Heh, thanks for the advice but at night is when I am active- in the day is when I cron things for. Unfortunately there is already a hell of a lot of things maxing out every cpu I have: divx encoding, curing cancer, searching for MD4 hash collisions and world domination.
Here in the UK our universities have been a bunch of evil sell-outs for ages. We always joked that our university was really a conference park that took students in when it wasn't conference season. We joked, but the conference guests got better amenities in the university accomodation than the students did.
Also there was a lot of courses in compsci where you'd just think "Why the hell is this course in here ?" An example was on the MSc in Information Technology (basically a 1 year conversion course for people new to IT) where they had a course on inductive logic programming. This was way ahead of anything else the students were taught (data structures, basic pascal programming etc). The real reason was that the inductive logic dude was a former Oxford lecturer who came with attractive grant prospects.
It's all about making money and not teaching students. Universities are businesses. They have only a little more integrity than those spammers who offer to sell you a degree over the internet!
Also look at the fact that final degree marks have changed. In my parents' time it was incredibly difficult to get a 1st class degree, you had to work really hard to get a 2.1 etc. Now they basically split it like:
bottom 10% = Do no work at all- go to no lectures: pass general , fail or 3rd class (randomly decided)
middle 80% = 2.2 or 2.1- either did work or was intelligent but did no work.
"The rare Linux, or C++, or C class is taught at night"
Would this be the secret meeting of the people's front of Linux, where they say things like:
"Ok, ok, apart from Age of Empires, Intellimouse explorer, DirectX, Solitaire, MechCommander 2 and the Visual Studio IDE, what has Microsoft ever done for us ?"
And before you mod this as flamebait let me say I really hate Microsoft.
Does anyone know if there is any mp3 player, either a cd player that plays cdrs or a dedicated model with hard-drive or flash that plays, or can be firmware-flashed to play.flacs ?
It's not really that I am an "lossless is best" fascist, but I have the majority of my music in flac, and converting it to mp3 every time to fill up the player would be a big waste of time...
" Here is what the author had to say about himself at the end of the paper:"
And here's what his photo says about him:
I live in rented accomodation. I never wash my dishes. I have a stupid ponytail I live alone Where I live is not big enough for my needs. I have deep-seated feelings of self-doubt.
Heh, just call me Sherlock Leemoor....
graspee
Re:Microsoft has had 7 years of warning.
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" In even other news it was shown that every unix is vulnerable to the "floppy boot" flaw and has been exploitable since 1969."
That would be difficult, since they didn't have floppies in 1969.
I checked out visual pinball and visual pinmame and with a bit of searching and messing about I managed to get a pretty damn faithful BALLY CENTAUR up and running.
It's awesome! This is the closest thing to owning my own CENTAUR machine!
This is probably one of the first times I have read about a program on/. that I didn't know about, download it and found out that it totally rocked!
" This guy's from Europe, he won't know what the US patent office is doing to stop it."
I fully expect a European patent examiner to know about famous cases of patents and their "infringement" whether in the US or wherever.
He's bound to have views, and perhaps information that we don't know, e.g. "This couldn't happen in Europe because all our patents have to be approved by body XXX who traditionally reject anything that XXXXXX....." (or whatever, you get the idea).
What is being done to stop the abuses of the patent system we see in the US ? (I'm particularly thinking of the recent so-called "JPEG" fiasco).
Or perhaps you do not view them as unreasonable, but I myself see this kind of patenting of existing things plus litigating against large corporations as an ethically bankrupt "revenue stream".
I always knew Venus was up to no good, but little did I realise that Mars, Earth, Mercury were in on it. Just what sinister plot does the inner solar system have ?
or:
"Plot of the inner solar system"
Those who criticize the plot of the inner solar system should realize that the plot itself takes a backseat to the special effects.
I am familiar with the site in question. It is nowhere near as comprehensive as the story suggests. They seem to have all the 1st edition and earlier stuff but hardly any 2nd edition and no 3rd edition.
This is, I think because it's mainly a site for collectors, and 2nd edition stuff doesn't fetch as high a price as 1st edition stuff. (Although I have seen a lot of 2nd edition stuff fetch lots more than some 1st edition stuff).
Details of modules etc are confined to differences between printings, rarity, etc.
This is definately a site for collectors, not players, and people wanting a stroll down memory lane (complete with random encounters) should look elsewhere.
I use flac (lossless compression). What was the problem again ?;)
Seriously, the reason I use flac, even though it takes up a shit load of space is that in the future, inevitably we will have more space to store everything. When we do, thousands will be cursing their crappy mp3s that they ripped at 128 to save space.
Of course, ahem, if you kept your original CDs to rip from then you can just re-rip them to flac or another lossless compression then, but still, why do it all twice ?
Grrr- I had a really great uptime on my main FreeBSD workstation then I had to emergency shutdown -h now it when the alarm decided to go off on it because the cpu was overheating. (30 degrees C in my computer room in the middle of the night with 17" room fan on.
I did at first just rip the case open and whip off the speaker connector on the motherboard but it seems there must be a special speaker on the motherboard itself.
I had to act quick because it was making an awful din and I didn't want next door to come round complaining. After all my computer room is right next to their bedroom, and it WAS 3AM...
Re:Why isnt the world testing deflection technolog
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" Well, if some extinction level event was about to happen, I would expect all the well-connected people to raise a lot of cash in order to buy a lot of survival goods for their escape rockets, mile-deep bunkers, and what not."
They can get the money back after the impact by selling bits of NT7 on ebay.
Item: 58m Chunk of NT7 NO RESERVE! Current Price: 15,000 Eurobucks Buyer responsible for Shipping and Handling charges. Seller sends internationally. Note: I do not take paypal anymore!
graspee
Re:Why isnt the world testing deflection technolog
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People of Earth: Do you hear those nukes, Earth Grazer? That's the sound of your death approaching...
I note that the article makes it sound like he expected to be able to play the DVDs from the UK when he got back home and was unpleasantly suprised, which is almost certainly not the case.
Slashdot Mirror
"flushed it out on toilet paper,"
Amusing slip. I assume you meant "fleshed it out"
graspee
"So, just out of curiousity, what does Alcatel actually *make*, so I can advise people to start avoiding them?"
Shitty USB ADSL "modems", and everyone already is.
graspee
Heh, thanks for the advice but at night is when I am active- in the day is when I cron things for. Unfortunately there is already a hell of a lot of things maxing out every cpu I have: divx encoding, curing cancer, searching for MD4 hash collisions and world domination.
graspee
Yeah, but then it takes up a lot of space on the hard drive of the player.
Oh well.I am to resigned to being the only person I know with a flac music collection.
graspee
Here in the UK our universities have been a bunch of evil sell-outs for ages. We always joked that our university was really a conference park that took students in when it wasn't conference season. We joked, but the conference guests got better amenities in the university accomodation than the students did.
Also there was a lot of courses in compsci where you'd just think "Why the hell is this course in here ?" An example was on the MSc in Information Technology (basically a 1 year conversion course for people new to IT) where they had a course on inductive logic programming. This was way ahead of anything else the students were taught (data structures, basic pascal programming etc). The real reason was that the inductive logic dude was a former Oxford lecturer who came with attractive grant prospects.
It's all about making money and not teaching students. Universities are businesses. They have only a little more integrity than those spammers who offer to sell you a degree over the internet!
Also look at the fact that final degree marks have changed. In my parents' time it was incredibly difficult to get a 1st class degree, you had to work really hard to get a 2.1 etc. Now they basically split it like:
bottom 10% = Do no work at all- go to no lectures: pass general , fail or 3rd class (randomly decided)
middle 80% = 2.2 or 2.1- either did work or was intelligent but did no work.
top 10% = 1st.
graspee
"The rare Linux, or C++, or C class is taught at night"
Would this be the secret meeting of the people's front of Linux, where they say things like:
"Ok, ok, apart from Age of Empires, Intellimouse explorer, DirectX, Solitaire, MechCommander 2 and the Visual Studio IDE, what has Microsoft ever done for us ?"
And before you mod this as flamebait let me say I really hate Microsoft.
graspee
Does anyone know if there is any mp3 player, either a cd player that plays cdrs or a dedicated model with hard-drive or flash that plays, or can be firmware-flashed to play .flacs ?
It's not really that I am an "lossless is best" fascist, but I have the majority of my music in flac, and converting it to mp3 every time to fill up the player would be a big waste of time...
graspee
Plus they have LEMURS! LEMURS ROCK! I want a wiring loom so I can connect lemurs to my jamma cabinet.
graspee
" These bodies exist, and the brain has a purpose in interfacing with this physical world, but *I* exist elsewhere."
Remember to always use SSH, not telnet to connect to your body, and even so, keep that SSH patched up-to-date and watch the security bulletins!
graspee
The follow-up programme showed how on the next day the frog put the researchers in the freezer to see how they fucking liked it.
They died, but the frog has got a large research grant from IBM.
graspee
"
ANd when did your mommy teach you "the word"? By the way, what the fuck is "the word"?"
The word is with God. The word will get back to you. Please leave a message after the tone.
graspee
" Here is what the author had to say about himself at the end of the paper:"
And here's what his photo says about him:
I live in rented accomodation.
I never wash my dishes.
I have a stupid ponytail
I live alone
Where I live is not big enough for my needs.
I have deep-seated feelings of self-doubt.
Heh, just call me Sherlock Leemoor....
graspee
" In even other news it was shown that every unix is vulnerable to the "floppy boot" flaw and has been exploitable since 1969."
That would be difficult, since they didn't have floppies in 1969.
graspee
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
/. that I didn't know about, download it and found out that it totally rocked!
I checked out visual pinball and visual pinmame and with a bit of searching and messing about I managed to get a pretty damn faithful BALLY CENTAUR up and running.
It's awesome! This is the closest thing to owning my own CENTAUR machine!
This is probably one of the first times I have read about a program on
graspee
" This guy's from Europe, he won't know what the US patent office is doing to stop it."
I fully expect a European patent examiner to know about famous cases of patents and their "infringement" whether in the US or wherever.
He's bound to have views, and perhaps information that we don't know, e.g. "This couldn't happen in Europe because all our patents have to be approved by body XXX who traditionally reject anything that XXXXXX....." (or whatever, you get the idea).
graspee
What is being done to stop the abuses of the patent system we see in the US ? (I'm particularly thinking of the recent so-called "JPEG" fiasco).
Or perhaps you do not view them as unreasonable, but I myself see this kind of patenting of existing things plus litigating against large corporations as an ethically bankrupt "revenue stream".
graspee
"Plot of the inner solar system" ?
I always knew Venus was up to no good, but little did I realise that Mars, Earth, Mercury were in on it. Just what sinister plot does the inner solar system have ?
or:
"Plot of the inner solar system"
Those who criticize the plot of the inner solar system should realize that the plot itself takes a backseat to the special effects.
graspee
I am familiar with the site in question. It is nowhere near as comprehensive as the story suggests. They seem to have all the 1st edition and earlier stuff but hardly any 2nd edition and no 3rd edition.
This is, I think because it's mainly a site for collectors, and 2nd edition stuff doesn't fetch as high a price as 1st edition stuff. (Although I have seen a lot of 2nd edition stuff fetch lots more than some 1st edition stuff).
Details of modules etc are confined to differences between printings, rarity, etc.
This is definately a site for collectors, not players, and people wanting a stroll down memory lane (complete with random encounters) should look elsewhere.
graspee
I use flac (lossless compression). What was the problem again ? ;)
Seriously, the reason I use flac, even though it takes up a shit load of space is that in the future, inevitably we will have more space to store everything. When we do, thousands will be cursing their crappy mp3s that they ripped at 128 to save space.
Of course, ahem, if you kept your original CDs to rip from then you can just re-rip them to flac or another lossless compression then, but still, why do it all twice ?
graspee
Grrr- I had a really great uptime on my main FreeBSD workstation then I had to emergency shutdown -h now it when the alarm decided to go off on it because the cpu was overheating. (30 degrees C in my computer room in the middle of the night with 17" room fan on.
I did at first just rip the case open and whip off the speaker connector on the motherboard but it seems there must be a special speaker on the motherboard itself.
I had to act quick because it was making an awful din and I didn't want next door to come round complaining. After all my computer room is right next to their bedroom, and it WAS 3AM...
graspee
"And not just the men, but the women and the children too. They were like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals. I hate them!"
-- from the Holy Scriptures
graspee
Yeah! Slugs are people too!
graspee
" Well, if some extinction level event was about to happen, I would expect all the well-connected people to raise a lot of cash in order to buy a lot of survival goods for their escape rockets, mile-deep bunkers, and what not."
They can get the money back after the impact by selling bits of NT7 on ebay.
Item: 58m Chunk of NT7 NO RESERVE!
Current Price: 15,000 Eurobucks
Buyer responsible for Shipping and Handling charges. Seller sends internationally.
Note: I do not take paypal anymore!
graspee
People of Earth: Do you hear those nukes, Earth Grazer? That's the sound of your death approaching...
Asteroid: My name....is NEO!
(boom)
graspee
I note that the article makes it sound like he expected to be able to play the DVDs from the UK when he got back home and was unpleasantly suprised, which is almost certainly not the case.
graspee