I used to be extremely disorganized, very ADD. Then I started using a cheap paper planner and I would split tasks into little squares that I could check off to make myself feel like I was making progress. Then a girl made fun of me because she thought I was using different shapes for different tasks. Really, my squares were just messy and looked like triangles or squares, but it seemed like a good idea, so I started doing that, too.
Thus, when palms came along they were perfect for me. I bought a Handspring Visor Deluxe (green) as soon as they were available. It lasted me a couple years, then died a tragic death by sliding off a hood onto concrete.
I was so naked the next few weeks. I couldn't remember my fiance's cell phone number. I forgot what I needed to buy or do. It was hell.
Now I own a sexy flip-around Clie that takes grainy pictures, and it is so much fun, I don't know how I lived without it. I'd upgrade to the newest Clie if I thought it would be stable.
what's to stop them from using software to analyze what the customers talk about and to use that information in marketing?
I am certainly NAL, but doesn't the government need a warrant to obtain this kind of info, just like a wiretap? Yet Verizon feels they have a right to it?
then what can't they copyright? They are basically claiming that thye haven't copyrighted what they wrote, but have the copyright to fundamental facts.
Does this mean Reuters could sue every news station that says "Reuters has reported that..."?
Can a movie producer sue a critic who gave away the ending?
Obviously this is yet another example of big businesses using their weight to crush those in the right with lawsuits they can't afford to fight (called a SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation).
Good thing we have so many republicans in office now who want to take away even more consumer rights including the right to sue big businesses.
Taiwan, China, Thailand, etc. Other's have suggested it, I've known people who have taught in China and Thailand.
I would suggest Thailand. You can not imagine how friendly everyone is, and how cheap everything is, and how amazing the food is. And the local coeds can be very friendly to a well traveled American.
For reasons completely unknown to me, little pocket organizers are the coolest thing to my 13-year-old-sister-in-law-to-be. She was the first person I thought of when I read the announcement, her and her little friends playing IR BattleShip and beaming each other notes, or whatever the hell it is a 13 year old girl would do with a palm. Right now they all have cheap walmart electronic phone number organizers. Xmass...?
I'm an windows using EE with some unix experience, and I've installed Linux several times, so I figured using it wouldn't be THAT hard.
I tried for a day to change the screen resolution (failed), and after spending 2 hours trying to eject a CD I hunted down a guru who typed some commands and made it eject.
Stupid me, assuming the button on the drive would do it, or there would be a gui option. Hell, even finding the directory with the contents of the CD was a pain in the ass. I expect a learning curve, but I don't have time for that.
Tomshardware.com always includes heat and noise in their HDD reviews. Same with their reviews of heat sinks. I even got some links from one of their articles on how to make a PC (power supply, HDD, CPU fan, cdrom, everything) that is dead silent.
I don't have those links at work or I'd include them.
Anyway, I now have a much quieter cpu fan and I am so happy. I might even buy some silent case fans and be able to use my rediculously loud Tornado case again.
How about a fractal program. I think fractint is the name of one I used years ago. My fractal program is basically open source - I've given the source away to strangers, but have been to lazy to put it on my site as of yet. It's not as fast as others, but it's easy and fun.
I assume the point of this is to link to places that try (illegally???) to prevent people from linking?
Is that illegal? I assume there are court cases or something, yet there is no info on that web site nor does there seem to be any here, at least in the first few dozens of comments.
When coding for fun, I almost always start out in C as I like to keep my marketable skills sharp, but I usually end up in Delphi (visual Pascal).
C just requires more babysitting than I am prepared to give. I don't like having to hold the compiler's hand every time I send a variable or pointer somewhere, or have to flip through a reference manual every time I want to use a simple bitwise operation. Typically, I spend 2 hours debugging really bizare behavior (crashes after commenting out a printf, etc.) before switching to Delphi and having completely re-written and running code in 45 minutes.
It's sooooo nice in pascal to just type "xor" when I want to use an xor instead of looking up some gibberish (%% or && or ^% or something, who knows)
December 1, 2017 Reuters Today in the 17th year of the anti-terror extended presidency, Bush urged everyone on Earth to pray to Jesus to stop the asteroid. He blamed democrats for stopping all efforts to divert destruction but said he had faith everything would be "hunky-dorey."
A summery of the anti-asteroid efforts are as follows:
2002: Republicans reject idea that asteroids exist.
2004: A bill funding more science is rejected as "pork barrel".
2006: Republicans reject theorey asteroids have ever hit Earth in it's 4000 year history, and therefore never will.
2008: Republicans admit asteroids may exist, but if one did hit the Earth it wouldn't be that bad.
2010: Despite mounting evidence that the asteroid will have a direct hit, Bush rejects the science as "shakey and controversial."
2012: UN resolution on asteroid vetoed by US as being too intrusive.
2014: Senate plan to stop asteroid rejected by Bush as "too costly." Tax cut for rich is passed.
2016: Emperor Bush rejects an internation coalition to stop the asteroid as "flawed."
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I used to be extremely disorganized, very ADD. Then I started using a cheap paper planner and I would split tasks into little squares that I could check off to make myself feel like I was making progress. Then a girl made fun of me because she thought I was using different shapes for different tasks. Really, my squares were just messy and looked like triangles or squares, but it seemed like a good idea, so I started doing that, too.
Thus, when palms came along they were perfect for me. I bought a Handspring Visor Deluxe (green) as soon as they were available. It lasted me a couple years, then died a tragic death by sliding off a hood onto concrete.
I was so naked the next few weeks. I couldn't remember my fiance's cell phone number. I forgot what I needed to buy or do. It was hell.
Now I own a sexy flip-around Clie that takes grainy pictures, and it is so much fun, I don't know how I lived without it. I'd upgrade to the newest Clie if I thought it would be stable.
what's to stop them from using software to analyze what the customers talk about and to use that information in marketing?
I am certainly NAL, but doesn't the government need a warrant to obtain this kind of info, just like a wiretap? Yet Verizon feels they have a right to it?
then what can't they copyright? They are basically claiming that thye haven't copyrighted what they wrote, but have the copyright to fundamental facts.
Does this mean Reuters could sue every news station that says "Reuters has reported that..."?
Can a movie producer sue a critic who gave away the ending?
Obviously this is yet another example of big businesses using their weight to crush those in the right with lawsuits they can't afford to fight (called a SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation).
Good thing we have so many republicans in office now who want to take away even more consumer rights including the right to sue big businesses.
"Now, for the first time, a distributed computing experiment has produced significant results that have been published in a scientific journal."
Does that mean all the giant primes that were published never happened?
If you break it, do you get 111 years of bad luck?
Taiwan, China, Thailand, etc. Other's have suggested it, I've known people who have taught in China and Thailand.
I would suggest Thailand. You can not imagine how friendly everyone is, and how cheap everything is, and how amazing the food is. And the local coeds can be very friendly to a well traveled American.
For reasons completely unknown to me, little pocket organizers are the coolest thing to my 13-year-old-sister-in-law-to-be. She was the first person I thought of when I read the announcement, her and her little friends playing IR BattleShip and beaming each other notes, or whatever the hell it is a 13 year old girl would do with a palm. Right now they all have cheap walmart electronic phone number organizers. Xmass...?
I'm an windows using EE with some unix experience, and I've installed Linux several times, so I figured using it wouldn't be THAT hard.
I tried for a day to change the screen resolution (failed), and after spending 2 hours trying to eject a CD I hunted down a guru who typed some commands and made it eject.
Stupid me, assuming the button on the drive would do it, or there would be a gui option. Hell, even finding the directory with the contents of the CD was a pain in the ass. I expect a learning curve, but I don't have time for that.
Back to Windows.
Tomshardware.com always includes heat and noise in their HDD reviews. Same with their reviews of heat sinks. I even got some links from one of their articles on how to make a PC (power supply, HDD, CPU fan, cdrom, everything) that is dead silent.
I don't have those links at work or I'd include them.
Anyway, I now have a much quieter cpu fan and I am so happy. I might even buy some silent case fans and be able to use my rediculously loud Tornado case again.
How about a fractal program. I think fractint is the name of one I used years ago. My fractal program is basically open source - I've given the source away to strangers, but have been to lazy to put it on my site as of yet. It's not as fast as others, but it's easy and fun.
http://skintigh.tripod.com/ff/ff.html
I assume the point of this is to link to places that try (illegally???) to prevent people from linking?
Is that illegal? I assume there are court cases or something, yet there is no info on that web site nor does there seem to be any here, at least in the first few dozens of comments.
When coding for fun, I almost always start out in C as I like to keep my marketable skills sharp, but I usually end up in Delphi (visual Pascal).
C just requires more babysitting than I am prepared to give. I don't like having to hold the compiler's hand every time I send a variable or pointer somewhere, or have to flip through a reference manual every time I want to use a simple bitwise operation. Typically, I spend 2 hours debugging really bizare behavior (crashes after commenting out a printf, etc.) before switching to Delphi and having completely re-written and running code in 45 minutes.
It's sooooo nice in pascal to just type "xor" when I want to use an xor instead of looking up some gibberish (%% or && or ^% or something, who knows)
December 1, 2017
Reuters
Today in the 17th year of the anti-terror extended presidency, Bush urged everyone on Earth to pray to Jesus to stop the asteroid. He blamed democrats for stopping all efforts to divert destruction but said he had faith everything would be "hunky-dorey."
A summery of the anti-asteroid efforts are as follows:
2002: Republicans reject idea that asteroids exist.
2004: A bill funding more science is rejected as "pork barrel".
2006: Republicans reject theorey asteroids have ever hit Earth in it's 4000 year history, and therefore never will.
2008: Republicans admit asteroids may exist, but if one did hit the Earth it wouldn't be that bad.
2010: Despite mounting evidence that the asteroid will have a direct hit, Bush rejects the science as "shakey and controversial."
2012: UN resolution on asteroid vetoed by US as being too intrusive.
2014: Senate plan to stop asteroid rejected by Bush as "too costly." Tax cut for rich is passed.
2016: Emperor Bush rejects an internation coalition to stop the asteroid as "flawed."
is all the "American" companies rushing to make a buck by helping China opress her people through censorship and surveilance.
Bring on the national ID cards and facial regonition technology, Orwell.
You'd think a school of bookworms would have a better review of this book...