I don't use a distro. I do everything myself. I even make my own shoes. I am a bad ass.
My first computer was a mancala, and I was so bad ass that I programmed my own version of doom using nothing but red pebbles -- and after that I wrote a C++ compiler for an analog pinball machine (you think that compiling all that crap for gentoo is a pain in the ass for your pentium 200? this thing had to do like, 6-multiball play for three months straight before KDE was finished, but now I just use it to run TCPdump on the cluster of pinball machines I've got in my house).
I'm still trying to get X-windows running on my toaster, but the video card is REALLY obscure so I may have to write the driver myself. For security, I'm using 4096-bit ssl connection between the plug and the wall, and I'm taking notes from OpenBSD by encrypting the crumbs at the bottom so some script kiddie from Finland doesn't know what kind of bread I've been eating.
I'm moving forward to cyborg stuff -- I'm going to start small by getting LOGO installed on a baby tortoise, but I need to find a good wireless protocol (WEP = weak encryption protocol. ha!) to send commands to it. I don't want the NSA to know what goes on between me and my tortoise.
Until Tiger comes along, quicksilver is an excellent search/launch app.
By just using a combination of the "control-tab" command to switch between apps and using the quicksilver shortcuts I never have to use the dock anymore or search for documents using the inferor 10.3 native search option.
I believe that it is a standing convention to name theorems or equations after the people who re-discovered them after Euler or Gauss (and sometimes one of the Lagranges) discovered them.
Otherwise, it would be just downright confusing because these folks are responsible for so much important math -- everything would be named after them.
Another euler equation: the fluid dynamics equation for non-compressible viscosity-free fluids.
Can't recall what it is right now, it's been a long time since I took a class in continuum systems or fluid dynamics.
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I am so tired of pseudo-scholarly near-sighted internet related writings from McLuhan wannabe hacks. As a student in an MIT media studies class, I am subjected to this kind of thing endlessly (including readings from Mr. Katz... he actually wrote one of the better readings, but it was hackery nevertheless).
These people need to realize that it is difficult/impossible to write salient things about the time period and culture that they live in. The best historical analysis comes from the generation produced after the period in question, because it is these people who understand what real effects the events of the past had on their present. There is an analogous argument for studies of culture and how it changes: people who exist outside the culture or after a major shift in their culture are the ones who will understand it best.
I predict that most, if not all, of these media writers will either be completely ignored by the next generation since the ideas of the writers turn out to be empty/obvious, or even worse, they will be parodied (like those "Popular Science" vinettes that amuse me so much, where 1950's announcers predicted the advent of the airborne car, and other ludicrous things).
It is exciting to have a medium which is a fusion of all existing media; a medium which allows communication to large groups of culture. It is exiting to have a medium which emphasizes non-linear thought. It would be foolish to assume that digital media will not have great impact on how we live life. However, I'm not optimistic that this is a time of media transition on par with the time after Gutenburg. There are some media prophets who do have a good handle on where their boundaries lie, and actually write some really good stuff (MIT department of Media Studies department chair Henry Jenkins, for example), but they are the exception to the norm. Internet writers need to rein themselves in and leave the real analysis to their children.
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I don't use a distro. I do everything myself. I even make my own shoes. I am a bad ass.
My first computer was a mancala, and I was so bad ass that I programmed my own version of doom using nothing but red pebbles -- and after that I wrote a C++ compiler for an analog pinball machine (you think that compiling all that crap for gentoo is a pain in the ass for your pentium 200? this thing had to do like, 6-multiball play for three months straight before KDE was finished, but now I just use it to run TCPdump on the cluster of pinball machines I've got in my house).
I'm still trying to get X-windows running on my toaster, but the video card is REALLY obscure so I may have to write the driver myself. For security, I'm using 4096-bit ssl connection between the plug and the wall, and I'm taking notes from OpenBSD by encrypting the crumbs at the bottom so some script kiddie from Finland doesn't know what kind of bread I've been eating.
I'm moving forward to cyborg stuff -- I'm going to start small by getting LOGO installed on a baby tortoise, but I need to find a good wireless protocol (WEP = weak encryption protocol. ha!) to send commands to it. I don't want the NSA to know what goes on between me and my tortoise.
By just using a combination of the "control-tab" command to switch between apps and using the quicksilver shortcuts I never have to use the dock anymore or search for documents using the inferor 10.3 native search option.
I believe that it is a standing convention to name theorems or equations after the people who re-discovered them after Euler or Gauss (and sometimes one of the Lagranges) discovered them.
Otherwise, it would be just downright confusing because these folks are responsible for so much important math -- everything would be named after them.
Another euler equation: the fluid dynamics equation for non-compressible viscosity-free fluids.
Can't recall what it is right now, it's been a long time since I took a class in continuum systems or fluid dynamics.
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2. Tinfoil cover
3. Faraday cage purse.
There is no money in discovering RFID blocking devices. There is a possible market in creating a cheap RFID detector.
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These people need to realize that it is difficult/impossible to write salient things about the time period and culture that they live in. The best historical analysis comes from the generation produced after the period in question, because it is these people who understand what real effects the events of the past had on their present. There is an analogous argument for studies of culture and how it changes: people who exist outside the culture or after a major shift in their culture are the ones who will understand it best.
I predict that most, if not all, of these media writers will either be completely ignored by the next generation since the ideas of the writers turn out to be empty/obvious, or even worse, they will be parodied (like those "Popular Science" vinettes that amuse me so much, where 1950's announcers predicted the advent of the airborne car, and other ludicrous things).
It is exciting to have a medium which is a fusion of all existing media; a medium which allows communication to large groups of culture. It is exiting to have a medium which emphasizes non-linear thought. It would be foolish to assume that digital media will not have great impact on how we live life. However, I'm not optimistic that this is a time of media transition on par with the time after Gutenburg. There are some media prophets who do have a good handle on where their boundaries lie, and actually write some really good stuff (MIT department of Media Studies department chair Henry Jenkins, for example), but they are the exception to the norm. Internet writers need to rein themselves in and leave the real analysis to their children.