have made my day brighter is if I had read it at home instead of during my lunch break, so that I could have given it the hearty three-minute belly laugh it deserved.
I expect the first worm to invade this variant of Windows to be called "Imperius."
All I see whenever I load the PDF or Postscript files is the abstract. Does anybody know where the full paper is?
In Victorian England, Zig take off YOU!
developer.lanl.gov? I think you mean developer.apple.com.
I actually once visited a radio station that had a very small, windowless room in the basement called Das Boot. No periscope, though.
Early on in college, I got diabetes, which I ended up treating with an H-Tron Plus insulin pump, from Disetronic. After trying a few different schemes for securing it to my person, I decided to park it on my belt.
Shortly thereafter I switched to a different blood glucose meter, which I discovered had a belt loop on its pouch. This made carrying it around much easier and more reliable. Sometime in here I found I needed my Leatherman more often than I happened to have it around. On the belt it goes.
The Palm and its belt case came shortly thereafter, rounding out the utility belt. It's served me well, but I'm not a student any more, and it's starting to get a bit awkward. (Yes, I probably ought to have realized this sooner.)
I'm hoping to consolidate, using a Visor and a FreeStyle Tracker for the meter (coolest device ever), but I'm also looking at a wireless telephone . . . maybe I should just give up and get a nice vest instead. Hmm.
Oh--yes, going through airport security is a royal pain.
See, my room looks pretty exploded to begin with . . .
I agree that they're excellent books, but I don't think they're fantasy books--they've got magic, dragons, castles, and all the usual fantasy trappings, but at bottom, they're mysteries.
You are right to be looking forward to the fourth book, however . . . if the first three were Star Wars, the fourth is The Empire Strikes Back. Darker, much cooler, and way more interesting.
Everyone out there who's been resisting reading Harry Potter, give in . . . it's not Tolstoy, or Tolkien, but wow, is it fun.
The ink's not yet dry on my BS, so all of the following are still fresh in my mind:
:-) )
Spend at least one semester abroad. After you graduate, taking long-term trips will become vastly more difficult, and the experience is unlike any other.
If you got into a really great school but decided to matriculate at a less well-regarded one due to cost, get on the phone now and transfer. Debt goes away; the knowledge that you went to a second-rate institution doesn't.
That said, no matter where you go, make your degree count. While putting forth the minimum effort to get the grade seems like a good tactic, you'll rue yourself for it later.
By the time you graduate, you must have at least three professors who like you, preferably in your major. This is critical; these people are your references. If you're going to grad school, academic references are mandatory, and they don't look half bad on a professional resume either. To this end, visit professors during their office hours (few people do), and keep in touch after the class is over, even if you didn't do as well as you thought you would.
Another benefit of keeping in contact with your professors is the possibility of finding mentors. Mentors are great; you can learn a great deal that isn't taught in classrooms.
You will regret the things you don't do more than the things you do, and you will feel great fear and trepidation shortly before you have the greatest experiences of your college career.
Do something out of character for you. Join some student organizations you find interesting, even if (or rather, especially if) you don't know anything about what they focus on. Change your wardrobe, hang out with some different people, stop reloading Slashdot and get some fresh air.
Keep busy, but stop and smell the roses every so often.
View your course requirements not as arbitrary hoops to jump through, but as opportunities to take courses (and meet people) outside your major. Are you sure you know everything you want to know about art? About business? About law? About theatre? About literature? About journalism? About biology? About history? If you're sure now, will you be in a year or three?
Do not declare a major, either formally or in your mind, until the end of your first year at least. College is all about change, and yes, you will change. Making a four- or five-year plan is a good idea, but try to stay away from listing courses and instead list things you'd like to do or achieve.
You are not Carl Gauss. Do not take five upper-level mathematics courses in one term, no matter how smart you think you are. (I'm not Carl Gauss either, in case you haven't already figured it out. I know I hadn't.
On a more general note, if you've coasted through high school, you might be able to coast through your first and possibly second year as well. Eventually, however, you'll have to work. I know they've been saying that since you started middle school, but they mean it this time.
Learn how to navigate your school. Universities provide a mind-boggling range of resources, and most students don't take advantage of everything that's there for them. Remember, some resources (e.g. advising) won't do you any good if you get to them late.
Please email me if you have any further questions; I'm always happy to point out hazards.
I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It's a high desert region; the altitude is seven thousand feet and we get about a dozen inches of rain this year.
If you don't want to get seriously sick here, you must drink mass quantities of water. My first visit to New Mexico was a hiking trip I took when I was fourteen. The rangers recommended eight liters of water a day, which probably was overkill--but not by so much as one of my companions thought, who ended up spending a night with some pretty bad nausea from the altitude and lack of humidity.
It's true that you might not need quite so much in less extreme climates, but it's a great deal harder to give yourself water intoxication than to get dehydrated. Besides, it gives you an excuse to get away from that accursed keyboard.
Albert Hoffmann, 19 April 1943.
:-)
It's not a physics experiment as such, but I'm certain many students (well, at my school at least) do it with some frequency!
"X 10"
:-)
A decade of the technology that would eventually bring you the pop-under ad!
I was about to say, "No, the moon of Saturn is Titan, not Titanic." Then I saw that you did indeed mean the ship. You're off the hook--this time. :-)
I would, but now the stats page is slashdotted. Somewhere, some gremlin is laughing his/her fool head off over this one.
Well, *my* wind tunnel is 100% OpenSwallow 2001 compliant, and supports remote control through /dev/windtunnel. :-)
One cubicle resident I knew once took the large collection of pop cans he'd accumulated and extended the walls of his cubicle skyward. If you wanted to get really creative, you could add little battlements and towers and the like.
Then again, there's always Lego.
Or at least, if you do answer "It depends," tell us on what it depends. :-)
In 1995, my family bought a computer from Gateway, then Gateway 2000. It came with a fairly good selection of M$ software, including Windows 95 (oooh! no more Program Manager) and Microsoft Bob (what the hell is this?). It also included one of the Entertainment Packs, which included a chess program. I had downloaded GNU winchess and played it on the old computer, and I noticed that the chess program in the Entertainment Pack was disturbingly similar . . . in fact, when I tried to run them simultaneously, they generated error messages saying that only one copy of the program could be run at a time. I think I still have the original CDs somewhere, actually. Does anybody else remember this, or am I just hallucinating from too much coffee?
Keep in mind that Slashdot is a pretty geek-heavy community, and many of us had a lousy time in high school and college courtesy of the people who are now playing football. This can make for extended bitterness. Q.v. Beer and Circus .
Upon reading this article, my first comment was, "You know, if only there were a little more rotting meat, this would be The Jungle."
It's true that we've come a long way since the bad old days, but stories like this prove that corporations will take as much rope as we'll give them--and they're hanging us with it. We're skilled workers who are proud of our knowledge and abilities, and we can't afford to be treated like this.
The solution: unionization. While it's usually not associated with high-tech employment, it's helped countless workers reclaim their rights and is currently making inroads into the field. In fact, in the Bay Area, one is already set up.
It won't be easy, but that's just more evidence that you're going down the right path. No union is perfect, but they're fatal to labor practices like this. If businesses like this unionized, employment, it would be a great step towards making the industry a better place to work.
heh . . . it's been slashdotted since something like 1995. "Always free, often busy," as one of their records put it.
I saw this in rec.humor.funny a while ago--it seems rather appropriate.
The five rules of Socialism:
1. Don't think.
2. If you do think, don't speak.
3. If you think and speak, don't write.
4. If you think, speak and write, don't sign.
5. If you think, speak, write and sign, don't be surprised.