There are a few research projects already looking into that, where you could "sell" your CPU online and get instant money for trading your unused CPU power for various scientific projects that corporations/universities would like to run. So this would help set the market value on how much it costs you to run these CPU sharing programs, so you would know at least a minimum of how much to charge.
Well they sprung it on us when we moved in for the semester, so it's a tad late to get out my housing contract and then find a good apartment.
Secondly I have a year and a half left, so it's really dumb to transfer now. But lets just say it's weighing heavily on my not wanting to go here for grad school.
I'm one of those students behind the University of Florida's ICARUS system (metioned here) and they've blocked bit torrent since it acts like a server and could be used to spread copyrighted things. I am also a member of Mandrake Club, but at the moment it looks like all they have avaliable is Bit Torrent downloads. Does anyone know when it'll be avaliable for download off FTP?
Except now the average school year is almost 10 months. And teachers have to do outside training and conferences and teacher only days that the students don't have to show up for. And their day lasts longer, as they do not arrive and go home when the kids do, but stay around to help with after school activities, grading homework, and coming up with the next day's lesson plans. So it's all a misconception that teachers don't work as much as other professions, it pretty much averages out in the end.
As I'm typing this in Linux, I can assure you that it works with alternative OS's. Just a simple firewall rule adjustment, and there's no problem. They even have instructions on setting up duplex and firewall settings on the DHNet webpage
I can do you one better. I have a shirt from that Comdex signed by both CmdTaco and Hemos, that was worn once for about 2 hours. Still looks brand new.
Not selling it though. No, I'm waiting for to pass it on to my sons, who will pass it on to their sons, to pass it on to their sons, so that Slashdot may live on forever! Or until someone goes "Where the hell did this shirt come from?" and throws it away.
I know exactly what you mean. I got a digital camera about 2 months ago for my birthday, and it completely changed how I view pictures and how I take them.
Now I'll take a shot of anything remotely interesting or various angles of a shot just because it's like having unlimited free film. I used maybe 3 disposable's a year, but I've taken a little over 2,600 shots in the last 2 months. Most of them are completely crap or things I took and went "why the hell did I just take a picture of the floor" but with digital it's just a matter of hitting delete and there's no waste. Plus most of the time it's enough to have a digital copy of it, so I save a TON of money in development cost. With the disposables I always used to use, most of the time I just developed them so I can scan them in for use on my website or whatever, but now I don't have to pay that extra step. I just get the "great" pictures developed that I know I'll want to share or put in a physical photo album.
Now my parents want one, and I see no reason for me to ever go back to regular film camera's. Digital works just fine for my point-and-shoot uses.
I concur. Alkaline batteries are eaten up like mad in my digital cam, but NiMH last a while. According to the manual, it's 30 minutes with Alkaline, and 2 and a half hours with NiMH (w/ the LCD on).
Other than at the library, I've also not heard much at all about laptop or item theft. I've spent 2 years in the dorms so far and have had nothing stolen (though with my HUGE case and 19" monitor, it would take a determined theif) nor have anyone else's computer equipment been stolen. And for half of the year we had a SNES, Dreamcast, PS2, and Genises hooked up to the lounge TV, along with a bunch of games, and none of those were stolen either. Of course I wouldn't just leave my videogames stuff sitting out there, but just use some common sense and I don't think you really have to worry about theft.
I still haven't figured out why cell phone makers don't have a feature to automatically turn off your phone during pre-programmed times. That way at the beginning of the semester, you could put in your schedule and you'll never have to worry about turning it off for class. It seems so simple, yet AFAIK (and I dont' have a cell myself either) it hasnt' been done yet.
It's probably gotten better as the university started blocking P2P programs. Or at least that's what happened at UF. Over the last 2 years they've been cutting off all Napster clones. So it makes it a lot harder to find mp3's, but at least I can surf the web almost as fast as I do at home.
My circuits professor last semester would comment every once in a while how much faster a slide rule would be compared to our calculators in certain calculations. I really ought to get ahold of one (I think my dad has one... somewhere) and learn how to use it. I could be the envy of all the other nerds:)
I find that writing down the information helps me remember it, which is the main reason I take notes. Otherwise I'd be too tempted to start daydreaming and miss something important if all I did was listen.
Plus they're nice to review with before a test, just to skim over to make sure I'm not forgetting anything. I completely agree that you should learn it as it's being taught, but I still take tons of notes. And it works for me, through two years of college I've had straight A's except for one B+ (in physics of all things).
Or just use some self control and only play games on weekend nights. I mean, what else are you supposed to do on a Friday night at college other than play CS over the dorm LAN? And CS does run a PII 450 w/ a 16 MB TNT card. Ohhh yeah, 5 years old but it's still kicking.
If you want to warn against something, make it AIM. My god that has sucked hours upon hours of time from me, and it's the world's greatest procrastination aid when you're trying to write a paper and you keep wondering if someone's away message has changed. So you compulsivly check all 60 away messages every 5 minutes. Yeah....
I agree. I grew up in West Texas, home of lots and lots of flat pasture and cotton/soybean farms. And I really like driving through it now when I go back to visit. It's so nice being able to see for miles upon miles in any direction.
As for as the police thing goes, it was probably because you called about an obstacle on the freeway, so she assumed you had just passed it and was reporting it then. If I see something in the freeway, I'd assume that in the 15 minutes it took me to reach home, someone else would have called it in already on their cell and I wouldn't bother. So I think her assumption was completely justified.
Other than that, I agree with your thinking. It amuses me at the people I see who HAVE to always talk to their friends the minute they get out of class or as soon as they're alone. Heaven help them if they had to walk alone or strike up a conversation with a stranger.
I can give my family more of my time because I can conduct business as it happens instead of 8 hours a day and cut off. A quick incoming call, break out the palm, set an appointment, get back to the family.
But that's what bothers me about cell phones. I don't want to be interrupted when I'm with my friends or family. I don't want to be in the middle of telling someone a story and then go "just a sec, gotta check the cell" I know if I ever got a cell phone it would be off most of the time, and only on when I was specifically expecting a call.
I was also wondering this. Where is the group of people who heard the concert, but had no infrasound being blasted out at them? From just reading the reactions, it seems like all of their symptoms could have just been caused by the audible music.
Your Mom is so fat, the enhance-adjusted Euler manifold constant of 11th dimensional quantum tunneling through a 2 foot lead wall are less than 3.88 x 10^-596477745 per Planck!!!
Well they could post all the numerous guides they missed. I had a bunch on my website, which I'll cut and paste here for Geek Dating Guide pleasure:
Why Geeks
Make the Best Boyfriends
And cause Slashdot loves Futurama,
quotes here for your reading
pleasure (both said by Fry): "What? Valentine's Day is coming up?!?! Crap! I
forgot to get a girlfriend again" "Well she was in love with the part of me
that's a slob. I was in love with her with the part of me that's
desperate."
Well many movies just have a lot of gratuitous sex and violence that don't really add anything to the plot. This player removes all the violence, as it said only about 4 minutes were cut out of Black Hawk Down.
For example, is it absolutly crucial that you see a huge gaping wound in an action movie, or see the actual bullet rip through someone? Gunfire and the aftermath of a bleeding person do just as well. Or the opening shot of a sex scene where two people are making out in a bed half dressed. I think it's pretty obvious what's going to happen and so is it really neccasary to spend the next minute showing closeups of breasts and lots of moaning? Sure some people love it, but is it really so bad to cut it out so little Johnny can see an otherwise clean movie? Violence and sex are needed or do add to the plot in some movies, but a lot of times it's completely useless. And that's what this player aims to get rid of.
Slashdot Mirror
I really like that picture. Is there any way to get a sticker of that?
There are a few research projects already looking into that, where you could "sell" your CPU online and get instant money for trading your unused CPU power for various scientific projects that corporations/universities would like to run. So this would help set the market value on how much it costs you to run these CPU sharing programs, so you would know at least a minimum of how much to charge.
Well they sprung it on us when we moved in for the semester, so it's a tad late to get out my housing contract and then find a good apartment.
Secondly I have a year and a half left, so it's really dumb to transfer now. But lets just say it's weighing heavily on my not wanting to go here for grad school.
I'm one of those students behind the University of Florida's ICARUS system (metioned here)
and they've blocked bit torrent since it acts like a server and could be used to spread copyrighted things. I am also a member of Mandrake Club, but at the moment it looks like all they have avaliable is Bit Torrent downloads. Does anyone know when it'll be avaliable for download off FTP?
Except now the average school year is almost 10 months. And teachers have to do outside training and conferences and teacher only days that the students don't have to show up for. And their day lasts longer, as they do not arrive and go home when the kids do, but stay around to help with after school activities, grading homework, and coming up with the next day's lesson plans. So it's all a misconception that teachers don't work as much as other professions, it pretty much averages out in the end.
As I'm typing this in Linux, I can assure you that it works with alternative OS's. Just a simple firewall rule adjustment, and there's no problem. They even have instructions on setting up duplex and firewall settings on the DHNet webpage
I can do you one better. I have a shirt from that Comdex signed by both CmdTaco and Hemos, that was worn once for about 2 hours. Still looks brand new.
Not selling it though. No, I'm waiting for to pass it on to my sons, who will pass it on to their sons, to pass it on to their sons, so that Slashdot may live on forever! Or until someone goes "Where the hell did this shirt come from?" and throws it away.
I know exactly what you mean. I got a digital camera about 2 months ago for my birthday, and it completely changed how I view pictures and how I take them.
Now I'll take a shot of anything remotely interesting or various angles of a shot just because it's like having unlimited free film. I used maybe 3 disposable's a year, but I've taken a little over 2,600 shots in the last 2 months. Most of them are completely crap or things I took and went "why the hell did I just take a picture of the floor" but with digital it's just a matter of hitting delete and there's no waste. Plus most of the time it's enough to have a digital copy of it, so I save a TON of money in development cost. With the disposables I always used to use, most of the time I just developed them so I can scan them in for use on my website or whatever, but now I don't have to pay that extra step. I just get the "great" pictures developed that I know I'll want to share or put in a physical photo album.
Now my parents want one, and I see no reason for me to ever go back to regular film camera's. Digital works just fine for my point-and-shoot uses.
I concur. Alkaline batteries are eaten up like mad in my digital cam, but NiMH last a while. According to the manual, it's 30 minutes with Alkaline, and 2 and a half hours with NiMH (w/ the LCD on).
Other than at the library, I've also not heard much at all about laptop or item theft. I've spent 2 years in the dorms so far and have had nothing stolen (though with my HUGE case and 19" monitor, it would take a determined theif) nor have anyone else's computer equipment been stolen. And for half of the year we had a SNES, Dreamcast, PS2, and Genises hooked up to the lounge TV, along with a bunch of games, and none of those were stolen either. Of course I wouldn't just leave my videogames stuff sitting out there, but just use some common sense and I don't think you really have to worry about theft.
I still haven't figured out why cell phone makers don't have a feature to automatically turn off your phone during pre-programmed times. That way at the beginning of the semester, you could put in your schedule and you'll never have to worry about turning it off for class. It seems so simple, yet AFAIK (and I dont' have a cell myself either) it hasnt' been done yet.
It's probably gotten better as the university started blocking P2P programs. Or at least that's what happened at UF. Over the last 2 years they've been cutting off all Napster clones. So it makes it a lot harder to find mp3's, but at least I can surf the web almost as fast as I do at home.
My circuits professor last semester would comment every once in a while how much faster a slide rule would be compared to our calculators in certain calculations. I really ought to get ahold of one (I think my dad has one... somewhere) and learn how to use it. I could be the envy of all the other nerds :)
I find that writing down the information helps me remember it, which is the main reason I take notes. Otherwise I'd be too tempted to start daydreaming and miss something important if all I did was listen.
Plus they're nice to review with before a test, just to skim over to make sure I'm not forgetting anything. I completely agree that you should learn it as it's being taught, but I still take tons of notes. And it works for me, through two years of college I've had straight A's except for one B+ (in physics of all things).
Or just use some self control and only play games on weekend nights. I mean, what else are you supposed to do on a Friday night at college other than play CS over the dorm LAN? And CS does run a PII 450 w/ a 16 MB TNT card. Ohhh yeah, 5 years old but it's still kicking.
If you want to warn against something, make it AIM. My god that has sucked hours upon hours of time from me, and it's the world's greatest procrastination aid when you're trying to write a paper and you keep wondering if someone's away message has changed. So you compulsivly check all 60 away messages every 5 minutes. Yeah....
Yes, it is coming out on IMAX in a few weeks.
He brought the calculator to make sure he would get it wrong. He calculated the right answer first, to make sure he didn't pick that one.
I agree. I grew up in West Texas, home of lots and lots of flat pasture and cotton/soybean farms. And I really like driving through it now when I go back to visit. It's so nice being able to see for miles upon miles in any direction.
As for as the police thing goes, it was probably because you called about an obstacle on the freeway, so she assumed you had just passed it and was reporting it then. If I see something in the freeway, I'd assume that in the 15 minutes it took me to reach home, someone else would have called it in already on their cell and I wouldn't bother. So I think her assumption was completely justified.
Other than that, I agree with your thinking. It amuses me at the people I see who HAVE to always talk to their friends the minute they get out of class or as soon as they're alone. Heaven help them if they had to walk alone or strike up a conversation with a stranger.
I can give my family more of my time because I can conduct business as it happens instead of 8 hours a day and cut off. A quick incoming call, break out the palm, set an appointment, get back to the family.
But that's what bothers me about cell phones. I don't want to be interrupted when I'm with my friends or family. I don't want to be in the middle of telling someone a story and then go "just a sec, gotta check the cell" I know if I ever got a cell phone it would be off most of the time, and only on when I was specifically expecting a call.
The next two years or so will really suck, but people will eventually mature and life gets better, and then college will be incredible.
I was also wondering this. Where is the group of people who heard the concert, but had no infrasound being blasted out at them? From just reading the reactions, it seems like all of their symptoms could have just been caused by the audible music.
Your Mom is so fat, the enhance-adjusted Euler manifold constant of 11th dimensional quantum tunneling through a 2 foot lead wall are less than 3.88 x 10^-596477745 per Planck!!!
Yo Momma jokes for nerds
Well they could post all the numerous guides they missed. I had a bunch on my website, which I'll cut and paste here for Geek Dating Guide pleasure: Why Geeks Make the Best Boyfriends
"I just Want To Be Friends"
There is also the Geek Dating Flowchart
Why Girls Actually Want Geeks
Why it usually doesn't happen
and the pitfalls of dating a nerd
15+ reasons why geek guys are "not so bad at all".
How To Lose A Geek in 10 Seconds.
And cause Slashdot loves Futurama, quotes here for your reading pleasure (both said by Fry):
"What? Valentine's Day is coming up?!?! Crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again"
"Well she was in love with the part of me that's a slob. I was in love with her with the part of me that's desperate."
And finally, have a date for Valentine's but don't know what to do? Never fear, let old 50's educational movies guide you. From what do to on a date, Do's and Don't of Dating and Beginning Dating to Going Steady and How do you Know It's Love, cheesy acting and horrible plots can show you the way.
Well many movies just have a lot of gratuitous sex and violence that don't really add anything to the plot. This player removes all the violence, as it said only about 4 minutes were cut out of Black Hawk Down.
For example, is it absolutly crucial that you see a huge gaping wound in an action movie, or see the actual bullet rip through someone? Gunfire and the aftermath of a bleeding person do just as well. Or the opening shot of a sex scene where two people are making out in a bed half dressed. I think it's pretty obvious what's going to happen and so is it really neccasary to spend the next minute showing closeups of breasts and lots of moaning? Sure some people love it, but is it really so bad to cut it out so little Johnny can see an otherwise clean movie? Violence and sex are needed or do add to the plot in some movies, but a lot of times it's completely useless. And that's what this player aims to get rid of.