Disclaimer: I love openoffice (actually, Staroffice) and I use it every day.
The one aspect of OpenOffice that I have problems with is their macro language. Recording macros and writing my own functions for Excel is easier than the same task in OpenOffice. Is there a reason the OO team decided to reinvent the wheel and go with a different macro language?
Ooold tech: we college students have been taping and timeshifting lectures for years.
iPod missed a great bit, though -- if they'd included the mp3-recording capabilities (something like the iRiver's hd recorder, or the Ripflash) then I bet that would've caught on VERY quickly. (You go to class today, I'll go tomorrow, we'll exchange mp3s tonight.)
I'd love to record my lectures, but I don't have $400 for an iRiver, and I can't find a minitape recorder that will last for 1.5 hours without stopping and flipping...
I had a pair of montiors when I worked as a physical design engineer, and it was absolutely amazing!
Now that my main machine is a laptop, though, I'd rather have some sort of goggle-thing with decent, useable desktop resolution that would let me turn my head (something like XFree86's ability to do virtual desktop resolutions by sliding your mouse, but with the sliding controlled by my head.) Seems like it might be more expensive than an LCD, but I doubt it'd be more expensive than three...
Same here. My TeX skills lack, so I copy the BibTeX entry from citeseer whenever it's available. That doesn't mean I didn't read Lamport's "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events", it just means I didn't feel the need to TeX it out.
To everyone who has so far commented: so what? My mother was born in 1947. The transistor was also invented in 1947, by Shockley. 55 years later, I got her a new computer for Christmas.
What will I see when I turn 55? I can't wait to find out.
FICS has had a few chess variants for a while, like suicide and bughouse. It also uses timeseal, which some (unnamed) online game playing systems STILL don't use to combat lag. They also have live broadcast of chess events (Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, with comments by grandmasters and analysis by chess computers) and a new "teaching ladder". Good stuff. http://www.freechess.org.
I really wish it were possible to get the CryptoAPI merged into the full kernel. I've been compiling kernels without problems since the 1.2 series, but CryptoAPI patches are more convoluted than any other patch series I've ever tried.
Ah, to live in a sane world, with sane governments...
Clarification: I included the "missing 13th" references as an example of a clear groundless conspiracy theory, as a comparison to those who maintain that the 16th amendment never passed (dubious) and in contrast to the opinion that the income tax does not behave the way it did when it was instituted.
(And of course it hasn't survived intact. That's why we have a system where we can amend the laws: because v1.0 is never bug-free. Having said that, I do think it's gotten a bit overboard...)
I'm not an expert, and I don't believe it, but lots of people don't really believe the 16th amendment passed. That's irrelevant; it's enforced, by men with guns.
Quick lecture mode: The original purpose of the Federal income tax was to take the burden of supporting the federal government off the backs of farmers and put more of the responsibility on merchants, etc. When the amendment passed, you owed no tax unless you made more than 8 times the national average income -- and even then, you were probably taxed only 1%. The average wage was around $500/yr when the amendment passed, and unless you made more than $20,000/yr (in 1913 dollars!) you paid only 1%. The most you would pay would be 7% -- if you made over $500k/yr (in 1913 dollars). Again, current practice is far out of line with the original intent of the law. That said, men with guns enforce it.
PS: If you really want to go conspiracy theory, google for "missing 13th amendment". You know, the one that prevented lawyers from holding government office. Never heard of it? Me neither. Believe what you will.
Yup, I see a problem with fairtax.org. It's a great idea. And it'll never pass.
"Consumer confidence" basically equates to how much people are spending at one time. This is why no real progress is made towards incentives to reducing credit card debt. As a nation, Americans are encouraged to borrow and spend because it drives the economy. The best fiscal advice I ever got was from my grandfather: "Don't ever borrow money." Banks make billions off people who are up to their noses in debt. Increase the price of goods enough to eliminate the income tax and you'll stifle consumer spending.
The banks won't spend the money to give me more than a 1.75% interest in a CD, but they'll buy every Congressman ever elected to stop that tax plan.
That's really sad -- I think I still have stacks of RAINBOW magazines squirreled away somewhere.
Particular RAINBOW nostalgia: Remember the adventure games were a bit scrambled, so you wouldn't figure out the plot by typing in the listing?
Waiting for August -- the Games issue?
BTW: Apparently the big deal is Lonnie Falk has a stack of back issues he'll sell for $$$ -- especially if you want 'em autographed. Hmm--wonder if I could get Tony DiStefano to sign one...
I see a lot of comments bashing Auburn for creating a specialized degree. Relax! I've seen it, and it looks like a solid program rooted in good EE principles. As a grad student (now at the University of Texas), trust me: if you want to know a lot about wireless communications, the old answer was: get your Master's degree or PhD. That's still the answer, and if you'll look at the class listings, you'll see that a lot of this effort is concentrated in graduate-level courses.
They're not replacing the EE degree. They're just adding more courses; undergrads can take them until their ears bleed and get a degree with a title that emphasizes their interest, or they can get a graduate degree heavy on wireless.
(That said, I'd still get an EE. But I'm a computer architecture gEEk, not a wireless gEEk.)
This morning I was listening to "the Bob and Tom show", a syndicated radio program. The discussion topic this morning was "How do you goof off at work?"
The third caller worked at a bank, and she and her co-workers amuse themselves by looking up old high school acquaintances. I don't have a quote, but she said something along the lines of it being fun to see who was overdrawn and who had huge mortgages.
Twenty people there stream music from SomaFM all day long?
Agreed multicast would be Soma's best offering, but have you thought about running a local repeater? Not only would Soma thank you, but your employer/educational institution/bandwidth provider would too!
It's relatively easy to configure icecast to rebroadcast another streaming session; check out this link for an interesting test case: Missouri's House and Senate.
(PS: Pass this link around -- not only is it a good example of bandwith savings, but it also helps alleviate the myth that mp3 == illegal music!)
"He had been extremely chastened to realise that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and armagnac he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster."
I'd bet this would describe 90% of us. So, just as a curiosity, what simple inventions would a small village need?
Quite a few comments mention the availability of this software over the Kazaa network itself, should the main server be taken down or slashdotted.
Could someone with an "official" file from the website please post the MD5 signature of this file, giving everyone who intends to download over Kazaa a small measure of security against downloading a trojan?
In the past, I've used dxpc for broadband-speed X connections, and while it didn't solve all of my problems, it did make them more bearable. These guys have done lots of work on improving dxpc, and I highly recommend it.
(Latency, however, will kill you. I wish I still had the DSL connection I had at the old apartment; it ran circles around this cable modem.)
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Disclaimer: I love openoffice (actually, Staroffice) and I use it every day.
The one aspect of OpenOffice that I have problems with is their macro language. Recording macros and writing my own functions for Excel is easier than the same task in OpenOffice. Is there a reason the OO team decided to reinvent the wheel and go with a different macro language?
Ooold tech: we college students have been taping and timeshifting lectures for years.
iPod missed a great bit, though -- if they'd included the mp3-recording capabilities (something like the iRiver's hd recorder, or the Ripflash) then I bet that would've caught on VERY quickly. (You go to class today, I'll go tomorrow, we'll exchange mp3s tonight.)
I'd love to record my lectures, but I don't have $400 for an iRiver, and I can't find a minitape recorder that will last for 1.5 hours without stopping and flipping...
I had a pair of montiors when I worked as a physical design engineer, and it was absolutely amazing!
Now that my main machine is a laptop, though, I'd rather have some sort of goggle-thing with decent, useable desktop resolution that would let me turn my head (something like XFree86's ability to do virtual desktop resolutions by sliding your mouse, but with the sliding controlled by my head.)
Seems like it might be more expensive than an LCD, but I doubt it'd be more expensive than three...
Same here. My TeX skills lack, so I copy the BibTeX entry from citeseer whenever it's available. That doesn't mean I didn't read Lamport's "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events", it just means I didn't feel the need to TeX it out.
To everyone who has so far commented: so what?
My mother was born in 1947. The transistor was also invented in 1947, by Shockley. 55 years later, I got her a new computer for Christmas.
What will I see when I turn 55? I can't wait to find out.
FICS has had a few chess variants for a while, like suicide and bughouse. It also uses timeseal, which some (unnamed) online game playing systems STILL don't use to combat lag. They also have live broadcast of chess events (Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, with comments by grandmasters and analysis by chess computers) and a new "teaching ladder". Good stuff.
http://www.freechess.org.
I stand corrected. As of 2.5.45, which is new enough for me to not have heard of it, and not mentioned on the main kerneli.org site.
*snif* I could cry. Thanks, Linux and the CryptoAPI people at http://www.kerneli.org
I really wish it were possible to get the CryptoAPI merged into the full kernel. I've been compiling kernels without problems since the 1.2 series, but CryptoAPI patches are more convoluted than any other patch series I've ever tried.
Ah, to live in a sane world, with sane governments...
Clarification: I included the "missing 13th" references as an example of a clear groundless conspiracy theory, as a comparison to those who maintain that the 16th amendment never passed (dubious) and in contrast to the opinion that the income tax does not behave the way it did when it was instituted.
(And of course it hasn't survived intact. That's why we have a system where we can amend the laws: because v1.0 is never bug-free. Having said that, I do think it's gotten a bit overboard...)
I'm not an expert, and I don't believe it, but lots of people don't really believe the 16th amendment passed. That's irrelevant; it's enforced, by men with guns.
Quick lecture mode:
The original purpose of the Federal income tax was to take the burden of supporting the federal government off the backs of farmers and put more of the responsibility on merchants, etc. When the amendment passed, you owed no tax unless you made more than 8 times the national average income -- and even then, you were probably taxed only 1%. The average wage was around $500/yr when the amendment passed, and unless you made more than $20,000/yr (in 1913 dollars!) you paid only 1%. The most you would pay would be 7% -- if you made over $500k/yr (in 1913 dollars).
Again, current practice is far out of line with the original intent of the law. That said, men with guns enforce it.
PS: If you really want to go conspiracy theory, google for "missing 13th amendment". You know, the one that prevented lawyers from holding government office. Never heard of it? Me neither. Believe what you will.
Yup, I see a problem with fairtax.org. It's a great idea. And it'll never pass.
"Consumer confidence" basically equates to how much people are spending at one time. This is why no real progress is made towards incentives to reducing credit card debt. As a nation, Americans are encouraged to borrow and spend because it drives the economy. The best fiscal advice I ever got was from my grandfather: "Don't ever borrow money." Banks make billions off people who are up to their noses in debt. Increase the price of goods enough to eliminate the income tax and you'll stifle consumer spending.
The banks won't spend the money to give me more than a 1.75% interest in a CD, but they'll buy every Congressman ever elected to stop that tax plan.
That's really sad -- I think I still have stacks of RAINBOW magazines squirreled away somewhere.
Particular RAINBOW nostalgia:
Remember the adventure games were a bit scrambled, so you wouldn't figure out the plot by typing in the listing?
Waiting for August -- the Games issue?
BTW: Apparently the big deal is Lonnie Falk has a stack of back issues he'll sell for $$$ -- especially if you want 'em autographed. Hmm--wonder if I could get Tony DiStefano to sign one...
From their website, their motto really appears to be "Always SupriZing!"
*ding-dong* Surprise!
(And I thought SBC DSL was bad...)
diff OpenGLFan.dna Einstein.dna > dna1.patch
cat dna1.patch | perl 'brain_only.pl' > dna2.patch
patch OpenGLFan.dna dna2.patch
And I could pass Tuesday's exam!
I don't have any classes Friday morning, so I'll be there. Any other Horns planning to show up?
I see a lot of comments bashing Auburn for creating a specialized degree. Relax! I've seen it, and it looks like a solid program rooted in good EE principles. As a grad student (now at the University of Texas), trust me: if you want to know a lot about wireless communications, the old answer was: get your Master's degree or PhD. That's still the answer, and if you'll look at the class listings, you'll see that a lot of this effort is concentrated in graduate-level courses.
They're not replacing the EE degree. They're just adding more courses; undergrads can take them until their ears bleed and get a degree with a title that emphasizes their interest, or they can get a graduate degree heavy on wireless.
(That said, I'd still get an EE. But I'm a computer architecture gEEk, not a wireless gEEk.)
(Offtopic, -1)
Anyone going to Dancing in the District this Thursday to see TMBG? 'GLFan will be there...
No. We should be aware that morons WILL have access to our data, so we should think hard about what we allow to be collected.
(Methinks I fed a troll -- or an idiot. But I'll post anyway...)
This morning I was listening to "the Bob and Tom show", a syndicated radio program. The discussion topic this morning was "How do you goof off at work?"
The third caller worked at a bank, and she and her co-workers amuse themselves by looking up old high school acquaintances. I don't have a quote, but she said something along the lines of it being fun to see who was overdrawn and who had huge mortgages.
Powers will be abused. Who needs Big Brother?
The guy you're thinking of is Ueshiba.
Maybe someday I'll have 1/10th of his skill.
To see some examples of what blink's talking about, check out Aikido Journal's video clips page.
Amazing stuff.
Twenty people there stream music from SomaFM all day long?
Agreed multicast would be Soma's best offering, but have you thought about running a local repeater? Not only would Soma thank you, but your employer/educational institution/bandwidth provider would too!
It's relatively easy to configure icecast to rebroadcast another streaming session; check out this link for an interesting test case: Missouri's House and Senate.
(PS: Pass this link around -- not only is it a good example of bandwith savings, but it also helps alleviate the myth that mp3 == illegal music!)
In "Mostly Harmless", Arthur Dent realizes:
"He had been extremely chastened to realise that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and armagnac he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster."
I'd bet this would describe 90% of us. So, just as a curiosity, what simple inventions would a small village need?
Quite a few comments mention the availability of this software over the Kazaa network itself, should the main server be taken down or slashdotted.
Could someone with an "official" file from the website please post the MD5 signature of this file, giving everyone who intends to download over Kazaa a small measure of security against downloading a trojan?
Tom Farrell, NASA spokesman, clarified his earlier remarks this afternoon: "Wait, that should be 2.5 inches/sec."
"Whoops!"
In the past, I've used dxpc for broadband-speed X connections, and while it didn't solve all of my problems, it did make them more bearable. These guys have done lots of work on improving dxpc, and I highly recommend it.
(Latency, however, will kill you. I wish I still had the DSL connection I had at the old apartment; it ran circles around this cable modem.)