Actually, both are reasonably correct. The origin of kludge is probably from the German "klug," meaning "smart." That's pronounced "kloog", and so "kluge" indicates the correct pronunciation, klooj
After all, Escape Velocity was a classic, and the reason I've kept an old Macintosh around for many, many years.
But what about even older Macintosh games? For instance, Dark Castle? There's a new version of that, too: http://www.deltatao.com
There may have been huge changes in the past four years, but the skills I learned about spreadsheets in ClarisWorks still apply today, to almost any program I use. I learned this in middle school. I just graduated high school.
If you can use Windows 95, you can use Windows XP (probably better after the colors are restored to normal, though).
Frankly, I'm not against teaching some MS software... just so you don't have all of these people adding up Excel spreadsheets by hand. (I've seen it.) Teach something else along with it. HTML, LaTeX, anything. Odds are it'll come in handy later, if they ever have to deal with computers.
I'd say that the last four years have much more been years of computers becoming more widespread rather than being revolutionized - which means that more than ever, learning about computers is important in school.
I remember the original "Make something Unreal" contests... I actually think that Unreal and UT had great mod scenes - not necessarily for playability, but for sheer "cool" factor, people would try anything.
Check out the Neuschwantstein-like map (can't remember the name exactly, believe it's DM-Falkenstein) for UT, the "DMWickedMansion" for Unreal itself, half a dozen different things - and see just how far the mod community can go. UnrealEd + UnrealScript are simple enough for anyone with a little programming experience to learn. Combine new people + experienced scripters: great end product.
Yes! Absolutely! Glad to see that someone understands this in the same manner I do...
Taking notes is one form of increasing memory retention, and it's a very powerful one. Of course, if you can do the same thing with typing... maybe. But I know that I can "transcribe" without memory while typing, even though I can't while writing.
My suggestion - write first, then if you have time, type up later. This always cements the concepts in my mind.
Oh, and I am a Math/Physics person, so I think this applies to more than just Arts.
Of course, it doesn't apply to all classes... I remember never, ever taking notes in French class because it was so strongly conversation-based... but that's an obvious exception.
They'll have some way to better skip some of the factors I found most tedious about the original...
For instance, some of the cut-scences (after the first or second time through)... or just walking, walking, walking...
The original Monkey Island had a way to change the walking speed of a character (double-click on an exit point is my memory). I don't remember anything like that for Sam and Max, and it made it very frustrating...
When setting up systems such as popfile, consider creating subcategories for each type of spam you tend to get. More work to train, true, but likely to be more accurat once you're done.
Interesting, but probably wrong. If you are going to classify into many different groups, and reject some... well, the classification accuracy goes down. If you're classifying into "Normal Mail" and various spam categories, and reject all of the spam... you don't really get any improvement in accuracy.
Generally, Naive Bayesian classifiers are more accurate with only two groups to choose from. (Assuming that there is the same amount of training data).
Plus, from a user-interface standpoint, it's a lot easier to "Delete - it's spam" than "Delete - it's mortage/porn/whatever."
Genetic experiments are not necessarily DNA-based. Even though we didn't understand DNA until much later than 1953 (heck, probably don't understand it today) - genetic experiments can include simple breeding, like Mendel's work. (Even if Mendel's work was faked, as it seems to have been...)
Besides, if you're going to complain about this, the obvious answer: they used their occult experiments to improve their genetic experiments!
"Do you know what Hell is like? It is hot! It is uncomfortably hot and humid all the time. So what do we have? Comfortable bathing suits? Margaritas? No! Parkas and mittens! Because it is Hell!"
Um... maybe because the binary is much, much, much larger than the serial number?
After all, even if the only binary is 650 mb (simplifying here), doesn't that mean that it would require about 169,728,000,000 digits to represent it? That means that if the digits of pi are pretty much random for all we can see (which seems to be a pretty good assumption, if you can predict digits of pi, you could probably keygen...)
Probability of this occurring by chance: 0.1 x 10^169,728,000,000.
Now, let's get a sense of what 10^169,728,000,000 is. Well, 10^100 is a google... which is greater than the number of particles in the known universe.
This math is all way-simplified and possibly wrong, but it should be, you know, within a factor of 100,000... which still makes this completely infeasible.
A 10-digit serial number is merely a probability of 0.1 * 10^10, which can possibly be calculated.
Although it would be easier if you broke it into two pieces...
"I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc... my speed across the network is ridiculously faster than when I try to access outside sources."
And now... what are you smoking? Frankly, if you're just "sampling" music, then why do you need incredibly fast transfers?
Especially on a college account, that's always on, with no cost for additional bandwith (AFAIK)... I'm sure you can sample just fine from the outside world. If you want to support this, all right. This shouldn't be the reason to support it.
At my school, all of the Apple computers have had their text-to-speech capability removed - too many AppleScripts involving cursing, or something to that fashion.
Once, I wrote an entire script for a media production specifically for Fred. Of course, this involved spelling phonetically - it never did quite get "Check ell slo vahk ee ya" right.
I got a giant kick out of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush," which had a techno-savvy professor communicating using Fred when her voice was stolen.
Knoppix is just the thing that I've been looking for to convert friends and family to Linux - worked with several people.
Does anyone know if this latest version still has the odd bug where XP systems seem to boot incorrectly? This has been the major obstacle to getting it accepted at school - still worries about it affecting the computers.
Mainly because the reviewer I saw had never read the books. He kept on referring to "Spice," capitalized as if the word was horribly over-emphasized and screamed. (Sorry, thinking of first Dune movie)...
Most of all, though, it annoys me that they seem to have converted all of the characters into extremely attractive 17-year-olds. Which is especially fretting, as the way I read it, Ghanima and Leto are only ~8-10 at the time Children of Dune occurs.
I've written a program that outputs to a temporary file... to prevent overwriting other temp-files, I call it "temp2.718" -> and I call the outfile ARIZONA.
We'll bet on how long it'll take before AOL has stopped a googol of spam, total. I bet two and a half years; three tops.
Um... no.
I'll easily take you up on that bet, as a googol is more than the number of elementary particles in the universe
In fact, even if AOL stops 1 billion spams/day, it will take 10^91 days to accumulate 1 googol... which is "somewhat" large. (I know, spam will probably increase exponentially, but still...)
I should probably clarify, now that my understanding of the Internet has been impugned.
What about information on a HTML page - with no links leading to it?... That is BY DEFINITION public.
While I agree, there was quite a bit of legal hassle over this issue... when people were sued for making public this "private" information. It was on Slashdot about a month ago if I recall correctly.
In the case of unencrypted email -> it is (naturally) insecure. However, it is also private by most people's view of it - thus if someone posts it there might be lawsuits/etc spawned. The question is: what is this precedent going to do to other privacy-related law issues, not even alone the internet?
As for libraries, I completely agree... in case no-one has read this information, it states that about 5% of all libraries in the U.S. have been asked for information about their patrons' lending habits, in the pursuit of terrorism.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, both are reasonably correct. The origin of kludge is probably from the German "klug," meaning "smart." That's pronounced "kloog", and so "kluge" indicates the correct pronunciation, klooj
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge
After all, Escape Velocity was a classic, and the reason I've kept an old Macintosh around for many, many years. But what about even older Macintosh games? For instance, Dark Castle? There's a new version of that, too: http://www.deltatao.com
There may have been huge changes in the past four years, but the skills I learned about spreadsheets in ClarisWorks still apply today, to almost any program I use. I learned this in middle school. I just graduated high school.
If you can use Windows 95, you can use Windows XP (probably better after the colors are restored to normal, though).
Frankly, I'm not against teaching some MS software... just so you don't have all of these people adding up Excel spreadsheets by hand. (I've seen it.) Teach something else along with it. HTML, LaTeX, anything. Odds are it'll come in handy later, if they ever have to deal with computers.
I'd say that the last four years have much more been years of computers becoming more widespread rather than being revolutionized - which means that more than ever, learning about computers is important in school.
Hey, as long as we're being fussy and using [sic], shouldn't that be "it's," rather than "its"?
:= "it is"
"it's"
I remember the original "Make something Unreal" contests... I actually think that Unreal and UT had great mod scenes - not necessarily for playability, but for sheer "cool" factor, people would try anything.
Check out the Neuschwantstein-like map (can't remember the name exactly, believe it's DM-Falkenstein) for UT, the "DMWickedMansion" for Unreal itself, half a dozen different things - and see just how far the mod community can go. UnrealEd + UnrealScript are simple enough for anyone with a little programming experience to learn. Combine new people + experienced scripters: great end product.
Yes! Absolutely! Glad to see that someone understands this in the same manner I do...
... maybe. But I know that I can "transcribe" without memory while typing, even though I can't while writing.
Taking notes is one form of increasing memory retention, and it's a very powerful one. Of course, if you can do the same thing with typing
My suggestion - write first, then if you have time, type up later. This always cements the concepts in my mind.
Oh, and I am a Math/Physics person, so I think this applies to more than just Arts.
Of course, it doesn't apply to all classes... I remember never, ever taking notes in French class because it was so strongly conversation-based... but that's an obvious exception.
They'll have some way to better skip some of the factors I found most tedious about the original...
For instance, some of the cut-scences (after the first or second time through)... or just walking, walking, walking...
The original Monkey Island had a way to change the walking speed of a character (double-click on an exit point is my memory). I don't remember anything like that for Sam and Max, and it made it very frustrating...
Generally, Naive Bayesian classifiers are more accurate with only two groups to choose from. (Assuming that there is the same amount of training data).
Plus, from a user-interface standpoint, it's a lot easier to "Delete - it's spam" than "Delete - it's mortage/porn/whatever."
Of course, there are various works on improving multiclass Bayesian classifiers. Check out Jason Rennie's work: http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/papers/index.html
TMA-1? (Must suppress Arthur C. Clarke-inspired giggle).
Maybe the problem was in that gigantic magnetic field wiping some data... (TMA stands for Tycho Magnetic Anomaly, aka the monolith in 2001)
I think the next spacecraft (TMA-2) should be nicknamed "big brother."
Genetic experiments are not necessarily DNA-based. Even though we didn't understand DNA until much later than 1953 (heck, probably don't understand it today) - genetic experiments can include simple breeding, like Mendel's work. (Even if Mendel's work was faked, as it seems to have been...)
Besides, if you're going to complain about this, the obvious answer: they used their occult experiments to improve their genetic experiments!
Sluggy Freelance Explanation
"Do you know what Hell is like? It is hot! It is uncomfortably hot and humid all the time. So what do we have? Comfortable bathing suits? Margaritas? No! Parkas and mittens! Because it is Hell!"
And a giant leap backward for all of humanity.
ViaVoice is horrible compared to Natually Speaking
Actually, it looks like "Natually" isn't working so well, either.
Um... maybe because the binary is much, much, much larger than the serial number?
After all, even if the only binary is 650 mb (simplifying here), doesn't that mean that it would require about 169,728,000,000 digits to represent it? That means that if the digits of pi are pretty much random for all we can see (which seems to be a pretty good assumption, if you can predict digits of pi, you could probably keygen...)
Probability of this occurring by chance: 0.1 x 10^169,728,000,000.
Now, let's get a sense of what 10^169,728,000,000 is. Well, 10^100 is a google... which is greater than the number of particles in the known universe.
This math is all way-simplified and possibly wrong, but it should be, you know, within a factor of 100,000... which still makes this completely infeasible.
A 10-digit serial number is merely a probability of 0.1 * 10^10, which can possibly be calculated.
Although it would be easier if you broke it into two pieces...
I like the Windows link... http://fsf.org
Of course, in my browser at least, that should be http://www.fsf.org
"I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc... my speed across the network is ridiculously faster than when I try to access outside sources."
... I'm sure you can sample just fine from the outside world. If you want to support this, all right. This shouldn't be the reason to support it.
And now... what are you smoking? Frankly, if you're just "sampling" music, then why do you need incredibly fast transfers?
Especially on a college account, that's always on, with no cost for additional bandwith (AFAIK)
Because of, you know, all of the cost reductions that resulted from the recording industry adopting a cheaper and better standard.
Right.
Seemed to be slashdotted with 1 post.
At my school, all of the Apple computers have had their text-to-speech capability removed - too many AppleScripts involving cursing, or something to that fashion.
Once, I wrote an entire script for a media production specifically for Fred. Of course, this involved spelling phonetically - it never did quite get "Check ell slo vahk ee ya" right.
I got a giant kick out of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush," which had a techno-savvy professor communicating using Fred when her voice was stolen.
Knoppix is just the thing that I've been looking for to convert friends and family to Linux - worked with several people.
Does anyone know if this latest version still has the odd bug where XP systems seem to boot incorrectly? This has been the major obstacle to getting it accepted at school - still worries about it affecting the computers.
Mainly because the reviewer I saw had never read the books. He kept on referring to "Spice," capitalized as if the word was horribly over-emphasized and screamed. (Sorry, thinking of first Dune movie)...
Most of all, though, it annoys me that they seem to have converted all of the characters into extremely attractive 17-year-olds. Which is especially fretting, as the way I read it, Ghanima and Leto are only ~8-10 at the time Children of Dune occurs.
I've written a program that outputs to a temporary file... to prevent overwriting other temp-files, I call it "temp2.718" -> and I call the outfile ARIZONA.
Think about it.
I'll easily take you up on that bet, as a googol is more than the number of elementary particles in the universe
In fact, even if AOL stops 1 billion spams/day, it will take 10^91 days to accumulate 1 googol... which is "somewhat" large. (I know, spam will probably increase exponentially, but still...)
Source:http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/
http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/hamlet/
Sorry - was just reading Hamlet recently.
More information here: http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-pet1.h
You really, really can't use Java support for a "Macosix" ... AFAIK, Mac OS 6.0.7 doesn't support any sort of JVM.
But it does support Dark Castle!
While I agree, there was quite a bit of legal hassle over this issue... when people were sued for making public this "private" information. It was on Slashdot about a month ago if I recall correctly.
In the case of unencrypted email -> it is (naturally) insecure. However, it is also private by most people's view of it - thus if someone posts it there might be lawsuits/etc spawned. The question is: what is this precedent going to do to other privacy-related law issues, not even alone the internet?
As for libraries, I completely agree... in case no-one has read this information, it states that about 5% of all libraries in the U.S. have been asked for information about their patrons' lending habits, in the pursuit of terrorism.