I stack em on my electronics bench until I have a few stacked up and then harvest the motors (at least 2 low power DC and one fast-spinning AC) for maker projects. Not to mention a few small neodymium magnets
Oh yeah, and the previous poster was correct, the platters make very nice wind chimes:)
"The study is based on a program in Kentucky that has, through the increased use of broadband...decreased the average amount of time residents spent driving by 100 hours per month."
100 hours a month? I have a 60-mile round trip to work and back and even if _I_ telecommuted I would only save 25-30 hours a month. Unless everyone in rural Kentucky is a long haul trucker, and the Interwebs just enabled them to teleport their cargo, there's no friggin way anyone is gonna save 100 hours of driving a month just by going to webMD and Amazon and ebay.
The social aspect of the LUG, as mine has found, seems to be as relevant as the technical part. Sure, UHACC does installfests, community service, trips, and presentations, and the like, but we also came to the realization that we value the building of the community at least as much as we value the technology. Once we embraced that, our mission became a whole lot clearer. Build the local FOSS community, promote open technologies, serve the community at large, have fun. In my book, there's still only one bunch that can do all that: us.
No I do not. The term UNIX, for me, invokes general images of the people that use it and of the different flavors and standards. I wouldn't consider it a sofware name brand any more than "tire" could be considerd a brand name for vulcanized rubber.
Bullying people is not the sort of behavior I would expect from a proper member of the Unix community. However it seems you chose to do so by ripping the unix.org domain name away from Marshall Sorenson. I suspect that my admonition will not mean anything to a large organization such as yours, but to say nothing might be misconstrued by you and yours as agreement with your distasteful actions, which I most certainly do not. If you have any conscience at all, you might wish to think about your actions in this matter and consider how it reflects upon your organization.
I had the GPA and those friggin slackers knew it. Every group project I've done (save one where I happened upon extremely exceptional teammates) has ended similarly: the slackers slack while I pull the whole darn project together. At least the problem with group consensus was not present because the prevailing attitude from my team was 'yeah, whatever.' They knew I wanted the "A," so they left me out to dry.
Screw 'em.
It's different out here but in the college setting it's a lousy thing to do to the summa cum laude student who has enough load to tow without that kind of added grief.
I cannot trust whomever I give my info to. I really wish I could, but I can't. Why is that? Because no one has your best intrests in mind except for you. A company may tell you that your information will be held confidential. They may actually mean it until there is a management shakeup and the new stallions re-define what "confidential" means. To business, your info is a commodity. And to not capitalize on a commodity such as that is, to most, irresistable.
--
McNealy may like it when he gets sold out so that marketoons can read him like a book; he shouldn't assume we find any value in it though. I believe it's called "being at a disadvantage."
I can get up to 48 Kbps sometimes here in Central IL - smokin!
Don't forget that broadband is nothing but wishful thinking if you don't live near large metropolitan areas. So forums like this just irk me.
I don't wanna hear about how "disgustingly slow" you think 128 Kbps is.
128K+ is a shitload of pipe to those of us who will probably not see that (affordably) for a long time -
so appreciate it already dammit.
Small. You meant that the story should be taken with an extremely *small* grain of salt. To take it with a larger grain would mean we should all take it *more* seriously, right?
Right.
OK so I get nitpicky, but it reflects on the whole meaning of the statement, n'est ce pas?
Back to the topic, consumers are fickle. They know by now what to expect to pay for a computer. If M$ follows through on it thinly veiled threat to jack the price, they then face the fallout of a market backlash and diminished returns - Yes, of *course* they know that. The report is meant to stir fear/M$ Sypmpathy,(FUD: M$'s MO) nothing more IMHO.
I guess the moral of your story is to do bullshit research for the grade and complete real projects in your basement. The university "intellectual property" policy is a load of bull comparable to a shrink-wrap agreement:
"By attending this university you agree that anything that you think of while attending automatically becomes real property of the university"
or how about this one:
I'll give you a free computer to work on if you sign over the rights to everything you develop.
You'd cry foul in a heartbeat - so why cry foul when Mark A. severs the cord and takes HIS IDEA and puts it into motion?
By the university "intellectual property" argument, I'd say that everyone's parents ought to own rights to everything their kids ever do or did simply because they "provided resources" that enabled their kids to end up wherever they ended up. There's folly in that line of thought, huh?
I e-mailed the question and he replied with a detailed explanation of the buffer overflow protections afforded by vector constructs; definitely more than I expected.
Oh, and you're absolutely correct, the review didn't say that this was not an exhaustive reference... (Just to clarify, it isn't, it's just meant to get your OO ball rolling, so to speak:)
"...the neophyte will not immediately question why a vector class is used, but IMHO it is an issue that should be addressed."
...And it can be addressed if you choose to:) I think that a lot of people in here are getting all up in arms because they focus on the fact that this book *may* be used by a beginner... The fact is, people who were camped out in the top-down design camp (such as myself) can use this book to ease on over to or simply just learn about OO (which I did). And I did ask 'why vectors and not arrays?' I got a (very nice) personal explanation from Steven Heller, who is very professional and open for discussion on any subject in the book; This alone is why the book has more merit than your standard "learn OO foo in 5 days!" (Although one may wish to skip the beginning chapters on Hardware fundamantals where, BTW, he does a decent job explaining this using 8086 assembler examples...)
Hopefully the conflict did not arise from a tee time with the Plaintiffs and their lobbyists;) "Whaddya say there judge? $1000 a hole? Boy, and our Willie over there has a wicked slice too. Wink wink, nudge nudge, knowhatImean knowhatImean?" m0ng00se
All the debate flying around! My my. Is coding art? Ask yourself... are you an artist when you code or are you an engineer (or both?) If the answer is yes, then your code is art... maybe not to anyone else but YOU... but since when does the feelings of the scads of faceless people mean anything to you personally? If ya wait for the masses to tell you if what you made is really good or not...that means you never asked yourself...
--de m0ng00se
It's always nice to revisit old friends
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That 386 sx 25 laptop that was sh!thot in 91, well, hell; it still is good for cranking out code and compiling (yes, even with the old Borland Turbo C version 2) when your significant other is using your screamer for typing out her dissertation... the TRS-80 with the 8K memory mod that was so heavy it made the thing tip over backwards if you didnt put a book under the backside? Plug it into the color TV and revisit the wonders of the years when BASIC was just BASIC. Write a program that uses basic geometry to paint pretty spirograph patterns to your TV. Stare at it for awhile. Remember when you and your 1 other geek friend got that 1st IBM AT and played ZORK all weekend? Fire it up and do it again - by now you have certainly forgotten how to exit the spinning room next to Flood Control Dam #3. Fire up the debugger! Write a command in 8086 assembler! - I've done all this stuff and it's pretty fun (if not arcane) to visit old friends.
m0ng00se
Re:Red Hat IPO Not going to be available to most..
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Just look at it like this...(it's simple): The golden rule of investment without regret is to invest your money in products and companies that you A) enjoy or B) believe in. Do not make it as complicated as the Wall Street broker-types would like you to believe it is.
If you are in it just for the dough...THEN it gets complicated, because you have no gut feeling to go on, just data presented and the proverbial 'word on da street'
So the question remains: Do you believe or revel in Red Hat enough to make the decision of investment in them a non-issue? Yes? then *DO* it (no matter whether or not you're pissed off about not getting in on the IPO)
In short: Get behind those people who make your life fun.
Just look at it like this...(it's simple): The golden rule of investment without regret is to invest your money in products and companies that you A) enjoy or B) believe in. Do not make it as complicated as the Wall Street broker-types would like you to believe it is.
If you are in it just for the dough...THEN it gets complicated, because you have no gut feeling to go on, just data presented and the proverbial 'word on da street'
So the question remains: Do you believe or revel in Red Hat enough to make the decision of investment in them a non-issue? Yes? then *DO* it (no matter whether or not you're pissed off about not getting in on the IPO)
In short: Get behind those people who make your life fun.
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I stack em on my electronics bench until I have a few stacked up and then harvest the motors (at least 2 low power DC and one fast-spinning AC) for maker projects. Not to mention a few small neodymium magnets
Oh yeah, and the previous poster was correct, the platters make very nice wind chimes :)
"The study is based on a program in Kentucky that has, through the increased use of broadband...decreased the average amount of time residents spent driving by 100 hours per month."
100 hours a month? I have a 60-mile round trip to work and back and even if _I_ telecommuted I would only save 25-30 hours a month. Unless everyone in rural Kentucky is a long haul trucker, and the Interwebs just enabled them to teleport their cargo, there's no friggin way anyone is gonna save 100 hours of driving a month just by going to webMD and Amazon and ebay.
I'd check their math... just a thought
The social aspect of the LUG, as mine has found, seems to be as relevant as the technical part. Sure, UHACC does installfests, community service, trips, and presentations, and the like, but we also came to the realization that we value the building of the community at least as much as we value the technology. Once we embraced that, our mission became a whole lot clearer. Build the local FOSS community, promote open technologies, serve the community at large, have fun. In my book, there's still only one bunch that can do all that: us.
No I do not. The term UNIX, for me, invokes general images of the people that use it and of the different flavors and standards. I wouldn't consider it a sofware name brand any more than "tire" could be considerd a brand name for vulcanized rubber.
...we have Chicken Schmidt.
wotta maroon.
Dear Opengroup,
Bullying people is not the sort of behavior I would expect from a proper member of the Unix community. However it seems you chose to do so by ripping the unix.org domain name away from Marshall Sorenson. I suspect that my admonition will not mean anything to a large organization such as yours, but to say nothing might be misconstrued by you and yours as agreement with your distasteful actions, which I most certainly do not. If you have any conscience at all, you might wish to think about your actions in this matter and consider how it reflects upon your organization.
I had the GPA and those friggin slackers knew it. Every group project I've done (save one where I happened upon extremely exceptional teammates) has ended similarly: the slackers slack while I pull the whole darn project together. At least the problem with group consensus was not present because the prevailing attitude from my team was 'yeah, whatever.' They knew I wanted the "A," so they left me out to dry.
Screw 'em.
It's different out here but in the college setting it's a lousy thing to do to the summa cum laude student who has enough load to tow without that kind of added grief.
--
That information is confidential and should remain so for obvious security reasons.
Do not imperil your son.
I cannot trust whomever I give my info to. I really wish I could, but I can't. Why is that? Because no one has your best intrests in mind except for you. A company may tell you that your information will be held confidential. They may actually mean it until there is a management shakeup and the new stallions re-define what "confidential" means. To business, your info is a commodity. And to not capitalize on a commodity such as that is, to most, irresistable.
--
McNealy may like it when he gets sold out so that marketoons can read him like a book; he shouldn't assume we find any value in it though. I believe it's called "being at a disadvantage."
I can get up to 48 Kbps sometimes here in Central IL - smokin!
Don't forget that broadband is nothing but wishful thinking if you don't live near large metropolitan areas. So forums like this just irk me.
I don't wanna hear about how "disgustingly slow" you think 128 Kbps is.
128K+ is a shitload of pipe to those of us who will probably not see that (affordably) for a long time -
so appreciate it already dammit.
Small. You meant that the story should be taken with an extremely *small* grain of salt. To take it with a larger grain would mean we should all take it *more* seriously, right?
Right.
OK so I get nitpicky, but it reflects on the whole meaning of the statement, n'est ce pas?
Back to the topic, consumers are fickle. They know by now what to expect to pay for a computer. If M$ follows through on it thinly veiled threat to jack the price, they then face the fallout of a market backlash and diminished returns - Yes, of *course* they know that. The report is meant to stir fear/M$ Sypmpathy,(FUD: M$'s MO) nothing more IMHO.
I guess the moral of your story is to do bullshit research for the grade and complete real projects in your basement. The university "intellectual property" policy is a load of bull comparable to a shrink-wrap agreement:
"By attending this university you agree that anything that you think of while attending automatically becomes real property of the university"
or how about this one:
I'll give you a free computer to work on if you sign over the rights to everything you develop.
You'd cry foul in a heartbeat - so why cry foul when Mark A. severs the cord and takes HIS IDEA and puts it into motion?
By the university "intellectual property" argument, I'd say that everyone's parents ought to own rights to everything their kids ever do or did simply because they "provided resources" that enabled their kids to end up wherever they ended up. There's folly in that line of thought, huh?
$0.02 from the m0ng00se
Because now I do not have to develop for or support any of the laamers that listen to TV journalism as gospel.
Linux isn't for lemmings anyway >8] - wouldn't you agree?
m0ngoose
I e-mailed the question and he replied with a detailed explanation of the buffer overflow protections afforded by vector constructs; definitely more than I expected.
:)
Oh, and you're absolutely correct, the review didn't say that this was not an exhaustive reference... (Just to clarify, it isn't, it's just meant to get your OO ball rolling, so to speak
"...the neophyte will not immediately question why a vector class is used, but IMHO it is an issue that should be addressed."
:)
...And it can be addressed if you choose to
I think that a lot of people in here are getting all up in arms because they focus on the fact that this book *may* be used by a beginner... The fact is, people who were camped out in the top-down design camp (such as myself) can use this book to ease on over to or simply just learn about OO (which I did). And I did ask 'why vectors and not arrays?' I got a (very nice) personal explanation from Steven Heller, who is very professional and open for discussion on any subject in the book; This alone is why the book has more merit than your standard "learn OO foo in 5 days!" (Although one may wish to skip the beginning chapters on Hardware fundamantals where, BTW, he does a decent job explaining this using 8086 assembler examples...)
IMHO the book is decent and so is Steve Heller
Hopefully the conflict did not arise from a tee time with the Plaintiffs and their lobbyists ;) "Whaddya say there judge? $1000 a hole? Boy, and our Willie over there has a wicked slice too. Wink wink, nudge nudge, knowhatImean knowhatImean?" m0ng00se
All the debate flying around! My my. Is coding art? Ask yourself... are you an artist when you code or are you an engineer (or both?) If the answer is yes, then your code is art... maybe not to anyone else but YOU... but since when does the feelings of the scads of faceless people mean anything to you personally? If ya wait for the masses to tell you if what you made is really good or not...that means you never asked yourself...
--de m0ng00se
That 386 sx 25 laptop that was sh!thot in 91, well, hell; it still is good for cranking out code and compiling (yes, even with the old Borland Turbo C version 2) when your significant other is using your screamer for typing out her dissertation... the TRS-80 with the 8K memory mod that was so heavy it made the thing tip over backwards if you didnt put a book under the backside? Plug it into the color TV and revisit the wonders of the years when BASIC was just BASIC. Write a program that uses basic geometry to paint pretty spirograph patterns to your TV. Stare at it for awhile. Remember when you and your 1 other geek friend got that 1st IBM AT and played ZORK all weekend? Fire it up and do it again - by now you have certainly forgotten how to exit the spinning room next to Flood Control Dam #3. Fire up the debugger! Write a command in 8086 assembler! - I've done all this stuff and it's pretty fun (if not arcane) to visit old friends.
m0ng00se
If you want to find out the folly of the game called the IPO; you should check this out http://www.fool.com/Specials/1999/sp990316AboutIPO s01.htm These people are pretty good at the game... -m0ng00se
Just look at it like this...(it's simple): The golden rule of investment without regret is to invest your money in products and companies that you A) enjoy or B) believe in.
Do not make it as complicated as the Wall Street broker-types would like you to believe it is.
If you are in it just for the dough...THEN it gets complicated, because you have no gut feeling to go on, just data presented and the proverbial 'word on da street'
So the question remains: Do you believe or revel in Red Hat enough to make the decision of investment in them a non-issue? Yes? then *DO* it (no matter whether or not you're pissed off about not getting in on the IPO)
In short: Get behind those people who make your life fun.
-Chuck G.
Just look at it like this...(it's simple): The golden rule of investment without regret is to invest your money in products and companies that you A) enjoy or B) believe in.
Do not make it as complicated as the Wall Street broker-types would like you to believe it is.
If you are in it just for the dough...THEN it gets complicated, because you have no gut feeling to go on, just data presented and the proverbial 'word on da street'
So the question remains: Do you believe or revel in Red Hat enough to make the decision of investment in them a non-issue? Yes? then *DO* it (no matter whether or not you're pissed off about not getting in on the IPO)
In short: Get behind those people who make your life fun.