Of course, to be fair, it should be noted that the above poster is a postdoc lecturer at MIT who is teaching Mathematics for Computer Science this semester and wrote the course notes, including a substantial portion involving number theory.
Oh God, now that I think about it . . . you're putting this on the final, aren't you? NOoOOOooOooOoOOoO!!!!!
You combined "w00t" and "lost my virginity" together under a topic that includes the word "neet". Are you sure you didn't mean to say "the day I was born"?
So it's been brought up that the OK gesture is offensive in Europe, but has anyone noticed that this girl is FROM Europe? Italy, in particular: "A short interview with Andrea follows, translated from the Italian . . .."
"You know, when you are 15/16 years old you have several things on your mind other than work...;-)" Apparently that's very true.
You're forgetting a key fact: length contraction. A moving frame appears shorter than a stationary frame by a factor of gamma. This counteracts the time dilation, which is also by a factor of gamma. Thus, when a spaceship travels from here to Alpha Centauri, the distance the ship travels is smaller than the distance we measure here on earth. You take the distance value measured by the spaceship and divide it by the time value measured by the spaceship and you will always get a value less than the speed of light. In fact, the value you get will be the same as the speed of the spaceship as measured from earth. Taking into account time dilation without time contraction is an incorrect calculation.
I like to think that it's where the errors come from. With Linux, errors usually occur because you did something wrong, misconfigured something, etc. With Windows, it's usually some bug in Windows code. Put another way:
When you use Linux, you screw it up.
When you use Windows, it screws you up.
As an MIT freshmen, I don't have to declare a major until my sophmore year. Coming into MIT I planned to major in EECS, and as of yet, that hasn't changed. People often say things along the lines of,
"You're still interested in EECS?"
"Yes."
"How will you find a job when all the coders are being hired from overseas?"
"Simple; I'll be a professor."
My point is, being a code monkey is not the only thing one can do with an EECS degree. As far as I know, professors are not being outsourced to India (well, okay, sometimes it seems that way, but that's not the point). And IIRC, EE majors are still doing fine compared to their CS brethren. Maybe it is impossible to be an American code monkey in today's job environment, but that doesn't stop you from teaching, or starting your own business, or using your CS skills to help with some other job. Be creative.
As a side note, I found the dept. category of this article very humourous. I don't know if this was the intention or not, but Simmons Hall at MIT (my dorm) just added a bubble tea cafe on the first floor. One of the most popular items on the menu? Mango Lassi. In fact, for the past month or so, I have gone down to the cafe every night and my roommate has ordered a Mango Lassi nine times out of ten. Too bad he's not majoring in CS, or the coincedence would have been REALLY eerie.
I use DeadAIM to get around the logging limitation. It auto-logs all messages, plus window transparency, plus ad removal. It's very nice. Unfortunately, the author has started charging for downloads, but you can still find free copies elsewhere on the net.
As for leaving someone a message when they are offline, USE EMAIL. Seriously, why someone would want to use an IM client for this somewhat confuses me. However, if you still want to do this AIM has you covered. Send a message to either MessageServer or AIMOfflineB2 and they will deliver the message to a recipient of your choice as soon as said recipient comes online.
Both of those points are rather moot though. I use AIM because everyone else uses it. That's the only real reason. If everyone else used ICQ, MSN, or anything else, that's what I would use.
Don't you mean "TINSTAAFL"? It stands for
(T)here (I)s (N)o (S)uch (T)hing (A)s (A) (F)ree (L)unch. TANSTAAFL doesn't really make sense. There Ain't . . . ? That ain't right.
As a side note, that phrase was an automatic point of extra credit on my economics tests. Thanks Mr. Mulvaney!
Maybe I'm missing something, but I think this is a great idea, and I'm surprised it hasn't been done before. I constantly hear people complain about filters, especially about how they do not filter as reasonably as a human would. Well, this solves that problem. We're always telling parents that they need to look after their children and what they are watching, and this is a perfect tool to do that.
Its other use, using it to make yourself accountable as opposed to children, seems a little weird, but I can see where it could be useful. And besides, it's opt-in, so what's the big problem? Sounds like a great product. Not that I'll be signing up for it anytime soon. . . .
As usual, I'm just watching for the commercials. I must say, they haven't been very good so far, with one exception: The Matrix teaser. Recycled or not, I almost crapped my pants when I saw it. Just because a movie is a sequel doesn't mean it will suck. And even if the movie DOES suck, the trailer was still really cool.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, it actually shows the results of a patched ROM. There is a (short) analysis of the patch at: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ggeac/security_advisory_plumber_injection_attack_in/c1nefj4
It's a real patch. The second video is the result of attempting to run the same speed run on a patched copy.
Of course, to be fair, it should be noted that the above poster is a postdoc lecturer at MIT who is teaching Mathematics for Computer Science this semester and wrote the course notes, including a substantial portion involving number theory.
Oh God, now that I think about it . . . you're putting this on the final, aren't you? NOoOOOooOooOoOOoO!!!!!
You combined "w00t" and "lost my virginity" together under a topic that includes the word "neet". Are you sure you didn't mean to say "the day I was born"?
I imagine it won't do very well, as it's named after a beast that FRICKIN' DESTROYED TOKYO.
defenestrate means to throw a person out of a window. As a resident of Simmons Hall, I hear that one a lot.
So it's been brought up that the OK gesture is offensive in Europe, but has anyone noticed that this girl is FROM Europe? Italy, in particular: "A short interview with Andrea follows, translated from the Italian . . . ."
"You know, when you are 15/16 years old you have several things on your mind other than work... ;-)"
Apparently that's very true.
You're forgetting a key fact: length contraction. A moving frame appears shorter than a stationary frame by a factor of gamma. This counteracts the time dilation, which is also by a factor of gamma. Thus, when a spaceship travels from here to Alpha Centauri, the distance the ship travels is smaller than the distance we measure here on earth. You take the distance value measured by the spaceship and divide it by the time value measured by the spaceship and you will always get a value less than the speed of light. In fact, the value you get will be the same as the speed of the spaceship as measured from earth. Taking into account time dilation without time contraction is an incorrect calculation.
I like to think that it's where the errors come from. With Linux, errors usually occur because you did something wrong, misconfigured something, etc. With Windows, it's usually some bug in Windows code. Put another way: When you use Linux, you screw it up. When you use Windows, it screws you up.
As an MIT freshmen, I don't have to declare a major until my sophmore year. Coming into MIT I planned to major in EECS, and as of yet, that hasn't changed. People often say things along the lines of, "You're still interested in EECS?"
"Yes."
"How will you find a job when all the coders are being hired from overseas?"
"Simple; I'll be a professor."
My point is, being a code monkey is not the only thing one can do with an EECS degree. As far as I know, professors are not being outsourced to India (well, okay, sometimes it seems that way, but that's not the point). And IIRC, EE majors are still doing fine compared to their CS brethren. Maybe it is impossible to be an American code monkey in today's job environment, but that doesn't stop you from teaching, or starting your own business, or using your CS skills to help with some other job. Be creative.
As a side note, I found the dept. category of this article very humourous. I don't know if this was the intention or not, but Simmons Hall at MIT (my dorm) just added a bubble tea cafe on the first floor. One of the most popular items on the menu? Mango Lassi. In fact, for the past month or so, I have gone down to the cafe every night and my roommate has ordered a Mango Lassi nine times out of ten. Too bad he's not majoring in CS, or the coincedence would have been REALLY eerie.
I use DeadAIM to get around the logging limitation. It auto-logs all messages, plus window transparency, plus ad removal. It's very nice. Unfortunately, the author has started charging for downloads, but you can still find free copies elsewhere on the net.
As for leaving someone a message when they are offline, USE EMAIL. Seriously, why someone would want to use an IM client for this somewhat confuses me. However, if you still want to do this AIM has you covered. Send a message to either MessageServer or AIMOfflineB2 and they will deliver the message to a recipient of your choice as soon as said recipient comes online.
Both of those points are rather moot though. I use AIM because everyone else uses it. That's the only real reason. If everyone else used ICQ, MSN, or anything else, that's what I would use.
Don't you mean "TINSTAAFL"? It stands for (T)here (I)s (N)o (S)uch (T)hing (A)s (A) (F)ree (L)unch. TANSTAAFL doesn't really make sense. There Ain't . . . ? That ain't right. As a side note, that phrase was an automatic point of extra credit on my economics tests. Thanks Mr. Mulvaney!
Maybe I'm missing something, but I think this is a great idea, and I'm surprised it hasn't been done before. I constantly hear people complain about filters, especially about how they do not filter as reasonably as a human would. Well, this solves that problem. We're always telling parents that they need to look after their children and what they are watching, and this is a perfect tool to do that. Its other use, using it to make yourself accountable as opposed to children, seems a little weird, but I can see where it could be useful. And besides, it's opt-in, so what's the big problem? Sounds like a great product. Not that I'll be signing up for it anytime soon. . . .
As usual, I'm just watching for the commercials. I must say, they haven't been very good so far, with one exception: The Matrix teaser. Recycled or not, I almost crapped my pants when I saw it. Just because a movie is a sequel doesn't mean it will suck. And even if the movie DOES suck, the trailer was still really cool.