That's an interesting point. Because of human's interesting secondary sexual characteristics (i.e. boobies), we're the only mammal that has to learn to suckle due to the risk of suffocation if we don't do it properly. Other mammals don't have this problem.
What, like this?
vsound -d -t -f hhg2g_Tertiary_Phase_1.wav realplay rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/tue1830.ra && lame hhg2g_Tertiary_Phase_1.wav
BTW, it is possible to get the show a few days before it is linked on the bbcs page. Check above.
Powerpoint is at least a stable app which I, a linux user, need. I cannot get around it because presentations are often done on someone elses computer.
For content based presentations (as opposed to style based presentations) Open office does the job fine. If they're more concerned with selling you some flashy animated message, then I'm all the better not being able to see it.
That's right. They're researched and developed in Australia, partially bankrolled by the federal government: http://www.bionicear.com.au/crc/
so chose based on technical specifications and what your mum can afford. The underlying technology seems to me to be the same in each product.
Now among other things I get paid to hack perl. That's not the only thing I do by a long shot, but it's a significant part of my job, and I enjoy it, but mainly I get work based on research skills in the natural and social sciences, and from some contacts in the commercial world.
I'm Not a doctor, or anything with such a well defined career path. I went back to school (2nd undergraduate degree) to broaden my skill base, and did a little bit of programming as well, but once we'd got past the basics, I was learning much more effectively at my own pace. As a medical doctor, you probably have the capacity to work flexible hours, and go and train yourself up in the direction you want to go in, via a combination of self study and being taught. Looking at the IT jobs around, I'm glad I didn't go in that direction as frankly they mostly look shit, although the independent consultants I know seem to have a good time.
Can't be done in this instance. The best software solution is to dictate the tape into one of the commercial SR products. This persupposes you have already trained the software with your voice or have the time to do so.
Hiring stenographers is an option, but you will still take quite a long time checking their work for accuracy and making corrections, and the less you pay them, the more work there will be to fix the transcripts up.
But only if you're a sloppy coder.
It is said that the only people who really don't need to :
use strict;
are people like Larry Wall, and they do so anyway.
What I want to see, (and if any of you venture capitalists out there
want to pump some money into it, contact me through slashdot) is
[story follows]:
When I lived in Indonesia a few years ago (well, about 20) we used to
go to the [pirate] tape shop. We (that's the entire family, mum, dad,
me and definately baby brother) would spend hours in the Delta tape
shop listening to music at a table on headphones, deciding what of
that music we wanted to buy, and then buying what we liked (prices
were cheap). I was 10. I bought Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, the
Chipmunks, Hall and Oates (I am ashamed of that one), Hooked on
Classics (a bit embarassed about that), Queen, the Police, The Who,
and more music than the average 10 year old would find difficult to
imagine, both in terms of quantity and quality. It was a nice social
event, and I have very fond memories of it.
Now. I have recently fixed up my old CDs to live on a new 30gb hard
drive and a dedicated ogg player - old p100 laptop with the jukebox
running as root so that ogg123 can run nice -20 or whatever, so I'm
sold on digital formats for music rather than having to rely on one
piece of removable media per artist or compilation. However downloads
do not cut it for me. Me, and most of the rest of the global
population are stuck on dialup or no convenient internet access
whatsoever. But, we would benifit from the digital revolution.
So: what I want to see is a shop with a load of tables and a load of
headphones [you can see where this is going], in a real bricks and
mortar shop where you can listen to potential purchases burn CDs,
save to removal media, save to hard drive, your iPod and so on. You
sell your tracks or albums at a reasonable price, you turn your shop
into a social hub, and you can carry an enormous back catalogue,
beyond the wildest dreams of music stores as they currently exist.
More by using tools like debian's apt-proxy. As far as I can see,
this would be like a licence to print money once you get the labels or
the artists on board.
So, what would it take. A few terabytes of storage. Cooperation from
a critical mass of music distributors. A couple to a few months of
time for a small team of programmers.
So, who's going to do it. I'm available as a consultant.
Buy some decent coffee. Avoid all other caffeinated beverages
Start by drinking a cup of good strong coffee at breakfast time and lunchtime. After a month, quit the lunchtime cofee.
After another month drop your volume of breakfast coffee by half, or start drinking tea instead.
After this, consider whether you want to continue with drinking caffeineated beverages or not. At this stage, withdrawls should be minimal.
You can substitute a week for a month in the above recipe if you like, but coffee is nice and enjoyable so why move too fast? My wife has gone from a two cup a day person to a no cups a day person using this method both times she's been pregnant.
I seem to be carving myself a niche as a free software facist (hobby) and small scale database designer (way to make a living in conjunction with my many other areas of expertise). The kinds of databases I design are low on records and numbers of concurrent users, but high on complexity of relationships. Things like classification of living things and the environments they live in, or relationships between organisations and individuals in organisations related to each other by a common cause.
Anyway, this is what I need. Access is the/only/ thing that keeps me using windows/at all/. And it's still brain damaged, stupid, opaque, hideously unmaintainable (due to being integrated into the operating system and office suite as far as I can see) - especially when you're trying to distribute it as a front end.
For me, with a good idea about database design, but little interest in software engineering, if this works, it's exactly what I'm looking for. I might even contribute to the project if I can get it to compile.
When will a stable version hit debian stable?
That's my experience as a parent and a former child anyway. I think that the key is to be aware of what's going on in your kids life, and to try not to deal with problems in an adversarial manner.
Awareness and net access in this case should mean keeping logs of what's being done within your network, and reading them, as you are the adult legally responsible for what people do in that space.
Don't diss the Archers. An every day tale of farming folk.
Dead Ringers is great too, I just loved Dr Who (Tom Baker undergoing transformation into Ozzy Osbourne).
and with vsound you can turn the RA stream into something a little more convenient. I've spent a few weeks totally rediscovering the excellent commedy output on bbc radio 4.
I my own personal media monitoring service I noticed in their weekly week day IT section (Next) (not to be confused with the weekend IT section which sucks big dogs balls), the number of Open Source Software rocks articles trippled with a corresponding decrease in "I would willingly perform any kind of legal or illegal sexual favours for either Bill or Steve kind of articles. And I watch these pages particularly closely, so it must be true.
The only problem with it is when people want to get the document in "word format" so that it can be maintained by someone other than myself. Or when I am working on an article and the magazine requires it to be submitted in word format. I still haven't found a good solution to this, but thankfully it is not something that happens too often.
I have found LaTeX2rtf to be an adequate solution. Better than Latex2html->save as.doc.
If you want statistically sound data analysis and graphing, look no further than the R Project. It's a complete programming environment and is extensively used by working statisticians.
I concur. I just wrote a script to do some AFLP analysis in perl (mainly for the mental excercise as a favour to someone), and aside from PDL that I don't know anything about, perl is pretty horrible for doing numerical stuff. R on the other hand is pretty neat, particularly with an emacs front end.
There's lots of material out there introducing it, both in dead tree form (books about S and S+ also cover big chunks of R), and on the net. The statistical development method I use with R (and I really only use it's simplest features) is to do some work with it interactively, then take my command history and roll a script to spit out the graphs and analyses that I want. I used to use gnuplot and octave a lot, but R is really a much better solution for the kind of thing that I do which is analysis of biological data in the main.
Learning with typing software is the hard and slow way.
You need:
1 video camera and a video monitor, or a way to see the output of the monitor on the computer screen.
Set things up so that you can see the computer screen and the video monitor at the same time. Place the video camera so that you can see your hands in the home position but you can't see the labels on the keys on the screen, then type away. This gives you enough visual feedback so that a competent two finger typist can get the confidence to touch type very quickly. Using this method, I went to 35wpm touch typing from two finger in about 15 minutes.
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That's an interesting point. Because of human's interesting secondary sexual characteristics (i.e. boobies), we're the only mammal that has to learn to suckle due to the risk of suffocation if we don't do it properly. Other mammals don't have this problem.
Yes, my Dad did this in the 1970s between scientific research jobs and a little on the side afterwards. Seemed to fill a hole.
Mod Parent up. And mod this one -1 while you're at it.
What, like this? vsound -d -t -f hhg2g_Tertiary_Phase_1.wav realplay rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/tue1830.ra && lame hhg2g_Tertiary_Phase_1.wav BTW, it is possible to get the show a few days before it is linked on the bbcs page. Check above.
/All/ of the hardware on my Dell Lattitude XPi100SD works perfectly.
here
That's right. They're researched and developed in Australia, partially bankrolled by the federal government: http://www.bionicear.com.au/crc/ so chose based on technical specifications and what your mum can afford. The underlying technology seems to me to be the same in each product.
I'm Not a doctor, or anything with such a well defined career path. I went back to school (2nd undergraduate degree) to broaden my skill base, and did a little bit of programming as well, but once we'd got past the basics, I was learning much more effectively at my own pace. As a medical doctor, you probably have the capacity to work flexible hours, and go and train yourself up in the direction you want to go in, via a combination of self study and being taught. Looking at the IT jobs around, I'm glad I didn't go in that direction as frankly they mostly look shit, although the independent consultants I know seem to have a good time.
Can't be done in this instance. The best software solution is to dictate the tape into one of the commercial SR products. This persupposes you have already trained the software with your voice or have the time to do so. Hiring stenographers is an option, but you will still take quite a long time checking their work for accuracy and making corrections, and the less you pay them, the more work there will be to fix the transcripts up.
But only if you're a sloppy coder. It is said that the only people who really don't need to : use strict; are people like Larry Wall, and they do so anyway.
What I want to see, (and if any of you venture capitalists out there want to pump some money into it, contact me through slashdot) is [story follows]:
When I lived in Indonesia a few years ago (well, about 20) we used to go to the [pirate] tape shop. We (that's the entire family, mum, dad, me and definately baby brother) would spend hours in the Delta tape shop listening to music at a table on headphones, deciding what of that music we wanted to buy, and then buying what we liked (prices were cheap). I was 10. I bought Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, the Chipmunks, Hall and Oates (I am ashamed of that one), Hooked on Classics (a bit embarassed about that), Queen, the Police, The Who, and more music than the average 10 year old would find difficult to imagine, both in terms of quantity and quality. It was a nice social event, and I have very fond memories of it.
Now. I have recently fixed up my old CDs to live on a new 30gb hard drive and a dedicated ogg player - old p100 laptop with the jukebox running as root so that ogg123 can run nice -20 or whatever, so I'm sold on digital formats for music rather than having to rely on one piece of removable media per artist or compilation. However downloads do not cut it for me. Me, and most of the rest of the global population are stuck on dialup or no convenient internet access whatsoever. But, we would benifit from the digital revolution.
So: what I want to see is a shop with a load of tables and a load of headphones [you can see where this is going], in a real bricks and mortar shop where you can listen to potential purchases burn CDs, save to removal media, save to hard drive, your iPod and so on. You sell your tracks or albums at a reasonable price, you turn your shop into a social hub, and you can carry an enormous back catalogue, beyond the wildest dreams of music stores as they currently exist. More by using tools like debian's apt-proxy. As far as I can see, this would be like a licence to print money once you get the labels or the artists on board.
So, what would it take. A few terabytes of storage. Cooperation from a critical mass of music distributors. A couple to a few months of time for a small team of programmers.
So, who's going to do it. I'm available as a consultant.
I have found that a baby is a fairly effective alarm clock.
Buy some decent coffee. Avoid all other caffeinated beverages Start by drinking a cup of good strong coffee at breakfast time and lunchtime. After a month, quit the lunchtime cofee. After another month drop your volume of breakfast coffee by half, or start drinking tea instead. After this, consider whether you want to continue with drinking caffeineated beverages or not. At this stage, withdrawls should be minimal. You can substitute a week for a month in the above recipe if you like, but coffee is nice and enjoyable so why move too fast? My wife has gone from a two cup a day person to a no cups a day person using this method both times she's been pregnant.
Root (noun): Australian vernacular for "to have sex". So yes, getting rooted by someone you trust /is/ important.
I seem to be carving myself a niche as a free software facist (hobby) and small scale database designer (way to make a living in conjunction with my many other areas of expertise). The kinds of databases I design are low on records and numbers of concurrent users, but high on complexity of relationships. Things like classification of living things and the environments they live in, or relationships between organisations and individuals in organisations related to each other by a common cause. Anyway, this is what I need. Access is the /only/ thing that keeps me using windows /at all/. And it's still brain damaged, stupid, opaque, hideously unmaintainable (due to being integrated into the operating system and office suite as far as I can see) - especially when you're trying to distribute it as a front end.
For me, with a good idea about database design, but little interest in software engineering, if this works, it's exactly what I'm looking for. I might even contribute to the project if I can get it to compile.
When will a stable version hit debian stable?
That's my experience as a parent and a former child anyway. I think that the key is to be aware of what's going on in your kids life, and to try not to deal with problems in an adversarial manner. Awareness and net access in this case should mean keeping logs of what's being done within your network, and reading them, as you are the adult legally responsible for what people do in that space.
Don't diss the Archers. An every day tale of farming folk. Dead Ringers is great too, I just loved Dr Who (Tom Baker undergoing transformation into Ozzy Osbourne).
and with vsound you can turn the RA stream into something a little more convenient. I've spent a few weeks totally rediscovering the excellent commedy output on bbc radio 4.
or using the gnu tools: cat $* | strings | less
I my own personal media monitoring service I noticed in their weekly week day IT section (Next) (not to be confused with the weekend IT section which sucks big dogs balls), the number of Open Source Software rocks articles trippled with a corresponding decrease in "I would willingly perform any kind of legal or illegal sexual favours for either Bill or Steve kind of articles. And I watch these pages particularly closely, so it must be true.
Learning with typing software is the hard and slow way. You need: 1 video camera and a video monitor, or a way to see the output of the monitor on the computer screen. Set things up so that you can see the computer screen and the video monitor at the same time. Place the video camera so that you can see your hands in the home position but you can't see the labels on the keys on the screen, then type away. This gives you enough visual feedback so that a competent two finger typist can get the confidence to touch type very quickly. Using this method, I went to 35wpm touch typing from two finger in about 15 minutes.