Humm, I tried to use Word to write equations when I was in college studying Physics. Even though I had no exposure to Linux at the time, I found that most of the professors and grad students used LaTeX instead. It's much easier to use, and it's much easier to learn. I picked up most of it in an afternoon. It's also pretty much standard for Physics people to write papers full of equations in LaTeX and not word.
And as for the "blazingly fast simulations" - I'm sorry, we never ran simulations on Intel based computers (too slow except for really easy stuff). We'd use mainframes for that, which used Unix. And what kind of University that is considering doing real physics can't afford that? Are you sure it wasn't a community college? And if you're curious, the University doesn't buy the computers for the physicists - the physicists get grant money from the government for that kind of purchase.
You wouldn't happen to be paid by MS to make such a false statement? I have been seeing a lot of these nutcases making wild claims that are absolutely false and full of crap. (Do you REALLY love Linux? haha! I caught you!)
Microsoft represents commercial software at its highest state of development. They are the exact opposite in everything they do and say to what the Free Software people stand for. Just like Christians oppose Satan and evil in general, and communism and freedom oppose each other, Microsoft will always be the example to use for Free Software advocates.
Not everyone in the Free Software community hates Microsoft - they just don't agree with the way they make money, and they don't agree that the best way to develop software is the way they are doing it.
RedHat is selling a name more than anything else, just like Microsoft sells Microsoft Windows, and IBM sells IBM computers.
They charge extra because people are willing to pay extra to have RedHat support and RedHat linux.
StarOffice doesn't have the reputation of RedHat, therefore, they cannot sell the brand. It would be a different story if most corporations who ran Linux relied on StarOffice.
If you really love math, and you really love computers, you may be missing out on another great subject: Physics.
Physics and math go hand in hand. Well, mostly. Mathematicians are more pedantic in their approaches. Physicists like to jump to conclusions early and rely on shaky logic.
Which way is right? Both seem to have their redeeming values. While Physicists are often wrong about things, they also introduce ideas that eventually turn out to be right (like the Dirac delta function). Mathematicians, however, like to stick with things they know and trust, and end up being a lot more trustworthy.
Physicists are like the hackers of the math realm, trying to figure things out by guess-and-check, and going with what works rather than with what is accepted or "right".
Go ask people who eat "from habit" what happens when they try to eat less. They go crazy. They can't do anything but think about food. Then people try to tell them to reduce their fat because they're going to get a heart attack. A low fat diet drove me up the wall because all I could do was think about food.
Eating fats, while it sounds disgusting, and people claim it's bad for your heart, is the only thing that keeps me sane. I can sit down, eat only one hambuerger (no fries, no coke) and I can barely finish it. I can have one egg and two slices of bacon for breakfast and last until lunch. I eat less than normal people, and I am hardly ever actually hungry anymore. And besides - you admitted - the result of eating fats is you don't have to burn it away - it just evaporates away! Wish your excess glucose and carbs would do that, huh?
Now, go read Atkin's book. You'll find that a low fat diet actually increases your chance of cholesterol build up. In fact, Atkins was originally a heart doctor trying to find a way to lower cholesterol. This whole diet was a bit of a random discovery he made when he was researching the effects of a high-fat, low-carb diet.
I lost over 40 pounds sitting in front of the computer with Atkin's diet over the last 4 months. The weight loss has increased significantly as time went on. Now I am back under 200 pounds for the first time in about 5 years. (Of course, walking 15 minutes to work helps a bit, but I was exercising before as well.)
Here's a summary of how it works. I may have the details wrong, so you guys correct me if I am. You should read his book anyway, whether or not you think he is right.
We gain weight by taking extra food and converting it to fat. (DUH!)
We lose weight by burning fat. (DUH!)
How do we start burning fat? We have to use up our body's food supply - the carbohydrates - before our body will switch to fat-burning mode.
How do we do that? We cut the supply of carbohydrates. Our body doesn't HAVE the carbohydrates to burn, so it turns to the fat and starts burning that.
Interesting effect #1: When you eat fat, you don't feel hungry. Hence, you eat less and feel more full.
Interesting effect #2: Your body converts fat to a certain chemical (lypo-somethings) then it burns that. Injecting that chemical into an animal triggers weight loss. So, just having a little bit of this chemical in your body is enough to keep losing weight. You can lose weight slowly, steadily, and healthily.
Interesting effect #3: Most people who are fat are addicted to food with carbohydrates. It can often take a lot of willpower to break this addiction, but once broken, you will stop thinking about food all the time! This might be related to...
Interesting Effect #4: The whole reason you might be fat is because your body doesn't respond to carbohydrates like skinny people do. You are probably somewhat intolerant to insulin. This means your body has to compensate by making more insulin to handle the carbohydrates. Which leads to more insuling intolerance... and eventually diabetes. When you reduce the amount of carbohydrates you eat to normal levels, your insulin will return to normal, and eventually, your whole body will reduce its insulin intolerance and you will be able to eat like skinny people without gaining weight and such.
The way Dr. Atkins suggests doing this is to go for 2 weeks with an extremely dangerously low level of carbohydrates. After this, you should start to lose weight. You should feel different. Your body should be in fat-burning mode. The next step is to find your balance. If you eat too much carbohydrates, you will stop burning fat. Too little, you will lose weight too quickly, which is not good for you. He also suggests taking vitamins and exercise, but not overdoing either.
Again, read the book, don't take my word for it, and give it a try.
The users shouldn't have to learn how to be system administrators. Perhaps one day a company will come along and offer to remotely administer your home machine for a reasonable price. Just think - you only use the machine, you DON'T have to worry about upgrades, and if you want something installed, you just ask for it to be done. The best part is that you will interact with a real human being, not some graphical interface.
Re:Being anti-Republican doesn't make it false...
on
Why ADCo?
·
· Score: 1
As everyone knows, the people who sign your paycheck are the rich you hate so much. If the rich get to keep more of *their* money (which us poor seem more than happy to steal!), maybe they will give you a raise.
Maybe one of them will decide that it's time to start investing money in *you* and the other nerds in this world, and perhaps a bright one will think that this is a good idea and put his money behind it.
Think about that for a moment. Maybe you'll look at the rich in a different light, and realize that without them and their *evil* wealth, we would be digging potatoes out of the frozen ground, or worse yet, starving.
Serendipity and curiosity led to more useful inventions and discovery than necessity.
After all, Linus made Linux because he wanted to have fun.
My advice to this kid: Spend more time on this than you do studying. You'll learn a lot more, and plus, if you show this to a recruiter, and say you did it on your own time, you are almost guaranteed a *good* *fun* job. Better than a good grade in my book.
Slashdot Mirror
Humm, I tried to use Word to write equations when I was in college studying Physics. Even though I had no exposure to Linux at the time, I found that most of the professors and grad students used LaTeX instead. It's much easier to use, and it's much easier to learn. I picked up most of it in an afternoon. It's also pretty much standard for Physics people to write papers full of equations in LaTeX and not word.
And as for the "blazingly fast simulations" - I'm sorry, we never ran simulations on Intel based computers (too slow except for really easy stuff). We'd use mainframes for that, which used Unix. And what kind of University that is considering doing real physics can't afford that? Are you sure it wasn't a community college? And if you're curious, the University doesn't buy the computers for the physicists - the physicists get grant money from the government for that kind of purchase.
You wouldn't happen to be paid by MS to make such a false statement? I have been seeing a lot of these nutcases making wild claims that are absolutely false and full of crap. (Do you REALLY love Linux? haha! I caught you!)
Jonathan
Microsoft represents commercial software at its highest state of development. They are the exact opposite in everything they do and say to what the Free Software people stand for. Just like Christians oppose Satan and evil in general, and communism and freedom oppose each other, Microsoft will always be the example to use for Free Software advocates.
Not everyone in the Free Software community hates Microsoft - they just don't agree with the way they make money, and they don't agree that the best way to develop software is the way they are doing it.
RedHat is selling a name more than anything else, just like Microsoft sells Microsoft Windows, and IBM sells IBM computers. They charge extra because people are willing to pay extra to have RedHat support and RedHat linux. StarOffice doesn't have the reputation of RedHat, therefore, they cannot sell the brand. It would be a different story if most corporations who ran Linux relied on StarOffice.
If you really love math, and you really love computers, you may be missing out on another great subject: Physics.
Physics and math go hand in hand. Well, mostly. Mathematicians are more pedantic in their approaches. Physicists like to jump to conclusions early and rely on shaky logic.
Which way is right? Both seem to have their redeeming values. While Physicists are often wrong about things, they also introduce ideas that eventually turn out to be right (like the Dirac delta function). Mathematicians, however, like to stick with things they know and trust, and end up being a lot more trustworthy.
Physicists are like the hackers of the math realm, trying to figure things out by guess-and-check, and going with what works rather than with what is accepted or "right".
Go ask people who eat "from habit" what happens when they try to eat less. They go crazy. They can't do anything but think about food. Then people try to tell them to reduce their fat because they're going to get a heart attack. A low fat diet drove me up the wall because all I could do was think about food.
Eating fats, while it sounds disgusting, and people claim it's bad for your heart, is the only thing that keeps me sane. I can sit down, eat only one hambuerger (no fries, no coke) and I can barely finish it. I can have one egg and two slices of bacon for breakfast and last until lunch. I eat less than normal people, and I am hardly ever actually hungry anymore. And besides - you admitted - the result of eating fats is you don't have to burn it away - it just evaporates away! Wish your excess glucose and carbs would do that, huh?
Now, go read Atkin's book. You'll find that a low fat diet actually increases your chance of cholesterol build up. In fact, Atkins was originally a heart doctor trying to find a way to lower cholesterol. This whole diet was a bit of a random discovery he made when he was researching the effects of a high-fat, low-carb diet.
I lost over 40 pounds sitting in front of the computer with Atkin's diet over the last 4 months. The weight loss has increased significantly as time went on. Now I am back under 200 pounds for the first time in about 5 years. (Of course, walking 15 minutes to work helps a bit, but I was exercising before as well.)
...
Here's a summary of how it works. I may have the details wrong, so you guys correct me if I am. You should read his book anyway, whether or not you think he is right.
We gain weight by taking extra food and converting it to fat. (DUH!)
We lose weight by burning fat. (DUH!)
How do we start burning fat? We have to use up our body's food supply - the carbohydrates - before our body will switch to fat-burning mode.
How do we do that? We cut the supply of carbohydrates. Our body doesn't HAVE the carbohydrates to burn, so it turns to the fat and starts burning that.
Interesting effect #1: When you eat fat, you don't feel hungry. Hence, you eat less and feel more full.
Interesting effect #2: Your body converts fat to a certain chemical (lypo-somethings) then it burns that. Injecting that chemical into an animal triggers weight loss. So, just having a little bit of this chemical in your body is enough to keep losing weight. You can lose weight slowly, steadily, and healthily.
Interesting effect #3: Most people who are fat are addicted to food with carbohydrates. It can often take a lot of willpower to break this addiction, but once broken, you will stop thinking about food all the time! This might be related to
Interesting Effect #4: The whole reason you might be fat is because your body doesn't respond to carbohydrates like skinny people do. You are probably somewhat intolerant to insulin. This means your body has to compensate by making more insulin to handle the carbohydrates. Which leads to more insuling intolerance... and eventually diabetes. When you reduce the amount of carbohydrates you eat to normal levels, your insulin will return to normal, and eventually, your whole body will reduce its insulin intolerance and you will be able to eat like skinny people without gaining weight and such.
The way Dr. Atkins suggests doing this is to go for 2 weeks with an extremely dangerously low level of carbohydrates. After this, you should start to lose weight. You should feel different. Your body should be in fat-burning mode. The next step is to find your balance. If you eat too much carbohydrates, you will stop burning fat. Too little, you will lose weight too quickly, which is not good for you. He also suggests taking vitamins and exercise, but not overdoing either.
Again, read the book, don't take my word for it, and give it a try.
So that means that life started from a crumb of sugar the fell from the cookie of the Gods. At last, a true SPOG!
The users shouldn't have to learn how to be system administrators. Perhaps one day a company will come along and offer to remotely administer your home machine for a reasonable price. Just think - you only use the machine, you DON'T have to worry about upgrades, and if you want something installed, you just ask for it to be done. The best part is that you will interact with a real human being, not some graphical interface.
As everyone knows, the people who sign your paycheck are the rich you hate so much. If the rich get to keep more of *their* money (which us poor seem more than happy to steal!), maybe they will give you a raise.
Maybe one of them will decide that it's time to start investing money in *you* and the other nerds in this world, and perhaps a bright one will think that this is a good idea and put his money behind it.
Think about that for a moment. Maybe you'll look at the rich in a different light, and realize that without them and their *evil* wealth, we would be digging potatoes out of the frozen ground, or worse yet, starving.
Serendipity and curiosity led to more useful inventions and discovery than necessity.
After all, Linus made Linux because he wanted to have fun.
My advice to this kid: Spend more time on this than you do studying. You'll learn a lot more, and plus, if you show this to a recruiter, and say you did it on your own time, you are almost guaranteed a *good* *fun* job. Better than a good grade in my book.