It may be going off on a rant, but it's time that we take money from the military and start giving it to the school systems (especially publically-funded schools like universities are) because otherwise, the U.S.A. is going to become a group of complete loser jocks who couldn't tell you the difference between a hole in the ground and the goatse.cx guy
That's simply not true. Very few public schools are research intensive. Most of the time they are private schools like CMU or MIT or Ivy League schools which are also in operation solely through tution, alumni giving, and proceeds from research.
As great as it would be to come up with some horrible conspiracy about how Microsoft has double agents working in University Administration, it's simply not the way it works.
The only way you can give great research opportunities to undergrads and have world class professors teaching intro CS classes at someplace like MIT is... tada: MONEY.
I think the real difference here is that most technologies were always spun off before with some sort of licensing deal to develop a product. The reason aarpanet made it through is because there wasn't any obvious indication of how huge it would be. Most "old school" engineering research is often sold to another company or a few professors might spin off a company to develop a product from the technology.
Are there VC's who are actually pouring more money into this? Haven't they learned with the.com crash that you can't turn a profit running a free service.
Worse, the music publishers bought into it.
Re:Goodbye 2001? Good riddance!
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Google Recaps 2001
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You sound a little meek. You need to take the bull by the horns and stop letting your shitty attitude get in the way of your life
April: A girl gets butchered and raped in the apartment across the walkway from me.I leave, and just as I head out, I see them bringing the body bag out, and see the outline of the girl's head in the bag and damn near throw up. I spend the next week or so living with Ginger until I can get a chance to arrange to move to a new complex.
Obviously this is a sad story, but when I was in high school I was in a car accident and woke up to my best friends head split open. That wasn't pleasant either, but did I never ride in a car again? Of course not.
If this was a one time incident, that sucks. But it is really necessary to move? Crimes happen everyday everywhere. If you really did live in that bad of an apartment complex, then you had a case to move.
The apartment manager at my old apartment complex refuses to break anyone's lease, and refuses let anyone out. He also refuses to allow anyone to pay off the remainder of their lease. I'm screwed for $3000, and spend the next 6 months paying off two apartments
Did you ever try to sublet? It seems like your legal fees would have been well spent taking out some ads in the local paper.
I find out my new neighbor at the new apartment complex wears a monitoring bracelet around his ankle. Wonderful.
So what? If he was a 3rd time offending axe murderer, he wouldn't be under house arrest, he be in a maximum security prison. Maybe he was a non-voilet marijuana offender? Why do you just jump to conclusions here? Can't people make mistakes?
Cant go home for Christmas and be with my family because of Osama. Parents don't want me on a plane.
Are you 17? How can your parents still dictate everything you do? Are you not an adult?
Frankly, I could go on and on, but I won't. The point of my post is not insult you or make fun of you, but to point out that your life isn't that bad. Perhaps some of these problems are even your own fault. Why didn't you get a temporary job when you were laid off? Bartending for 15 bucks an hour will keep a roof over your head and food on your table.
You need to learn from your mistakes and take some direct accountability for your own fate instead of being a hapless bystander.
I've recently graduated from CMU with a CS degree. My senior year we wrote a kernel, a filesystem and a shell (or about 90% of an operatiing system).
That class alone killed about 40 hours a week, so while you might be able to learn Pascal at your local community college in a year, don't expect to get a world class education like you would at MIT or CMU in 1 year, no matter how many books you've read.
Most of my classes involved minimal programming, and a lot of theory (OS being the exception). Have you read a lot of books on probability, set theory and matrix algebra? Have you read any books on modern math? Algorithms (which involved no programming, all proofs)? NFA's and DFA's? Context Free Grammers?
I had a Java reference book and a C reference book while I was at CMU, every other book was theoretical.
>Do we really need.NET or C# on Linux when we got Java and C++?
Have you ever actually used Java? It should have been so cool but it continues to disappoint me. Maybe C# will be the kick in the ass Java needs to improve.
Re:disks not suitable for heavy duty applications
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The biggest problem I have with these systems (and the ones from RLX) is that they put cheezy laptop hard disks on the blades. The not-so-fast 4300 RPM drives or whatever they are using now are simply not fast enough for I/O intensive tasks
One of my good friends works as a chip designer for Dell. We were talking over beers last weekend about how Dell is coming out with the same thing soon, only with the option of having either the cheezy laptop drives OR a normal sized SCSI drive. You'll be able to choose between density or speed.
When you go to a club, you don't want to just listen to music. You want to see the DJ. You want to hear HIS playlist. You want to discover his personal scratch combos. We all need some human presence, especially when it comes to party
I agree with what you're saying in a club setting, but there are many places I could see this being used.
I'm a recovering fraternity DJ. I love the latest House records, I love vinyl, I love spending Saturday afternoons sifting through record crates. I love David Morales, Armand Van Helden, Judge Jules, Pete Tong and Hybrid (okay, hybrid is prog nu-skool breaks, but bear with me)
However, as a veteran of 4 years as a fraternity DJ, I hate "Put it in your mouth", Backstreet Boys, and "Come On Eileen". Unfortunately, sorrority chicks don't.
If this device was available to free me from playing garbage like the latter, freeing me up to drink copious amounts of cheap beer, it definitely would have been something worth checking out.
I'm sure he enjoys having free list hosting, though.
Re:How to handle mailing list vacation responses?
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Managing Mailing Lists
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Tell them to switch software or change their configuration. If the reply-to header is set to be you, there's not a lot you can do about it. A good discussion list will have the reply to set as the list address, and a good List Manager software like Lyris will have filters and mail loop detectors to stop things like this from happening.
I just double checked my windows update today and saw there was a new patch available. I applied it to all my Windows 2000 machines and I have a (temporarily) secure server platform with one of the best GUI's out there and unmatched hardware & software support. Not to mention a built in web browser that never crashes, and didn't require any lengthy downloads. And I don't have to worry about losing precious support, since Microsoft is in no danger of going out of business anytime soon.
Frankly, I like windows 2000, and until something better comes along, I'm going to stick with it.
(Before you mod this as flamebait reread the parent message. Then mod both messages as flamebait)
The support for Digital Output without the connection is kinda silly. I haven't been able to find what video-out (if any) is supported because of slashdotting. Component Video out supporting 480p is a minimum, and 720p and 1080i would be useful as well.
You're asking for technology that doesn't exist. You need a dedicated TV out card, and it'll look like crap anyways, since even an HD ready TV has odd verticle resolutions (720, 960 and 1080).
As a refresher course, let me remind you that 720i means interlaced, while 720p is progressive scan... and I know you don't have a 720p capable TV. My Toshiba doesn't even do it. Don't forget that component video is not digital.
It this your new Perl Harbour, or is it Nagasaki and Hiroshima coming back to haunt you ?
While the events today are of course a perverse display of violence aimed at civilians, no one should be ignorant of the fact that the U.S. themselves are not exactly virgin in the field of hitting very large amounts of civilians with no prior warning what so ever.
Hmm... though we were at WAR and we were hitting strategic military targets to stop this little thing called World War II (maybe you've heard of it, I'm assuming we saved you country) and save many of our servicemen's lives, as opposed to being civilian-only terrorism with no claims of responsibility for no clearly apparent reason.
Take it from me, as a screwed over owner of the original adlib....
The reason that SB took over and Adlib died is because it had no ability to play back sampled sounds. So, it could beep and bop all day with it's crappy synthesizer, the it couldn't play speech or sound effects.
The SB, however, emulated the adlib's synthesizer perfectly, was 5 or 10 bucks cheaper, and it could play back samples.
Of course, game developers jumped on this, and Adlib pulled a 3DFX:
By the time it released it's 2nd gen products, it was 6 months late to market, more expensive, and had fewer features. The SB16 had won.
I'm a recently graduated Computer Science major from Carnegie Mellon University.
My roommate and I (also a CS major) would usually get 20 or so pills of Ritalin during finals.
I never really noticed that they changed my ability to concentrate, but they would keep you awake in a relatively pleasant and clear-headed manner. It never really made me feel "high", just wide awake and ready to stay awake all night after getting 4 hours of sleep the afternoon before.
Compared to the alternatives like Ephedrine (it made me feel like I was going to have a heart attack) and Cocaine (I couldn't afford more than one final:), not to mention the horrible crash when you come down), it was cheap, it worked and was (fairly) safe.
Microsoft employees have recently started a boycott Linux website. Check out their latest press release:
Newsflash! Linux is written not by some high powered corporation, but rather a bunch of random people who may or may not smoke crack, live in other countries (and take jobs away from red blooded American Microsoft employees), or be uncle abusers.
Actually, I always thought a jock was somebody who was very good or naturally good at sports.
It's interesting how so many "popular kids" are portrayed in the media as abusive and biased against those who are different (computer kids), yet those same kids show the a reverse bias towards the "cool kids". And I'm not just talking about you, lest we forget the moderators who thought that your offensive post should be modded up to a 4.
"This is ridiculous! The start button is a foot? What does a foot have to do with a start button?"
Microsoft has succeeded in making their own screwed up naming conventions the "standard" of computers everywhere.
As much as I hate microsoft, I'm gonna have to disagree with you here.
Take a step back from the situation for a minute. I think you'd have to agree that a button labeled "start" or "run" makes a lot more sense than a foot (a foot that doesn't even involve any discernable "motion" (the arrow isn't much help)).
Microsoft might be bastards, but maybe this is something that became "standard" simply because it's downright intuitive.
By the time you have solved the engineering problem of sending single photons reliably over long distances outside, the crypto is meaningless
I'm no quantum physics major, but you are definitely not a reading major. It says right in the article their work has led them to believe they can send a single photon reliably, day or not, good weather or bad.
If your enemies figure out how to make their eavesdropping equipment invisible, you have bigger problems to deal with!
By using satellites, you can broadcast your message EVERYWHERE. So technically anyone and everyone can intercept the message, they just won't be able to do anything with it.
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It may be going off on a rant, but it's time that we take money from the military and start giving it to the school systems (especially publically-funded schools like universities are) because otherwise, the U.S.A. is going to become a group of complete loser jocks who couldn't tell you the difference between a hole in the ground and the goatse.cx guy
That's simply not true. Very few public schools are research intensive. Most of the time they are private schools like CMU or MIT or Ivy League schools which are also in operation solely through tution, alumni giving, and proceeds from research.
As great as it would be to come up with some horrible conspiracy about how Microsoft has double agents working in University Administration, it's simply not the way it works.
The only way you can give great research opportunities to undergrads and have world class professors teaching intro CS classes at someplace like MIT is... tada: MONEY.
I think the real difference here is that most technologies were always spun off before with some sort of licensing deal to develop a product. The reason aarpanet made it through is because there wasn't any obvious indication of how huge it would be. Most "old school" engineering research is often sold to another company or a few professors might spin off a company to develop a product from the technology.
Microsoft didn't do this.
Are there VC's who are actually pouring more money into this? Haven't they learned with the .com crash that you can't turn a profit running a free service.
Worse, the music publishers bought into it.
You sound a little meek. You need to take the bull by the horns and stop letting your shitty attitude get in the way of your life
April: A girl gets butchered and raped in the apartment across the walkway from me.I leave, and just as I head out, I see them bringing the body bag out, and see the outline of the girl's head in the bag and damn near throw up. I spend the next week or so living with Ginger until I can get a chance to arrange to move to a new complex.
Obviously this is a sad story, but when I was in high school I was in a car accident and woke up to my best friends head split open. That wasn't pleasant either, but did I never ride in a car again? Of course not.
If this was a one time incident, that sucks. But it is really necessary to move? Crimes happen everyday everywhere. If you really did live in that bad of an apartment complex, then you had a case to move.
The apartment manager at my old apartment complex refuses to break anyone's lease, and refuses let anyone out. He also refuses to allow anyone to pay off the remainder of their lease. I'm screwed for $3000, and spend the next 6 months paying off two apartments
Did you ever try to sublet? It seems like your legal fees would have been well spent taking out some ads in the local paper.
I find out my new neighbor at the new apartment complex wears a monitoring bracelet around his ankle. Wonderful.
So what? If he was a 3rd time offending axe murderer, he wouldn't be under house arrest, he be in a maximum security prison. Maybe he was a non-voilet marijuana offender? Why do you just jump to conclusions here? Can't people make mistakes?
Cant go home for Christmas and be with my family because of Osama. Parents don't want me on a plane.
Are you 17? How can your parents still dictate everything you do? Are you not an adult?
Frankly, I could go on and on, but I won't. The point of my post is not insult you or make fun of you, but to point out that your life isn't that bad. Perhaps some of these problems are even your own fault. Why didn't you get a temporary job when you were laid off? Bartending for 15 bucks an hour will keep a roof over your head and food on your table.
You need to learn from your mistakes and take some direct accountability for your own fate instead of being a hapless bystander.
I've recently graduated from CMU with a CS degree. My senior year we wrote a kernel, a filesystem and a shell (or about 90% of an operatiing system).
That class alone killed about 40 hours a week, so while you might be able to learn Pascal at your local community college in a year, don't expect to get a world class education like you would at MIT or CMU in 1 year, no matter how many books you've read.
Most of my classes involved minimal programming, and a lot of theory (OS being the exception). Have you read a lot of books on probability, set theory and matrix algebra? Have you read any books on modern math? Algorithms (which involved no programming, all proofs)? NFA's and DFA's? Context Free Grammers?
I had a Java reference book and a C reference book while I was at CMU, every other book was theoretical.
at any given time, 5% of all the Windows servers out there are busy rebooting.
I think it's closer to 3%, actually. Slashdot is linking to the other 2%.
>Do we really need .NET or C# on Linux when we got Java and C++?
Have you ever actually used Java? It should have been so cool but it continues to disappoint me.
Maybe C# will be the kick in the ass Java needs to improve.
The biggest problem I have with these systems (and the ones from RLX) is that they put cheezy laptop hard disks on the blades. The not-so-fast 4300 RPM drives or whatever they are using now are simply not fast enough for I/O intensive tasks
One of my good friends works as a chip designer for Dell. We were talking over beers last weekend about how Dell is coming out with the same thing soon, only with the option of having either the cheezy laptop drives OR a normal sized SCSI drive. You'll be able to choose between density or speed.
When you go to a club, you don't want to just listen to music. You want to see the DJ. You want to hear HIS playlist. You want to discover his personal scratch combos. We all need some human presence, especially when it comes to party
I agree with what you're saying in a club setting, but there are many places I could see this being used.
I'm a recovering fraternity DJ. I love the latest House records, I love vinyl, I love spending Saturday afternoons sifting through record crates. I love David Morales, Armand Van Helden, Judge Jules, Pete Tong and Hybrid (okay, hybrid is prog nu-skool breaks, but bear with me)
However, as a veteran of 4 years as a fraternity DJ, I hate "Put it in your mouth", Backstreet Boys, and "Come On Eileen". Unfortunately, sorrority chicks don't.
If this device was available to free me from playing garbage like the latter, freeing me up to drink copious amounts of cheap beer, it definitely would have been something worth checking out.
Why is this modded funny? I recently wrote a message posting interface that uses Aspell for Lyris ListManager. In Perl, nonetheless.
Are you crazy? Does here actually have a hotmail account? All I get is spam... there no possible way I'd EVER open a message in my hotmail.
Looks like I have no worries on this one...
if anyone ever uses the word "boxen" again, I swear I'm gonna lose it.
I'm sure he enjoys having free list hosting, though.
Tell them to switch software or change their configuration. If the reply-to header is set to be you, there's not a lot you can do about it. A good discussion list will have the reply to set as the list address, and a good List Manager software like Lyris will have filters and mail loop detectors to stop things like this from happening.
I just double checked my windows update today and saw there was a new patch available. I applied it to all my Windows 2000 machines and I have a (temporarily) secure server platform with one of the best GUI's out there and unmatched hardware & software support. Not to mention a built in web browser that never crashes, and didn't require any lengthy downloads. And I don't have to worry about losing precious support, since Microsoft is in no danger of going out of business anytime soon.
Frankly, I like windows 2000, and until something better comes along, I'm going to stick with it.
(Before you mod this as flamebait reread the parent message. Then mod both messages as flamebait)
I would pay $120 a year just to get Howard Stern back since I moved to Austin, TX....
The support for Digital Output without the connection is kinda silly. I haven't been able to find what video-out (if any) is supported because of slashdotting. Component Video out supporting 480p is a minimum, and 720p and 1080i would be useful as well.
You're asking for technology that doesn't exist. You need a dedicated TV out card, and it'll look like crap anyways, since even an HD ready TV has odd verticle resolutions (720, 960 and 1080).
As a refresher course, let me remind you that 720i means interlaced, while 720p is progressive scan... and I know you don't have a 720p capable TV. My Toshiba doesn't even do it. Don't forget that component video is not digital.
It this your new Perl Harbour, or is it Nagasaki and Hiroshima coming back to haunt you ?
While the events today are of course a perverse display of violence aimed at civilians, no one should be ignorant of the fact that the U.S. themselves are not exactly virgin in the field of hitting very large amounts of civilians with no prior warning what so ever.
Hmm... though we were at WAR and we were hitting strategic military targets to stop this little thing called World War II (maybe you've heard of it, I'm assuming we saved you country) and save many of our servicemen's lives, as opposed to being civilian-only terrorism with no claims of responsibility for no clearly apparent reason.
If only there was some sort of technology that could help prevent this.
It's time to make some decisions (not all of which are easy in life). Do you want to live free or be free to live?
Take it from me, as a screwed over owner of the original adlib....
The reason that SB took over and Adlib died is because it had no ability to play back sampled sounds. So, it could beep and bop all day with it's crappy synthesizer, the it couldn't play speech or sound effects.
The SB, however, emulated the adlib's synthesizer perfectly, was 5 or 10 bucks cheaper, and it could play back samples.
Of course, game developers jumped on this, and Adlib pulled a 3DFX:
By the time it released it's 2nd gen products, it was 6 months late to market, more expensive, and had fewer features. The SB16 had won.
And I still had an Adlib.
I'm a recently graduated Computer Science major from Carnegie Mellon University.
:), not to mention the horrible crash when you come down), it was cheap, it worked and was (fairly) safe.
My roommate and I (also a CS major) would usually get 20 or so pills of Ritalin during finals.
I never really noticed that they changed my ability to concentrate, but they would keep you awake in a relatively pleasant and clear-headed manner. It never really made me feel "high", just wide awake and ready to stay awake all night after getting 4 hours of sleep the afternoon before.
Compared to the alternatives like Ephedrine (it made me feel like I was going to have a heart attack) and Cocaine (I couldn't afford more than one final
Who moderates this crap up so high?
Microsoft employees have recently started a boycott Linux website. Check out their latest press release:
Newsflash! Linux is written not by some high powered corporation, but rather a bunch of random people who may or may not smoke crack, live in other countries (and take jobs away from red blooded American Microsoft employees), or be uncle abusers.
Actually, I always thought a jock was somebody who was very good or naturally good at sports.
It's interesting how so many "popular kids" are portrayed in the media as abusive and biased against those who are different (computer kids), yet those same kids show the a reverse bias towards the "cool kids". And I'm not just talking about you, lest we forget the moderators who thought that your offensive post should be modded up to a 4.
"This is ridiculous! The start button is a foot? What does a foot have to do with a start button?"
Microsoft has succeeded in making their own screwed up naming conventions the "standard" of computers everywhere.
As much as I hate microsoft, I'm gonna have to disagree with you here.
Take a step back from the situation for a minute. I think you'd have to agree that a button labeled "start" or "run" makes a lot more sense than a foot (a foot that doesn't even involve any discernable "motion" (the arrow isn't much help)).
Microsoft might be bastards, but maybe this is something that became "standard" simply because it's downright intuitive.
By the time you have solved the engineering problem of sending single photons reliably over long distances outside, the crypto is meaningless
I'm no quantum physics major, but you are definitely not a reading major. It says right in the article their work has led them to believe they can send a single photon reliably, day or not, good weather or bad.
If your enemies figure out how to make their eavesdropping equipment invisible, you have bigger problems to deal with!
By using satellites, you can broadcast your message EVERYWHERE. So technically anyone and everyone can intercept the message, they just won't be able to do anything with it.
Maybe you just got a bad card... ROFL! Also, to add insult to injury, you bought a voodoo 5.