I used a TI-92 during Algebra 2 and a TI-89 this year for AP Calculus. I highly recommended either, but you'll want the 89 so that you can use it on your AP Exam. Though nothing replaces studying the CAS comes in very handy. I took the AP Calculus exam last week and on some problems I felt like I was cheating (something like take the second derivative of some ugly function and find the zeros to locate the max/mins takes seconds).
Funny you should mention that. Myself and some other "migrated" users have been addressing that very need. We are putting together a website who's main goal is to aid M$ based administrators in migrating their services from NT to linux. We hope to have the beta site running by the end of the summer. There should be a formal anouncement some time in August.
I love slackware, was the first distribution, and in my opinion, nothing beats it. Ive used it as a base install, and built scripts upon patricks scripts. Making it what I want it to be.
redhat seemed bloated, and I couldnt get the hang of debian to much stuff, and couldnt find anything!
I know exactly why Qui-Gon doesn't disappear. At some previous time, Qui-Gon had been seduced by the dark side. Yoda may have known this. Obi-Wan did not. Obi-Wan was never a dark jedi, nor was Yoda. Anakin had been seduced by the dark side, was overtaken by Vader. He soon destroyed Vader and the Emperor. Presumably, both Anakin and Qui-Gon at some point were seduced by the dark side of the force, and were therefore impure. This impurity meant that their spirits would not set themselves free of the body (by disappearing), but that they would have to be helped by the living to be truly freed (by the living destroying the body on a flaming pyre). It's a very simple pattern if you think about it.
Well for those of you who can't live without knowing how all this works...
I used some of my infinite skills to open up the jar file that all this is stored in and to my amazement he put the source in there! SwPlay.java is the applet source and/data/sw1.txt is the animation text. Have fun! note: For those of you who don't know a.jar file is compressed like a.zip file so you can use unzip to extract everything.
Did you ever think that these people "a long long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" might not be human in the same sense that you and (maybe) I are? Mitochondria are an Earth thing. Midichloreans are something from that "galaxy far, far away."
I am not a lawer but I was under the impression that due to the speed at which hardware became obsolete, software passed into the public domain after 2 years, allowing anyone to do whatever they liked to the software as long as credit was given to the original author, including passing on. This would mean that emulators for the super nintendo would be legal as it is intended to run public domained software, and has not been created for non profit.
1. Since the N legal FAQ was obviously not written by a lawyer, and IANAL, I feel qualified to respond.
2. If someone could point me to a law which says copying devices are illegal to own/build, cable TV descramblers are illegal to own/build, I'd appreciate it. Truthfully, I don't have either, but as far as I know, it is illegal to use those devices to commit illegal acts of copyright infringement, but not illegal to have them. Will M$ start arguing that computers are illegal because they can be used to pirate their stuff? Didn't the motion picture industry try to use the same argument against VCRs?
As I understand the copyright laws, it would be perfectly legal for someone to buy a legit copy of a game, and then use the device to make a copy.
3. Emulators developed without containing the copyrightable elements of a product, are not copyright infringement. Copyrights do not protect from duplicating designs or functionality. Patents do. (If a lawyer had written their FAQ, they would have not tried to use a copyright argument to explain why emulators are illegal. Well, maybe it was a bad lawyer.)
But one thing is true, if it weren't for copyright infringement, there wouldn't be much point in having an emulator. There would be so little to run on it.
Forrest J. Cavalier III, Mib Software Voice 570-992-8824 The Reuse RocKeT Efficient awareness for software reuse: Free WWW site lists over 6000 of the most popular open source libraries, functions, and applications.
Just as many people will use emulators and ROMs whether or not they are illegal. Nintendo is just going to spread the knowledge around that you don't need a console to play console games, and cause even more people to use emulators and ROMs. The more people that use them, the harder it will be to find all the web sites for downloading them, and the problem will get even worse (for Nintendo).
vi is the ultimate configuration file editing program. There will be no better program for editing those nasty/etc files and dotfiles. I have never been an emacs fan, but I understand some may prefer it to vi for editing code. It's always important to remember that vi is a text editor and nothing more. I don't feel the need to restate what a text editor is, but it can be a powerful tool in the hands of a skilled operator. I use it to write rough drafts in plaintext. Then, I use a fancy word processor to do some formatting and print. I don't own a printer, but I never felt the need to.
Is there any way to automate the setting up of Linux users from NT users? I want my Linux print server to make use of user info for permissions and auditing, but I don't want add steps to the user-creation process.
Sure I think the counter-stategy is simple -- continue to do exactly what we've been doing. We don't have to respond to this. In fact what would be best is to not even acknowledge it. The Linux commnunity is in no way remotely like a corporation, and because of this we don't have to play M$'s little superficial games. We have no reason to be affraid. And we have no reason to alter our stratagies or make new ones. All we have to do is continue to live by our ideals not by the sweet sweet smell of the all mighty buck. Remember what we are trying to do for the world is right and what M$ is trying to do is wrong, and eventually that will be the fact that leads us to "world domination" (not how much FUD we can spread around or how loud we can be on/.).
You've apparently never used HotMail! Before M$ came in and moved them to NT there site was rock solid. What happened afterward? I recieved more stalled connections and silly error messages than on any other site I've seen. The topper was when they were performing maintance (read: the machine hosting my account crashed) and they lost my account. We'll needless to say M$ fscked HotMail by moving them to NT.
First, define "non-technical people". I personally don't know anyone "non-technical" (by my definition) who has installed Windows 95 (let alone NT) on their own. In fact, I know several technical people who have failed to install and fully configure Win95 on simple Gateway desktops.
Secondly, what are your criteria for success? Being able to play solitaire? Or getting all devices working properly (including video and network), getting all ancillary software installed and conflicts resolved, etc?
The critique of Pynchon above is one of the weakest of the dozens I have read. I urge all thinking persons to read Vineland or GR and find out for themselves. "Forced imagery?" Perhaps. And that damn Van Gogh, always with the heavy brushstrokes! What's up with that?
Reasons you might like Pynchon: 1) His books (since GR) are designed as nonlinear conceptual puzzles. They are difficult on purpose, but with a heavy payoff. 2) The structure of his writing is fractal, in the metaphorical sense obviously. Motifs are repeated across scales, with variation. He will suddenly "zoom in" on a detail to such a degree that it leaves you wondering why he'd bother - but remember it, because you'll need it later. Also, motifs/tropes emerge from each other in a seemingly dynamic fashion. 2.1) For this reason, while you are "inside" the structure, his stories seem very chaotic and confusing, but once the "big fractal" pops into relief, all of the various elements across scales "come into focus." This is art for people who think in terms of dynamical systems. 2.11) This (seeing the big fractal) is less true for GR, his most difficult (and rewarding) work. I have read it nearly a dozen times and am still apprehending parts of the overall structure. 3) He's hysterical, if you're smart enough to understand him. 4) At least in GR, he intentionally weeds out the weak early on. The entire first section ("Beyond the Zero," I think) is very dense, utterly nonlinear, and contains a "killer" section in the form of a really long boooooooring part followed by a couple extreme grossouts in close succession. Persevere, or skip to part 2, which is much easier to read, more fun and draws in the connections that let you understand part 1.
I always recommend Vineland first, especially to Americans, especially to West Coast or somewhat counterculture-ish Americans.
Now, Stephenson - he's OK. He didn't invent anything much though. He's obviously brilliant and is full of good ideas and great metaphors - I *love* the 4 car dealerships from "Command Line" - but he couldn't plot his way out of the proverbial wet paper bag. At least, that is his historical weakness. He tends to overflow with genius notions, and crams them all in the first 100 pages of his books; then he realizes he has to somehow make all this stuff *work* together as a story. It never does, and the endings of Snow Crash and Diamond Age are among the lamest I know. He's very witty and fluent, but he's like that programmer we all know who's writes great low-level code but doesn't have a clue how to design a large, functioning system. I enjoy skimming his books for the ideas and clever prose, but as *books* I have considered them all failures. Influential, interesting, fun failures, and at least he's posing worthwhile questions, but still...
It's a pleasure to see Vernor Vinge mentioned here. I would also recommend the later works of Philip K. Dick (the Valis trilogy et. al), especially to those of you who have referenced Illuminatus! (or if you enjoyed the metaphysical elements of The Matrix). Interesting discussion.
Windows NT is, hands-down, the most difficult and confusing software I've ever installed, including the first time I installed Linux (not including X).
My first Linux install was Slackware from floppies in 1995. It installed flawlessly on a machine I randomly picked and also onto a 386 laptop I picked up for free.
I will admit that Win95 is pretty easy to install...unless it doesn't auto-detect something correctly and then you are screwed. Have you ever tried to get rid of the yellow question marks on a Win95 laptop installation?
Also, you don't have many installation options--CD or HD only. If you have to install via the network or some other way you have to figure it all out yourself, Win95 doesn't help you at all.
You have to remember that the Vader in episodes 4, 5, and 6 has been completely brainwashed and overcome by the dark side...it is likely that his master would have twisted any memories about his past to the point where they no longer convey reality.
>>IIRC a few pounds could poison the water supply of a city.
A few pounds of lots of stuff could poison a large city's water supply. A couple of pounds of ricin (from castor beans) can kill thousands of people. As Kurt Saxon said, if someone were to liberate a few ounces of ricin from the top of the empire state building, with the right wind a sizeable portion of Manhattan would be killed.
Chemically poisonous substances exist everywhere around us. But we know to avoid them. There are powerful carcinogens in the crankcases of our cars, but do we ingest them? Not usually. Do we drink paint thinner? No. Do we inject lysol? No.
The ignorance of the ordinary schmoe's only makes it inconvienent for the rest of us.
Slashdot Mirror
Posted by ICouldntGetTheAccountIWanted:
:)
Ooops. I meant the first distro _I_ used
Posted by kenmcneil:
I used a TI-92 during Algebra 2 and a TI-89 this year for AP Calculus. I highly recommended either, but you'll want the 89 so that you can use it on your AP Exam. Though nothing replaces studying the CAS comes in very handy. I took the AP Calculus exam last week and on some problems I felt like I was cheating (something like take the second derivative of some ugly function and find the zeros to locate the max/mins takes seconds).
Posted by sach:
Funny you should mention that. Myself and some other "migrated" users have been addressing that very need. We are putting together a website who's main goal is to aid M$ based administrators in migrating their services from NT to linux. We hope to have the beta site running by the end of the summer. There should be a formal anouncement some time in August.
Posted by kenmcneil:
Sorry about this post. I was still under the impression that HotMail was using NT. I now know that I was wrong. Thank you.
Posted by Bill, the Galactic Hero:
Does anyone _like_ a C library that isn't threadsafe by default, and whose pthreads implementation is user-space only?
Now that everyone except Bill Gates is using glibc, why stay with libc5?
Posted by ICouldntGetTheAccountIWanted:
To right!
I love slackware, was the first distribution, and in my opinion, nothing beats it. Ive used it as a base install, and built scripts upon patricks scripts. Making it what I want it to be.
redhat seemed bloated, and I couldnt get the hang of debian to much stuff, and couldnt find anything!
Posted by The [not so] Little Hacker:
I know exactly why Qui-Gon doesn't disappear. At some previous time, Qui-Gon had been seduced by the dark side. Yoda may have known this. Obi-Wan did not. Obi-Wan was never a dark jedi, nor was Yoda. Anakin had been seduced by the dark side, was overtaken by Vader. He soon destroyed Vader and the Emperor. Presumably, both Anakin and Qui-Gon at some point were seduced by the dark side of the force, and were therefore impure. This impurity meant that their spirits would not set themselves free of the body (by disappearing), but that they would have to be helped by the living to be truly freed (by the living destroying the body on a flaming pyre). It's a very simple pattern if you think about it.
Well for those of you who can't live without knowing how all this works...
I used some of my infinite skills to open up the jar file that all this is stored in and to my amazement he put the source in there! SwPlay.java is the applet source and /data/sw1.txt is the animation text. Have fun! .jar file is compressed like a .zip file so you can use unzip to extract everything.
note: For those of you who don't know a
Posted by The [not so] Little Hacker:
Did you ever think that these people "a long long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" might not be human in the same sense that you and (maybe) I are? Mitochondria are an Earth thing. Midichloreans are something from that "galaxy far, far away."
Posted by O-:
It does say alot for the man's dedication...that or he has a never ending supply of beer, and does this from a lap top sitting on the can all day...
Posted by Amun-Ra:
I am not a lawer but I was under the impression that due to the speed at which hardware became obsolete, software passed into the public domain after 2 years, allowing anyone to do whatever they liked to the software as long as credit was given to the original author, including passing on. This would mean that emulators for the super nintendo would be legal as it is intended to run public domained software, and has not been created for non profit.
1. Since the N legal FAQ was obviously not written by a lawyer, and IANAL, I feel qualified to respond.
2. If someone could point me to a law which says copying devices are illegal to own/build, cable TV descramblers are illegal to own/build, I'd appreciate it. Truthfully, I don't have either, but as far as I know, it is illegal to use those devices to commit illegal acts of copyright infringement, but not illegal to have them. Will M$ start arguing that computers are illegal because they can be used to pirate their stuff? Didn't the motion picture industry try to use the same argument against VCRs?
As I understand the copyright laws, it would be perfectly legal for someone to buy a legit copy of a game, and then use the device to make a copy.
3. Emulators developed without containing the copyrightable elements of a product, are not copyright infringement. Copyrights do not protect from duplicating designs or functionality. Patents do. (If a lawyer had written their FAQ, they would have not tried to use a copyright argument to explain why emulators are illegal. Well, maybe it was a bad lawyer.)
But one thing is true, if it weren't for copyright infringement, there wouldn't be much point in having an emulator. There would be so little to run on it.
Forrest J. Cavalier III, Mib Software Voice 570-992-8824
The Reuse RocKeT Efficient awareness for software reuse: Free WWW site
lists over 6000 of the most popular open source libraries, functions, and applications.
Posted by _DogShu_:
Just as many people will use emulators and ROMs whether or not they are illegal. Nintendo is just going to spread the knowledge around that you don't need a console to play console games, and cause even more people to use emulators and ROMs.
The more people that use them, the harder it will be to find all the web sites for downloading them, and the problem will get even worse (for Nintendo).
Posted by Art Pepper:
Navigator 4.5, Debian 2.1
10,000 frames! Must be nice to not have to work.
Posted by oNZeNeMo (guns'n ammo):
/etc files and dotfiles. I have never been an emacs fan, but I understand some may prefer it to vi for editing code. It's always important to remember that vi is a text editor and nothing more. I don't feel the need to restate what a text editor is, but it can be a powerful tool in the hands of a skilled operator. I use it to write rough drafts in plaintext. Then, I use a fancy word processor to do some formatting and print. I don't own a printer, but I never felt the need to.
vi is the ultimate configuration file editing program. There will be no better program for editing those nasty
Posted by d106ene5:
Hah! 90% of web commerce is porn memberships...obviously someone is giving their credit card number.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Is there any way to automate the setting up of Linux users from NT users? I want my Linux print server to make use of user info for permissions and auditing, but I don't want add steps to the user-creation process.
Have we any counter-strategies?
Sure I think the counter-stategy is simple -- continue to do exactly what we've been doing. We don't have to respond to this. In fact what would be best is to not even acknowledge it. The Linux commnunity is in no way remotely like a corporation, and because of this we don't have to play M$'s little superficial games. We have no reason to be affraid. And we have no reason to alter our stratagies or make new ones. All we have to do is continue to live by our ideals not by the sweet sweet smell of the all mighty buck. Remember what we are trying to do for the world is right and what M$ is trying to do is wrong, and eventually that will be the fact that leads us to "world domination" (not how much FUD we can spread around or how loud we can be on /.).
Posted by kenmcneil:
You've apparently never used HotMail! Before M$ came in and moved them to NT there site was rock solid. What happened afterward? I recieved more stalled connections and silly error messages than on any other site I've seen. The topper was when they were performing maintance (read: the machine hosting my account crashed) and they lost my account. We'll needless to say M$ fscked HotMail by moving them to NT.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
First, define "non-technical people". I personally don't know anyone "non-technical" (by my definition) who has installed Windows 95 (let alone NT) on their own. In fact, I know several technical people who have failed to install and fully configure Win95 on simple Gateway desktops.
Secondly, what are your criteria for success? Being able to play solitaire? Or getting all devices working properly (including video and network), getting all ancillary software installed and conflicts resolved, etc?
Posted by tyler23:
Please excuse the length of this post.
The critique of Pynchon above is one of the weakest of the dozens I have read. I urge all thinking persons to read Vineland or GR and find out for themselves. "Forced imagery?" Perhaps. And that damn Van Gogh, always with the heavy brushstrokes! What's up with that?
Reasons you might like Pynchon:
1) His books (since GR) are designed as nonlinear conceptual puzzles. They are difficult on purpose, but with a heavy payoff.
2) The structure of his writing is fractal, in the metaphorical sense obviously. Motifs are repeated across scales, with variation. He will suddenly "zoom in" on a detail to such a degree that it leaves you wondering why he'd bother - but remember it, because you'll need it later. Also, motifs/tropes emerge from each other in a seemingly dynamic fashion.
2.1) For this reason, while you are "inside" the structure, his stories seem very chaotic and confusing, but once the "big fractal" pops into relief, all of the various elements across scales "come into focus." This is art for people who think in terms of dynamical systems.
2.11) This (seeing the big fractal) is less true for GR, his most difficult (and rewarding) work. I have read it nearly a dozen times and am still apprehending parts of the overall structure.
3) He's hysterical, if you're smart enough to understand him.
4) At least in GR, he intentionally weeds out the weak early on. The entire first section ("Beyond the Zero," I think) is very dense, utterly nonlinear, and contains a "killer" section in the form of a really long boooooooring part followed by a couple extreme grossouts in close succession. Persevere, or skip to part 2, which is much easier to read, more fun and draws in the connections that let you understand part 1.
I always recommend Vineland first, especially to Americans, especially to West Coast or somewhat counterculture-ish Americans.
Now, Stephenson - he's OK. He didn't invent anything much though. He's obviously brilliant and is full of good ideas and great metaphors - I *love* the 4 car dealerships from "Command Line" - but he couldn't plot his way out of the proverbial wet paper bag. At least, that is his historical weakness. He tends to overflow with genius notions, and crams them all in the first 100 pages of his books; then he realizes he has to somehow make all this stuff *work* together as a story. It never does, and the endings of Snow Crash and Diamond Age are among the lamest I know. He's very witty and fluent, but he's like that programmer we all know who's writes great low-level code but doesn't have a clue how to design a large, functioning system. I enjoy skimming his books for the ideas and clever prose, but as *books* I have considered them all failures. Influential, interesting, fun failures, and at least he's posing worthwhile questions, but still...
It's a pleasure to see Vernor Vinge mentioned here. I would also recommend the later works of Philip K. Dick (the Valis trilogy et. al), especially to those of you who have referenced Illuminatus! (or if you enjoyed the metaphysical elements of The Matrix). Interesting discussion.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Windows NT is, hands-down, the most difficult and confusing software I've ever installed, including the first time I installed Linux (not including X).
My first Linux install was Slackware from floppies in 1995. It installed flawlessly on a machine I randomly picked and also onto a 386 laptop I picked up for free.
I will admit that Win95 is pretty easy to install...unless it doesn't auto-detect something correctly and then you are screwed. Have you ever tried to get rid of the yellow question marks on a Win95 laptop installation?
Also, you don't have many installation options--CD or HD only. If you have to install via the network or some other way you have to figure it all out yourself, Win95 doesn't help you at all.
Posted by OGL:
You have to remember that the Vader in episodes 4, 5, and 6 has been completely brainwashed and overcome by the dark side...it is likely that his master would have twisted any memories about his past to the point where they no longer convey reality.
-W.W.
Posted by OGL:
...let see...close up of planet...planet's entire surface is covered by cityscape...can we put two and two together?
-W.W.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>IIRC a few pounds could poison the water supply of a city.
A few pounds of lots of stuff could poison a large city's water supply. A couple of pounds of ricin (from castor beans) can kill thousands of people. As Kurt Saxon said, if someone were to liberate a few ounces of ricin from the top of the empire state building, with the right wind a sizeable portion of Manhattan would be killed.
Chemically poisonous substances exist everywhere around us. But we know to avoid them. There are powerful carcinogens in the crankcases of our cars, but do we ingest them? Not usually. Do we drink paint thinner? No. Do we inject lysol? No.
The ignorance of the ordinary schmoe's only makes it inconvienent for the rest of us.
LK