Can we have a writein vote where the most popular one with the readers also gets made into a shirt? If so, this is my vote for the "soothing green light" one...
Excellent book.
Another, though in a slightly different vein is Theoni Pappas' The Joy Of Mathematics. Written for a younger audience it's composed of a series of 1/2 page problems & excercises. It's more a 'big book of crosswords^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^math puzzles' suitable for a larger audience.
mmm, theme parks are great. Though I haven't been to either of the Disney parks we did take in Universal Studios in Orlando at the end of a training camp. We actually went a couple of times, once being a friday when the park was open until 12:30am and nearly deserted after ~ 8:00. Due to a lack of traffic, and something they called a stroller line, I rode this coaster 38 times in sucession;).
If someone is already used to Mozilla, then switching to Linux will be easier
That is like saying learning your multiplication tables will make learning calculus easier. Technically true, but...
Hmmm, actually I think the original argument could be more completely expressed as: using mozilla (learning your tables) and using openoffice (learning trig) and playing with the gimp (learning algebra) would make using linux (learning calculus, or any other new branch of math skills) easier because you've got a firm grasp of how do do what you need to do and, therefore, have freed yourself from math (ooop tech;p) anxiety
I'm a swimmer and I don't have a whole lot of equipment to worry about. Sure, we don't wear your father's speedo but I have to agree most of the tech has improved training and/or the 'field' or, in this case pool.
Training aids, such as video, have been mentioned and can be invaluable. Certainly not common in my parent's athletic careers. More recent developments, such as tools to measure efficiency are helping us to figure out how, exactly, we do swim. Hard to believe, but it's something we simply don't yet know. In addition to training aids, scholarship and the parent's note of nutrition, recovery & kinesiology there's also been developments in pool construction. Water chemistry, temperature, lane rope & gutter design, floor & wall shapes, starting block design - there's a lot that goes into a world class pool. It could be argued that, with the pool, swimmers may have the largest equipment of all;).
In the end, though, well the technical developments are significant, the sport still comes down to getting to the wall first. I think I'd find it difficult to be, say, a cyclist or to spend much of my life with a javelin knowing that owning the right equipment is half the battle...
When I started running I was having some serious pains. I started doing some research and decided that running barefoot might do me some good. It worked wonders and I ended up starting a blog to:
Now too bad there wasn't someway of getting masses of people to contribute their experiences in a organized, topical manner that would make it easier to index catalog. Oh, wait, thee is - it's called USENET.
I really don't understand what a blog does, aside from look pretty, that usenet (and a search engine) can't do better. Perhaps it boils down to a more effecient, existing, infrastructure vrs complex ego stroking hit/log analysis.
Not that I'm questioning the great value the those, such as yourself, have invested with such content creation, I just wonder why we seem to feel that 'blogs' are a bright shiny new tool ever so much better at this stuff than anything pre-exisiting.
Any professional pornographer has a mouse with a middle button so he can middle-click the link to open it in a new tab. Do you realize Control-Click requires both hands?
Porn joke aside, the middle click is a godsend. Even better, though, is linky which goes in immediately after a new install. heck, I even went so far as to mod my daily reading list to better make use of the plugin.
Yeah I prob do spend too much time surfing, but it's little things like this that make that possible;)
I woke up this morning and ate my Unix brand cereal, talked on the Unix for a while, and then Unixed my car to work.. How can anyone say Unix is not generic!!?
Apple has a rock solid case, the Opengroup can go Unix themselves
*ahem*, I think you meant that they can go eunch themselves....
<snip>...I suspect Jesus of Nazareth would have no problem with people enjoying eggs and chocolate bunnies, even - and perhaps especially - on the anniversary of his death.
Not to mention that the church's attempts to co-opt and/or erradicate pagan holidays, customs & symbology would seem rather effective when the example of ancient fertility symbols rendered as impotent (so sorry;p) as $0.25 candy at your local walmart is considered.
sigh, I can't believe I misspelled it twice
No, you didn't. You misspelled it once; the second time is simply being consistent.
Misspelling it twice would be writing "optomizing" and "optomezing"
Actually, come to think about it, it's more like a typo in a lookup table. No, no, I've got it - it's actually not catching an error in an inlined macro until link time.
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As a matter of fact I am in the basement just now...
It also allows you to separate the audio from the video/keyboard/mouse. Often times at work, i switch between machines on my KVM switch, but keep my headphones connected to just one machine because its playing my mp3's:). If the audio was run throught the KVM switch i would probably go insane.
heh - that's why I have a box running a shoutcast server on my lan;)
How can this be - how can there exist a formula to get a hexadecimal digit but not a decimal digit?
Easy. There can't. Pi is irrational. By the definition of an irrational number there is no repeating pattern that defines the number, hence no formulas. And for the second impossibilty, how can there possibly be a formula for aribtrary hex digits and not decimal? All you have to do is find at most two hex digits and convert to find the decimal digit.
Do you have a state by state and province by province list of stats? Because I'm willing to bet NH doesn't have 5.5 murders per 100,000 people every year. (I believe it was less than 1.0 per 100,000 last year.)
Point being? There hasn't been a murder on my block - ever but that doesn't make it a very impressive stat. amurika is no more new hampshire then the world is yank.
..and I don't think he has much of a case. Even though mp3's are inferior compared to uncompressed CD-audio, many people don't have the ears or the brains to notice otherwise. And I know lots of people who download entire cd's, and haven't bought a CD in years.
An important point - an 'mp3' isn't some sort of magical music stealing container. The music I've ripped for my iPod doesn't get the same treatment my audio books do, mp3s are not all created equal. The biggest difference between and mp3 & a competeing cd has nothing to do with 'acuostic quality' and everything to do with form factor
Another thing I am tired of hearing people complain about is the cost of CD's. Sure, they can be considered expensive. I agree that the cost of replication is way lower than what they sell CD's for. But replication is probably the cheapest step of the CD-making process. Next on the list is the actual studio time spent recording the CD. But the real money-burner is promotion and distribution.
A note, distribution is often not a large expense - it's the promotion that kills the bottom line. This is stupid though, real 'money-burner' should be creation. It's not all that hard to sell a good product. When the costs to convince me to buy your crap outweigh the costs of getting someone to produce said crap for you you know you've got a problem. Think of paying an artist somewhat like paying for R&D. If prmotional costs where higher then R&D costs for, say, I don't think I'd be too interested. It works, or it doesn't. I sounds good (and has a market) or it doesn't.
Thousands, hundreds of thousands are spent on replication and distribution and marketing just so regular people (including the non net-savvy) can hear about new music. So I think $12.99 is more than fair. Even $14.99.
No, millions are spent on raio & tv time so people can hear what $radio_exec wants to sell. There's a difference. When you (pretty much) have to give up all rights to a creative work for the chance that said $radio_exec might put some of their promotional muscle behind it there is a problem. A record company is not in the business of making music, they're in the business of selling them and a very small number of said firms have a strangle hold on nearly the entire industry. It seems to me that using a promotional monopoly (ok, oligarchy) to force content creators to give up creative rights smacks of abuse.
Not to say the RIAA is always right, but if music pirating wasn't making the record companies lose money, why would they be so against it?
Why do I care if they lose money? life happens, you compete or you don't, yay market forces
If they lost no money, it would be a great marketing scheme. But they lose money. Not as many people buy CD's.
Losing money != theft. If I stole a cd, yes then a sale is 'lost', a song is stolen. If I hear a song on the radio and don't immediately run out to buy the albulm there is no theft, there is no lost sale.
Holy crap that's retarded.
Ever hear of VNC? It's faster than running X remotely.
Holy crap - speaking of retarded...
If one takes huge pains to minimize bandwidth then VNC can be faster for some things, but for things like moving windows or anything that significantly changes the display (VNC) that can be better expressed as a meta operation (X) VNC just can't compete. If I wanted a hacked up screen scraper I'd use VNC, if I want a real remote desktop that doesn't generate excessive bw overhead everytime I move the mouse I'll use X.
Ever hear of Terminal Services? It's hella faster than VNC.
That's 'cause everything is faster then VNC. No don't get me wrong, I'm not slagging VNC - it has it's place, esp in cases where you don't have a lot of control over installed software, but in virtualy any case when something else is available VNC just doesn't compete
Sorry, but the X11 protocol, however useful, is painfully slow. Just try terminal services and you'll realize what X could be like.
terminal services sucks, unless you've got all new software & hardware and your OS's on both ends are chosen with care. X servers are availble for pretty much anything and exported xsessions are used every day in countless combinations of os'es clients & servers. X works. Sure maybe it could be a little faster, but it's not going to get and order of magnitude faster, nor is any other competeing service. It's gonna take that kind of improvment before it'll be justifiable to scorn current X implementations. To want, and help work for, better tools is one thing, spewing fud is another
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for this (after all, I filled the survey out), but let's realize that they're not trying to give 50 or 100 units away to geeks, they're really just trying to decide where to invest research and development.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure we're on the same page, butI'd like to point out that I think that this is really cool. Really cool. Somebody, who makes cool shit, wants to know what kind of cool I want to see. not just what I want to see butstuff I'd like and have a hope in hell of affording. They didn't even call me at supper time. Rock on.
Perhaps you're right, my priorities might be wrong- I just have a higher expectation art. I really want it to be insightful, entertaining, and cool.
If I just want mind numbing retardation with a nice buzz- I'll just do speed or acid or something!:-)
well I rather thought that it was entertaining & very cool. And, if one thinks of the matrix as a kind of 'cyberpunk coles notes', it's terribly insightful, in and of it's self, but does a good job of showcasing some thoughts that _were_ rather insightfull. Much in the way that The Fellowship of the Ring was, while a good story & a great movie, not as good/important/fullfilling as the book but _superb_ as a visual accompianment. Tasty.
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Excellent book.
Another, though in a slightly different vein is Theoni Pappas' The Joy Of Mathematics. Written for a younger audience it's composed of a series of 1/2 page problems & excercises. It's more a 'big book of crosswords^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^math puzzles' suitable for a larger audience.
mmm, theme parks are great. Though I haven't been to either of the Disney parks we did take in Universal Studios in Orlando at the end of a training camp. We actually went a couple of times, once being a friday when the park was open until 12:30am and nearly deserted after ~ 8:00. Due to a lack of traffic, and something they called a stroller line, I rode this coaster 38 times in sucession ;).
Hmmm, actually I think the original argument could be more completely expressed as:
using mozilla (learning your tables) and using openoffice (learning trig) and playing with the gimp (learning algebra) would make using linux (learning calculus, or any other new branch of math skills) easier because you've got a firm grasp of how do do what you need to do and, therefore, have freed yourself from math (ooop tech
Training aids, such as video, have been mentioned and can be invaluable. Certainly not common in my parent's athletic careers. More recent developments, such as tools to measure efficiency are helping us to figure out how, exactly, we do swim. Hard to believe, but it's something we simply don't yet know. In addition to training aids, scholarship and the parent's note of nutrition, recovery & kinesiology there's also been developments in pool construction. Water chemistry, temperature, lane rope & gutter design, floor & wall shapes, starting block design - there's a lot that goes into a world class pool. It could be argued that, with the pool, swimmers may have the largest equipment of all ;).
In the end, though, well the technical developments are significant, the sport still comes down to getting to the wall first. I think I'd find it difficult to be, say, a cyclist or to spend much of my life with a javelin knowing that owning the right equipment is half the battle...
Some gratuitous linkage
Nah, not even M$ is that evil
Now too bad there wasn't someway of getting masses of people to contribute their experiences in a organized, topical manner that would make it easier to index catalog. Oh, wait, thee is - it's called USENET.
I really don't understand what a blog does, aside from look pretty, that usenet (and a search engine) can't do better. Perhaps it boils down to a more effecient, existing, infrastructure vrs complex ego stroking hit/log analysis.
Not that I'm questioning the great value the those, such as yourself, have invested with such content creation, I just wonder why we seem to feel that 'blogs' are a bright shiny new tool ever so much better at this stuff than anything pre-exisiting.
Yeah I prob do spend too much time surfing, but it's little things like this that make that possible ;)
*ahem*, I think you meant that they can go eunch themselves....
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As a matter of fact I am in the basement just now...sigh, I can't believe I misspelled it twice
sounds like the optomizing needs a little, well, optomizing
though I enjoyed my fair share of carttons, I have to wonder who realy loses here. I don't think it's the 'viewers'
And everything old is new again. Fascinating art
pffft. links -g & quit yer bellyachin'. The size is not an issue.