many universities have their own distros, even. BU, for example, has BU Linux. (it's crap, but at least it's actively supported)
dunno what shite school you go to that has such asinie network policies.
lest we forget, Weta does all their video processing on massive linux clusters. I'd consider Lord of the Rings to be a pretty "professional video editing" example, wouldn't you?
scripting language holy wars aside, python WILL teach good programming style, it's clean, easy to learn, multiplatform, and if you want a good real world example of why it's useful --- well, bittorrent comes to mind.
nice idea, and it slows people down. give me 5 minutes, ethereal, and ifconfig, and i can find a valid MAC, spoof it, and be happily requesting my own IP -- so it is far from perfect. My university's wireless has no restricitions, but maps client IPs to a heavily restricted subnet (you can pull down the "welcome to our wireless network" information page, and that is/it/). If you want out of that subnet, you have to use a vpn client to get a "real", full-functional IP. There are ways around that, too, but they're somewhat nontrivial.
(this may have been a double-submit, sorry)
nice idea, and it slows people down. give me 5 minutes, ethereal, and iwconfig, and i can find a valid MAC, spoof it, and be happily requesting my own IP -- so it is far from perfect.
complex behavior from a simple model? That just sounds like a parameter-sensitive system of differential eqations. Am I missing something? A "complex" ecological system (or any other system) is normally modeled well (or well enough) over a set of conditions with a linear second-order system, and if it isn't, there exist well-tested tools for nonlinear analysis for high-order systems.
no dispute, really. I just finished reading Lillian Smith's Killers of the Dream, and so her idea of a cultural mental block on thinking too hard about things in the South was fresh in my mind.
people, especially those encouraged throught their lives (by culture as a whole, not nessecarily religion -- Deep South, i'm looking at you right now) not to think too hard, rely on a few things they hold as immutable fact for their sanity. Essentially, they're living in abject fear. Anything that even approaches a "threat" to those things provokes an instant, firey, often violent response. Ideally, nobody should have to live like that; but as long as some people do, they are deserving of our pity more than anything else.
Yes, you are. From How to Ask Smart Questions, "We've found by experience that people who are careless and sloppy writers are usually also careless and sloppy at thinking and coding (often enough to bet on, anyway). Answering questions for careless and sloppy thinkers is not rewarding; we'd rather spend our time elsewhere.
So expressing your question clearly and well is important. If you can't be bothered to do that, we can't be bothered to pay attention. Spend the extra effort to polish your language. It doesn't have to be stiff or formal -- in fact, hacker culture values informal, slangy and humorous language used with precision. But it has to be precise; there has to be some indication that you're thinking and paying attention.
Spell, punctuate, and capitalize correctly. Don't confuse "its" with "it's", "loose" with "lose", or "discrete" with "discreet". Don't TYPE IN ALL CAPS, this is read as shouting and considered rude. (All-smalls is only slightly less annoying, as it's difficult to read. Alan Cox can get away with it, but you can't.)
More generally, if you write like a semi-literate boob you will very likely be ignored. Writing like a l33t script kiddie hax0r is the absolute kiss of death and guarantees you will receive nothing but stony silence (or, at best, a heaping helping of scorn and sarcasm) in return."
Personally, poor grammar and frequent errors in spelling cause an obscure form of mental anguish. I reflexively correct people online, which causes no end of irritation, but i really don't care. Sloppy expression is tied up with sloppy thought, which makes getting work done nigh upon impossible.
Bleach. Gunslinger Girl. Witch Hunter Robin. Mononoke-Hime. Speed Grapher. The aforementioned Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop. Each and every one of those i wouldn't show to a kid under 15. Not a one pays more than token lipservice to the stereotypes, and i'm pretty sure blue hair is absent from all.
It isnt' that there isn't good anime out there, but instead, like all media, there's a lot of shit as well as a lot of good stuff. Anything you see on TV is either shit on a stick (like, oh, Sailor Moon and DBZ... *shudder*), or horribly dubbed (kenshin comes to mind. my GOD, the voices are horrible).
It's annoying though when you're playing Counterstrike and you use the scrollwheel to select weapons - you have to be careful not to overshoot the one you wanted.
And you've hit directly on the reason i like my scroll wheel and not touchpads. Games let you bind stuff to mousewheel{up,dowm} and middle click. These are normally really helpful things, too, like flipping through weapons and reloading. Getting that to work well with a touchpad is dodgy at best.
Yep. I've always thought that Yoda's first encounter with Luke in episode 5 played out in a very Zen fashion. Actually, the Force syncs up nicely in a fairly general way with $EASTERN_PHILOSOPHY in general.
if movies constitute art (and that's a stretch sometimes, i know), then willingly modifying the finished work constitutes an aesthetic offense of the highest order. A work of art conveys meaning, and that meaning is intentionally placed by the artist (most of the time). If you don't like the meaning, don't view the artwork at all -- don't distort it to something that it's not. I feel that this applies both to the viewers and the creator, post-creation (see george lucas..).
What you do in your own home is none of my business, really -- so if you feel like ruining a film, be my guest. Just keep that choice bit in mind.
This is not a new trend -- the victorians had a nasty habit of painting clothes onto nude paintings, and it's taken thousands of man-hours to fix the mess they left behind, just as an example.
autoclaves don't do much against heat-shock bacteria, either. Anything that can live next to a fucking volcano (and by next to, i mean 6 inches away from), deserves special treatment. Clearly, this means direct flame.
fedora would be great, save for two glaring errors. First, there are multiple, conflicting package repositories -- and you can't mix and match most of them safely. Second, though it's been promised since core 1, it's still not possible to update from core 1 to core 2 with just yum/apt (and likewise for core 2 - core 3), which means you're reinstalling and reconfiguring your OS every 6 months.
and right then the girl's cell phone in the booth next to us goes off and plays "Take me out the ballgame". That was a weird coincidence.
i have a better one. the ambulance crew and myself had just rolled into the ER with our patient, who had jumped a fence while chasing some vandals. The cop is in to take his statement, and the cop's personal ringone goes off. It is, natch, "bad boys bad boys, whatcha gonna do".
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many universities have their own distros, even. BU, for example, has BU Linux. (it's crap, but at least it's actively supported) dunno what shite school you go to that has such asinie network policies.
lest we forget, Weta does all their video processing on massive linux clusters. I'd consider Lord of the Rings to be a pretty "professional video editing" example, wouldn't you?
scripting language holy wars aside, python WILL teach good programming style, it's clean, easy to learn, multiplatform, and if you want a good real world example of why it's useful --- well, bittorrent comes to mind.
nice idea, and it slows people down. give me 5 minutes, ethereal, and ifconfig, and i can find a valid MAC, spoof it, and be happily requesting my own IP -- so it is far from perfect. My university's wireless has no restricitions, but maps client IPs to a heavily restricted subnet (you can pull down the "welcome to our wireless network" information page, and that is /it/). If you want out of that subnet, you have to use a vpn client to get a "real", full-functional IP. There are ways around that, too, but they're somewhat nontrivial.
(this may have been a double-submit, sorry)
nice idea, and it slows people down. give me 5 minutes, ethereal, and iwconfig, and i can find a valid MAC, spoof it, and be happily requesting my own IP -- so it is far from perfect.
complex behavior from a simple model? That just sounds like a parameter-sensitive system of differential eqations. Am I missing something? A "complex" ecological system (or any other system) is normally modeled well (or well enough) over a set of conditions with a linear second-order system, and if it isn't, there exist well-tested tools for nonlinear analysis for high-order systems.
no dispute, really. I just finished reading Lillian Smith's Killers of the Dream, and so her idea of a cultural mental block on thinking too hard about things in the South was fresh in my mind.
people, especially those encouraged throught their lives (by culture as a whole, not nessecarily religion -- Deep South, i'm looking at you right now) not to think too hard, rely on a few things they hold as immutable fact for their sanity. Essentially, they're living in abject fear. Anything that even approaches a "threat" to those things provokes an instant, firey, often violent response. Ideally, nobody should have to live like that; but as long as some people do, they are deserving of our pity more than anything else.
"... Am I missing something here?"
Yes, you are. From How to Ask Smart Questions, "We've found by experience that people who are careless and sloppy writers are usually also careless and sloppy at thinking and coding (often enough to bet on, anyway). Answering questions for careless and sloppy thinkers is not rewarding; we'd rather spend our time elsewhere.
So expressing your question clearly and well is important. If you can't be bothered to do that, we can't be bothered to pay attention. Spend the extra effort to polish your language. It doesn't have to be stiff or formal -- in fact, hacker culture values informal, slangy and humorous language used with precision. But it has to be precise; there has to be some indication that you're thinking and paying attention.
Spell, punctuate, and capitalize correctly. Don't confuse "its" with "it's", "loose" with "lose", or "discrete" with "discreet". Don't TYPE IN ALL CAPS, this is read as shouting and considered rude. (All-smalls is only slightly less annoying, as it's difficult to read. Alan Cox can get away with it, but you can't.)
More generally, if you write like a semi-literate boob you will very likely be ignored. Writing like a l33t script kiddie hax0r is the absolute kiss of death and guarantees you will receive nothing but stony silence (or, at best, a heaping helping of scorn and sarcasm) in return."
Personally, poor grammar and frequent errors in spelling cause an obscure form of mental anguish. I reflexively correct people online, which causes no end of irritation, but i really don't care. Sloppy expression is tied up with sloppy thought, which makes getting work done nigh upon impossible.
Orwell talks about this a bit, actually, if in a tangential fashion. Read Politics and the English Language for more.
Bleach. Gunslinger Girl. Witch Hunter Robin. Mononoke-Hime. Speed Grapher. The aforementioned Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop. Each and every one of those i wouldn't show to a kid under 15. Not a one pays more than token lipservice to the stereotypes, and i'm pretty sure blue hair is absent from all.
It isnt' that there isn't good anime out there, but instead, like all media, there's a lot of shit as well as a lot of good stuff. Anything you see on TV is either shit on a stick (like, oh, Sailor Moon and DBZ... *shudder*), or horribly dubbed (kenshin comes to mind. my GOD, the voices are horrible).
It's annoying though when you're playing Counterstrike and you use the scrollwheel to select weapons - you have to be careful not to overshoot the one you wanted.
And you've hit directly on the reason i like my scroll wheel and not touchpads. Games let you bind stuff to mousewheel{up,dowm} and middle click. These are normally really helpful things, too, like flipping through weapons and reloading. Getting that to work well with a touchpad is dodgy at best.
Yep. I've always thought that Yoda's first encounter with Luke in episode 5 played out in a very Zen fashion. Actually, the Force syncs up nicely in a fairly general way with $EASTERN_PHILOSOPHY in general.
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that would be awesome.
how does this qualify as DRM?
/bin/bash
#!
cdparanoia -B;
for files in *.wav; do lame -b 192 "$files" "$files.mp3";done
now i have both the raw wav of the cd (lossless) and nice mp3 copies. who needs the original? If it's data, then, um, man dd.
The problem is, it's not justice, it's retribution.
who could forget the lovely and talented Ali Davis, author of True Porn Clerk Stories? I'm sorry, that's the best blog i've ever read, bar none.
I'd rather talk about what Nathalie Portman is doing to make ends meet! :)
i'm not sure, but it involves grits and heat somehow.
if movies constitute art (and that's a stretch sometimes, i know), then willingly modifying the finished work constitutes an aesthetic offense of the highest order. A work of art conveys meaning, and that meaning is intentionally placed by the artist (most of the time). If you don't like the meaning, don't view the artwork at all -- don't distort it to something that it's not. I feel that this applies both to the viewers and the creator, post-creation (see george lucas..).
What you do in your own home is none of my business, really -- so if you feel like ruining a film, be my guest. Just keep that choice bit in mind.
This is not a new trend -- the victorians had a nasty habit of painting clothes onto nude paintings, and it's taken thousands of man-hours to fix the mess they left behind, just as an example.
autoclaves don't do much against heat-shock bacteria, either. Anything that can live next to a fucking volcano (and by next to, i mean 6 inches away from), deserves special treatment. Clearly, this means direct flame.
One hot water bath later, and whoops, the finger is warm again.
Marvin has been turned into an iBot! At least alan rickman is doing the voice.
and in soviet russia, meme ages you!
"Master of Engineering" ??
*cough*Astroturf!*cough*
fedora would be great, save for two glaring errors. First, there are multiple, conflicting package repositories -- and you can't mix and match most of them safely. Second, though it's been promised since core 1, it's still not possible to update from core 1 to core 2 with just yum/apt (and likewise for core 2 - core 3), which means you're reinstalling and reconfiguring your OS every 6 months.
and right then the girl's cell phone in the booth next to us goes off and plays "Take me out the ballgame". That was a weird coincidence.
i have a better one. the ambulance crew and myself had just rolled into the ER with our patient, who had jumped a fence while chasing some vandals. The cop is in to take his statement, and the cop's personal ringone goes off. It is, natch, "bad boys bad boys, whatcha gonna do".