I ran TAMU linux on a 486dx 33. It had 8mb of RAM. It ran X-11. It ran just fine. It didn't crawl.
That system got me all the way through my CS degree. I did all of my CS projects on it (except the ones that required me to use Ada or mc68k assembler).
The key part is to keep your utilization in line with your expectations (don't run KDE, don't run gnome, etc...).
If you want to be the kind of engineer that implements other engineer's ideas then, by all means, blow off your math classes. But if you want to be someone who your peers turn to when they need help, do yourself a favor and learn the math.
All of the engineering sciences are founded on math (this is espescially true of computer science). If you can out code your instructors, that means you can probably out math them too. What you are interpreting as an inability to memorize functions, is probably really just disinterest.
This disinterest may stem from a feeling that what you are studying has little utility, it may stem from a personal dislike of an instructor, it may stem from the notion that math geeks are all squares and smell funny.
Whatever the reason, you need to get past it. A thorough understanding of the math behind engineering will make your life MUCH easier on down the road.
Based on the information revealed today, it might not ever be practical to move a comet into Earth's orbit.
If the COMET was a big ball of rock it would just be a matter of attaching to it and then pushing it where it needs to go. But with the comet being in essence a big pile of sand, it would be much more difficult to move around with our current technology. (I'm basing this on the idea that as soon as we start pushing it, it will start coming apart)
Ever since the 50s, those in power have realised that an environment of hate and fear in the populace not only makes their job easier, but it allows them to "steer" the country in the ways that they want. Want to invade Iraq? No problem!! Just a wee stir of fear & hate cauldrin...
Ever since the 50s??? Brother, this didn't start in the 50s. This has been going on since the dawn of man. There's nothing American about it. Chalk it up to being human.
My wife and I were sitting at the bar in our local Spaghetti Warehoue waiting for out table. The place was crowded and we had been wating about half an hour. From our vantage point We could see into the kitchen....
We watched as one of the line workers prepared the deserts. He would pull a desert out of its box, put it on a plate, put the plate in the microwave for a few seconds, pull the plate out and put it on a serving tray.
Oh I left out one step. After placing each desert on its plate he would lick his fingers clean.
This guy is probably the same one wiping his hands on his pants after handling your main course.
You don't need to worry about the animal, it's the guy preparing the meal that you have to worry about.
Say, since I have your attention, could you transfer these $50 US into Canadian Dollars. That should be around $920 Canadian, but between the two of us, just give me the $900 and we'll call it even.
You might need to write some custom software to monitor the backups, but it shouldnt be too hard to come up with some scripts that whip through a list of people that use USB drives and nag them to back up the data under penalty administrative punishment.
When I read the atricle, I mentally substituted the word euthanise to enthuse. I found myself wondering, "Why give brain teasers to peopl you're going to kill anyway? This makes no sense."
Your forgot something: a space dock for repairing satelites in orbit.
Retrieving satelites and returning them to earth for repair was supposed to be one of the shuttle's functions. Put a space dock in orbit and thats one less reason to keep the shuttle around.
Sound expensive? When compared to the expense of the shuttle, it's probably not.
Obtain one of the aforementioned codless handsets.
Make a few hundred long distance phone calls. Call exotic places like Fiji or Tonga or Canada. Go wild! Have a romantic affair with the girl of your dreams for only $2.99 a minute. Talk to her for hours.
Wait a month for your neighbors phone bill to arrive.
Invite your neighbor over for a picnic.
Tell him that you were the one that made all the phone calls.
Tell him that you feel no obligation to pay for the calls because his system was broadcasting radio waves off his property.
Nice metaphore. However, it does not apply to this here. It would be more accurate to state that someone is having a soft converstaion in and you sneak over to listen in at an opened window.
But even that comparison does not do justice to the subject situaition, nothing is being misppropriated.
Imagine this instead. Your neighbor just bought a cordless phone setup. You go out and buy a replacement handset and set it to the same frequency as his. Are you then morally or legally allowed to make calls on his phone? I say no.
Like phone service, bandwidth is a resource that the home owner paid for. Just because he failed to secure the point of access doesn't mean that anyone walking by can use it.
Part of the problem here is that driving to work is inherently dangerous and risky. There is no way you will ever remove all of the risk -- and because of this there will be future accidents and loss of life while we commute. The men and women who volunteer to do this are extremely courageous individuals that should be honored and thanked many times over. Each time a car pulls out of a driveway, there are a million ways something can go wrong yet only one way everything can go perfectly. NASA, along with the government and general public, must understand that although the risks associated with driving to work are huge, the potential rewards are far greater. Hopefully our government will give GM/Ford the funding needed to develop a better way for people to drive to work. Until that time, we must realize that there are risks associated with commuting but we must keep aiming for the stars because, in the long run, humanity stands to gain far more than the risks from occasional loss of life that occur when something goes horribly wrong.
> I can't remember what happens with the XXX variety
Brain puzzler for the day: Is it possible to phrase a search in google in such a way as to answer the above question without receiving results that resolve to porn sites?
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but what about all of the disadvantaged children in Canada, Mexico, USA, etc...
I'm a rural mid-westener. I love sushi.
(rural + mid-west) != sushi-hater
I ran TAMU linux on a 486dx 33. It had 8mb of RAM. It ran X-11. It ran just fine. It didn't crawl.
That system got me all the way through my CS degree. I did all of my CS projects on it (except the ones that required me to use Ada or mc68k assembler).
The key part is to keep your utilization in line with your expectations (don't run KDE, don't run gnome, etc...).
I was hoping it was in yen...
Could treating NULL as an int on a 64-bit system have any dire consequences?
but does it have a simple mnemonic like:
Orange
Hippos
Always
Have
Orange
Angles
which yields...
Opposite
Hypotenuse = sin theta
Adjacent
Hypotenuse = cos theta
Opposite
Adjacent = tan theta
If you want to be the kind of engineer that implements other engineer's ideas then, by all means, blow off your math classes. But if you want to be someone who your peers turn to when they need help, do yourself a favor and learn the math.
All of the engineering sciences are founded on math (this is espescially true of computer science). If you can out code your instructors, that means you can probably out math them too. What you are interpreting as an inability to memorize functions, is probably really just disinterest.
This disinterest may stem from a feeling that what you are studying has little utility, it may stem from a personal dislike of an instructor, it may stem from the notion that math geeks are all squares and smell funny.
Whatever the reason, you need to get past it. A thorough understanding of the math behind engineering will make your life MUCH easier on down the road.
Based on the information revealed today, it might not ever be practical to move a comet into Earth's orbit.
If the COMET was a big ball of rock it would just be a matter of attaching to it and then pushing it where it needs to go. But with the comet being in essence a big pile of sand, it would be much more difficult to move around with our current technology. (I'm basing this on the idea that as soon as we start pushing it, it will start coming apart)
Ever since the 50s??? Brother, this didn't start in the 50s. This has been going on since the dawn of man. There's nothing American about it. Chalk it up to being human.
...looks like I'm going to have to get new business cards.
My wife and I were sitting at the bar in our local Spaghetti Warehoue waiting for out table. The place was crowded and we had been wating about half an hour. From our vantage point We could see into the kitchen....
We watched as one of the line workers prepared the deserts. He would pull a desert out of its box, put it on a plate, put the plate in the microwave for a few seconds, pull the plate out and put it on a serving tray.
Oh I left out one step. After placing each desert on its plate he would lick his fingers clean.
This guy is probably the same one wiping his hands on his pants after handling your main course.
You don't need to worry about the animal, it's the guy preparing the meal that you have to worry about.
Was this generated from a form letter?
We used to call that game 'Lunchfall' there was soimething screwed up with the raycasting engine that caused vertigo after extended sessions.
I'd expect that identity thieves would LOVE this. They would only have to forge one document to steal your ID.
It would save them TONS of work.
So kids, if someone tells you they are in favor of a national ID card, hold on to your wallet. They are probably an identity thief.
Your conversion sounds good to me.
Say, since I have your attention, could you transfer these $50 US into Canadian Dollars. That should be around $920 Canadian, but between the two of us, just give me the $900 and we'll call it even.
...that a strick back up policy could help with.
You might need to write some custom software to monitor the backups, but it shouldnt be too hard to come up with some scripts that whip through a list of people that use USB drives and nag them to back up the data under penalty administrative punishment.
Funny you should say that.
When I read the atricle, I mentally substituted
the word euthanise to enthuse. I found myself wondering, "Why give brain teasers to peopl you're going to kill anyway? This makes no sense."
Your forgot something: a space dock for repairing satelites in orbit.
Retrieving satelites and returning them to earth for repair was supposed to be one of the shuttle's functions. Put a space dock in orbit and thats one less reason to keep the shuttle around.
Sound expensive? When compared to the expense of the shuttle, it's probably not.
Try this:
Obtain one of the aforementioned codless handsets.
Make a few hundred long distance phone calls. Call exotic places like Fiji or Tonga or Canada. Go wild! Have a romantic affair with the girl of your dreams for only $2.99 a minute. Talk to her for hours.
Wait a month for your neighbors phone bill to arrive.
Invite your neighbor over for a picnic.
Tell him that you were the one that made all the phone calls.
Tell him that you feel no obligation to pay for the calls because his system was broadcasting radio waves off his property.
Now answer the following questions:
Do you feel you did anything wrong?
Are you sure what you did wasn't stealing?
Nice metaphore. However, it does not apply to this here. It would be more accurate to state that someone is having a soft converstaion in and you sneak over to listen in at an opened window.
But even that comparison does not do justice to the subject situaition, nothing is being misppropriated.
Imagine this instead. Your neighbor just bought a cordless phone setup. You go out and buy a replacement handset and set it to the same frequency as his. Are you then morally or legally allowed to make calls on his phone? I say no.
Like phone service, bandwidth is a resource that the home owner paid for. Just because he failed to secure the point of access doesn't mean that anyone walking by can use it.
Are you saying that if someone leaves their house unlocked I can just walk inside and they can't complain?
Part of the problem here is that driving to work is inherently dangerous and risky. There is no way you will ever remove all of the risk -- and because of this there will be future accidents and loss of life while we commute. The men and women who volunteer to do this are extremely courageous individuals that should be honored and thanked many times over. Each time a car pulls out of a driveway, there are a million ways something can go wrong yet only one way everything can go perfectly. NASA, along with the government and general public, must understand that although the risks associated with driving to work are huge, the potential rewards are far greater. Hopefully our government will give GM/Ford the funding needed to develop a better way for people to drive to work. Until that time, we must realize that there are risks associated with commuting but we must keep aiming for the stars because, in the long run, humanity stands to gain far more than the risks from occasional loss of life that occur when something goes horribly wrong.
> I can't remember what happens with the XXX variety
Brain puzzler for the day: Is it possible to phrase a search in google in such a way as to answer the above question without receiving results that resolve to porn sites?
It's no big surprise that Oil and Gas lobbies would support someone that shares their views.
Now what would be a remarkable would be if Joe Barton was a prominent environmentalist and he changed his tune after getting a fat check.
Snape? I'd have never guessed it.
I salute you sir.
That post is pure genius