Digital data does not degrade Mr. Audiophile. If it was 256k when you got the MP3 it will still be 256k. Though the CD-R might self-erase (the dye fades) and become completely unplayable. I recommend only store-bought CDs (they are pressed with permanent pits). Or just save money and stream your music off youtube for free.;-)
One of the biggest ones I've seen is that self-taught programmers tend to not think about algorithm efficiency. Learn how to determine the big-O of your functions and learn how to code more scalable algorithms.
The link in the summary doesn't link to Dr. Torrens' actual research, but a blog about it. Here's the research's website: http://www.geosimulation.org/crowds/
Yeah, a good article on the subject is titled "THE ETHNOBIOLOGY OF THE HAITIAN ZOMBIE" by E. WADE DAVIS published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology 9 (1983). It's a fun read even for a lay person.
I have an old P4 running Debian with a couple of external USB hard drives. The hard drives are a RAID0 set. You can save a lot of money on external hard drives by assembling them yourself. Many companies online have enclosures for $20-$30; you just need to buy a hard drive to put in it. That's complete quality control. What I'm looking for now is a Mini-ITX chassis with about 5 hot-swappable SATA drive slots.
If Hotmail checks your incoming email for spam and viruses, then aren't they "reading" your mail just as Google does? Google has a computerized parser that looks at the context of your email and displays relevant ads. Hotmail has a computerized parser that looks at the context of your email and discards it if it's "bad". That seems like the same kind of reading to me.
I tested Double Choco Latte about three years ago and didn't care for it, don't remember why anymore. Most recently, I've used Cerberus Helpdesk and was very happy with its features, though I don't think it's GPL, just open-source.
My first year at the UW(1997), the CS school had four solaris labs. They are all linux now.
Re:What I found interesting.
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Donald Knuth On NPR
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Donald Knuth is actually a Christian and has written a book where he analyses chapter 3 verse 16 of every book in the Protestant Christian bible. Each verse is illuminated with beautiful caligraphy.
Manufacturers of consumer devices such as Canon, as well as mobile-phone companies such as Nokia, have argued for a binary XML format. Without it, large files such as images will take too long to download to devices such as mobile phones, they argue
On older versions of the security software "tripwire" the security database had to be on a read-only floppy so that skript-kiddies who rootkitted the sever couldn't rewrite the file hashes. The new versions use secret-key crypto, but we still have a few of these older installs in our server room.
I know/. readers like grits, so here's an old family favorite.:)
3 cups water 1 1/2 cups grits -- white (not instant) 1 tablespoon salt
Heat the water to boiling in a large saucepan over medium heat. Pour in the grits very gradually, stirring the whole time to prevent lumps. Add the salt, reduce the heat to low (one or two bubbles should rise to the top at a time), and cook, stirring constantly, until tender, about 10 minutes. Grits should be as thick as oatmeal, not runny or stiff. If the grits get too thick toward the end of the cooking time, stir in a little hot water. Serve HOT.
I fully agree. These guys have brought the software a long way since I started using back with 1.2.5 (thanks to a slashdot article abuot it:)
The "60 libraries" quote is actually just the output of `ldd gnucash | wc -l`! Guppi contributes 8 of them, ORBit contributes 4, etc... It really only requires 4 packages or so that aren't part of the standard Gnome distributions.
Slashdot Mirror
What on earth did I just read?
Digital data does not degrade Mr. Audiophile. If it was 256k when you got the MP3 it will still be 256k. Though the CD-R might self-erase (the dye fades) and become completely unplayable. I recommend only store-bought CDs (they are pressed with permanent pits). Or just save money and stream your music off youtube for free. ;-)
Mod parent "Doesn't understand humor".
One of the biggest ones I've seen is that self-taught programmers tend to not think about algorithm efficiency. Learn how to determine the big-O of your functions and learn how to code more scalable algorithms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm_analysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation
Love the Arlo Guthrie reference here :)
In the early 2000s, my business-card actually said "Webmonkey". :)
The link in the summary doesn't link to Dr. Torrens' actual research, but a blog about it. Here's the research's website: http://www.geosimulation.org/crowds/
The included link is for a blog that links to a blog which links to the actual website: http://www.geosimulation.org/crowds/
Yeah, a good article on the subject is titled "THE ETHNOBIOLOGY OF THE HAITIAN ZOMBIE" by E. WADE DAVIS published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology 9 (1983). It's a fun read even for a lay person.
I have an old P4 running Debian with a couple of external USB hard drives. The hard drives are a RAID0 set. You can save a lot of money on external hard drives by assembling them yourself. Many companies online have enclosures for $20-$30; you just need to buy a hard drive to put in it. That's complete quality control. What I'm looking for now is a Mini-ITX chassis with about 5 hot-swappable SATA drive slots.
Flow (http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/)
Peasant's Quest (http://www.homestarrunner.com/disk4of12.html)
If Hotmail checks your incoming email for spam and viruses, then aren't they "reading" your mail just as Google does? Google has a computerized parser that looks at the context of your email and displays relevant ads. Hotmail has a computerized parser that looks at the context of your email and discards it if it's "bad". That seems like the same kind of reading to me.
I tested Double Choco Latte about three years ago and didn't care for it, don't remember why anymore. Most recently, I've used Cerberus Helpdesk and was very happy with its features, though I don't think it's GPL, just open-source.
I believe that this is what semantic web projects like FOAF are designed to do.
I don't know why, but I never liked those HP-UX machines.
My first year at the UW(1997), the CS school had four solaris labs. They are all linux now.
Donald Knuth is actually a Christian and has written a book where he analyses chapter 3 verse 16 of every book in the Protestant Christian bible. Each verse is illuminated with beautiful caligraphy.
He also gave some lectures about religion called Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About.
MOS - Military Occupational Specialty--formal job classification, usually expressed as a number or number/letter combination--e.g., 11B Infantryman.
Every year, Mensa USA releases a list of their favorite games from the past year. I found it to be a very good gift list for my geeky friends.
n ners.php
http://mindgames.us.mensa.org/participant/past_wi
From bartleby.com
Life is not all beer and skittles, i.e. not all eating, drinking, and play; not all pleasure; not all harmony and love.
"Sport like life, and life like sport,
Isn't all skittles and beer."
As others have said, "skittles" is an old game similar to lawn-bowling
Mat Groening, in his genious, took this expression and showed what happens when Homer takes it literaly.
according to a post on an ntp.org mailing list, it's costing $266 per day.
forget to log out?
On older versions of the security software "tripwire" the security database had to be on a
read-only floppy so that skript-kiddies who rootkitted the sever couldn't rewrite the file hashes.
The new versions use secret-key crypto, but we still have a few of these older installs in our
server room.
I know /. readers like grits, so here's an old family favorite. :)
3 cups water
1 1/2 cups grits -- white (not instant)
1 tablespoon salt
Heat the water to boiling in a large saucepan over medium heat. Pour in the grits very gradually, stirring the whole time to prevent lumps. Add the salt, reduce the heat to low (one or two bubbles should rise to the top at a time), and cook, stirring constantly, until tender, about 10 minutes. Grits should be as thick as oatmeal, not runny or stiff. If the grits get too thick toward the end of the cooking time, stir in a little hot water. Serve HOT.
One of the problems is that Debian stable has to run on many different architechtures and XFree 4.2 doesn't yet run on all of them.
I fully agree. These guys have brought the software a long way since I started using back with 1.2.5 (thanks to a slashdot article abuot it :)
The "60 libraries" quote is actually just the output of `ldd gnucash | wc -l`! Guppi contributes 8 of them, ORBit contributes 4, etc... It really only requires 4 packages or so that aren't part of the standard Gnome distributions.