HP calcs are my favorite as well. But I will say that the 28S was not a durable calculator. I think I've broken at least 3. But I loved that calculator model. If they would have just done something to improve the battery door, they could still be selling them.
"I'm sure I'll get modded troll or something but I'm being serious. Some software is really expensive like matlab. But it always works."
See, and there's where I have to disagree. MATLAB sucks. But it only sucks because of the license servers, etc. If it weren't for having to deal with licenses, I'd be right there with you. The program was completely brain dumb about running in a 32 bit environment if you have a 64 bit kernel (even if you install the 32 bit version of MATLAB), but I suppose that is a small thing.
I will say, the customer support has been excellent and very patient.
Or maybe he's got a concealed carry permit and a gun. In my state, that comes up in the computer records, so there's pretty good odds that the officer knows you might be armed. Traffic stops are one of the more dangerous things an officer does, so an officer is bound to be a bit on edge. I would describe the post as understanding of those facts and acting in a way such as to keep the situation as safe as possible for everyone.
I'm sure as hell going to let an officer know if there's a 357 magnum 3 inches above my wallet before I go to pull my ID out and I'm going to keep my hands in plain sight in the meantime. And it's not to make the life of the officer easier. It's to ensure my own safety.
If you have enough sense to browse the comments, you'll find common themes:
1. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is pretty effective at helping you deal with collectors, so go read the law.
2. You can usually get a good response by writing a letter (and you'll see why if you read the law). At the minimum you can make them comply with a "do not call me" request and make them correspond by letter.
I will add a bit of my own wisdom. Find out the laws in your state and record your telephone. I happen to be in a "one party knows" state, so I can record my calls without saying. I always ask the state the collector is in and look it up to see if it is compatible (otherwise you may need to inform them if you want to use the recordings in court).
Review your telephone recordings. Sometimes collectors will say things that don't mean quite what you think when you are on the line and under stress. I found reviewing the recordings left me with "ah ha" moments, especially when I took the conversation in the context of the FDCPA.
Despite some other commentor's opinions it was my experience that debt collectors are often professional thugs. It makes sense, thugs have to work somewhere too, and you do what you are good at.
If you have to pay a collector (I owed for a legitimate claim one time when there was a billing mistake), I recommend a one-time use credit card number. It can't be double billed if you set a limit at the correct amount. Believe me, you don't want to try to collect from a collector who owes you money because they screwed up. You can be successful, but you won't enjoy it.
Remember, you want to be polite but firm. You want your recorded voice (remember, you're going to be taping this) to sound reasonable. If you take this collector to court, you want them to be the asshole. You want the judge to get pissed on your behalf and zing them with a judgment.
Actually, insertion sort is just as good in those situations. You learn bubble sort because it is mathematically significant (i.e. you prove theorems with it).
I can't tell you whether to use Latex or some other writing platform. Personally, I use Latex. It's what I wrote my (math) dissertation in, and it is what I use for the courses I teach. I recommend that my math students become acquainted with it, because it is the standard in our academic domain.
What I can say is that if your document is large, you should use version control, whether you have collaborators or not. I used CVS for my dissertation, and I wasn't collaborating with anyone but myself. It made it devastatingly easy to have full revision histories both at work and at home. No losing _my_ work because the building burned down (that totally happened to some English students during my tenure as a grad student).
Most important though, I wrote faster because I had a history. I knew that if I screwed up my document I could go back step by step and get valid versions. If I gave a copy to my advisor, I could keep working and when he had comments ready for me 3 days later or a week later, I could pull up that specific revision to compare. I can say that revision control was possibly the difference between finishing and not finishing.
If I were to do the same thing today, I would use git for the same reasons that some of the earlier posts cite. One, it fixes many of the little things that are broken with CVS. But the big thing in my opinion is disconnected work. My pattern of work was usually to write for several hours (often disconnected from the net) and then connect and submit my work. With git you can write and commit work without a net connection, and sometimes you want to commit as you are working (whether there is a net connection or not).
It is also trivial and fast to make branches and move back and forth between them. Branching at the versions my advisor had is very fast and convenient with git.
So use revision control of some kind. It has tangible benefits.
"The fact that getting good random samples is so hard explains why pollsters nevertheless do get it wrong from time to time."
Actually, the fact that they use 95% confidence intervals is why they get it wrong from time to time. In fact, they expect to get it wrong 1 time out of 20....
1. IP RIGHTS. Teachers/Professors claiming IP rights in their lecture materials has come up a few times in my recent recollection. The theory is that they own the copyright in the material that they teach and your notes are derivative works. In the US, derivative works belong to the copyright holder, regardless of who did the works. Thus, if you write a song and I do a remix of it, you generally own the remix despite my hard work.
I think you oversimplify here. It is true that the original copyright holder has a claim on a derived work. But so does the author (in this case the student). So although it might conceivably infringe on the teacher's copyright to redistribute notes (although I'm not fully convinced of this, and I'm a teacher), the teacher doesn't automatically "own" the student's notes either.
I agree. For several years now JFS has gone on all my servers and workstations. I've not used any Linux filesystem that worked so generally well in terms of performance and reliability.
Finally you have the situation where he's armed and you're not. You stick your hands up and hope he doesn't shoot. But when you think about this, why would he shoot?
You seem to be assuming that this was an attempted burglary (i.e. criminal didn't know you'd be home). When you think about it, why wouldn't he shoot? He's already used force to enter an occupied domicile, so the threat of force is there. And dead people don't pick you out of a lineup.
I'm not a person who carries a gun, although I have no beef with people who do. Carry isn't legal where I work, though I suppose I could at home. But I don't call into question that a home invasion when people are at home is more than a little "business transaction" where the bad guy just wants your DVD player. It is an implicit threat of violence, and if a person wants to be ready to respond it kind I support that.
It seems to me that if neither are armed, it's bad for the honest person. If the bad guy is armed, it's bad for the honest person. If the good guy is armed, it's good for the honest person. If both are armed, it's a toss-up.
Better yet: the uncertainty that a bad guy has about victims being armed is a net positive because threat of imminent death is a deterrent.
I've switched to jfs on pretty much all of my systems and I've had very little reason to complain. I had been using xfs, but saw fs corruption in several instances.
This isn't a troll, I'm really interested in having the discussion with someone who chose a small 15-minute in-jeans ceremony. Because, I consider myself to be married, yet legally my wife and I are common-law. We've been living happily together for 10 years, have 2 wonderful daughters and don't need a ring or a legal document to make us secure in our relationship. I don't see the point in a huge ceremony but I don't see the point in a small vegas 15 minute wedding either. So just out of personal interest, what did marriage do for you and your husband that living common law would not ?
I'd have felt the same way before my wife had a stroke. As her husband, the family medical leave act guaranteed me job flexibility to help her do rehab. Even before that, at the hospital, I had influence on her medical treatment and access to the doctors and staff that no other family member had.
It isn't that you can't have some of this with other legal documents, like durable power of attorney for medical decisions (more valuable in my opinion than a living will). But it is something that comes with marriage that I would guess you probably don't have. When you need it, the value is without price.
This drives me nuts with every non-Free piece of software I administer. Software breaks often enough, thank you very much, because it is inherently complex. But software with a license server is "designed to break." A license server is just a hair trigger that breaks your software whenever anything isn't "just right."
I've restored several disks using carnuba wax. I found it suggested on the internet. I don't always get 100% improvement, but I've taken several DVDs from "unwatchable" to "has a few glitches in a scene". I've had some CDs go from "doesn't play several tracks" to "plays".
At work we use names of minerals and elements. But for my personal machines, I took the advice of an acquaintance who claimed that computers should have 4-letter female names. There are plenty of names to choose from with 4 letters, but they are still short and you type computer names quite a bit. And finally, since your wife or girlfriend is going to be jealous of the time you spend with the computer it should have a female name to "fit."
Obviously, female sysadmins should choose 4-letter male names.
I let my wife choose whatever names she likes, but she has generally chosen female names as well. Friendlier perhaps than male names.
In fact they do. This is precisely why it is difficult (despite what you may see in movies) to create a very effective silencer for a fast bullet like 9mm. You'll get the best results with subsonic ammunition. It's just hard to do anything about that hypersonic "crack."
> In my opinion, making everyone change their ways for a few who have an issue isn't ethical, whether it's forcing people to change their web page to make it more friendly to the disabled, or not letting peanut butter sandwiches in elementary schools.
You sir are full of crap. People with disabilities are people. Life is hard by definition for them.
I'd like to see RevolutionMoneyExchange (referrer link) get some traction. Paypal could definitely use a competitor. I signed up with RME for the $25 incentive, but I don't really use it much. If they succeed in growing their user base, though, perhaps that could change.
I agree with Godji. I specifically searched the threads for 'Linux' because I have a high-quality sound processing project, and affordable quality hardware with Linux support would be a real boon for me.
"In one sense I totally agree with you. We need to exercise our 'natural' immune system in order for it to become stronger. On the other hand, part of human evolutionary adaptation gave us the ability to modify our situation/environment."
I've always pondered that getting a flu shot every year is exercising your immune system. Certainly, I don't take it as obvious that if you get the flu shot and are later exposed to the real virus that something magic happened and your immune system didn't get to hammer on a real invader because you weren't made miserable for a week.
And in years when you aren't exposed to the flu virus, the shot gives you a (perhaps smaller) workout then too. By that measure, getting a vaccination every year could well be more exercise for your immune system than the old fashioned way. You get exposed to at least 3 sets of virus pattern every year by means of the shot.
Personally, I work in the college setting. The flu shot is always the "best known prediction" so I am bound to come down with flu from time to time whether I get immunized or not. My kid will pick up the flu from time to time at school whether she is immunized or not. There are going to be opportunities for the immune system to get the "full test."
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1. Buy AMD stock.
2. Short Intel stock.
3. ??? -- Send the kill signal to thousands of Intel computers
4. Profit!
HP calcs are my favorite as well. But I will say that the 28S was not a durable calculator. I think I've broken at least 3. But I loved that calculator model. If they would have just done something to improve the battery door, they could still be selling them.
"I'm sure I'll get modded troll or something but I'm being serious. Some software is really expensive like matlab. But it always works."
See, and there's where I have to disagree. MATLAB sucks. But it only sucks because of the license servers, etc. If it weren't for having to deal with licenses, I'd be right there with you. The program was completely brain dumb about running in a 32 bit environment if you have a 64 bit kernel (even if you install the 32 bit version of MATLAB), but I suppose that is a small thing.
I will say, the customer support has been excellent and very patient.
Or maybe he's got a concealed carry permit and a gun. In my state, that comes up in the computer records, so there's pretty good odds that the officer knows you might be armed. Traffic stops are one of the more dangerous things an officer does, so an officer is bound to be a bit on edge. I would describe the post as understanding of those facts and acting in a way such as to keep the situation as safe as possible for everyone.
I'm sure as hell going to let an officer know if there's a 357 magnum 3 inches above my wallet before I go to pull my ID out and I'm going to keep my hands in plain sight in the meantime. And it's not to make the life of the officer easier. It's to ensure my own safety.
If you have enough sense to browse the comments, you'll find common themes:
1. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is pretty effective at helping you deal with collectors, so go read the law.
2. You can usually get a good response by writing a letter (and you'll see why if you read the law). At the minimum you can make them comply with a "do not call me" request and make them correspond by letter.
I will add a bit of my own wisdom. Find out the laws in your state and record your telephone. I happen to be in a "one party knows" state, so I can record my calls without saying. I always ask the state the collector is in and look it up to see if it is compatible (otherwise you may need to inform them if you want to use the recordings in court).
Review your telephone recordings. Sometimes collectors will say things that don't mean quite what you think when you are on the line and under stress. I found reviewing the recordings left me with "ah ha" moments, especially when I took the conversation in the context of the FDCPA.
Despite some other commentor's opinions it was my experience that debt collectors are often professional thugs. It makes sense, thugs have to work somewhere too, and you do what you are good at.
If you have to pay a collector (I owed for a legitimate claim one time when there was a billing mistake), I recommend a one-time use credit card number. It can't be double billed if you set a limit at the correct amount. Believe me, you don't want to try to collect from a collector who owes you money because they screwed up. You can be successful, but you won't enjoy it.
Remember, you want to be polite but firm. You want your recorded voice (remember, you're going to be taping this) to sound reasonable. If you take this collector to court, you want them to be the asshole. You want the judge to get pissed on your behalf and zing them with a judgment.
Actually, insertion sort is just as good in those situations. You learn bubble sort because it is mathematically significant (i.e. you prove theorems with it).
I can't tell you whether to use Latex or some other writing platform. Personally, I use Latex. It's what I wrote my (math) dissertation in, and it is what I use for the courses I teach. I recommend that my math students become acquainted with it, because it is the standard in our academic domain.
What I can say is that if your document is large, you should use version control, whether you have collaborators or not. I used CVS for my dissertation, and I wasn't collaborating with anyone but myself. It made it devastatingly easy to have full revision histories both at work and at home. No losing _my_ work because the building burned down (that totally happened to some English students during my tenure as a grad student).
Most important though, I wrote faster because I had a history. I knew that if I screwed up my document I could go back step by step and get valid versions. If I gave a copy to my advisor, I could keep working and when he had comments ready for me 3 days later or a week later, I could pull up that specific revision to compare. I can say that revision control was possibly the difference between finishing and not finishing.
If I were to do the same thing today, I would use git for the same reasons that some of the earlier posts cite. One, it fixes many of the little things that are broken with CVS. But the big thing in my opinion is disconnected work. My pattern of work was usually to write for several hours (often disconnected from the net) and then connect and submit my work. With git you can write and commit work without a net connection, and sometimes you want to commit as you are working (whether there is a net connection or not).
It is also trivial and fast to make branches and move back and forth between them. Branching at the versions my advisor had is very fast and convenient with git.
So use revision control of some kind. It has tangible benefits.
"The fact that getting good random samples is so hard explains why pollsters nevertheless do get it wrong from time to time."
Actually, the fact that they use 95% confidence intervals is why they get it wrong from time to time. In fact, they expect to get it wrong 1 time out of 20....
I think you oversimplify here. It is true that the original copyright holder has a claim on a derived work. But so does the author (in this case the student). So although it might conceivably infringe on the teacher's copyright to redistribute notes (although I'm not fully convinced of this, and I'm a teacher), the teacher doesn't automatically "own" the student's notes either.
I agree. For several years now JFS has gone on all my servers and workstations. I've not used any Linux filesystem that worked so generally well in terms of performance and reliability.
All my favorites, right here: http://limestone.truman.edu/~dbindner/mirror/#Vi-Ref
You seem to be assuming that this was an attempted burglary (i.e. criminal didn't know you'd be home). When you think about it, why wouldn't he shoot? He's already used force to enter an occupied domicile, so the threat of force is there. And dead people don't pick you out of a lineup.
I'm not a person who carries a gun, although I have no beef with people who do. Carry isn't legal where I work, though I suppose I could at home. But I don't call into question that a home invasion when people are at home is more than a little "business transaction" where the bad guy just wants your DVD player. It is an implicit threat of violence, and if a person wants to be ready to respond it kind I support that.
It seems to me that if neither are armed, it's bad for the honest person. If the bad guy is armed, it's bad for the honest person. If the good guy is armed, it's good for the honest person. If both are armed, it's a toss-up.
Better yet: the uncertainty that a bad guy has about victims being armed is a net positive because threat of imminent death is a deterrent.
I've switched to jfs on pretty much all of my systems and I've had very little reason to complain. I had been using xfs, but saw fs corruption in several instances.
I'd have felt the same way before my wife had a stroke. As her husband, the family medical leave act guaranteed me job flexibility to help her do rehab. Even before that, at the hospital, I had influence on her medical treatment and access to the doctors and staff that no other family member had.
It isn't that you can't have some of this with other legal documents, like durable power of attorney for medical decisions (more valuable in my opinion than a living will). But it is something that comes with marriage that I would guess you probably don't have. When you need it, the value is without price.
This drives me nuts with every non-Free piece of software I administer. Software breaks often enough, thank you very much, because it is inherently complex. But software with a license server is "designed to break." A license server is just a hair trigger that breaks your software whenever anything isn't "just right."
I've restored several disks using carnuba wax. I found it suggested on the internet. I don't always get 100% improvement, but I've taken several DVDs from "unwatchable" to "has a few glitches in a scene". I've had some CDs go from "doesn't play several tracks" to "plays".
H.M. Hoover's books like "Winds of Mars" would be great for young Sci Fi readers too.
I like the Recluse series by L. E. Modesitt. I read those books over and over.
At work we use names of minerals and elements. But for my personal machines, I took the advice of an acquaintance who claimed that computers should have 4-letter female names. There are plenty of names to choose from with 4 letters, but they are still short and you type computer names quite a bit. And finally, since your wife or girlfriend is going to be jealous of the time you spend with the computer it should have a female name to "fit."
Obviously, female sysadmins should choose 4-letter male names.
I let my wife choose whatever names she likes, but she has generally chosen female names as well. Friendlier perhaps than male names.
In fact they do. This is precisely why it is difficult (despite what you may see in movies) to create a very effective silencer for a fast bullet like 9mm. You'll get the best results with subsonic ammunition. It's just hard to do anything about that hypersonic "crack."
I've used it to finish up the last 3% of a jigdo build when I was missing a file or two. Worked great.
> In my opinion, making everyone change their ways for a few who have an issue isn't ethical, whether it's forcing people to change their web page to make it more friendly to the disabled, or not letting peanut butter sandwiches in elementary schools.
You sir are full of crap. People with disabilities are people. Life is hard by definition for them.
I'd like to see RevolutionMoneyExchange (referrer link) get some traction. Paypal could definitely use a competitor. I signed up with RME for the $25 incentive, but I don't really use it much. If they succeed in growing their user base, though, perhaps that could change.
I agree with Godji. I specifically searched the threads for 'Linux' because I have a high-quality sound processing project, and affordable quality hardware with Linux support would be a real boon for me.
"In one sense I totally agree with you. We need to exercise our 'natural' immune system in order for it to become stronger. On the other hand, part of human evolutionary adaptation gave us the ability to modify our situation/environment."
I've always pondered that getting a flu shot every year is exercising your immune system. Certainly, I don't take it as obvious that if you get the flu shot and are later exposed to the real virus that something magic happened and your immune system didn't get to hammer on a real invader because you weren't made miserable for a week.
And in years when you aren't exposed to the flu virus, the shot gives you a (perhaps smaller) workout then too. By that measure, getting a vaccination every year could well be more exercise for your immune system than the old fashioned way. You get exposed to at least 3 sets of virus pattern every year by means of the shot.
Personally, I work in the college setting. The flu shot is always the "best known prediction" so I am bound to come down with flu from time to time whether I get immunized or not. My kid will pick up the flu from time to time at school whether she is immunized or not. There are going to be opportunities for the immune system to get the "full test."