My wife and I came very close to doing that this year. I worked from home and she didn't work. And since we live in LA, it turns out that it would be cheaper to travel in an RV (considering both the RV mortgage, nightly camp fees, insurance, etc). In the end we opted to not (we have a young daughter), but I still think it's a great idea for someone who has that freedom.
We also wrestled with the Internet issue and was most likely going to go with Verizon broadband, as the satellite option is quite expensive.
I was saddened to see an add for Homeopathic "medication" in the RSS feed for this article. Obviously the editors don't have direct control over the Google Ads, but should be a way for certain things to *not* show up on a science and technology based site. Homeopathy is most definitely not science.
I'm honestly confused anytime someone says they are in the "IT" field. Does this mean they are "desktop support", network engineering, software development, guy-who-plugs-in-cables, crazy-UNIX-guy, "are you *sure* your printer is plugged in?"
I sort of assume it's some sort of mixture of network and UNIX engineering...
I've been using StumbleUpon for about a year now and it's one of the more addicting things you can do. I understand your paranoia but I can vouch (though, who vouches for *me*) that it's not adware or anything. It *is* a toolbar (it used to just be a single button 'Stumble' with a thumbs up and thumbs down but it's bigger now). It's the only toolbar I'll allow on my system... so there you go.
If you're still paranoid, just Google around... it has quite a community and I can say with fair certainty you won't find anybody with complaints about the toolbar itself. But it's mostly just for entertainment, so there's no real reason for you to install it anyhow.
I'd say about 40% of my current RSS feeds come from stuff I found on StumbleUpon.
I can't say I've ever had a Netflix DVD not arrive. I did a trial of Blockbuster Online and I think I maybe received 3 in 2 months. Perhaps it's the bright colors on the labels that make it attractive to being stolen.
It strikes me as being a Good Thing, whether or not it's true, that most viruses do little to no harm and can be easily removed by AV software. So pretty much exploits can be discovered and patch with little harm done to the system.
Another side (which is perhaps the point you were making but isn't what I read into it) is if there is explicit collusion happening whereby the AV companies are essentially _sponsoring_ the viruses so that people will need to buy their software.
Without the collusion, I truly don't see an issue here.
It took a while, but mozilla_die.html (or whatever it's called) took out Firefox after a few minutes. He notes that some of them can take quite a while as it basically causes the browser to just sit there eating up memory. Perhaps if you have enough memory then there aren't enough malformed tags to cause the browser to take it all up.
Some of the questions are about very recent music, movies, or TV shows, and the champs astound me with their ability to get them. How do they have time for that much nongeeky stuff along with the geeky stuff? Especially when the question's about a plot detail in the middle of a movie or TV season - you'd think you'd have to watch it in real time instead of speed reading that stuff.
Definitely agree there...perhaps I didn't mention that because I'm sorely lacking and that area as I don't really watch TV anymore. I used to be able to talk about Friends and the Simpsons and all that. Now the "Daily Show" is the only show I even try to catch. That and "Trading Spaces" which my girlfriend loves to watch.
So I guess some another of the lists to know would be character/actor lists of televisions shows.
I think we all think we "just barely missed" but since they *don't actually tell you how many you got wrong* there's no way to actually know.
I will definitely agree that it totally feels like you just missed a couple "silly questions" that you just *know* you could have gotten right. What I realized is that I didn't get them right and in the heat of the moment and stress of being on TV, I probably wouldn't have gotten them right at that time either.
So I definitely give kudos to those who can make it through the whole process (the guy sitting next to me during the testing had been on Ben Stein's Money and *he* didn't feel to confident about his written answers).
The best tip I can give is simply to READ. Read as much as you can about anything. Fiction books often have interesting tidbits of knowledge that the author found cool (best to look up the "fact" somewhere else to verify) and it's definitely easier to pick it up that way then to go trolling through a science textbook trying to memorize *everything*.
As the parent said, knowing lists would be very helpful as well. I can't count how many times Jeopardy! has disguised a "what is the capital of so and so state?" question.
--jw
Re:Stick it in DVD players if it's cheap enough
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Yes, on the 4th disc (the Bonus disc) there is an XBox demo of Star War Battlefront (or Battleground)
Most carriers have their "free with activation" phone (or more than one). Why pay for a separate phone if you're happy with the standard one? Some people want all the bells and whistles and are willing to pay for them (not me, personally). More power to them.
What a PR person is aware of and what is fact can be two very different things. You're assuming that:
a) They actually asked the developers (rather than just giving an answer and
b) They asked the *right* developer(s)
c) The developers answered them honestly.
As a sort of corrolary to this...you need to have something that you're trying to *do*. You really can't open up a reference book and just start to code, you really need a reason to do it. It's sort of like asking someone you know who can speak another language to "say something in German" or whatnot: they're left floundering. If, on the other hand, you ask them to "count to 10 in German" then it's a different story.
Any new language or software engineering concept I've learned that has been from a book has only been because I had to learn the language for the task at hand or it's been brought to my attention that a particular design pattern (or what have you) may be appropriate. I personally can't just pick up a book on programming with a cup of coffee if I don't have a real reason to.
OTP is completely unbreakable when used correctly. I believe the poster was referring to the fact that if the same part of a OTP is used more than once (in multiple messages or the same message) for whatever reason then it can be broken.
This has occurred, as stupid as it sounds, when pads run out or through simple laziness. See _The Codebreakers_ (story of GCHQ/GC&CS during WWII) for examples of this.
"What is confusing is that "A" and "a" don't sort next to each other -- so, letter.txt doesn't end up following Letter.txt, but instead is down somewhere past Zebra.jpg. That defies reason; if something is to be fixed, let it be that."
I think that's the whole point the poster was trying to make. Of course they're _different_, but in terms of sorting they're not (assuming case sensitivity, which just means the ASCII code is used). I'd hope nobody would claim that we should all do the MS-DOS all caps listings. If I recall correctly Windows does the "proper" sorting of maintaing the capitalization but sorts 'a' next to 'A'.
I think Katz was on NPR this morning talking about all these big corporations who buy up media companies and how they can't move fast enough to make this succeed. I didn't notice the name until they said "so and so writes for Slashdot dot org" and vaguely remembered her saying "Jonathon Katz."
Perhaps he talks about this appearance on/., but since I am one of the 90% who filters him out, I wouldn't know.
Strangely enough, I agree with what he was saying.
I already had the movie and I *still* went and paid my $9 to do see cause I felt that it was an excellent movie. Seeing it at 352x240 just doesn't compare to seeing it on the big screen, so it was well worth the money but it was also nice to know that I wasn't going to go see a crappy movie (Days-of-our-Lives-esque love scenes aside).
I sent off a nice long comment to Hotmail about this very fact (I'm sure they'll ignore it). Basically I mentioned the fact that they should just give me the damn HTML and let *me* decide it its supported. And since it was basically a simple form, even Lynx could handle it.
If you got to Help, there a link at the bottom to send comments. Select "other" from there so that you can actually put in your comment.
"They managed to pack it into a hastily-built crate, but they forgot to put any damn packing material in the thing.Interestingly, the clones referred to in the title are actually stormtroopers."
Do people still have players for those? I think Best Buy has videos down to one shelf here in Reno. The only reason I'm even possibly considering thinking about getting one for is to watch my old Star Wars vids that ol' Lucas doesn't seem to plan to put on DVD anytime soon.
Surely you're kidding. I know people don't read the stories, but did you even read the description?
jw.
Re:This is a sign of some sort of cultural deficie
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Is this jon katz material or what?
You read my mind. Especially considering the guy didn't even play the damn game and picked up on the INCREDIBLY minor part of the game about getting threats. Somehow to him its just a game where you get death threats everyday. Jeezus.
Why does everything have to get turned into a "What's bad about Americans today?" rant? Of course we've got our problems, but what country doesn't. People take one class on Government or read a Howard Zinn/Noam Chomsky article and they're suddenly political philosophers. Crmininy. Now that I've veered way off topic to the game...;)
It actually is a relatively enjoyable game available in a boxed version now for $40 (I think..which would be the price of 4 episodes/months). Just don't expect to have your brain fried in challenging puzzles. There are some interesting things in there though.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably many have done the same, but here was my version of this on the iPod Touch (requires jailbreak, or did at the time)
http://quay.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/my-very-own-hitchhikers-guide/
Also, a script to convert it to a more iPhone ish LNF (http://quay.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/iphone-native-look-and-feel-wikipedia/)
Most likely I wouldn't have done this if I had an iPhone originally, as it more generally has access available to it.
My wife and I came very close to doing that this year. I worked from home and she didn't work. And since we live in LA, it turns out that it would be cheaper to travel in an RV (considering both the RV mortgage, nightly camp fees, insurance, etc). In the end we opted to not (we have a young daughter), but I still think it's a great idea for someone who has that freedom.
We also wrestled with the Internet issue and was most likely going to go with Verizon broadband, as the satellite option is quite expensive.
I was saddened to see an add for Homeopathic "medication" in the RSS feed for this article. Obviously the editors don't have direct control over the Google Ads, but should be a way for certain things to *not* show up on a science and technology based site. Homeopathy is most definitely not science.
Is there anybody who _didn't_ block Katz's articles?
I'm honestly confused anytime someone says they are in the "IT" field. Does this mean they are "desktop support", network engineering, software development, guy-who-plugs-in-cables, crazy-UNIX-guy, "are you *sure* your printer is plugged in?"
I sort of assume it's some sort of mixture of network and UNIX engineering...
I've been using StumbleUpon for about a year now and it's one of the more addicting things you can do. I understand your paranoia but I can vouch (though, who vouches for *me*) that it's not adware or anything. It *is* a toolbar (it used to just be a single button 'Stumble' with a thumbs up and thumbs down but it's bigger now). It's the only toolbar I'll allow on my system... so there you go.
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If you're still paranoid, just Google around... it has quite a community and I can say with fair certainty you won't find anybody with complaints about the toolbar itself. But it's mostly just for entertainment, so there's no real reason for you to install it anyhow.
I'd say about 40% of my current RSS feeds come from stuff I found on StumbleUpon.
Just my
I can't say I've ever had a Netflix DVD not arrive. I did a trial of Blockbuster Online and I think I maybe received 3 in 2 months. Perhaps it's the bright colors on the labels that make it attractive to being stolen.
So that made me even more loyal to Netflix.
And you're seeing a problem with this because...?
It strikes me as being a Good Thing, whether or not it's true, that most viruses do little to no harm and can be easily removed by AV software. So pretty much exploits can be discovered and patch with little harm done to the system.
Another side (which is perhaps the point you were making but isn't what I read into it) is if there is explicit collusion happening whereby the AV companies are essentially _sponsoring_ the viruses so that people will need to buy their software.
Without the collusion, I truly don't see an issue here.
Are you sure you went to the right site?
.8 (I know, not the most recent).
It took a while, but mozilla_die.html (or whatever it's called) took out Firefox after a few minutes. He notes that some of them can take quite a while as it basically causes the browser to just sit there eating up memory. Perhaps if you have enough memory then there aren't enough malformed tags to cause the browser to take it all up.
I'm using
--josh
I think we all think we "just barely missed" but since they *don't actually tell you how many you got wrong* there's no way to actually know.
I will definitely agree that it totally feels like you just missed a couple "silly questions" that you just *know* you could have gotten right. What I realized is that I didn't get them right and in the heat of the moment and stress of being on TV, I probably wouldn't have gotten them right at that time either.
So I definitely give kudos to those who can make it through the whole process (the guy sitting next to me during the testing had been on Ben Stein's Money and *he* didn't feel to confident about his written answers).
The best tip I can give is simply to READ. Read as much as you can about anything. Fiction books often have interesting tidbits of knowledge that the author found cool (best to look up the "fact" somewhere else to verify) and it's definitely easier to pick it up that way then to go trolling through a science textbook trying to memorize *everything*.
As the parent said, knowing lists would be very helpful as well. I can't count how many times Jeopardy! has disguised a "what is the capital of so and so state?" question.
--jw
Yes, on the 4th disc (the Bonus disc) there is an XBox demo of Star War Battlefront (or Battleground)
--jw
Oh, did he stop posting? I long ago marked Jon Katz articles to not show up for me (the only articles I ignore).
Most carriers have their "free with activation" phone (or more than one). Why pay for a separate phone if you're happy with the standard one? Some people want all the bells and whistles and are willing to pay for them (not me, personally). More power to them.
--jw
What a PR person is aware of and what is fact can be two very different things. You're assuming that:
a) They actually asked the developers (rather than just giving an answer and
b) They asked the *right* developer(s)
c) The developers answered them honestly.
--Josh
As a sort of corrolary to this...you need to have something that you're trying to *do*. You really can't open up a reference book and just start to code, you really need a reason to do it. It's sort of like asking someone you know who can speak another language to "say something in German" or whatnot: they're left floundering. If, on the other hand, you ask them to "count to 10 in German" then it's a different story.
Any new language or software engineering concept I've learned that has been from a book has only been because I had to learn the language for the task at hand or it's been brought to my attention that a particular design pattern (or what have you) may be appropriate. I personally can't just pick up a book on programming with a cup of coffee if I don't have a real reason to.
Just some thoughts.
OTP is completely unbreakable when used correctly. I believe the poster was referring to the fact that if the same part of a OTP is used more than once (in multiple messages or the same message) for whatever reason then it can be broken.
This has occurred, as stupid as it sounds, when pads run out or through simple laziness. See _The Codebreakers_ (story of GCHQ/GC&CS during WWII) for examples of this.
jw
I think that's the whole point the poster was trying to make. Of course they're _different_, but in terms of sorting they're not (assuming case sensitivity, which just means the ASCII code is used). I'd hope nobody would claim that we should all do the MS-DOS all caps listings. If I recall correctly Windows does the "proper" sorting of maintaing the capitalization but sorts 'a' next to 'A'.
I think Katz was on NPR this morning talking about all these big corporations who buy up media companies and how they can't move fast enough to make this succeed. I didn't notice the name until they said "so and so writes for Slashdot dot org" and vaguely remembered her saying "Jonathon Katz."
/., but since I am one of the 90% who filters him out, I wouldn't know.
Perhaps he talks about this appearance on
Strangely enough, I agree with what he was saying.
I already had the movie and I *still* went and paid my $9 to do see cause I felt that it was an excellent movie. Seeing it at 352x240 just doesn't compare to seeing it on the big screen, so it was well worth the money but it was also nice to know that I wasn't going to go see a crappy movie (Days-of-our-Lives-esque love scenes aside).
Cheers,
jw.
I sent off a nice long comment to Hotmail about this very fact (I'm sure they'll ignore it). Basically I mentioned the fact that they should just give me the damn HTML and let *me* decide it its supported. And since it was basically a simple form, even Lynx could handle it.
If you got to Help, there a link at the bottom to send comments. Select "other" from there so that you can actually put in your comment.
Having some issues with copy/paste? ;)
Cheers,
Josh
Do people still have players for those? I think Best Buy has videos down to one shelf here in Reno. The only reason I'm even possibly considering thinking about getting one for is to watch my old Star Wars vids that ol' Lucas doesn't seem to plan to put on DVD anytime soon.
Cheers,
jw
Surely you're kidding. I know people don't read the stories, but did you even read the description?
jw.
You read my mind. Especially considering the guy didn't even play the damn game and picked up on the INCREDIBLY minor part of the game about getting threats. Somehow to him its just a game where you get death threats everyday. Jeezus.
Why does everything have to get turned into a "What's bad about Americans today?" rant? Of course we've got our problems, but what country doesn't. People take one class on Government or read a Howard Zinn/Noam Chomsky article and they're suddenly political philosophers. Crmininy. Now that I've veered way off topic to the game... ;)
It actually is a relatively enjoyable game available in a boxed version now for $40 (I think..which would be the price of 4 episodes/months). Just don't expect to have your brain fried in challenging puzzles. There are some interesting things in there though.
Cheers,
jw