That's copyrighted by Symantec -- it was the ad tagline for the debugging component of Visual Cafe.
I don't think they knew how funny it was, but I had it on my cube wall for a time (1998-1999 era)
No, homework is about teaching you self-discipline, so that you don't become a lazy sloth the rest of your life. Plus, you learn stuff at the same time, which is cool.
If only my folks had been this down-to-earth with me. Instead, I slacked off on my homework because I understood the material well enough to ace the tests. All of which worked dandy until I got to college and failed two 5-credit-hour classes in my first semester.
As soon as I needed the homework to learn the topic, the lack of self-discipline caused me to fall flat on my face (and eat a few grand in tuition dollars to boot)
High School and younger students -- if you already know the topic and the homework bores you, go ahead and blow it off. But save your pennies, because when the lack of self-discipline catches up with you it's gonna be costly.
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In this context, it doesn't much matter whether the "program" is half a million lines of gigaflop-sucking Fortran or a Buck Rogers Secret Decoder Ring. They were (fairly contentedly) starved for meaningful input.
You are absolutely correct in that they had no real data at the time. The problem is that they used an unsophisticated tool to perform a task for which was was never intended, and then (upon liking the results) stopped looking for more data or a better tool. NASA had ordered telescopic images of the shuttle's wing. They cancelled that order when this "Buck Rogers Secret Decoder Ring" told them that everything was fine. That is where the problem lies, and why "just a spreadsheet" matters.
My father's business was facing a possible audit. All the books were kept on ledger sheets (one page of paper per customer) and his accountant was horrified.
I spent several long days typing the ledger sheets into VisiCalc sheets, which would then print out in a similar format, but with the balance figured by computer, not by hand.
Granted, if you look at this with 2003's perspective, it looks like banging the rocks together to make ones and zeros. But at the time, it would have cost a pile of money to get someone with a snazzy mainframe to do, and here's some kid knocking it off in the basement. The accountant was floored.
And I got paid for playing on a computer. My lord, how little has changed. --
Room temp superconductivity is nifty. What's (literally) incredible is that the guy is claiming to have produced
"Bose-Einstein-type condensate" at room temperature, as opposed to the usual few-billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
I find "experimental error" to be far more plausible, but of course it's hard to know without seeing both the original researcher's work as well as third-party confirmation results.
A bit of searching at the Cronicle's site turned up
this link for the quoted story.
It appears to be directly quoted by commondreams, FWIW.
I'm curious about something -- If it's not an anomoly caused within the guy's camera, how come nobody else saw it? It's not like San Fran isn't populated.
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While I love the
Astronomy Picture Of The Day
and the similarly-cool
Hubblesite pics of this event,
All the good-sized images have that annoying twinkly-crosshairs look to them. The Hubblesite pics include
this small image
without them, but all of the large-format images that I can find have the "star filter" applied. Does anyone know where I could find a large, unaltered image or images?
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"a significant development in the context of transparent electronics"
And in other news, the empty bowl on my desk is a significant development in the context of people eating my lunch today.
Of course overclockers are a significant source of revenue.
Typical consumers buy CPUs at a rate of 1 per motherboard.
I know of one overclocker who buys 4-5 CPUs per motherboard, but still insists that he's getting a bargain by overclocking.
A quick googling found a CNN story from August, 2002.
I know there were products on the market a year ago that offered the same service, but can't remember the company name off the top of my head.
Anyone find an older reference?
Slashdot Mirror
As the car rolls down the ramp, somebody steers it and applies the brakes.
That's all I got
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Write once, debug everwhere.
That's copyrighted by Symantec -- it was the ad tagline for the debugging component of Visual Cafe.
I don't think they knew how funny it was, but I had it on my cube wall for a time (1998-1999 era)
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As soon as I needed the homework to learn the topic, the lack of self-discipline caused me to fall flat on my face (and eat a few grand in tuition dollars to boot)
High School and younger students -- if you already know the topic and the homework bores you, go ahead and blow it off. But save your pennies, because when the lack of self-discipline catches up with you it's gonna be costly.
--
In this context, it doesn't much matter whether the "program" is half a million lines of gigaflop-sucking Fortran or a Buck Rogers Secret Decoder Ring. They were (fairly contentedly) starved for meaningful input.
You are absolutely correct in that they had no real data at the time. The problem is that they used an unsophisticated tool to perform a task for which was was never intended, and then (upon liking the results) stopped looking for more data or a better tool.
NASA had ordered telescopic images of the shuttle's wing. They cancelled that order when this "Buck Rogers Secret Decoder Ring" told them that everything was fine.
That is where the problem lies, and why "just a spreadsheet" matters.
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As a certail Miami-based columnist once noted,
Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the "most reliable Windows ever." To me, this is like saying that asparagus is "the most articulate vegetable ever."
I highly recommend reading the whole thing, it's worth the 5 minutes.
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My father's business was facing a possible audit. All the books were kept on ledger sheets (one page of paper per customer) and his accountant was horrified.
I spent several long days typing the ledger sheets into VisiCalc sheets, which would then print out in a similar format, but with the balance figured by computer, not by hand.
Granted, if you look at this with 2003's perspective, it looks like banging the rocks together to make ones and zeros. But at the time, it would have cost a pile of money to get someone with a snazzy mainframe to do, and here's some kid knocking it off in the basement. The accountant was floored.
And I got paid for playing on a computer. My lord, how little has changed.
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you can't buy single Via processors anyway
I think you're mistaken
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We've been over this already back in March. Granted, that article was looking in New Scientist, and this one is looking at MIT Tech Review, but they both refer to the same work done by Shelley Minteer at St Louis University in Missouri
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Room temp superconductivity is nifty. What's (literally) incredible is that the guy is claiming to have produced "Bose-Einstein-type condensate" at room temperature, as opposed to the usual few-billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
I find "experimental error" to be far more plausible, but of course it's hard to know without seeing both the original researcher's work as well as third-party confirmation results.
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"Who would buy a computer without a keyboard?"
I have four of 'em.
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LMAO
but DQYDJ, IMHO
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A bit of searching at the Cronicle's site turned up this link for the quoted story.
It appears to be directly quoted by commondreams, FWIW.
I'm curious about something -- If it's not an anomoly caused within the guy's camera, how come nobody else saw it? It's not like San Fran isn't populated.
--
While I love the Astronomy Picture Of The Day and the similarly-cool Hubblesite pics of this event, All the good-sized images have that annoying twinkly-crosshairs look to them. The Hubblesite pics include this small image without them, but all of the large-format images that I can find have the "star filter" applied. Does anyone know where I could find a large, unaltered image or images?
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echo "Grkg" | tr [A-Za-z] [N-ZA-Mn-za-m]
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SUPPLIES!!!
but it would speed up /.
Careful there, or you'll start posting tomorrow's dupes today.
From the previous story, you can find There here.
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Mod: -1 Really Jealous
Although your sig couldn't fit the post any better if you tried.
"a significant development in the context of transparent electronics"
And in other news, the empty bowl on my desk is a significant development in the context of people eating my lunch today.
One of my neighbors started to worry about privacy issues, but he's refs-unpersons now.
Of course overclockers are a significant source of revenue.
Typical consumers buy CPUs at a rate of 1 per motherboard.
I know of one overclocker who buys 4-5 CPUs per motherboard, but still insists that he's getting a bargain by overclocking.
A quick googling found a CNN story from August, 2002.
I know there were products on the market a year ago that offered the same service, but can't remember the company name off the top of my head.
Anyone find an older reference?
And that, my friends, takes a lot of balls.
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