Having recently graduated from the public school system here in Milwaukee, I have a few choice words for publishers of text books and the blockheads who find them well written. It took me just a few minutes in my general education classes in college to realize that we were taught absolute bullshit, despite labeling such as AP and IB (Advanced Placement and Inter-Bacalaureate[sp?]) on a class. The texts are nothing but devices to spread half truths and partial histories and facts related to a subject. When presented in the psuedo-official manner such as a required text for a class, students have no choice but to believe the things held within. It makes it harder for higher educators to do their jobs, unless they too are nothing but sheep to the text book publishers. I have had enough career-type, dont-take-no-bullshit professors in a variety of classes to know that > 50% of the stuff they feed you in the public school system, by way of these "award winning" books is nothing but bullshit. An Effort to make the books more "readable"? Thats fucked up. They are just accomidating the lowest common denominator, the kids who havent grasped the basic skills of reading and comprehension. This is a bad move, in my opinion. There is too much padding in the grades. I feel like basic skills should be taught early on, at a quicker pace, while children are more disposed to picking up tasks. Then exposure to "higher level education" needs to move down, so instead of beginning calculus as junior or senior in high school, kids should be taught 8th-9th grade tops. I know its frustrating though, for those who are trying not to feed the sheep mill, because there are alot of kids who just want to be kool and just dont give a fuck (that was me, I regret it now... too smart for my own good). Those students need to be put into educational systems adapted for their needs. Some kids arent college material, lets not kid ourselves. Put them in a program where they can get that low level management job at the local K-mart and lets be done with it. There are jobs out there that the dumb people need to occupy, lets not bullshit. Dont gear education towards them, with these re-hasing of books, gear it towards those who will take all the knowledge they can get their hands on, and do something with it...
That place Rocks so much ass.. Where else can a kid buy a used xerox, with nothing wrong but a broken piece of glass, for $50?... i miss their old location though... I feel like my geekness was fermented in those aisles...Oy.. to be 9 again...er, forget 9.. I have more money now I'll buy 2 Copiers!!
I think you are misunderstanding the terms "adding value" and "improve". The Value, as I assume them to mean, implies importance and desirability. Placing it upon a pedestal, thusly de-valuing, or taking from a place of equal footing, things which should be equal. Taking from one to feed the other, when in reality both need the food. To improve however, is to add ability and power to it, not to change ones evaluation of it.
To improve is a measure of ability and capability. To Add Value is to change ones opinion and evaluation.
Somebody puhleaze mod parent up! This is soo True. Simply put, What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Apple grabs the open source project, puts out their own rendition, and scares MS. MS Grabs themselves a copy, adds their own features, and pushes back. Winner? the users.
I would sign up for such a thing. I am a slacker college student, having an avenue to sue somebody for my daily spam alotment in $10 increments is worth it to me. Do you know how much cheap beer and crappy chips I'd get for one days worth of spam suits?... *drool*
I got a small fright, till I realized that the Surfboard modem my cable provider lets me lease *thanx!* has built in DHCP Server. I found this out from a classmate who was a cable installer. They bitch at me, I say I am just using my connection to the extent of its capabilities offered..
Hrmm...I was going to buy a space heater, but I guess I'll just wait for the P5's to come out instead.
Just do what I did 1) case with nice fans on the side, aimed at legs when sitting next to desk 2) OC'd proc, video card and memory. 3) Fans cooling the whole rig
my room is about 4-5 degrees warmer on average than the rest of the house. To be honest, I have to keep a fan in the window to keep the ambient temp in my room, which is small and cluttered, around 70. This wouldnt be so bad, the fan thing, except I live in wisconsin, and the air temp is right about 5 atm. [drool] oh to have the money for a decent water cooling rig / the gumption to rig something like the article mentions [/drool]
From the site:NEW! IEEE 802.16a approved as IEEE standard on 29 January 2002![emphasis mine]
I do so hope that is a typo.. or this isnt really news... on the assumption that this is new, and that is supposed to be 2003, what does this mean for mobile users? I assume, due to the higher frequencies used that all new antennae are needed, but at what sort of cost?
Am I the only one who got the bejeebers scared out of them by that damn anamatronic rat as a toddler/youth? I remember vividly my 5th birthday, I would not be made to come out of the ball pit. that giant fucking rat scared the shit outta me... and his back up singers, popping up out of the dark like they were fucking gonna stab a poor little dergie *curls up in fetal position*THE HORRORS! THE HORRORS!
To this day I wont go near the damn place, I dont care what arcades they have...
Finally a reason to be proud of a) being A Wisconsinite and b) having voted for Feingold.
I hope that this movement goes through, everything around here (Milwaukee) seems to be Clearchannel. The radio, atleast 3-4 stations, 2 of the TV, and a large majority of the billboards and the such are all clearchannel.
I have a 17" POC CRT on my personal rig, that I got from office crapot a few years back for a song. it runs fine for me at 2048x1536, although a bunch of games I have dont let me run them that high. My mom on the other hand, just bought a dual 1.25 mac with the 23" LCD. what can I say, I am in love. I like my monitor, but that big beautiful, crisp and fast display is just nothing short of fucking schweet. LCD's are nice, I have personally never seen a shitty one outside of the PS2 displays at the local electronics retailer. Personally, I will pick one up when I can get one that rolls up and sits in my pocket and has 20 times the processing power of my current comp and 100 times the storage.
Are you fucking retarded?... can you do simple math? the LCD you linked is the same size, but a lower res and higher in price by 250. yet you state that that is an alternative to the sony. i have seen those sony screens in action, and its nothing short of impressive.
*mutter* if I ruled the world, basic math skillz would be necessary for all potential/.'ers...[/disengages kharma burner]
I thought the whole argument against deep linking wasnt that it linked to an article on another site, it linked to an advertisemnt free, printer friendly version. That way, someone clicks through and goes around the ads, the site hosting the arti doesnt get paid for their ad space.. I think if this is what they are talking about, as apposed to simply linking to another sites articles, then they do have a problem on their hands, p2p-ified or not.
About the config thing.. if you setup linux in ~40 hours (for shared use) you are pretty fast. If you can do the same (in ~40 hours) for Windows you are superman. Start counting from when you get few hundred PCs with blank harddrives, with no images ready, etc..
I can't personally attest to the linux config time, but 40 hrs is fucking rediculous in setting up a homogenous windoze network. Give me 1 copy of ghost and 100 empty pcs and toss in a nice little 100Mbps network and I'll hand you back 100 boxes in 5-7 hrs tops that are harder to crack than leather pants off a fat chicks ass.
either that or you'll get 100 blank boxes and a nice little network. I need me a current copy of ghost. *cough*
windoze is not hard at all to secure, and dont give me that poledit or gpo's arent secure at all, because thats just scratching the head of it. pick up a copy of menasi's book on configuring 2kServers and then you will get a taste for what can be done.
Exactly what I was going to say. Even the submittor didnt seem to rtfa, its clear as day. to quote:
Ruiz brought out executives and representatives from Gibson Guitar Company, George Lucas' JAK Films and supercomputer company Cray Inc. to illustrate the technology that Sunnyvale, California-based AMD was delivering outside personal computers.
All this article really means is that AMD is not going to let its only horse in the technology race be one in PC Processors, they want to branch out and put their products into as many markets as they can stomach/reach.
I dont claim to know much more about math than your average pre-calc student, but what the fuck? What is "spectical"? Once used is a typo, twice is a sign of person trying to use words they dont comprehend. I dont mean to be harsh, but you claim to be mathematically inclined, but cant spell basic 5th grade words....
*kisses my kharma good bye*
I, sir, Call you a bullshitter with a math and or science book handy..
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I had a buddy of mine ask me to take a look at his computer. It had begun to make thumping/ticking noises when he would turn it on, and would not stop till he turned it off. I cracked the case, to find a quite dead and petrified rat inside his case, that thumped against his cpu fan. fuckin sick.. how it got in, and died in such a way to not stink to high heaven, I will never know, though I suspect someone put it there..
What about hardware? Everybody is gabbing and rattling about software development, but nobody has yet to mention hardware development. Without the Hardware, there will be nowhere to code. imho, there will always be a place for people to work in hardware, either on development or maintenance. I know alot of people lament maintenance work, as it brings you close to dumb users, but if your willing to have fun with it, or have a ton of patience, there is no reason why that cant be a good possible career track. Lets not forget about networking either, especially things like advanced network design and maintenance. imho, different people groove to different things. I myself cant stand programming, but luv hardware.. anyway.
I noticed a feature that seems to help compensate for the lack of usb2.0 or firewire. the PC Library contains a listing of all MP3's on your comp, and if you select it to transfer, the next time you synch up your device, its automatically downloaded. This keeps you from having to dump all 5k songs at once, just keep the ones that you want. This sort of also eliminate the need for the 20gig model however, as you dont need to keep all your mp3's on the device, only transfer them over when wanted...
just my $.02
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[ot]I saw an episode of Nova quite a while ago where they profiled a computer sysem that was capable of designing and building a body for itself, given certain goals of the body, and access to a machine that would create the body from plastic [/ot]
Would it be possible to create a system capable of designing and implementing a gambling system more secure than curent systems? As pointed out in the article, an employee of the slot machine manufacturer altered machines for payout.. this wouldnt happen if a secure computer system were to design the slot machine, in the vein of the aforementioned computer system capable of building itself a body. The computer designed slot machine would be able to design in booby traps to prevent tampering, and design in maintenance systems to maintain the system. I realize that this would be prohibitively expensive, but ultimately, wouldnt that be the only way to have a truly secure slot/gambling machine??
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Having recently graduated from the public school system here in Milwaukee, I have a few choice words for publishers of text books and the blockheads who find them well written. It took me just a few minutes in my general education classes in college to realize that we were taught absolute bullshit, despite labeling such as AP and IB (Advanced Placement and Inter-Bacalaureate[sp?]) on a class. The texts are nothing but devices to spread half truths and partial histories and facts related to a subject. When presented in the psuedo-official manner such as a required text for a class, students have no choice but to believe the things held within. It makes it harder for higher educators to do their jobs, unless they too are nothing but sheep to the text book publishers. I have had enough career-type, dont-take-no-bullshit professors in a variety of classes to know that > 50% of the stuff they feed you in the public school system, by way of these "award winning" books is nothing but bullshit. An Effort to make the books more "readable"? Thats fucked up. They are just accomidating the lowest common denominator, the kids who havent grasped the basic skills of reading and comprehension. This is a bad move, in my opinion. There is too much padding in the grades. I feel like basic skills should be taught early on, at a quicker pace, while children are more disposed to picking up tasks. Then exposure to "higher level education" needs to move down, so instead of beginning calculus as junior or senior in high school, kids should be taught 8th-9th grade tops. I know its frustrating though, for those who are trying not to feed the sheep mill, because there are alot of kids who just want to be kool and just dont give a fuck (that was me, I regret it now... too smart for my own good). Those students need to be put into educational systems adapted for their needs. Some kids arent college material, lets not kid ourselves. Put them in a program where they can get that low level management job at the local K-mart and lets be done with it. There are jobs out there that the dumb people need to occupy, lets not bullshit. Dont gear education towards them, with these re-hasing of books, gear it towards those who will take all the knowledge they can get their hands on, and do something with it...
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That place Rocks so much ass.. Where else can a kid buy a used xerox, with nothing wrong but a broken piece of glass, for $50? ... i miss their old location though... I feel like my geekness was fermented in those aisles...Oy.. to be 9 again...er, forget 9.. I have more money now I'll buy 2 Copiers!!
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And who says BSD is dead? thats like what, 3 mentions?
I think you are misunderstanding the terms "adding value" and "improve". The Value, as I assume them to mean, implies importance and desirability. Placing it upon a pedestal, thusly de-valuing, or taking from a place of equal footing, things which should be equal. Taking from one to feed the other, when in reality both need the food. To improve however, is to add ability and power to it, not to change ones evaluation of it.
To improve is a measure of ability and capability.
To Add Value is to change ones opinion and evaluation.
Somebody puhleaze mod parent up! This is soo True. Simply put, What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Apple grabs the open source project, puts out their own rendition, and scares MS. MS Grabs themselves a copy, adds their own features, and pushes back. Winner? the users.
I would sign up for such a thing. I am a slacker college student, having an avenue to sue somebody for my daily spam alotment in $10 increments is worth it to me. Do you know how much cheap beer and crappy chips I'd get for one days worth of spam suits?... *drool*
Too bad I live in wisconin.
I got a small fright, till I realized that the Surfboard modem my cable provider lets me lease *thanx!* has built in DHCP Server. I found this out from a classmate who was a cable installer. They bitch at me, I say I am just using my connection to the extent of its capabilities offered..
Hrmm...I was going to buy a space heater, but I guess I'll just wait for the P5's to come out instead.
Just do what I did 1) case with nice fans on the side, aimed at legs when sitting next to desk 2) OC'd proc, video card and memory. 3) Fans cooling the whole rig
my room is about 4-5 degrees warmer on average than the rest of the house. To be honest, I have to keep a fan in the window to keep the ambient temp in my room, which is small and cluttered, around 70. This wouldnt be so bad, the fan thing, except I live in wisconsin, and the air temp is right about 5 atm. [drool] oh to have the money for a decent water cooling rig / the gumption to rig something like the article mentions [/drool]
From the site:NEW! IEEE 802.16a approved as IEEE standard on 29 January 2002! [emphasis mine]
I do so hope that is a typo.. or this isnt really news... on the assumption that this is new, and that is supposed to be 2003, what does this mean for mobile users? I assume, due to the higher frequencies used that all new antennae are needed, but at what sort of cost?
Am I the only one who got the bejeebers scared out of them by that damn anamatronic rat as a toddler/youth? I remember vividly my 5th birthday, I would not be made to come out of the ball pit. that giant fucking rat scared the shit outta me ... and his back up singers, popping up out of the dark like they were fucking gonna stab a poor little dergie *curls up in fetal position*THE HORRORS! THE HORRORS!
To this day I wont go near the damn place, I dont care what arcades they have...
me 3.
Finally a reason to be proud of a) being A Wisconsinite and b) having voted for Feingold.
I hope that this movement goes through, everything around here (Milwaukee) seems to be Clearchannel. The radio, atleast 3-4 stations, 2 of the TV, and a large majority of the billboards and the such are all clearchannel.
Go Feingold Go
http://www.thehulk.com/video_teaser.html
Thats the Superbowl clip there. for those who arent watching the game *raises hand*
I have a 17" POC CRT on my personal rig, that I got from office crapot a few years back for a song. it runs fine for me at 2048x1536, although a bunch of games I have dont let me run them that high. My mom on the other hand, just bought a dual 1.25 mac with the 23" LCD. what can I say, I am in love. I like my monitor, but that big beautiful, crisp and fast display is just nothing short of fucking schweet. LCD's are nice, I have personally never seen a shitty one outside of the PS2 displays at the local electronics retailer. Personally, I will pick one up when I can get one that rolls up and sits in my pocket and has 20 times the processing power of my current comp and 100 times the storage.
[fires kharma burner]
... can you do simple math? the LCD you linked is the same size, but a lower res and higher in price by 250. yet you state that that is an alternative to the sony. i have seen those sony screens in action, and its nothing short of impressive.
/.'ers...[/disengages kharma burner]
Are you fucking retarded?
*mutter* if I ruled the world, basic math skillz would be necessary for all potential
I thought the whole argument against deep linking wasnt that it linked to an article on another site, it linked to an advertisemnt free, printer friendly version. That way, someone clicks through and goes around the ads, the site hosting the arti doesnt get paid for their ad space.. I think if this is what they are talking about, as apposed to simply linking to another sites articles, then they do have a problem on their hands, p2p-ified or not.
I dont know.. *shrug*
Before even reading the linked articles, the first thought in my head was actually a chunk of song lyrics..dont remember the artist...
Cuz its the end of the world as we know it, its the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...
In actuality, I dont feel fine, this makes me queasy... a win for a mass media company like Disney on such a grand scale is sickening...
o/t, but is it me, or is slashdot being slashdotted??
About the config thing.. if you setup linux in ~40 hours (for shared use) you are pretty fast. If you can do the same (in ~40 hours) for Windows you are superman. Start counting from when you get few hundred PCs with blank harddrives, with no images ready, etc..
I can't personally attest to the linux config time, but 40 hrs is fucking rediculous in setting up a homogenous windoze network. Give me 1 copy of ghost and 100 empty pcs and toss in a nice little 100Mbps network and I'll hand you back 100 boxes in 5-7 hrs tops that are harder to crack than leather pants off a fat chicks ass.
either that or you'll get 100 blank boxes and a nice little network. I need me a current copy of ghost. *cough*
windoze is not hard at all to secure, and dont give me that poledit or gpo's arent secure at all, because thats just scratching the head of it. pick up a copy of menasi's book on configuring 2kServers and then you will get a taste for what can be done.
just my $.02
Nuff Said...
Exactly what I was going to say. Even the submittor didnt seem to rtfa, its clear as day. to quote:
Ruiz brought out executives and representatives from Gibson Guitar Company, George Lucas' JAK Films and supercomputer company Cray Inc. to illustrate the technology that Sunnyvale, California-based AMD was delivering outside personal computers.
All this article really means is that AMD is not going to let its only horse in the technology race be one in PC Processors, they want to branch out and put their products into as many markets as they can stomach/reach.
I agree with parent, read the fuckin article...
I dont claim to know much more about math than your average pre-calc student, but what the fuck? What is "spectical"? Once used is a typo, twice is a sign of person trying to use words they dont comprehend. I dont mean to be harsh, but you claim to be mathematically inclined, but cant spell basic 5th grade words....
*kisses my kharma good bye*
I, sir, Call you a bullshitter with a math and or science book handy..
I had a buddy of mine ask me to take a look at his computer. It had begun to make thumping/ticking noises when he would turn it on, and would not stop till he turned it off. I cracked the case, to find a quite dead and petrified rat inside his case, that thumped against his cpu fan. fuckin sick.. how it got in, and died in such a way to not stink to high heaven, I will never know, though I suspect someone put it there..
What about hardware? Everybody is gabbing and rattling about software development, but nobody has yet to mention hardware development. Without the Hardware, there will be nowhere to code. imho, there will always be a place for people to work in hardware, either on development or maintenance. I know alot of people lament maintenance work, as it brings you close to dumb users, but if your willing to have fun with it, or have a ton of patience, there is no reason why that cant be a good possible career track. Lets not forget about networking either, especially things like advanced network design and maintenance. imho, different people groove to different things. I myself cant stand programming, but luv hardware.. anyway.
take my kharma, I dont want it anyway...FLAME ON!
I noticed a feature that seems to help compensate for the lack of usb2.0 or firewire. the PC Library contains a listing of all MP3's on your comp, and if you select it to transfer, the next time you synch up your device, its automatically downloaded. This keeps you from having to dump all 5k songs at once, just keep the ones that you want. This sort of also eliminate the need for the 20gig model however, as you dont need to keep all your mp3's on the device, only transfer them over when wanted...
just my $.02
[ot]I saw an episode of Nova quite a while ago where they profiled a computer sysem that was capable of designing and building a body for itself, given certain goals of the body, and access to a machine that would create the body from plastic [/ot]
Would it be possible to create a system capable of designing and implementing a gambling system more secure than curent systems? As pointed out in the article, an employee of the slot machine manufacturer altered machines for payout.. this wouldnt happen if a secure computer system were to design the slot machine, in the vein of the aforementioned computer system capable of building itself a body. The computer designed slot machine would be able to design in booby traps to prevent tampering, and design in maintenance systems to maintain the system. I realize that this would be prohibitively expensive, but ultimately, wouldnt that be the only way to have a truly secure slot/gambling machine??
Just my $.02