So I started adding/deleting a period or space every couple days and then saving it, so my resume would always be "current" and near the top of the list. It really increases your clicks.
Yeah, but now that you put it on/., I'm not sure how useful that advice is anymore.
A follow-up by zzzreyes here.
He doesn't need the investment advice and it's beside the point. I guess mentioning the source of the money was a small mistake on his part, but that's no excuse for the endless off-topic posts.
It means a lot of things, on different levels. I'll just list a few that come to mind, without going into details.
Choice. One thing that distinguishes man from machine is the ability to make irrational choices. One of the best lines of the movie: "Because I choose to." IOW, I have no good reason to fight you, but it's my choice to do so, and I am free to make that choice.
Politics. Peace can be achieved through other means than war. Neo goes empty-handed to machine city and "negotiates" a truce.
Faith vs Knowledge. The Oracle represents, to me, the ability to believe without seeing, ie, faith. The Architect represents scientific knowledge. The world needs both.
Freedom. The Architect implies at the end that people can be freed if they choose to. But will they? If freedom comes with a high price, are we likely to take it? I think a lot of us would choose to stay in the Matrix (which can be regarded as a metaphor for the political and economical system of the western societies).
These are just abstract ideas that the Matrix movies make me think about. In terms of explanations of the actual events in the movie, look at various other posts here. There are plenty of good explanations. Many of the things are resolved, but you have to think about them a bit. Others are ambiguous, probably on purpose. And yet others are harder to explain. But, after all, it's just a movie, and not every single detail is important. The movie(s) achieved its goals: to entertain me and to make me think.
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I agree wholeheartedly. The ending was unexpected, but it was the obvious choice in retrospect.
I guess a lot of sci-fi geeks expected a geek ending to a geek movie, with machines being blown to bits:) and sun in the sky. In other words, a totally unrealistic, feel-good, hollywood ending. When it didn't happen, people felt betrayed. Even more so since the ending is far from happy.
I mean, I don't think they have a bunch of retards working for them, and if a bunch of Slashdot posters can figure this out, one would assume that RedHat could also.
Don't be so sure. Look at all the blunders made by corporations when it came to Unix: AT&T, Sun, DEC, etc (see here).
History repeats itself, it seems.
(of it's not that simple; there are many forces pushing for such decisions; but the lack of vision and coherent strategy is sad, to say the least).
This is a very good point. Red Hat, Inc built its reputation and brand name with the hobby crowd. Now they are alienating it by doing this. I kinda understand the decision, but why be so drastic? End support for RH9 is April? End of line for RHL? Why not have support for RH9 until the end of 2004 and say that RHL is continued by Fedora, a community-developed distribution sponsored by RH?
This is bad PR and bad management, in the "good" tradition of corporate blindness to long-term objectives.
He's talking in the review about jigglevision as a 3-d simulation technique: basically you put the two images in a GIF animation loop. It looks funny, and not good funny.
My question is, couldn't this technique provide realistic 3-d effects? If I could put the two images in a 60fps loop, wouldn't the eye be fooled into seeing both images at the same time and somehow giving the 3-d effect? If this works, I'm sure somebody did it before. Anyone has references? If it doesn't work, why not? Maybe I would just see a blurred image...
I think most Mercedes cars have it too. My 1986 Mercedes had it, anyway, and it was fun to watch. It had two zones, black and red, and it would go to red (low MPG) as soon as I pushed harder on the gas.
...providing free Internet access to faculty, students, staff and visitors to the Case campus and University Circle. (emphasis mine)
Looking on this page, the University Circle is quite a large area, with bussinesses, museums, etc. They purposefully covered an area much larger than the campus. It might be that there are even some University facilities in the extended area, far from the main campus (this tends to be the case with old universities in urban environments).
But, as another poster implied, this is mainly a PR stunt to boost the image of the University. The article is a press release.
The patch that's most useful to me is a small fix in USB support for the Sony DSC-P series of digital cameras. No more custom kernels for me. So if you have such a camera, just plug it in and mount/dev/sda1 (if that's your only SCSI device). It's a mass storage device.
That's actually an ad for amazon.com. The Chilliware page at amazon is here. They also list Mentor and iceSculptor, but the latter is out of stock. The others are probably old copies, since they have just a couple in stock. And the prices are outrageous for such old, unmaintained products.
No, no, no, no! You have to understand what's behind those rules. Once you get the concepts, you can come up with rules yourself, or realize that many rules are just variants of one single rule/formula.
Like the poster above, I have a bad memory, yet I've done math or math-related things all my life. I've had high-level calculus courses and I could never remember all the complicated proofs and formulas taught, but I could reproduce them by remembering the ideas behind them and maybe a few tricks used.
I think your teachers hide their lack of understanding/interest behind formulas and rules. Try talking to someone who can give you the big picture. Once you get it, the rest will seem much easier.
I got all my Calculus outside the US, so I don't know of such books. However, there are many intriguing suggestions in this thread. What I would suggest is reading about the history of Calculus: the problems that lead to its invention by Newton and Leibnitz. This will give you a good understanding of its most common applications. An anecdote that I heard was that Newton was asked to compute the area of a weirdly shaped (curvy) piece of land. He used integrals, of course.
From personal experience, I think having a good teacher that can explain Calculus intuitively is extremely important. Learning it from a book or from somebody who spits formulas at you is not the best way.
In your haste to get the first post, you didn't read the (very short) article:
The company hopes that the changes help to overcome the long lead time needed to produce boxed sets. With a six-month release cycle, and with the rapid pace of Linux development, many packages shipped on CD are obsolete before they ever reach retail shelves.
However, it is not clear from the article whether they will still sell to the public and how. Not everybody can be expected to download the 2+ GB distribution.
Not true. The DRU-500A model (OEM) is only $210 at newegg. According to that page, it can burn all 4 types. The new model, DRU-510A, is $289, which is not that outrageous either.
Oh, this is getting so off-topic. But, anyway, the page you cited is quite interesting. Here's a quote (about the calendar before the Julius Cesar reforms):
In practice it was the duty of the priesthood to keep track of the calendars, but they failed miserably, partly due to ignorance, partly because they were bribed to make certain years long and other years short. Furthermore, leap years were considered unlucky and were therefore avoided in time of crisis, such as the Second Punic War.
!!! MORE SPOILERS !!!
!!! SPOILERS !!! You have been warned.
All me and my friends can figure out is that they are trapped inside a matrix within a matrix
I thought so too, at the beginning, but then I reconsidered. It's too obvious and it would make the first movie rather pointless.
I also think I understand why they alllow Neo to exist and return again and again (besides fixing a flaw). it sets humanity on a predictable course
They don't *allow* him to exist, he is the one flaw that is inevitable in the Matrix (according to the architect). My thinking is that the Matrix tolerates the existence of Zion (and they don't destroy it completely in each iteration---that would explain the 23 people) because the people there can find the one flaw. The Matrix itself cannot find it. Then, the oracle brings the one to the source, helping to reload the Matrix. They take a small risk that the one will destroy the matrix, but, every time, the human nature takes over and the one cannot bring himself to destroy the Matrix (and everything else with it...)
Unfortunately, this doesn't explain why Neo was capable of stopping the sentinels and why the people of Zion don't remember the other Matrix reloads (remember what the architect said about how old everything is).
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Yeah, but now that you put it on /., I'm not sure how useful that advice is anymore.
A follow-up by zzzreyes here. He doesn't need the investment advice and it's beside the point. I guess mentioning the source of the money was a small mistake on his part, but that's no excuse for the endless off-topic posts.
It means a lot of things, on different levels. I'll just list a few that come to mind, without going into details.
- Choice. One thing that distinguishes man from machine is the ability to make irrational choices. One of the best lines of the movie: "Because I choose to." IOW, I have no good reason to fight you, but it's my choice to do so, and I am free to make that choice.
- Politics. Peace can be achieved through other means than war. Neo goes empty-handed to machine city and "negotiates" a truce.
- Faith vs Knowledge. The Oracle represents, to me, the ability to believe without seeing, ie, faith. The Architect represents scientific knowledge. The world needs both.
- Freedom. The Architect implies at the end that people can be freed if they choose to. But will they? If freedom comes with a high price, are we likely to take it? I think a lot of us would choose to stay in the Matrix (which can be regarded as a metaphor for the political and economical system of the western societies).
These are just abstract ideas that the Matrix movies make me think about. In terms of explanations of the actual events in the movie, look at various other posts here. There are plenty of good explanations. Many of the things are resolved, but you have to think about them a bit. Others are ambiguous, probably on purpose. And yet others are harder to explain. But, after all, it's just a movie, and not every single detail is important. The movie(s) achieved its goals: to entertain me and to make me think.I agree wholeheartedly. The ending was unexpected, but it was the obvious choice in retrospect. I guess a lot of sci-fi geeks expected a geek ending to a geek movie, with machines being blown to bits :) and sun in the sky. In other words, a totally unrealistic, feel-good, hollywood ending. When it didn't happen, people felt betrayed. Even more so since the ending is far from happy.
Don't be so sure. Look at all the blunders made by corporations when it came to Unix: AT&T, Sun, DEC, etc (see here). History repeats itself, it seems.
(of it's not that simple; there are many forces pushing for such decisions; but the lack of vision and coherent strategy is sad, to say the least).
This is a very good point. Red Hat, Inc built its reputation and brand name with the hobby crowd. Now they are alienating it by doing this. I kinda understand the decision, but why be so drastic? End support for RH9 is April? End of line for RHL? Why not have support for RH9 until the end of 2004 and say that RHL is continued by Fedora, a community-developed distribution sponsored by RH? This is bad PR and bad management, in the "good" tradition of corporate blindness to long-term objectives.
But does it block ESR's site?
My question is, couldn't this technique provide realistic 3-d effects? If I could put the two images in a 60fps loop, wouldn't the eye be fooled into seeing both images at the same time and somehow giving the 3-d effect? If this works, I'm sure somebody did it before. Anyone has references? If it doesn't work, why not? Maybe I would just see a blurred image...
I think most Mercedes cars have it too. My 1986 Mercedes had it, anyway, and it was fun to watch. It had two zones, black and red, and it would go to red (low MPG) as soon as I pushed harder on the gas.
Only current students, faculty and staff of CWRU are authorized to use the wireless network and VPN services.
Does this mean that the "public" can use the network, but not the VPN? It's not clear from their pages. Anyone tried it?No need for hearsay. They say so themselves. It was $1.5 billion in 2000.
...providing free Internet access to faculty, students, staff and visitors to the Case campus and University Circle. (emphasis mine)
Looking on this page, the University Circle is quite a large area, with bussinesses, museums, etc. They purposefully covered an area much larger than the campus. It might be that there are even some University facilities in the extended area, far from the main campus (this tends to be the case with old universities in urban environments).
But, as another poster implied, this is mainly a PR stunt to boost the image of the University. The article is a press release.
The patch that's most useful to me is a small fix in USB support for the Sony DSC-P series of digital cameras. No more custom kernels for me. So if you have such a camera, just plug it in and mount /dev/sda1 (if that's your only SCSI device). It's a mass storage device.
That's actually an ad for amazon.com. The Chilliware page at amazon is here. They also list Mentor and iceSculptor, but the latter is out of stock. The others are probably old copies, since they have just a couple in stock. And the prices are outrageous for such old, unmaintained products.
Like the poster above, I have a bad memory, yet I've done math or math-related things all my life. I've had high-level calculus courses and I could never remember all the complicated proofs and formulas taught, but I could reproduce them by remembering the ideas behind them and maybe a few tricks used.
I think your teachers hide their lack of understanding/interest behind formulas and rules. Try talking to someone who can give you the big picture. Once you get it, the rest will seem much easier.
From personal experience, I think having a good teacher that can explain Calculus intuitively is extremely important. Learning it from a book or from somebody who spits formulas at you is not the best way.
And while in the area, go to Los Alamos, New Mexico. At the Bradbury Science Museum, they have lots of interesting stuff, including life-size replicas of the first nuclear bombs.
Is there an addon for this?
The company hopes that the changes help to overcome the long lead time needed to produce boxed sets. With a six-month release cycle, and with the rapid pace of Linux development, many packages shipped on CD are obsolete before they ever reach retail shelves.
However, it is not clear from the article whether they will still sell to the public and how. Not everybody can be expected to download the 2+ GB distribution.
Not true. The DRU-500A model (OEM) is only $210 at newegg. According to that page, it can burn all 4 types. The new model, DRU-510A, is $289, which is not that outrageous either.
All I could find was this: we pot the o in .org
!!! SPOILERS !!! You have been warned.
All me and my friends can figure out is that they are trapped inside a matrix within a matrix
I thought so too, at the beginning, but then I reconsidered. It's too obvious and it would make the first movie rather pointless.
I also think I understand why they alllow Neo to exist and return again and again (besides fixing a flaw). it sets humanity on a predictable course
They don't *allow* him to exist, he is the one flaw that is inevitable in the Matrix (according to the architect). My thinking is that the Matrix tolerates the existence of Zion (and they don't destroy it completely in each iteration---that would explain the 23 people) because the people there can find the one flaw. The Matrix itself cannot find it. Then, the oracle brings the one to the source, helping to reload the Matrix. They take a small risk that the one will destroy the matrix, but, every time, the human nature takes over and the one cannot bring himself to destroy the Matrix (and everything else with it...)
Unfortunately, this doesn't explain why Neo was capable of stopping the sentinels and why the people of Zion don't remember the other Matrix reloads (remember what the architect said about how old everything is).
!!! END SPOILERS !!!
It is expensive. Dynamism sells it for $2300, and EarthPS has it for $2700. Also, it's not widely available. Froogle finds only two stores.