After having found community in BBSes my direction was set upon this incredible course of life I'm blessed to be traveling down. When the BBS scene began to fade, Slashdot and sCary's Shuga Shack became my new digital communities. I've learned more from the people involved and the cultures that grow out of these collectives than I can possibly articulate.
Thanks for what you started. Thanks for moving on. More adventures will be found.
I have no idea how you managed to get this posted, but now I have no choice but to buy this wonderful machine that these nintendogs live inside. My hat is off to you good sir.
http://www.i2p.net/ I2P is an anonymous network, exposing a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other. The network itself is strictly message based (ala IP), but there is a library available to allow reliable streaming communication on top of it (ala TCP). All communication is end to end encrypted (in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message), and even the end points ("destinations") are cryptographic identifiers (essentially a pair of public keys).
A wonderful UI resource that caters to a select group of pioneers, currently under active development by friendly helpful professionals, is said to harm Linux.
No.
My thanks to the E team. You've come a long way and I'm ecstatic.
Right when MP3 cd players came out, I got the cheapest one I could find, a $100 Memorex. It had a serious skipping problem, and when it decoded the music it would play high-pitched artifacts constantly.
This of course is only anecdotal observation - I gave the horrid thing away eventually. Perhaps they have improved.
A coffee thermos that doesn't suck.
The Thermos Nissan line has two versions of drinkable backpack bottles, 11oz and 16oz. mmmm, indestructable. Hard to find, too.
I think that's +3 funny that you mention Bubble Bobble to prove your point. There was never a game that caused more pain in my household than the economics of this.
What's the first thing to do when you get to a new level? Go grab all the food and leave your helpless 5 year old cousin to defend himself. After a few levels of this they will gush with tears and hate you for hours - but then someone else gets a turn to be broken down.
I have been thinking a lot about the education system and it's structure lately after I had an interesting experience. I was majoring in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering here at the University of Minnesota, and now that the semester is more than half over I decided to peruse the web pages of the Computer Science courses that I would be taking later. I looked through their homework, their midterms, the notes, etc. and over all was not very impressed.
Day after day I skip about 80% of my classes as the exact same thing that is taught in lecture is almost word for word in the book.
What's to stop us, the Open Source community, from creating these very same textbooks (which could be written much better as often times these $100+ textbooks are written to supplement lecture material, therefore being clumsy in many areas)? Once they're online not only would students save thousands of dollars, but it would be a great step in the direction of making education available to everyone regardless of economic class.
At South Dakota State their lectures are broadcast on the dorm's cable network. Why not tape these lectures? It's not like in today's generic university there is any "interaction" in a 300+ student lecture hall. Now that bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper, these could be online as well for those that "need" to see someone doing and saying the material.
It seems extremely inefficient for professors to teach the same thing semester after semester if not several times a day. The same material, over and over. A bit inefficient by today's technological advances, no?
I want to create a whole new model of schooling, free schools, so bad! So, why not?
"Director's chair." Psh. I'll direct you right over to little squares of spinach. Try and be more origional than ripping stuff from the old Illuminati game. Sew it back together.
Slashdot Mirror
It's even worse than that.
http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
After having found community in BBSes my direction was set upon this incredible course of life I'm blessed to be traveling down. When the BBS scene began to fade, Slashdot and sCary's Shuga Shack became my new digital communities. I've learned more from the people involved and the cultures that grow out of these collectives than I can possibly articulate.
Thanks for what you started. Thanks for moving on. More adventures will be found.
I have no idea how you managed to get this posted, but now I have no choice but to buy this wonderful machine that these nintendogs live inside. My hat is off to you good sir.
I haven't laughed out-loud while reading /. in years. Thanks. :)
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
http://poignantguide.net/
Coming up.
http://www.i2p.net/
I2P is an anonymous network, exposing a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other. The network itself is strictly message based (ala IP), but there is a library available to allow reliable streaming communication on top of it (ala TCP). All communication is end to end encrypted (in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message), and even the end points ("destinations") are cryptographic identifiers (essentially a pair of public keys).
A wonderful UI resource that caters to a select group of pioneers, currently under active development by friendly helpful professionals, is said to harm Linux.
No.
My thanks to the E team. You've come a long way and I'm ecstatic.
Right when MP3 cd players came out, I got the cheapest one I could find, a $100 Memorex. It had a serious skipping problem, and when it decoded the music it would play high-pitched artifacts constantly.
This of course is only anecdotal observation - I gave the horrid thing away eventually. Perhaps they have improved.
Hollywood:Bollywood::Milk:Mulk (With Vitamin R)?
A coffee thermos that doesn't suck. The Thermos Nissan line has two versions of drinkable backpack bottles, 11oz and 16oz. mmmm, indestructable. Hard to find, too.
gspot.
Reports what codec the file needs.
I think that's +3 funny that you mention Bubble Bobble to prove your point. There was never a game that caused more pain in my household than the economics of this.
What's the first thing to do when you get to a new level? Go grab all the food and leave your helpless 5 year old cousin to defend himself. After a few levels of this they will gush with tears and hate you for hours - but then someone else gets a turn to be broken down.
Does that mean that SETI@Home lacks intelligent life?
hahahaha.
I have been thinking a lot about the education system and it's structure lately after I had an interesting experience. I was majoring in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering here at the University of Minnesota, and now that the semester is more than half over I decided to peruse the web pages of the Computer Science courses that I would be taking later. I looked through their homework, their midterms, the notes, etc. and over all was not very impressed.
Day after day I skip about 80% of my classes as the exact same thing that is taught in lecture is almost word for word in the book.
What's to stop us, the Open Source community, from creating these very same textbooks (which could be written much better as often times these $100+ textbooks are written to supplement lecture material, therefore being clumsy in many areas)? Once they're online not only would students save thousands of dollars, but it would be a great step in the direction of making education available to everyone regardless of economic class.
At South Dakota State their lectures are broadcast on the dorm's cable network. Why not tape these lectures? It's not like in today's generic university there is any "interaction" in a 300+ student lecture hall. Now that bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper, these could be online as well for those that "need" to see someone doing and saying the material.
It seems extremely inefficient for professors to teach the same thing semester after semester if not several times a day. The same material, over and over. A bit inefficient by today's technological advances, no?
I want to create a whole new model of schooling, free schools, so bad! So, why not?
"Director's chair." Psh. I'll direct you right over to little squares of spinach. Try and be more origional than ripping stuff from the old Illuminati game. Sew it back together.