There are all kinds of supplements that are supposed to replenish chemicals required by the brain, or stimulants or whatever. What are the students taking now-a-days to get through their studies?
Just do something where you're not an expert. It will also increase your chances in relationships in the future. I mean one day you're probably going to marry someone, probably of the opposite sex, who operates on a completely different form of logic, someone who can be right for all the wrong reasons. (Deniers of the "married geek" reality should also take my advice.) Either they're going to be a doormat or your arrogance is going to be a hindrance. Like someone else said, learn it now, or life will beat the lesson into you one way or another eventually. Sounds like your self-awareness is going to put you on the right track anyway.
I believe Europe and the US are playing with fire with these sanctions. Get a rat in a corner, you don't know what it is going to do. It wouldn't be the first time that a country has started a war to take pressure off a domestic situation. Is this what the US is hoping for, another war? I don't think they have the cash for it right now. This could end up a real mess.
If you remember, the Axlotl tanks turned out to be in fact surrogate mothers (check wikipedia). So embedding them in other mice is on the same kind of level as Tleilaxu technology.
Perhaps instead it will be used to abort more female babies, which will reduce the population, perhaps drastically. (Apart from leaving a generation of frustrated men). This already happens, BTW, in both India and China.
Exactly what I do. I build myself a permanent standing-height desk, and I have a tall bar-type stool on a wheeled platform so I can switch easily. Anyway, if the OP is stuck with a normal desk, he can always put a coffee table on top of it instead of a box, to avoid fire concerns.
Having freedom to work and live in several continents seems a plus. If you're pre-marriage and are looking for both a country and a woman, then that gives you more choices. I'm in Peru, married to a Peruvian, working remotely for a UK firm. You have to get to know the culture, but the Peruvian highlands work for us right now. Rent is reasonable, living is cheap enough, but internet and power are more expensive than UK. There is a bit of a bubble inflating right now with the house prices due to loose money from Europe/US (I guess). At one point I was seriously looking at Brazil -- lots of plus points culturally and booming apparently -- but that never happened. Peru is also doing well, but you won't find the density of IT work here like in Europe. Wages are really low for IT (and in general). Seems like there is a boom in training here as well, everyone wants something better for their children, so there are loads of colleges full of IT students, nurses, whatever. Peru will be exporting them in a few years. I suggest you take a holiday to a few locations and do some on the ground research. I could never live in Lima, for example -- being there a couple of days soon convinced me of that. Get some contacts in universities if you want to do research.
Agree absolutely -- they received "4.3 million URL removal requests in the past 30 days alone". I'm sure an army of bots can increase this by a few orders of magnitude as soon as they realize they've got a lever into the pagerank algorithm. Sounds like the end of Google being any use for anything. What are we left with... Bing!?
Yes, like I say, we get to try out a good part of Google's research. The only part of Microsoft's research that gets out of the lab is news of prototype vapourware. I wonder what the motivation is? To make MS seem cutting edge?
Typically Microsoft develops something impressive-sounding that is good for a news story, but that never gets out of the research labs -- i.e. vapourware as far as the rest of the world is concerned. Typically we hear about Google research projects when there is a chance to try them out. Intel innovations make it into the next chip generation. As a result, Microsoft 'innovation' stories fail to arouse any interest for me at all.
> Is there... no way they could inadvertently trigger an eruption?
Never mind an eruption, they could cause a vent to open that spews lava for years to come. Wasn't there a place they did this in the Philipines somewhere? Very runny lava spewed out for years and years covering and destroying a large surrounding area, like a big very flat volcano. But I suppose it relieves the pressure and could build some more islands or something if they want that.
It had a full-size picture of the keyboard to stare at and practice on. I had a ZX-81 before the Spectrum, so I had an idea of what most of the keywords printed on it would do, but still there were mysterious ones like INK, PAPER and BEEP that I could only guess at. What fantastic excitement computing was in those days!
Actually I am also a fan of the one-key keyword entry. I have my Linux console remapped so that with various modifier-keys I can type all the keywords of C and Java with one keypress each. "public static final int" is four keypresses plus two modifiers == 6. Definitely speeds things up.
Yes, I remember all those early games, the incredibly slow fill-routine used by the Hobbit ("time pashshesh"), the Ultimate classics like Atic Atac. There were only a few games then (relative to now) but that made them much more special somehow. I learnt so much on the Spectrum -- learning machine code, experimenting with hyperloaders and even writing a working Forth compiler (never released). I just hope kids these days can get the same lessons some other way.
Are they going to lock it down like mini-disc, so you can get data on, but have to pay extra to get it off again? Great technology but ruined by trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of it by underhand means. I am also wary.
You can set it up to use w3m to convert HTML mail to text. That way you can read all the HTML mail inside mutt, but without the formatting and images. A couple more keypresses and you can go into w3m to navigate around and follow the links, and if really necessary in w3m you can use 'm' to bring up the page in a graphical browser. All really convenient.
'mutt' is the best way to read mail in my opinion. I use it both at home (local folders) and work (IMAP).
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There are all kinds of supplements that are supposed to replenish chemicals required by the brain, or stimulants or whatever. What are the students taking now-a-days to get through their studies?
Just do something where you're not an expert. It will also increase your chances in relationships in the future. I mean one day you're probably going to marry someone, probably of the opposite sex, who operates on a completely different form of logic, someone who can be right for all the wrong reasons. (Deniers of the "married geek" reality should also take my advice.) Either they're going to be a doormat or your arrogance is going to be a hindrance. Like someone else said, learn it now, or life will beat the lesson into you one way or another eventually. Sounds like your self-awareness is going to put you on the right track anyway.
In addition, Quetzal is pronounced "ketsal", so doesn't even go with Quantal. But anyway, what does it matter, another will be along in six months.
I believe Europe and the US are playing with fire with these sanctions. Get a rat in a corner, you don't know what it is going to do. It wouldn't be the first time that a country has started a war to take pressure off a domestic situation. Is this what the US is hoping for, another war? I don't think they have the cash for it right now. This could end up a real mess.
<> Complete nonsense -- Smart started out as a petrol car. (By 'petrol' I mean the gas that is a liquid -- for those in the US)
Trendy monochrome -- do they mean like my VT100? That's so trendy they'll still be imitating it 50 years from now.
If you remember, the Axlotl tanks turned out to be in fact surrogate mothers (check wikipedia). So embedding them in other mice is on the same kind of level as Tleilaxu technology.
Perhaps instead it will be used to abort more female babies, which will reduce the population, perhaps drastically. (Apart from leaving a generation of frustrated men). This already happens, BTW, in both India and China.
Exactly what I do. I build myself a permanent standing-height desk, and I have a tall bar-type stool on a wheeled platform so I can switch easily. Anyway, if the OP is stuck with a normal desk, he can always put a coffee table on top of it instead of a box, to avoid fire concerns.
Having freedom to work and live in several continents seems a plus. If you're pre-marriage and are looking for both a country and a woman, then that gives you more choices. I'm in Peru, married to a Peruvian, working remotely for a UK firm. You have to get to know the culture, but the Peruvian highlands work for us right now. Rent is reasonable, living is cheap enough, but internet and power are more expensive than UK. There is a bit of a bubble inflating right now with the house prices due to loose money from Europe/US (I guess). At one point I was seriously looking at Brazil -- lots of plus points culturally and booming apparently -- but that never happened. Peru is also doing well, but you won't find the density of IT work here like in Europe. Wages are really low for IT (and in general). Seems like there is a boom in training here as well, everyone wants something better for their children, so there are loads of colleges full of IT students, nurses, whatever. Peru will be exporting them in a few years. I suggest you take a holiday to a few locations and do some on the ground research. I could never live in Lima, for example -- being there a couple of days soon convinced me of that. Get some contacts in universities if you want to do research.
Wow, it says something about slashdot physics knowledge that you get a score 2 and I only get a score 1.
It should be possible to print colour holograms if they get the resolution high enough.
Agree absolutely -- they received "4.3 million URL removal requests in the past 30 days alone". I'm sure an army of bots can increase this by a few orders of magnitude as soon as they realize they've got a lever into the pagerank algorithm. Sounds like the end of Google being any use for anything. What are we left with ... Bing!?
In the matrix they are geeky and cool. Not only that but it implies superpowers.
Given the drought, your fear may soon come true. Your pancake-driven effort against the war on terror is lost!!
i.e. putting servers into ISPs to save on everyone's bandwidth bill. Not so much a land grab, just a way of mutually reducing costs.
Yes, like I say, we get to try out a good part of Google's research. The only part of Microsoft's research that gets out of the lab is news of prototype vapourware. I wonder what the motivation is? To make MS seem cutting edge?
Typically Microsoft develops something impressive-sounding that is good for a news story, but that never gets out of the research labs -- i.e. vapourware as far as the rest of the world is concerned. Typically we hear about Google research projects when there is a chance to try them out. Intel innovations make it into the next chip generation. As a result, Microsoft 'innovation' stories fail to arouse any interest for me at all.
> Is there ... no way they could inadvertently trigger an eruption?
Never mind an eruption, they could cause a vent to open that spews lava for years to come. Wasn't there a place they did this in the Philipines somewhere? Very runny lava spewed out for years and years covering and destroying a large surrounding area, like a big very flat volcano. But I suppose it relieves the pressure and could build some more islands or something if they want that.
> Theresa May is an idiot
For those who remember Imelda Staunton's character in Harry Potter.
It had a full-size picture of the keyboard to stare at and practice on. I had a ZX-81 before the Spectrum, so I had an idea of what most of the keywords printed on it would do, but still there were mysterious ones like INK, PAPER and BEEP that I could only guess at. What fantastic excitement computing was in those days!
Actually I am also a fan of the one-key keyword entry. I have my Linux console remapped so that with various modifier-keys I can type all the keywords of C and Java with one keypress each. "public static final int" is four keypresses plus two modifiers == 6. Definitely speeds things up.
Yes, I remember all those early games, the incredibly slow fill-routine used by the Hobbit ("time pashshesh"), the Ultimate classics like Atic Atac. There were only a few games then (relative to now) but that made them much more special somehow. I learnt so much on the Spectrum -- learning machine code, experimenting with hyperloaders and even writing a working Forth compiler (never released). I just hope kids these days can get the same lessons some other way.
>> Yeah, just like the first moon landing. Ho hum.
More like the sixth moon landing.
Are they going to lock it down like mini-disc, so you can get data on, but have to pay extra to get it off again? Great technology but ruined by trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of it by underhand means. I am also wary.
Not sure I want my card permanently attached to me with blood and tendons and stuff.
You can set it up to use w3m to convert HTML mail to text. That way you can read all the HTML mail inside mutt, but without the formatting and images. A couple more keypresses and you can go into w3m to navigate around and follow the links, and if really necessary in w3m you can use 'm' to bring up the page in a graphical browser. All really convenient.
'mutt' is the best way to read mail in my opinion. I use it both at home (local folders) and work (IMAP).