While in high school, I resented the amount of time I 'wasted' every 24 hours on sleep, typically 8 hours, and having heard of people like Edison who survived (thrived?) on much less, decided to slowly wean myself off sleep, with the aim of getting down to 4 hours a night. This happened over the period of a couple of months, and then I spent a few weeks at about 4 hours a night. The experiment was a total disaster, apart from what it taught me about what my body and mind need to function well. From 8 hours down, there was a steady deterioration in my mood, physical coordination, and mental abilities (especially short-term memory, but any kind of mental work was much more difficult). I watched the IQ points disappear weekly, thinking that my body would adjust eventually. It never did. I remained clumsy, dumb, unhappy, and chronically tired (I'm usually quite high strung). Eventually I gave up.
Now, I get around 7-8 hours a night, sometimes a lot less (I'm a grad. student). I have experiment with getting more, and I noticed that I feel a lot better with 9 hours of sleep than with 8. As a student, though, I find it hard enough to get 7 or 8. I feel 'normal' on 8, but feel better than normal on 9.
people hate the freeloaders not because they're brilliant--they're not!--but because they are selfish and refuse to take the good of the community into account. Any moron can figure out ways to freeload--look at the people who get welfare for the 11 kids they don't have--but it simply shows that they care only about themselves. People who do care about the community resent freeloaders because they are unwilling to give, not because they had the 'genius' thought that it is possible to take without giving back.
Are you one of the many Microsoft shills that troll/.? If you bother to read the article, you'll see that somebody tried to enter his vote 228 times, many people tried to enter multiple votes, and there was evidence of automated scripts trying to enter multiple votes too. How does this seem like casual voting by recipients of an email? It seems more like a minor campaign by some very stupid people who don't read the instructions to the poll (which states that multiple votes won't count) and have no idea that their IP address will be revealed and their vote really won't be counted twice or 228 times. They probably thought that the multiple vote warning was ZDNet trying to discourage something that they had no way of checking.
If the multiple votes were a result of going through a 'handful of proxies that serve 40,000 employees' and having the same IP, then there would be way more than 228 multiples for the busiest proxy. I think it's just MS dishonesty, pure and simple.
What is important is that there are pockets of lower entropy (lower than the larger systems of which they are a part) and that we can migrate to these places long before our system burns out. Our planet, of course, is a good example, of a local low-entropy system, as is a (living) human body; what matters is not that the entropy is increasing for the entire universe, but that it is relatively slowly for our bodies, for example, and someday perhaps this can be avoided (at the cost of increasing entropy to the larger system that includes my body, of course). Long after our solar system is a cool high-entropy mush, there will be newly formed low-entropy star systems and planets, and we will hopefully have figured out the software that causes entropy to eventually win out in our bodies. The eventual entropy death of the entire universe is kind of a bummer, but perhaps we'll be a non-corporeal life form and be unaffected by the physical universe. And there's always the prospect of becoming members of the Q-continuum.
don't project your own lack of principles and commitment to more than just the money deity on to the rest of slashdot. Some of us love what we do and would try to scrap by on minimum wage if that was what it paid, in order to do something that we love and think is important. we're not all white-collar whores like you apparently are.
The law allows an exception if the spam has a valid removeme address at the beginning of the email, but this is absurd. Everybody knows that 99.9% of the time they see such an address, it is just a means for the spammer to verify that they have a live, regularly checked address. Perhaps some will be responsible spammers -- if that's not an oxymoron -- but if the law is intended to actually provide a solution, it is totally inadequate. You would be added to 100 lists for every 1 that you're taken off. Basically, in order to verify that the law has been broken, you have to be prepared to have the volume of spam go up drastically. It never fails to amaze me when well intentioned laws have huge exceptions that nullify the effect of the law. I wonder if that exception isn't in there because some of some lobbyist's anonymous contributions. Why else would there be an exception that completely invalidates the whole email part of the statute?
Yeah, I guess I was a bit off-topic. Of course, it isn't necessary to attend college or university for any reason, but it can certainly help in an awfully large number of situations. It might not be of benefit in the board room, but when it comes time to talk with the people who have domain-specific knowledge relating to the application you're developing, guess what, you'll probably come up to speed a hell of a lot faster if you have had the experience many times before of being thrown deep into a new domain of knowledge and having to become conversant very quickly. My point is that whatever you do, something you've learned in your studies will relate to what you need to learn now and will enable you to learn it. Additionally, skills like critical thinking, the ability to see things from different perspectives and at different levels of abstraction, and the ability to learn quickly and superficially *and* slowly and more thoroughly--and when each is appropriate--are generally not things that you pick up independently through self study, unless you specifically try to, but people don't think to learn these things naturally; that's the point of education: to force you to learn things that are very useful in a wide range of situations and that aren't so commonsensical that you already know them or would learn them naturally.
I don't think you need a piece of paper to say that you can program, but a computer science degree, as many more knowledgable CS people here have said, is not just about programming--at least it shouldn't be. It strikes me as a useful analogy that CS is to programming as (theoretical) astrophysics is to the practice of astronomy. If I want to find a certain black hole (i.e., observe its manifest effects) in the sky (okay, we'll assume I have a radio telescope), I'll ask an astronomer; if I want to understand *why* there are black holes or what Hawking radiation is or if we discover some hitherto unobserved phenomenon, well, we would turn to the astrophysicists. The guy on the street thinks that astrophysics is looking through a telescope at orion or the crab nebula, and that computer science is nothing more than programming, but both are specialized applications of the broader, more theoretical discipline. Sometimes you don't need the theory and the rigor, or the ability to abstract and work at multiple levels; sometimes you do. Sometimes you're doing the same old stuff and you don't need the ability to understand and design something that's never been conceived of before, but sometimes you do. Anyway, i'm rambling, and have to be off now to see LOTR, but I just mean to say that there are plenty of benefits to having that piece of paper--assuming you're in a good program, otherwise it's worthless--in addition to the specifics of programming that a self-taught person might know extremely well.
Now, all the other stupid classes is what sucks (like who cares about the phases of the moon or the composition of rocks).
I think also that the foreign language requirement should be waved, since programming languages are foreign languages...
The point, though, is that all the other stupid classes are intended to give you the benefit of a well-rounded education, which is supposed to make you a better human being, not just able to do a drone job really well (I don't mean you personally). There is more to life than work, and it is often the depth *and breadth* of your perspective that determines both what you get out of life and what you contribute to the lives of others. If we, as a society (whichever society), want education to improve the lives of our citizens, a well-rounded (i.e. multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary) education is essential. That is not to say that there isn't a place for in-depth knowledge and specialization, but a broad education, in the beginning at least, lays a sound foundation upon which one can build or specialize, and lays a sound foundation for the task of becoming a better human being. Foreign languages are an important part of that, too. We become better global citizens if we are able to understand another culture from *their* perspective, which is possible to the extent that we understand their categories of thought--how they carve up reality--and what motivates them. Language classes try to teach these things, as well as actually teaching you to speak and read and write in another language. As for the pragmatic fruits, how much less needless violence would there be if we were all able to empathise with others a little more, at the individual and societal level? Could 9-11 have been averted or foreseen and averted if we Americans, and our country, were not so out of touch with the rest of the world? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Imagine if the HR people that we all love to bitch about where all forced to take at least one basic programming class, and perhaps a survey class of the discipline of computer science. They would certainly be able to do their jobs better (the ones who work in the tech industry at least), and I would argue that they would be better people due to the broader perspective that they would have cultivated as a result. Extrapolate out to society as a whole, and I believe that we would all benefit from *all* of our citizens having a broad education. I don't want to go so far as to say that we/. types should have to take a survey HR class (or classes in chicken-entrail divination), but demanding courses in foreign languages and cultures, and things like art and music history, literature, and philosophy are all good starts.
Okay Mr. self-appointed grammar_boy, have you heard the one about silicon-based domiciles?
I really don't think that Microsoft discontinuing support...
That would be Microsoft's discontinuing support... I won't insult you by telling you why.
Most people just don't care, or are even aware MS will provide any tech support at all.
Wow. I can't begin to imagine how one might tame such an infelicitous beast as that, but you see that there are many problems with that wretch of a sentence, do you not?
Linux will need a ton of marketing money, and do something WINDOWS DOESN'T.
Hmmm, I'm starting to think that this could be a dialect issue: perhaps you speak some strange southern (i.e., from south U.S.) dialect. This is blatantly wrong according to all the rules of standard English with which I am familiar. True, you could make it grammatically correct by inserting a to in the second clause, but still, it'd be nothing to write home about.
As much as people make fun of MS never innovating anything...
See first comment, above.
And I'm not even going to mention the stylistic infelicities that seem never to occur to the self-proclaimed grammar nazis of the world--as if getting it 'grammatically correct' were all that mattered.
Anyway, I mean no harm. I just like pointing out grammatical 'errors' to those who think such things exist as more than arbitrary convention--and often not even that.
I'll explain for all and sundry the difference between e.g. and i.e., since the/. crowd (and the rest of the world, too) seems to have real difficulty with this one.
I.e. stands for id est, which is Latin for that is [to say], as in "my new HD is 80 GB, i.e., 80 x 10^9 bytes.
E.g., on the other hand, stands for exempli gratia, or for the sake of example, as in "megalomaniacal sociopaths with technical aptitudes, e.g., Bill Gates, have assumed the place of the Napoleons and Attilas of previous ages."
Btw, it used to be incorrect not to italicize them, but now that is acceptable.
Next time: the joys and subtleties of the mighty viz. and the much misused cf.
Either of these should work. They do for me under RH7.1, on ATTBI in SF bay area. The c1******-a part is the host name, which they assigned to you when you signed up with them.
awww, shucks, that's nothing. out here in timbuktu, we only get 8b/s. You people who have 14.4kb/s should consider yourselves lucky. Your download speed went from 128kb/s to 14.4? You're still getting way more than I do.
I think the point is that speeds are relative, and if i was getting 4mb/s before, i can reasonably be unhappy when it gets capped at 1.5, and often is way slower. On top of the bandwidth problem, the dns servers seem to be really unreliable. I routinely get 'unknown host' errors when trying to go to frequently visited sites like google or slashdot. As somebody else mentioned, the news servers sometimes don't work, and lastly, sometimes I get 'dhcp server unreachable' for hours.
In short, AT&T has really managed to f&%k up what previously was a pretty awesome service. That's my experience in SF bay area.
And what's really happening? Aliens are among us, infiltrating our government and trying to subvert our religion? Give me a break.
You obviously haven't read the article and don't know what you're talking about, or you would know that they don't "assume their knowledge of physics is 100% correct." This is something that only a complete and utter moron would think, and to believe that scientists are really as stupid as the people who think these sorts of things is a bit insulting. Only people who think of science as a kind of magic think things like, 'they're assuming their knowledge of physics is 100% correct.'
Seth explains in the interview--if you cared to read it before telling us what 'those guys' think--that, yes, it is possible that they use only encrypted signals that are diffuse and not narrow band and that we wouldn't be able to detect them, but he says that it's a bit like Columbus getting ready to sail and being told that he'll probably die, there's probably nothing out there, and even if there were, he wouldn't find it. Of course, there is always the possibility of failure, but the chance of failure is 100% if you don't try.
I can see a whole series of advertisements that show the many ways that NotWinBlows! is not like Windows. Their whole marketing theme could be that it has the great virtue of not being an MS product, and so won't have all the 'features' of MS products (and that's a good thing!). I wish somebody would start such a company. It screams for some really creative advertising spoofs.
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Now, I get around 7-8 hours a night, sometimes a lot less (I'm a grad. student). I have experiment with getting more, and I noticed that I feel a lot better with 9 hours of sleep than with 8. As a student, though, I find it hard enough to get 7 or 8. I feel 'normal' on 8, but feel better than normal on 9.
people hate the freeloaders not because they're brilliant--they're not!--but because they are selfish and refuse to take the good of the community into account. Any moron can figure out ways to freeload--look at the people who get welfare for the 11 kids they don't have--but it simply shows that they care only about themselves. People who do care about the community resent freeloaders because they are unwilling to give, not because they had the 'genius' thought that it is possible to take without giving back.
Are you one of the many Microsoft shills that troll /.? If you bother to read the article, you'll see that somebody tried to enter his vote 228 times, many people tried to enter multiple votes, and there was evidence of automated scripts trying to enter multiple votes too. How does this seem like casual voting by recipients of an email? It seems more like a minor campaign by some very stupid people who don't read the instructions to the poll (which states that multiple votes won't count) and have no idea that their IP address will be revealed and their vote really won't be counted twice or 228 times. They probably thought that the multiple vote warning was ZDNet trying to discourage something that they had no way of checking.
If the multiple votes were a result of going through a 'handful of proxies that serve 40,000 employees' and having the same IP, then there would be way more than 228 multiples for the busiest proxy. I think it's just MS dishonesty, pure and simple.
What is important is that there are pockets of lower entropy (lower than the larger systems of which they are a part) and that we can migrate to these places long before our system burns out. Our planet, of course, is a good example, of a local low-entropy system, as is a (living) human body; what matters is not that the entropy is increasing for the entire universe, but that it is relatively slowly for our bodies, for example, and someday perhaps this can be avoided (at the cost of increasing entropy to the larger system that includes my body, of course). Long after our solar system is a cool high-entropy mush, there will be newly formed low-entropy star systems and planets, and we will hopefully have figured out the software that causes entropy to eventually win out in our bodies. The eventual entropy death of the entire universe is kind of a bummer, but perhaps we'll be a non-corporeal life form and be unaffected by the physical universe. And there's always the prospect of becoming members of the Q-continuum.
The author of that quote is uncertain, but there's a 99.999% chance that it was Richard Feynman--in this universe, at least.
don't project your own lack of principles and commitment to more than just the money deity on to the rest of slashdot. Some of us love what we do and would try to scrap by on minimum wage if that was what it paid, in order to do something that we love and think is important. we're not all white-collar whores like you apparently are.
The law allows an exception if the spam has a valid removeme address at the beginning of the email, but this is absurd. Everybody knows that 99.9% of the time they see such an address, it is just a means for the spammer to verify that they have a live, regularly checked address. Perhaps some will be responsible spammers -- if that's not an oxymoron -- but if the law is intended to actually provide a solution, it is totally inadequate. You would be added to 100 lists for every 1 that you're taken off. Basically, in order to verify that the law has been broken, you have to be prepared to have the volume of spam go up drastically. It never fails to amaze me when well intentioned laws have huge exceptions that nullify the effect of the law. I wonder if that exception isn't in there because some of some lobbyist's anonymous contributions. Why else would there be an exception that completely invalidates the whole email part of the statute?
You are wrong. Windows XP Home Edition upgrades Win9x (incl. ME), while Windows XP Professional upgrades WinNT/2K.
I think you mean -49, no? 32+16+1!=47 ;-)
oops, forgot to escape the <, that's a and n <=2000.
13^(2+1) - (2+1)^13 = 2001 That's all I found for a and n = 2000.
The first day of the chinese new year this year will be February 12, 2002, which will be the first year of the year of the Horse (or year 4699).
I don't think you need a piece of paper to say that you can program, but a computer science degree, as many more knowledgable CS people here have said, is not just about programming--at least it shouldn't be. It strikes me as a useful analogy that CS is to programming as (theoretical) astrophysics is to the practice of astronomy. If I want to find a certain black hole (i.e., observe its manifest effects) in the sky (okay, we'll assume I have a radio telescope), I'll ask an astronomer; if I want to understand *why* there are black holes or what Hawking radiation is or if we discover some hitherto unobserved phenomenon, well, we would turn to the astrophysicists. The guy on the street thinks that astrophysics is looking through a telescope at orion or the crab nebula, and that computer science is nothing more than programming, but both are specialized applications of the broader, more theoretical discipline. Sometimes you don't need the theory and the rigor, or the ability to abstract and work at multiple levels; sometimes you do. Sometimes you're doing the same old stuff and you don't need the ability to understand and design something that's never been conceived of before, but sometimes you do. Anyway, i'm rambling, and have to be off now to see LOTR, but I just mean to say that there are plenty of benefits to having that piece of paper--assuming you're in a good program, otherwise it's worthless--in addition to the specifics of programming that a self-taught person might know extremely well.
Now, all the other stupid classes is what sucks (like who cares about the phases of the moon or the composition of rocks). I think also that the foreign language requirement should be waved, since programming languages are foreign languages...
The point, though, is that all the other stupid classes are intended to give you the benefit of a well-rounded education, which is supposed to make you a better human being, not just able to do a drone job really well (I don't mean you personally). There is more to life than work, and it is often the depth *and breadth* of your perspective that determines both what you get out of life and what you contribute to the lives of others. If we, as a society (whichever society), want education to improve the lives of our citizens, a well-rounded (i.e. multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary) education is essential. That is not to say that there isn't a place for in-depth knowledge and specialization, but a broad education, in the beginning at least, lays a sound foundation upon which one can build or specialize, and lays a sound foundation for the task of becoming a better human being. Foreign languages are an important part of that, too. We become better global citizens if we are able to understand another culture from *their* perspective, which is possible to the extent that we understand their categories of thought--how they carve up reality--and what motivates them. Language classes try to teach these things, as well as actually teaching you to speak and read and write in another language. As for the pragmatic fruits, how much less needless violence would there be if we were all able to empathise with others a little more, at the individual and societal level? Could 9-11 have been averted or foreseen and averted if we Americans, and our country, were not so out of touch with the rest of the world? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Imagine if the HR people that we all love to bitch about where all forced to take at least one basic programming class, and perhaps a survey class of the discipline of computer science. They would certainly be able to do their jobs better (the ones who work in the tech industry at least), and I would argue that they would be better people due to the broader perspective that they would have cultivated as a result. Extrapolate out to society as a whole, and I believe that we would all benefit from *all* of our citizens having a broad education. I don't want to go so far as to say that we /. types should have to take a survey HR class (or classes in chicken-entrail divination), but demanding courses in foreign languages and cultures, and things like art and music history, literature, and philosophy are all good starts.
I really don't think that Microsoft discontinuing support...
That would be Microsoft's discontinuing support... I won't insult you by telling you why.
Most people just don't care, or are even aware MS will provide any tech support at all.
Wow. I can't begin to imagine how one might tame such an infelicitous beast as that, but you see that there are many problems with that wretch of a sentence, do you not?
Linux will need a ton of marketing money, and do something WINDOWS DOESN'T.
Hmmm, I'm starting to think that this could be a dialect issue: perhaps you speak some strange southern (i.e., from south U.S.) dialect. This is blatantly wrong according to all the rules of standard English with which I am familiar. True, you could make it grammatically correct by inserting a to in the second clause, but still, it'd be nothing to write home about.
As much as people make fun of MS never innovating anything...
See first comment, above.
And I'm not even going to mention the stylistic infelicities that seem never to occur to the self-proclaimed grammar nazis of the world--as if getting it 'grammatically correct' were all that mattered.
Anyway, I mean no harm. I just like pointing out grammatical 'errors' to those who think such things exist as more than arbitrary convention--and often not even that.
Look here for *tons* of places in California.
yeah, but in england, otherwise metric, they drink pints of beer, not liters. how about on the continent? liters or pints of beer?
/sbin/pump -h c1******-a
/sbin/dhcpcd -h c1******-a
Either of these should work. They do for me under RH7.1, on ATTBI in SF bay area. The c1******-a part is the host name, which they assigned to you when you signed up with them.
I think the point is that speeds are relative, and if i was getting 4mb/s before, i can reasonably be unhappy when it gets capped at 1.5, and often is way slower. On top of the bandwidth problem, the dns servers seem to be really unreliable. I routinely get 'unknown host' errors when trying to go to frequently visited sites like google or slashdot. As somebody else mentioned, the news servers sometimes don't work, and lastly, sometimes I get 'dhcp server unreachable' for hours.
In short, AT&T has really managed to f&%k up what previously was a pretty awesome service. That's my experience in SF bay area.
You obviously haven't read the article and don't know what you're talking about, or you would know that they don't "assume their knowledge of physics is 100% correct." This is something that only a complete and utter moron would think, and to believe that scientists are really as stupid as the people who think these sorts of things is a bit insulting. Only people who think of science as a kind of magic think things like, 'they're assuming their knowledge of physics is 100% correct.'
Seth explains in the interview--if you cared to read it before telling us what 'those guys' think--that, yes, it is possible that they use only encrypted signals that are diffuse and not narrow band and that we wouldn't be able to detect them, but he says that it's a bit like Columbus getting ready to sail and being told that he'll probably die, there's probably nothing out there, and even if there were, he wouldn't find it. Of course, there is always the possibility of failure, but the chance of failure is 100% if you don't try.
I can see a whole series of advertisements that show the many ways that NotWinBlows! is not like Windows. Their whole marketing theme could be that it has the great virtue of not being an MS product, and so won't have all the 'features' of MS products (and that's a good thing!). I wish somebody would start such a company. It screams for some really creative advertising spoofs.
Can you please tell me what the legality would be of calling it NotWinBlows!