I've got myself a Samsung 171P. I bought it early this year, mainly because my desk was too small to fit a CRT monitor. Since I spend so much of my day/night in front of a computer, it is *well* worth the cost to get a beautiful, sleek, monitor. I can't tell you how happy I am with this monitor. Everyone that sees it (and cares slightly about computers) comments on how awesome it looks and how wonderful the picture looks.
No real amazing fabuluous story here -- just a review from an owner of an LCD monitor. I'd give it 3 thumbs up if I had three thumbs.
The school I'm in at NYU (Gallatin) is an 'individualized studies' school -- so you get to basically pick and choose what you want to take. The catch is that in order to graduate you need to have a 2 hour talk with 3 professors explaining what you've done in the past 4 years, using atleast 20 books, 7 coming from before the 1600s, 4 humanities works after the 1600s, 4 social & natural science works after the 1600s, and 5 from your 'area of concentration'. So I've been staying up late developing a booklist and a theme of what I want to discuss.
The thing is, if I transferred to CAS (the arts & science school), I'd have more than enough credits to be a Comp Sci major -- that's not what I want though. I'm interested in how computers have changed thought, and how design patterns relate to social & life patterns. You can imagine how ecstatic I was when I saw this 'Ask Slashdot' question. I already purchased the Goedel Escher Bach book (should be here tomorrow), am probably getting the "Origin of Objects" and will most definitely get the Knuth book[s].
I've essentially decided that my focus is going to be 'The Development of Abstraction' -- from unordered random information to concrete working/usable information to abstract essences. It's basically the pattern that everything goes through, from a child becoming an adult to the universe creating life. Atleast those are my thoughts.
Anyway... if anyone would like to add some more books to my list, or ideas to focus on, I'd be forever grateful.
While not strictly 'computer theory', the following books have definitely helped me to merge computer programming with philosophy...
"The Elegant Universe" - Greene "Hyperspace" - Kaku "The Bit and the Pendulum" - Siegfried "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" - Kuhn "The Advent of the Aglorithm" - Berlinksi "Orality & Literacy" - Ong "Genome" - Ridley "Philosophy of Mind" - Kim Scientific American - Every issue "Artificial Intelligence [A Modern Approach]" - Russel & Norvig "Computer Organization & Design [The Hardware/Software Interface]" - Hennessey
And then of course Plato [The Republic, Timaeus & Critias, Phaedrus, etc..], Descarte [Meditations,...], Rousseau [Reveries of a Solitary Walker,...], Seneca [Letters From a Stoic,...]... it's the texts that dwell into abstraction, truth, human nature, etc...
While non of these books will make you a better programmer persay, they all will make you understand how things relate, how to approach topics, and what people will get out of things...
This quite obviously means that the ozone layer is a living organism, and in a hundred million years, we'll have intelligent creatures that are entirely made up of ozone layer.
It's kind of sad, actually. A plan was finally put into use that 'accepts' the trading of mp3s, giving more incentive to buy the actual album. If this goes through, I sincerely doubt the record companies are going to try that hard to come up with better plans.
>Since many of these bugs are not in the open sourced Limewire engine, but in the user interface code, it's not really easy for me to diagnose the problem and fix it for them. However, as a Java developer, I see much behavior in the 2.X Limewire clients which is indicative of very bad Java programming practices.
All of LimeWire is open-source, not just the engine. In fact, the recent version's 'Time Remaining', 'Uploads', 'Hits', and 'Alternate Location' columns are because I was bored, curious, downloaded the source, and submitted a patch.
Yes, a search warrant would render this null. But, search warrants must be issued, and to be issued, there must be some evidence that wrongdoing is going on.
If you give them a message that it is illegal to prosecute based on their using the material you provide, then they cannot obtain a search warrant, because their reason for doing so would be to circumvent the warning.
Because digital streams have no real way of asking, "Are you a cop, or do you plan to use this material against me?" and recieving an answer, they must suffice with a warning, expecting the user to read it. If the person "says no", and proceeds anyway, it's a form of entrapment.
If downloading the file is illegal, then isn't it impossible for them to determine if the user is allowing downloads of illegal content?
If the response is that "they can just see if you're sharing files, they don't need to download them", then just alter the words of the 'warning' file to say "By viewing available downloads..."
Just include a warning file
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IANAL, but wouldn't a shared warning file protect you?
Have it say something like, "By downloading files from my computer, the recipient agrees not to press charges resulting from the contents of the file."
>It will show the effects on the internal systems, such as lungs, heart and the likes. It will also show effects on things such as how the body holds together.
No it won't. If they're lying down, then gravity is pushing on the internal systems from the front to the back.
Weightlessness would mean there is no gravity (or acceleration) pushing in any direction.
This will just prove what it would be like if gravity acted differently.
LimeWire's just as open source as gtk-gnutella. It uses the gnutella network and has a decent amount of volunteers adding/editting the code. If you don't like some of the things LimeWire does (such as displaying banner ads), download the source and edit them out. It's fairly well-designed Java code.
Kinda reminds me of Stonehenge -- ominious pillars and whatnot?...
I'd say it's fairly unimportant to worry about how beings 10,000 years in the future are going to interpret this. It may be an interesting study in thought, but nothing outside of that.
>* Limewire is the only one that cuts it in my book, but it has become too simplified (I no longer have the power to watch connection statistics or have good control over downloads, in the newer versions).
You know LimeWire is open source (I'm on the dev mailing list). You can fix it all you'd like.
Huh? I'm a faithful winamp user -- have been since it was shareware. When you install, they clearly give you an option to "submit anonymous usage statistics", which you can very easily uncheck.
If you want the term 'spyware' to mean anything, try using it when warranted.
A copy of WarcraftIII beta fell into my hands. I found a bnetd server, and played the game. To my surprise, I -really- liked it. I've never played any RTS games before, but this was really good, and I seriously considered buying the game because I had the chance to see just how good it was.
Now that the server is probably going to be shut down, I won't become hooked, and I'll go back to playing Unreal.
Blizzard should seriously reconsider this move. It stops a lot of potential buyers from seeing the game. bnetd won't make them lose any sales -- people who were going to buy the game will still buy it. People who are going to get a crack will still get a crack. People who wanted a chance to see before they buy... well... bye-bye.
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I've got myself a Samsung 171P. I bought it early this year, mainly because my desk was too small to fit a CRT monitor. Since I spend so much of my day/night in front of a computer, it is *well* worth the cost to get a beautiful, sleek, monitor. I can't tell you how happy I am with this monitor. Everyone that sees it (and cares slightly about computers) comments on how awesome it looks and how wonderful the picture looks.
No real amazing fabuluous story here -- just a review from an owner of an LCD monitor. I'd give it 3 thumbs up if I had three thumbs.
Thanks :)
The school I'm in at NYU (Gallatin) is an 'individualized studies' school -- so you get to basically pick and choose what you want to take. The catch is that in order to graduate you need to have a 2 hour talk with 3 professors explaining what you've done in the past 4 years, using atleast 20 books, 7 coming from before the 1600s, 4 humanities works after the 1600s, 4 social & natural science works after the 1600s, and 5 from your 'area of concentration'. So I've been staying up late developing a booklist and a theme of what I want to discuss.
The thing is, if I transferred to CAS (the arts & science school), I'd have more than enough credits to be a Comp Sci major -- that's not what I want though. I'm interested in how computers have changed thought, and how design patterns relate to social & life patterns. You can imagine how ecstatic I was when I saw this 'Ask Slashdot' question. I already purchased the Goedel Escher Bach book (should be here tomorrow), am probably getting the "Origin of Objects" and will most definitely get the Knuth book[s].
I've essentially decided that my focus is going to be 'The Development of Abstraction' -- from unordered random information to concrete working/usable information to abstract essences. It's basically the pattern that everything goes through, from a child becoming an adult to the universe creating life. Atleast those are my thoughts.
Anyway... if anyone would like to add some more books to my list, or ideas to focus on, I'd be forever grateful.
While not strictly 'computer theory', the following books have definitely helped me to merge computer programming with philosophy...
...], Rousseau [Reveries of a Solitary Walker, ...], Seneca [Letters From a Stoic, ...]... it's the texts that dwell into abstraction, truth, human nature, etc...
"The Elegant Universe" - Greene
"Hyperspace" - Kaku
"The Bit and the Pendulum" - Siegfried
"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" - Kuhn
"The Advent of the Aglorithm" - Berlinksi
"Orality & Literacy" - Ong
"Genome" - Ridley
"Philosophy of Mind" - Kim
Scientific American - Every issue
"Artificial Intelligence [A Modern Approach]" - Russel & Norvig
"Computer Organization & Design [The Hardware/Software Interface]" - Hennessey
And then of course Plato [The Republic, Timaeus & Critias, Phaedrus, etc..], Descarte [Meditations,
While non of these books will make you a better programmer persay, they all will make you understand how things relate, how to approach topics, and what people will get out of things...
>It's split in two like an amoeba.
This quite obviously means that the ozone layer is a living organism, and in a hundred million years, we'll have intelligent creatures that are entirely made up of ozone layer.
It's kind of sad, actually. A plan was finally put into use that 'accepts' the trading of mp3s, giving more incentive to buy the actual album. If this goes through, I sincerely doubt the record companies are going to try that hard to come up with better plans.
LimeWire is open source.
See their website for more information.
>Since many of these bugs are not in the open sourced Limewire engine, but in the user interface code, it's not really easy for me to diagnose the problem and fix it for them. However, as a Java developer, I see much behavior in the 2.X Limewire clients which is indicative of very bad Java programming practices.
All of LimeWire is open-source, not just the engine. In fact, the recent version's 'Time Remaining', 'Uploads', 'Hits', and 'Alternate Location' columns are because I was bored, curious, downloaded the source, and submitted a patch.
Yes, a search warrant would render this null. But, search warrants must be issued, and to be issued, there must be some evidence that wrongdoing is going on.
If you give them a message that it is illegal to prosecute based on their using the material you provide, then they cannot obtain a search warrant, because their reason for doing so would be to circumvent the warning.
Because digital streams have no real way of asking, "Are you a cop, or do you plan to use this material against me?" and recieving an answer, they must suffice with a warning, expecting the user to read it. If the person "says no", and proceeds anyway, it's a form of entrapment.
If downloading the file is illegal, then isn't it impossible for them to determine if the user is allowing downloads of illegal content?
If the response is that "they can just see if you're sharing files, they don't need to download them", then just alter the words of the 'warning' file to say "By viewing available downloads..."
IANAL, but wouldn't a shared warning file protect you?
Have it say something like, "By downloading files from my computer, the recipient agrees not to press charges resulting from the contents of the file."
Hell, it's about as legal as a EULA.
>It will show the effects on the internal systems, such as lungs, heart and the likes. It will also show effects on things such as how the body holds together.
No it won't. If they're lying down, then gravity is pushing on the internal systems from the front to the back.
Weightlessness would mean there is no gravity (or acceleration) pushing in any direction.
This will just prove what it would be like if gravity acted differently.
Sam
>or LimeWire.
LimeWire's just as open source as gtk-gnutella. It uses the gnutella network and has a decent amount of volunteers adding/editting the code. If you don't like some of the things LimeWire does (such as displaying banner ads), download the source and edit them out. It's fairly well-designed Java code.
Kinda reminds me of Stonehenge -- ominious pillars and whatnot?...
I'd say it's fairly unimportant to worry about how beings 10,000 years in the future are going to interpret this. It may be an interesting study in thought, but nothing outside of that.
>* Limewire is the only one that cuts it in my book, but it has become too simplified (I no longer have the power to watch connection statistics or have good control over downloads, in the newer versions).
You know LimeWire is open source (I'm on the dev mailing list). You can fix it all you'd like.
sam
>WinAmp is bloated spyware
Huh? I'm a faithful winamp user -- have been since it was shareware. When you install, they clearly give you an option to "submit anonymous usage statistics", which you can very easily uncheck.
If you want the term 'spyware' to mean anything, try using it when warranted.
Sam
A copy of WarcraftIII beta fell into my hands. I found a bnetd server, and played the game. To my surprise, I -really- liked it. I've never played any RTS games before, but this was really good, and I seriously considered buying the game because I had the chance to see just how good it was.
Now that the server is probably going to be shut down, I won't become hooked, and I'll go back to playing Unreal.
Blizzard should seriously reconsider this move. It stops a lot of potential buyers from seeing the game. bnetd won't make them lose any sales -- people who were going to buy the game will still buy it. People who are going to get a crack will still get a crack. People who wanted a chance to see before they buy... well... bye-bye.
Oh well, saves me money.
Sam