The people in the fifties never did have any asthetic sense about the future. Living in a plastic dungeon has never been one of my dreams.. although many of the other ideas are quite interesting. (I want a house with a lake on the top!)
At my institution, they carry the products for $5 a CD. Visual Studio 6 came for $25 total, almost everything else (including win98 through winMe and win2k) was $5 for the single CD. Its quite shameless, really, the agreement is intended to push the students into the MS sphere (this is espcially obvious since Visual Studio has become the standard with which C++ and most other programming is taught here), since the students will demand certain tools they are fluent in once they enter the workplace.
Even worse, all these products, it turns out, are stamped with my SSN/Student ID to uniquely identify anything I've purchased through them as my responsibility. Even so, the deal was too good to pass up... I wouldn't have been able to do my coursework without it.
I'm leery of plugging anything even remotely close to leaking into a computer. (How often does my car leak, you ask?)
Does anyone know what happened to those cooling systems that used a crystal that would absorb/emit heat as electricity was applied? I remember seeing ads for them as much as 8 years ago, then they suddenly disappeared...
They just strike me as the best of both worlds.. an actual cooling affect instead of a fan, without the risk of a liquid based system. (These crystals *were* mounted on a fan, they were energized on the one side and released on the outside so as to yank the heat out of whatever they were mounted on)
Perhaps there are the scribblings of Salmon of Doubt somewhere among his worldly things. I'm sure any scraps of his genius will be gathered up and published. Oh, what might have been.
If it didn't cost so much, I'd tape those return postage paid cards to cans of spam and send them back to prove a point. It takes me more time to open those 5 important looking credit card offers every day than it takes to check off all the spam in my inbox and hit delete.
I hope that once we've mastered science enough that we don't all have to work for our survival, some of this attitude will abate. I don't see it going away anytime soon.
There will be no utopia during my lifetime, at least.
The next step would be running Seti on one of these things, on data sets that we haven't actually read in from space. If we could return an interesting successful match, it would imply the existence of intelligent life somewhere else in the multiverse.
Or if a problem could be contructed where a match would only exist in another world where they are also running this process, you could form some sort of communications link.
Or at least one that was not provably just an illusion of quantum mathematics...
What we need is a contest for the best website "transferred over pigeon protocol" to the server. Or maybe a hamming code of sorts to take into account a certain amount of "shot" pigeons and still be able to reconstruct the data.
Well, they aren't proposing re-licensing existing GPL'd software as something else, they are referring to future, proprietary projects that don't involve any GPL'd code (although they may interoperat with or run on GPL'd systems).
As for how screwed up digital law is at the moment, I agree even if you are a troll.
This can't catch on yet, if only for the reason that very few schools that I know of require an electronic copy of your work. Personally, I've never been able to just email a paper to a professor except in times of relative emergency. I don't see feeding N pages of paper through a text reader as being practical, either.
Professors will just have to pay attention, I guess.
Well, they are talking about fundamentally different kinds of radiation here, aren't they? Electromagnetic radiation is generated by your monitor, tv, radio, powerlines etc in all sorts of bands, be they microwave, x-ray, visible light etc. I seriously doubt that your monitor or cellphone is giving off significant amounts of the particulate radiation associated with fission, gamma particles and such.
Unless I've been misinformed, of course. I had always assumed that the term 'radiation', even though general, just throws the fear of God into people.
What are prices now? 35-40 cents seems about right in my area (except for the lucky ones that come with the surprise, its free rebate that isn't labelled on the outside). How many of these things do you really need? It takes me 6 months to burn through a spool of 50 or so... including all the porn and (some) music..
Doesn't this flat out contradict some of the principles of relational database design? Maintaining a *single* version of any data, for instance? With Freenet, you would get duplication and redundency inherently, but who's to tell you which version of whatever table you are using is the correct one when queries start returning duplicate, slightly temporally shifted information?
It seems that you'd be wasting the power of freenet if you tried to build a relational database on top of it. The mathematics and goals involved in each model are almost wholly alien to eachother, unless my understanding is flawed.
What other MS-compatable alternatives are there...
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...Besides Netscape/Mozilla?
I should switch. I'm running explorer pretty much by default, and it won't even let me moderate! All my dropdown boxes blur together, the windows begin to freeze, and the little girl's head begins to spin. (this also happens when I get too many form elements in *total* windows. Sigh.)
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The people in the fifties never did have any asthetic sense about the future. Living in a plastic dungeon has never been one of my dreams.. although many of the other ideas are quite interesting. (I want a house with a lake on the top!)
At my institution, they carry the products for $5 a CD. Visual Studio 6 came for $25 total, almost everything else (including win98 through winMe and win2k) was $5 for the single CD. Its quite shameless, really, the agreement is intended to push the students into the MS sphere (this is espcially obvious since Visual Studio has become the standard with which C++ and most other programming is taught here), since the students will demand certain tools they are fluent in once they enter the workplace.
Even worse, all these products, it turns out, are stamped with my SSN/Student ID to uniquely identify anything I've purchased through them as my responsibility. Even so, the deal was too good to pass up... I wouldn't have been able to do my coursework without it.
I'm leery of plugging anything even remotely close to leaking into a computer. (How often does my car leak, you ask?)
Does anyone know what happened to those cooling systems that used a crystal that would absorb/emit heat as electricity was applied? I remember seeing ads for them as much as 8 years ago, then they suddenly disappeared...
They just strike me as the best of both worlds.. an actual cooling affect instead of a fan, without the risk of a liquid based system. (These crystals *were* mounted on a fan, they were energized on the one side and released on the outside so as to yank the heat out of whatever they were mounted on)
Perhaps there are the scribblings of Salmon of Doubt somewhere among his worldly things. I'm sure any scraps of his genius will be gathered up and published.
Oh, what might have been.
Yeah, its in Texas.
Man, get your ratchets and build a typewriter.
Well, she was no Yeoman Rand, but still.
Landmark interacial kiss on television! Uhura was young once... just don't watch the feather dance in the godawful 5th movie...
That is the answer, but the question is, of course, "Sex?"
If it didn't cost so much, I'd tape those return postage paid cards to cans of spam and send them back to prove a point.
It takes me more time to open those 5 important looking credit card offers every day than it takes to check off all the spam in my inbox and hit delete.
I hope that once we've mastered science enough that we don't all have to work for our survival, some of this attitude will abate. I don't see it going away anytime soon.
There will be no utopia during my lifetime, at least.
The next step would be running Seti on one of these things, on data sets that we haven't actually read in from space. If we could return an interesting successful match, it would imply the existence of intelligent life somewhere else in the multiverse.
Or if a problem could be contructed where a match would only exist in another world where they are also running this process, you could form some sort of communications link.
Or at least one that was not provably just an illusion of quantum mathematics...
We'd all just better watch out for those mice that want to cube our brains to get their results.
I think so, but thats personal bias. I've taken the time to acclimate myself to the language, and use it fairly extensively for html generation.
I'm considering cleaning up my scripts and releasing them in some sort of mishmash, just on the off chance that other people can make use of them..
What we need is a contest for the best website "transferred over pigeon protocol" to the server. Or maybe a hamming code of sorts to take into account a certain amount of "shot" pigeons and still be able to reconstruct the data.
The indentation style is one of my favorite features. Its almost impossible for me to working code that isn't readable at the very least.
:)
Of course, enforced readability might very well be what is holding the language back.
Well, they aren't proposing re-licensing existing GPL'd software as something else, they are referring to future, proprietary projects that don't involve any GPL'd code (although they may interoperat with or run on GPL'd systems).
As for how screwed up digital law is at the moment, I agree even if you are a troll.
This can't catch on yet, if only for the reason that very few schools that I know of require an electronic copy of your work. Personally, I've never been able to just email a paper to a professor except in times of relative emergency. I don't see feeding N pages of paper through a text reader as being practical, either.
Professors will just have to pay attention, I guess.
Well, they are talking about fundamentally different kinds of radiation here, aren't they? Electromagnetic radiation is generated by your monitor, tv, radio, powerlines etc in all sorts of bands, be they microwave, x-ray, visible light etc. I seriously doubt that your monitor or cellphone is giving off significant amounts of the particulate radiation associated with fission, gamma particles and such.
Unless I've been misinformed, of course. I had always assumed that the term 'radiation', even though general, just throws the fear of God into people.
What are prices now? 35-40 cents seems about right in my area (except for the lucky ones that come with the surprise, its free rebate that isn't labelled on the outside). How many of these things do you really need? It takes me 6 months to burn through a spool of 50 or so... including all the porn and (some) music..
Lucky for us that airplanes stay under a thousand feet :)
He doesn't know how to use the seashells?!?
Doesn't this flat out contradict some of the principles of relational database design? Maintaining a *single* version of any data, for instance? With Freenet, you would get duplication and redundency inherently, but who's to tell you which version of whatever table you are using is the correct one when queries start returning duplicate, slightly temporally shifted information?
It seems that you'd be wasting the power of freenet if you tried to build a relational database on top of it. The mathematics and goals involved in each model are almost wholly alien to eachother, unless my understanding is flawed.
...Besides Netscape/Mozilla?
I should switch. I'm running explorer pretty much by default, and it won't even let me moderate! All my dropdown boxes blur together, the windows begin to freeze, and the little girl's head begins to spin. (this also happens when I get too many form elements in *total* windows. Sigh.)
Its possible that that niche doesn't exist at all, as any list of failed products will tell you...