And I hate to say this, but the correct answer might be to move. If it's possible for you, the only solution (other than getting the legislation changed) might be to move to somewhere that does not have this type of legislation.
As of SuSE 6.4, I know it's still included in the commercial section of their distribution. So you can always pick it up that way. I imagine "Abuse" is around somewhere.
I've seen that also. But on the other hand, I've also seen it where I look at some code I wrote when I was really sleep-depping the next day, it works perfectly, it's efficient tight code. And It takes me two hours to figure out how it works.
That kinda freaks me out. But ya, it's much more often that I open up the editor from last night and go, "Ugh this needs work".
However without an equivelent of water to provide friction in space, it would seem impossible to "tac" (sp?),
This not quite true. Keep in mind the solar sail is a mirror. You can turn it to say a 45 degree angle and get a good amount of sideways thrust. As for approaching a star system, just turn yourselves sideways, or furl your sails.
A good companion to this book is Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.
You might be interested to know that the author of that book recently passed away (Sept 1, 1999). Which is a damn shame in my opionion. I have his book "UNIX network programming - volume 1" which is probably the best textbook I have ever had. Very well written and terribly useful. He also wrote TCP/IP illustrated volume 1,2,& 3. Which are supposed to be fairly definitive references for TCP/IP.
Your school sending you information isn't spam. They already have your dollar, they're not trying to get you to buy anything. They are trying to send you (from your description) useful and necessary information. There is a difference between unsolicited email and unsolicited commercial email.
I realize you probably realize this, given how you put spam in quotes's.
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Come on, it's at least $3.00 - maybe closer to $5.00 depending on the T-shirt type you use. You can pick up blank t-shirts for this kind of thing at Dharma Trading.
I'm not saying they're not making a large profit off the T's. I'm just saying it's more like 1:7 or 1:11, not 1:35, or 1:18.:)
I thought this was an interesting look at electric cars . It made me think more about what we need to do to get electric cars to the stage of "It just works" that most people expect.
Of course what I'm really waiting for is the "Ford Explosion" the new electric-gas hybrid SUV from Ford. Takes up TWO whole lanes on the highway, gets great gas milage (20 mpg), and instantly kills any other cars you hit.:P
It is left-wing secular homeschooling which has been the fastest-growing form of homeschooling for the last decade. For a reason.
Indeed it has. Mainly because it's a hell of a lot safer than our schools at the moment. But that's a problem with the schools, not the system.
I agree with most of your points, but you are dead wrong on this one. School is actually the safest place children spend time in. They are many times more likely to die or be injured in the home or on the street. Schools are ludicrulously safe. The only reason anyone thinks any different is because of sensationalist media coverage.
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Who would want to upgrade just part of their system? By the time I start thinking about a new CPU, everything else in the case is old also. It's not just CPUs that need upgrading, it's RAM, Disk, Cache, DVD, etc.
I don't know, if you buy quality components, you tend not to upgrade so quickly. An example of this is my CD drive. I bought an ultraplex 32x a few years ago (mmm SCSI), and I haven't felt any need to upgrade. It's still very nice. Another example is I went from a K6-2/250 (yes that's right) to a single PIII-450, but I got a dual motherboard, so when PIII-450's dropped to $180 I bought a second. If you plan wisely, and buy quality, you don't have to upgrade everything at once.
Plus who can resist the urge to buy new tech toys to plug into your boxen every month or two...
Ouch, that sounds even worse than mine. I never quite walked out of his class, I just took to bringing a book and tuning him out.
Dr. Han's class is the only one I've ever taken that when people got the final, they started laughing. Not one or two people in the class. The whole class.
I really like the idea of a website to review professors. I even took the time while visting it to add a review for dear old Dr. Han, my user interface teacher. How can a man be so bad at communication and become the HEAD of the CS department.
(A fictional example)
Us - Dr. Han what's your first name? Dr. Han - I have a first name. U - But what is it? D - It's on the syllabus, how could you not know it. U- Uhh, okay, where's the syllabus you didn't give one out. D - It's all on my webpage, everything you need is on my webpage. U - Couldn't you just tell us. D - My first name is in the teacher directory, didn't you get one? (and on and on and on)
Sigh, I'm done with that class, but I have another class with him this quarter...
I thought that a lot of the problem had to do with patents on antialiasing fonts. I can't remember exactly where I saw this, so I can't swear to it, but that's what I remember. Hell I'll be happy when we truetype fonts included as standard in X (yes I know it's X4 but I don't have it yet). Bah, still it's five times better doing my papers in Linux rather than windows (even if it's ugly as sin on the screen).
When it came time for me to buy a new vid card (the old Intergraph Intense 3D 100 was great in it's day, but it's kinda dated now) NVidia had just started releasing driver code for the TNT2. That was literally the thing that made me choose between the G400 and the TNT2. So I went out and bought my Ultra 770 and tried the drivers. And I went, hmmm, these kinda suck. I figured it would be like other things, once a popular piece of HW had some sort of driver for it, it would rapidly improve. Unfortunately then NVidia started acting a lot more closed and I was regretting my purchase of the TNT2. You know, I even sent a nice letter of thanks to them telling them that the reason I bought the card was that there was source for it. Well, I guess they didn't listen.
To a computer, recognition is an exhuastive, brute force search of its set of knowledge(ie a database) and the assocition is another exhuastive, brute force search through a different kind of set of knowledge(ie another database).
Not always, yes in traditional procedural based AI (prolog - yuck) this would be a way to go about it. But there are better ways (IMHO) to go about it. Neural networks are very good at pattern recognition, hetero-associative and auto-associative neural networks are very good at recall - even with significant amounts of errors or knocked out axons these systems still perform well. Hollands work on classifier systems (using genetic algorithms to generate new classifiers) is also another way to perform some of these operations.
Actually the one about DIVX I really like is this one. I've been reading Penny Arcade ever since one of the guys who makes Bleem (I think it was Rand) linked to a comic about it. But I think the comic before it is my favorite ever. "You can't uninstall evil."
Heeeyyyy Now! I play female characters in table-top RPG's fairly often. If nothing else it helps balance out the party a little more. Hmmm, come to think about, most of my female characters do seem to have something in common... A total amoral ruthlessness, and an almost psychotic disregard for innocent bystanders... HEEYYY WAIT A MINUTE, that describes ALL my characters!!! err, umm, okay so I'm exaggerating a little bit, I do kinda see what you mean.
I play with people who are all fairly cool in the gender-relations department, so it's not a big deal when me or one of the men play a female, or when one of the women play a male. I've played with other people who were stunned when I told them I was bringing a female character in the group. They expected a male character in drag basically, and I pulled out Marie-Yvette Plage, who is a distinctly feminine psychopath.
She was my favorite character to run when I was playing vampire. The back story went something like. Black service-man in WWI stays in France with a woman he met there during the war. He marries her and has Marie-Yvette Plage. She fell in love with an American and moved back to the states (bad idea). They move to Chicago, have boatloads of racial prejudice dumped on them. (short version) bad things happen. With her family dead and herself not much better off, she is approached by a vampire (duh) and accepts. She is a Malkavian with a revenge/mean streak a mile wide. Mmmm, she was fun to play.
I often play female characters, which I can deal with the problems this causes. My problem is my first name is somewhat gender ambiguous, so even when I am using my REAL name, I still catch flack a lot of times. So that's why I use zuvembi as my nic, plus it never seems to be taken... (I guess there are not a haitian speaking vodun practicioner's out there on the wild wooly web)
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That's horrifying.
And I hate to say this, but the correct answer might be to move. If it's possible for you, the only solution (other than getting the legislation changed) might be to move to somewhere that does not have this type of legislation.
There are some subjects which are too serious to be trivialised, and the crucifiction is one of those subjects.
Any religion that can't stand a little fun being poked at it, isn't worth much anyway. Yes that includes mine.
YIKIBT
As of SuSE 6.4, I know it's still included in the commercial section of their distribution. So you can always pick it up that way. I imagine "Abuse" is around somewhere.
In fact it looks like Debian has a page for it.
I've seen that also. But on the other hand, I've also seen it where I look at some code I wrote when I was really sleep-depping the next day, it works perfectly, it's efficient tight code. And It takes me two hours to figure out how it works.
That kinda freaks me out. But ya, it's much more often that I open up the editor from last night and go, "Ugh this needs work".
Except the occasional traffic lights that are sideways. My friend Andy HATES these (yes he is R/G colorblind).
Bang
There you go, one example of post natal gene therapy working. Would you like fries with that?
Just because the first nth tries at something fail (maybe even fail horribly) does not mean something is impossible.
What?
Parked on the wrong side of the street?
I know in Cincinnati you have to park with traffic, but in Delaware and Pennsylvania (at least philly) you park anywhere you damn well can.
Ahh philly, the city of brotherly gunfire.
However without an equivelent of water to provide friction in space, it would seem impossible to "tac" (sp?),
This not quite true. Keep in mind the solar sail is a mirror. You can turn it to say a 45 degree angle and get a good amount of sideways thrust. As for approaching a star system, just turn yourselves sideways, or furl your sails.
A good companion to this book is Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.
You might be interested to know that the author of that book recently passed away (Sept 1, 1999). Which is a damn shame in my opionion. I have his book "UNIX network programming - volume 1" which is probably the best textbook I have ever had. Very well written and terribly useful. He also wrote TCP/IP illustrated volume 1,2,& 3. Which are supposed to be fairly definitive references for TCP/IP.
alias killnet='killall -9 netscape;rm ~/.netscape/lock'
A handy alias I find. Just waiting for Mozilla to get a tiny bit better.
Your school sending you information isn't spam. They already have your dollar, they're not trying to get you to buy anything. They are trying to send you (from your description) useful and necessary information. There is a difference between unsolicited email and unsolicited commercial email.
I realize you probably realize this, given how you put spam in quotes's.
Come on, it's at least $3.00 - maybe closer to $5.00 depending on the T-shirt type you use. You can pick up blank t-shirts for this kind of thing at Dharma Trading.
:)
I'm not saying they're not making a large profit off the T's. I'm just saying it's more like 1:7 or 1:11, not 1:35, or 1:18.
I thought this was an interesting look at electric cars . It made me think more about what we need to do to get electric cars to the stage of "It just works" that most people expect.
:P
Of course what I'm really waiting for is the "Ford Explosion" the new electric-gas hybrid SUV from Ford. Takes up TWO whole lanes on the highway, gets great gas milage (20 mpg), and instantly kills any other cars you hit.
It is left-wing secular homeschooling which has been the fastest-growing form of homeschooling for the last decade. For a reason.
Indeed it has. Mainly because it's a hell of a lot safer than our schools at the moment. But that's a
problem with the schools, not the system.
I agree with most of your points, but you are dead wrong on this one. School is actually the safest place children spend time in. They are many times more likely to die or be injured in the home or on the street. Schools are ludicrulously safe. The only reason anyone thinks any different is because of sensationalist media coverage.
Who would want to upgrade just part of their system? By the time I start thinking about a new CPU, everything else in the case is old also. It's not just CPUs that need upgrading, it's RAM, Disk, Cache, DVD, etc.
I don't know, if you buy quality components, you tend not to upgrade so quickly. An example of this is my CD drive. I bought an ultraplex 32x a few years ago (mmm SCSI), and I haven't felt any need to upgrade. It's still very nice. Another example is I went from a K6-2/250 (yes that's right) to a single PIII-450, but I got a dual motherboard, so when PIII-450's dropped to $180 I bought a second. If you plan wisely, and buy quality, you don't have to upgrade everything at once.
Plus who can resist the urge to buy new tech toys to plug into your boxen every month or two...
Ouch, that sounds even worse than mine. I never quite walked out of his class, I just took to bringing a book and tuning him out.
Dr. Han's class is the only one I've ever taken that when people got the final, they started laughing. Not one or two people in the class. The whole class.
I really like the idea of a website to review professors. I even took the time while visting it to add a review for dear old Dr. Han, my user interface teacher. How can a man be so bad at communication and become the HEAD of the CS department.
(A fictional example)
Us - Dr. Han what's your first name?
Dr. Han - I have a first name.
U - But what is it?
D - It's on the syllabus, how could you not know it.
U- Uhh, okay, where's the syllabus you didn't give one out.
D - It's all on my webpage, everything you need is on my webpage.
U - Couldn't you just tell us.
D - My first name is in the teacher directory, didn't you get one?
(and on and on and on)
Sigh, I'm done with that class, but I have another class with him this quarter...
I thought that a lot of the problem had to do with patents on antialiasing fonts. I can't remember exactly where I saw this, so I can't swear to it, but that's what I remember. Hell I'll be happy when we truetype fonts included as standard in X (yes I know it's X4 but I don't have it yet). Bah, still it's five times better doing my papers in Linux rather than windows (even if it's ugly as sin on the screen).
When it came time for me to buy a new vid card (the old Intergraph Intense 3D 100 was great in it's day, but it's kinda dated now) NVidia had just started releasing driver code for the TNT2. That was literally the thing that made me choose between the G400 and the TNT2. So I went out and bought my Ultra 770 and tried the drivers. And I went, hmmm, these kinda suck. I figured it would be like other things, once a popular piece of HW had some sort of driver for it, it would rapidly improve. Unfortunately then NVidia started acting a lot more closed and I was regretting my purchase of the TNT2. You know, I even sent a nice letter of thanks to them telling them that the reason I bought the card was that there was source for it. Well, I guess they didn't listen.
No really, that's what I heard. It's due to a shortage of DSP chips (I heard it from The Register, so take it how you will)
To a computer, recognition is an exhuastive, brute force search of its set of knowledge(ie a database) and the assocition is another exhuastive, brute force search through a different kind of set of knowledge(ie another database).
Not always, yes in traditional procedural based AI (prolog - yuck) this would be a way to go about it. But there are better ways (IMHO) to go about it. Neural networks are very good at pattern recognition, hetero-associative and auto-associative neural networks are very good at recall - even with significant amounts of errors or knocked out axons these systems still perform well. Hollands work on classifier systems (using genetic algorithms to generate new classifiers) is also another way to perform some of these operations.
Actually the one about DIVX I really like is this one. I've been reading Penny Arcade ever since one of the guys who makes Bleem (I think it was Rand) linked to a comic about it. But I think the comic before it is my favorite ever. "You can't uninstall evil."
Penny Arcade is where this originally came from. One of my favorites would have to be this one about Linux or maybe this one.
Heeeyyyy Now! I play female characters in table-top RPG's fairly often. If nothing else it helps balance out the party a little more. Hmmm, come to think about, most of my female characters do seem to have something in common... A total amoral ruthlessness, and an almost psychotic disregard for innocent bystanders... HEEYYY WAIT A MINUTE, that describes ALL my characters!!! err, umm, okay so I'm exaggerating a little bit, I do kinda see what you mean.
I play with people who are all fairly cool in the gender-relations department, so it's not a big deal when me or one of the men play a female, or when one of the women play a male. I've played with other people who were stunned when I told them I was bringing a female character in the group. They expected a male character in drag basically, and I pulled out Marie-Yvette Plage, who is a distinctly feminine psychopath.
She was my favorite character to run when I was playing vampire. The back story went something like. Black service-man in WWI stays in France with a woman he met there during the war. He marries her and has Marie-Yvette Plage. She fell in love with an American and moved back to the states (bad idea). They move to Chicago, have boatloads of racial prejudice dumped on them. (short version) bad things happen. With her family dead and herself not much better off, she is approached by a vampire (duh) and accepts. She is a Malkavian with a revenge/mean streak a mile wide. Mmmm, she was fun to play.
I often play female characters, which I can deal with the problems this causes. My problem is my first name is somewhat gender ambiguous, so even when I am using my REAL name, I still catch flack a lot of times. So that's why I use zuvembi as my nic, plus it never seems to be taken... (I guess there are not a haitian speaking vodun practicioner's out there on the wild wooly web)