My university also has subscriptions to the majority of the big databases, but they are still more of a supplement to print than a replacement, especially for some disciplines. I tried using some of the fine arts databases for a project on Robert Smithson - it was a complete waste of time. The only paper I've ever been able to do completely on-line was (suprise!) on biomedical computing
I would be thrilled to know how the Riemann (not Reimann) zeta function relates to being a real security expert. As far as I can see, this post was no different than the "1337er-than-U" pissing-contest that formed the majority of this article.
How many times can we beat to death the same piece of information? This is, at a minimum, the third time in the past year that we've heard the stunning "news" that async could potentially have speed advantages - and seen the endless user comments about design complexity, how it's been done with a K6/PI/PII/P3/Vic20, and how some guy's friend-who-works-at-best-buy thinks it is the wave of the future. Even the samejokes about telling time.
The editors at Slashdot really need to start doing some proper editing for once - the need for fast publication does not excuse monstrous sloppiness. Is it more important to get that article out in 5 minutes, or spend another 3 checking that you haven't posted the identical article a month ago?
I am hardly a fanatical reader with nothing better to do than bitch about trivialities. I am a casual, occasional reader, coming back at random intervals only to find essentially the same content.
First, if your store doesn't carry anything other than the typical "Ibiza Super Dance Party Mix 2002 feat. Oakenfold + Sasha REMIX (Digweed)!" then I'd be moving on. Here in Vancouver, some of the big chains have huge downtown stores that carry a pretty good selection of electronic and electroacoustic-type stuff. However, most of the chains in the 'burbs frankly suck some major goat ass. Don't buy "gourmet foods" from Walmart - don't buy slightly-less-mass-market music at PopWorld.
Secondly, if I was looking for informed opinions about virtually any of the arts, you wouldn't find me trotting off to ask your average Slashdot goober. Why not find an arts forum, or ask some musicians? Most musicians have a frighteningly encyclopedic knowledge about a huge array of music that you and I would never have heard of - music is their livelihood/passion, and they have invested a large chunk of their life thinking about it, listening to it, looking it up. Odds are, your average slashdotter spent this time updating their kernel and forgetting to shower.
When you come down to it, it's just a matter of finding the most informed people - if I had a problem with Linux, or needed an ignorant rant, or wanted to know about case mods, I would ask Slashdot. If I had a car problem or a gardening question, I would ask a mechanic or a gardener, because I'd rather not sift through 200 replies of the form "have you watered it?" or "check the oil." Similarly, I suspect you don't want to sift through 800 pages of "Paul Oakenfold/PaulVanDye/ArmandVanHelden!" (blarg) or "Aphex Twin/Boards of Canada/Stereolab!" (yay!).
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what somebody who has taken a first-year art course sounds like. Moving along - postmodernism, and how to make irritating, sweeping generalizations about complex trends.
I actually was forced out of business by a monopoly myself when I was recently heading up a small Internet start-up. I had heard in an AOL "chat room" that you can make money selling ads on something called the World Web. My intuition told me this WW business could turn out to be the next "big thing", and I immediately decided to give it a good ol' go - I wanted to be the first to market in this new economy.
My concept was fairly simple, but also fairly creative - I would have a news "site", just like on television, but digital! The really big "twist" was that (after paying a small subscription fee) the readers could post messges about the news presented - it would even keep track of who said what! When we finally "went live", my company had designed a site devoted to providing older, second-hand information about everything from law, to music, to culture, and occasionally even technology (although my techies tell me it seems to be "mostly just notices of the latest minor-version revision of Linucks crap rather than real tech news" - it's all Greek to me anyways). Our target audience consisted of 16-30 year old virgin smelly/unkempt/unmannered males, and in particular those who know nothing or essentially nothing about the topic at hand. Little did I know, but there was already a site that was almost a carbon copy of my own, and they didn't even have to pay ANY subscription fee! I was unable to pursue my business any further - how could I compete when there was already a site giving away the ignorant half-thoughts of computer nerds for way under cost? The sooner I see this "Slashdot" brought before the courts on anti-trust charges, the better.
After reading through the comments, I am seeing a lot of emphasis being put on stuff like calculus (or mulitvariate calculus.. or vector caculus =) ). If you are just looking to broaden your horizons a bit, I would probably steer clear of the applied maths and give pure math a look, especially if you've never been exposed to it. Most good introductory books will be self-contained enough that you don't need any other background, and the material that they cover will be miles removed from what you covered in other highschool or college courses.
I'd really recommend you check out some graph theory. It's pretty, it's pretty easy to grasp, it's got some suprising applications, and it's quite different from the usual calculus-type fare. You'll also get a nice introduction to techniques for proving things, which can be fun. Other interesting choices might be number theory, analysis, combinatorics... the list goes on. Give it a try!
Of course, there is the point of whose sales are being hurt. People might be buying CD's, but there is much less guarantee that it will be from the major labels - it's a lot harder for them to shove Britney Spears or Moby down your throat when you're dealing with a P2P network. A lot of those CD's that are sold after being heard on a P2P network are not being bought from big labels - they are getting bought from tiny, independent labels that likely have no connection with the RIAA and no exposure anywhere else. Could they perhaps be upset that their control of the music market would be loosened?
With mainstream stuff, the whole CD is frequently online. When I download it, it sucks, so I don't buy the damned thing. If they offered a quality product, perhaps P2P wouldn't cut into their profits as much.
The article claims it will be platform and hardware-independent, and that most of the compiler will be open-source. The NVIDIA folk also make the specific claim that stuff written for the Geforce chips should run on an ATI Radeon 8500.
Poster #1- that's actually an earlier *nix-type operating system.
Poster #2 - Linux is actually born out of Minix. The Linux kernel was originally written to work within the Minix system, as Linus himself explained when Linux was first announced [google.com].
Poster #3 - Sorry, but Minix [cs.vu.nl] is already taken.
LED's are almost there--and efficiencies are climbing. Main problem right now is that they're expensive. But already, I see they're being used for the red, and, increasingly, the green lights in traffic lights around here.
The city of Vancouver has actually approved funds to replace all the standard traffic lights with LED-based ones... They expect power savings somwhere in the region of $4 million per year! I found that suprising.
I'd never seen this form before... I love the fact that it has a "paid preparer" box at the bottom. What kind of person pays an accountant to fill out a one page form? =)
"Heck, Martha, I ain't sure how to figger out this dag-blasted 1040EZ, what with it's numbers and all. Let's pay Zeke to do our taxes again."
Most 50 year olds aren't coders because they can do better for themselves. If you have 20 years of experience building software, are you going to sit there and code, or are you going to take that $100K management or systems analysis position that's going begging? Decades of experience will give you an edge, regardless of whether or not you know the latest "in" language.
Coding requires much less experience, and more immediate knowledge of modern techiques. A young person will be more up-to-date, simply because he learns the best tools available, which are also the newest. He will have the latest skills, and is the obvious pick for the lower-level engineering positions, simply because you don't need much experience to code.
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My university also has subscriptions to the majority of the big databases, but they are still more of a supplement to print than a replacement, especially for some disciplines. I tried using some of the fine arts databases for a project on Robert Smithson - it was a complete waste of time. The only paper I've ever been able to do completely on-line was (suprise!) on biomedical computing
I would be thrilled to know how the Riemann (not Reimann) zeta function relates to being a real security expert. As far as I can see, this post was no different than the "1337er-than-U" pissing-contest that formed the majority of this article.
How many times can we beat to death the same piece of information? This is, at a minimum, the third time in the past year that we've heard the stunning "news" that async could potentially have speed advantages - and seen the endless user comments about design complexity, how it's been done with a K6/PI/PII/P3/Vic20, and how some guy's friend-who-works-at-best-buy thinks it is the wave of the future. Even the same jokes about telling time.
The editors at Slashdot really need to start doing some proper editing for once - the need for fast publication does not excuse monstrous sloppiness. Is it more important to get that article out in 5 minutes, or spend another 3 checking that you haven't posted the identical article a month ago?
Clockless Computing Wednesday November 14, @04:50PM
Clockless Computing: State of the Art Saturday September 15, @09:26AM
Some guy talks about computers without clocks Monday March 05, @09:29AM
I am hardly a fanatical reader with nothing better to do than bitch about trivialities. I am a casual, occasional reader, coming back at random intervals only to find essentially the same content.
First, if your store doesn't carry anything other than the typical "Ibiza Super Dance Party Mix 2002 feat. Oakenfold + Sasha REMIX (Digweed)!" then I'd be moving on. Here in Vancouver, some of the big chains have huge downtown stores that carry a pretty good selection of electronic and electroacoustic-type stuff. However, most of the chains in the 'burbs frankly suck some major goat ass. Don't buy "gourmet foods" from Walmart - don't buy slightly-less-mass-market music at PopWorld.
Secondly, if I was looking for informed opinions about virtually any of the arts, you wouldn't find me trotting off to ask your average Slashdot goober. Why not find an arts forum, or ask some musicians? Most musicians have a frighteningly encyclopedic knowledge about a huge array of music that you and I would never have heard of - music is their livelihood/passion, and they have invested a large chunk of their life thinking about it, listening to it, looking it up. Odds are, your average slashdotter spent this time updating their kernel and forgetting to shower.
When you come down to it, it's just a matter of finding the most informed people - if I had a problem with Linux, or needed an ignorant rant, or wanted to know about case mods, I would ask Slashdot. If I had a car problem or a gardening question, I would ask a mechanic or a gardener, because I'd rather not sift through 200 replies of the form "have you watered it?" or "check the oil." Similarly, I suspect you don't want to sift through 800 pages of "Paul Oakenfold/PaulVanDye/ArmandVanHelden!" (blarg) or "Aphex Twin/Boards of Canada/Stereolab!" (yay!).
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what somebody who has taken a first-year art course sounds like. Moving along - postmodernism, and how to make irritating, sweeping generalizations about complex trends.
I actually was forced out of business by a monopoly myself when I was recently heading up a small Internet start-up. I had heard in an AOL "chat room" that you can make money selling ads on something called the World Web. My intuition told me this WW business could turn out to be the next "big thing", and I immediately decided to give it a good ol' go - I wanted to be the first to market in this new economy.
My concept was fairly simple, but also fairly creative - I would have a news "site", just like on television, but digital! The really big "twist" was that (after paying a small subscription fee) the readers could post messges about the news presented - it would even keep track of who said what! When we finally "went live", my company had designed a site devoted to providing older, second-hand information about everything from law, to music, to culture, and occasionally even technology (although my techies tell me it seems to be "mostly just notices of the latest minor-version revision of Linucks crap rather than real tech news" - it's all Greek to me anyways). Our target audience consisted of 16-30 year old virgin smelly/unkempt/unmannered males, and in particular those who know nothing or essentially nothing about the topic at hand. Little did I know, but there was already a site that was almost a carbon copy of my own, and they didn't even have to pay ANY subscription fee! I was unable to pursue my business any further - how could I compete when there was already a site giving away the ignorant half-thoughts of computer nerds for way under cost? The sooner I see this "Slashdot" brought before the courts on anti-trust charges, the better.
After reading through the comments, I am seeing a lot of emphasis being put on stuff like calculus (or mulitvariate calculus.. or vector caculus =) ). If you are just looking to broaden your horizons a bit, I would probably steer clear of the applied maths and give pure math a look, especially if you've never been exposed to it. Most good introductory books will be self-contained enough that you don't need any other background, and the material that they cover will be miles removed from what you covered in other highschool or college courses.
I'd really recommend you check out some graph theory. It's pretty, it's pretty easy to grasp, it's got some suprising applications, and it's quite different from the usual calculus-type fare. You'll also get a nice introduction to techniques for proving things, which can be fun. Other interesting choices might be number theory, analysis, combinatorics... the list goes on. Give it a try!
Karma whore here.
Of course, there is the point of whose sales are being hurt. People might be buying CD's, but there is much less guarantee that it will be from the major labels - it's a lot harder for them to shove Britney Spears or Moby down your throat when you're dealing with a P2P network. A lot of those CD's that are sold after being heard on a P2P network are not being bought from big labels - they are getting bought from tiny, independent labels that likely have no connection with the RIAA and no exposure anywhere else. Could they perhaps be upset that their control of the music market would be loosened?
With mainstream stuff, the whole CD is frequently online. When I download it, it sucks, so I don't buy the damned thing. If they offered a quality product, perhaps P2P wouldn't cut into their profits as much.
"What's a microprocessor doing in a fridge, Bobby?"
"Keeping itself cool, Dirk."
The article claims it will be platform and hardware-independent, and that most of the compiler will be open-source. The NVIDIA folk also make the specific claim that stuff written for the Geforce chips should run on an ATI Radeon 8500.
Silly me.
If my employer was going to give me a bonified contract, it would just be that much more incentive to leave. =) Pokey!
Pintos are generally faster, too. =)
Seems like every few years, somebody has to trot out the tablet-based computing idea. =)
I think if I was a millionaire, I wouldn't be dicking around trying to build a projector... I'd just buy one. =)
My requirements also include distribution names that include silly puns and/or geek jokes, such as recursively-defined names.
Poster #2 - Linux is actually born out of Minix. The Linux kernel was originally written to work within the Minix system, as Linus himself explained when Linux was first announced [google.com].
Poster #3 - Sorry, but Minix [cs.vu.nl] is already taken.
Attention would-be Linux History professors:
It. Was. A. Joke.
That is all.
The city of Vancouver has actually approved funds to replace all the standard traffic lights with LED-based ones... They expect power savings somwhere in the region of $4 million per year! I found that suprising.
Boxer shorts, VirusScan? =)
I'd never seen this form before... I love the fact that it has a "paid preparer" box at the bottom. What kind of person pays an accountant to fill out a one page form? =)
"Heck, Martha, I ain't sure how to figger out this dag-blasted 1040EZ, what with it's numbers and all. Let's pay Zeke to do our taxes again."
Why, because of all the exploding CD's, of course. =)
Most 50 year olds aren't coders because they can do better for themselves. If you have 20 years of experience building software, are you going to sit there and code, or are you going to take that $100K management or systems analysis position that's going begging? Decades of experience will give you an edge, regardless of whether or not you know the latest "in" language.
Coding requires much less experience, and more immediate knowledge of modern techiques. A young person will be more up-to-date, simply because he learns the best tools available, which are also the newest. He will have the latest skills, and is the obvious pick for the lower-level engineering positions, simply because you don't need much experience to code.
I find this storage technology troubling... There could be cubes the size of elephants floating around in there!
This problem is obvious, to anybody with an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, m-hay.
The lazy man's guide to building a computerized android head:
Step one - Find an android.
Step two - Decapitate said android.