So they should cut their nails. Why grow them so long anyway? It looks ridiculus.
I fail to see how it is really a gender issue. Is long nails a property of having two X chromosomes? No. Does even the majority of women have long fingernails? And for any reason?
I play classical guitar so at least I have an excuse. But I learned to play with relatively short nails so I could type comfortably.
Nowadays I take 1000MB to be 1GB (well I was born in the early 80s). With the units that measure in "mebibytes" and such, I have no problem with some people representing data in the standard "1000 of one unit equals 1 of the higher unit" style. You aren't being decieved now if they're telling the truth (by today's definitions of megabytes).
I always thought 56/8 would give you the true max speed of 7KB/s.
Despite that being the max, I've actually downloaded at around 20KB/s (rarely). It isn't a file in my cache, and it isn't lying (the file really finishes quickly). I think either that file was compressed in transit (rare for a binary to be compressed a lot so that would explain the rarity in experiencing this speed), or all conditions would just right. I have a V.90 modem, so I guess it can compress a little bit.
Aren't the only televisions that use almost full power while turned off old ones? I thought newer ones are more efficient in that regard. Then, the TV ought to be using power to remember settings.
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The G isn't a matter of your dialect, it's just a matter of proper pronunciation of a name.
Gnu is pronounced Guh-new, because Richard Stallman (I think) said so. And I assume that convention carries over to any G prefixed words (in the right context).
You wouldn't call Bjarne Stroustrup Buh-jarn just because that's how you think you say it. It's Be-yarn-uh.
The G isn't a matter of your dialect, it's just a matter of proper pronunciation of a name.
Gnu is pronounced Guh-new, because Richard Stallman (I think) said so. And I assume that convention carries over to any G prefixed words (in the right context).
You wouldn't call Bjarne Stroustrup Buh-jarn just because that's how you think you say it. It's Be-yarn-eh.
Or that's what I think...:)
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Do you use linux on the mac? I just wanted to know how compatibility is for x86 linux apps on macs... Slick computers, if I can ever get the money.
I wouldn't count third-party apps. Gnome has many more apps than Windows comes with (actually I can only think of pdf reader and archiving right now because i'm new) and thus should be consistent; but a lot of basic software for Windows is still third-party and don't have to be consistent. I still don't think you should count third-party though..
A big site went down recently. It may have just been that people didn't realize how much bandwidth they still need to host thousands of torrents served up thousands of times per day.
(I stopped my piracy when I started college though.)
I don't think BitTorrent sucks, but it isn't what it's hyped out to be. (not by the author, mind you) It isn't a proper P2P tool at all. I think it would be Ok if a server seeded the file and offered a torrent, so that if lots of people started getting it they'd save some of the initial server's bandwidth. But then again, if you're going to be hosting files, expect to pay for bandwidth!
BitTorrent certainly doesn't compare to Kazaa or eDonkey (where I can find the most obscure files).
Just because it's such a fuzzy issue for some, but there are obvious downsides to allowing this sort of behaviour, he should be told to stop by the FBI or be prosecuted next time (or this time).
Maybe Amazon will take notice when EBay's hacked and hire some consultants.
For analogys, I see this more of as: he breaks into your bank at night. Rifles through cabinets and drawers, and tells you you left some keys to the security gun cabinet. Who knows what else he did though? And he did break into your bank. And what if you catch the next person in your bank and they tell you they were trying to help you out.
If they really get lazy enough, something bad will happen! Tough. But they'll learn from that mistake and others will take notice. Especially if the mistake costs them their billion dollar company (unlikely though if they make billions!). Nobody should be excused from breaking the law like this just because they were helpful about it. As someone mentioned earlier, who knows what his intentions really are? And what if other people use a good-intentions excuse if they're caught in the process?
This makes me think the solution is this: make an agency that goes around trying to unobtrusively hack certain sites (I guess the biggest ones with more money involved). Lamo did fix some holes relating to banks! So he did some good, only illegally. If it seems important though, make an agency.
I read about the idea initially at the Don Lindsay archive. I thought about how much it *could* work after reading this.
I cannot see any reason to spend this much on something that will do so little. (Note: media classes are exempt; laptops are useful in them.)
A laptop might let you take notes quicker, and save for some minor annoyances like key-tapping and maybe computer-noises, that's a pro. But other than that, is there anything laptops can add to a class?
Maybe quizes could be administered quickly. But with that sort of technology it could be easier to cheat. And would quizes really be any better than on paper?
There would be some communication benefits perhaps. Nothing will be any better than someone sticking up their hand, though - and in this case the whole class can hear the question (or ignore it). So silent questions to the teacher while in class is out. It wouldn't be good to allow students to communicate like that, I think, since they could get off topic too quickly. It will be easier to focus without chatting.
A big con is that students could possibly be installing games and crap they shouldn't be using when instead they are supposed to be learning.
Maybe laptops could provide more interactive learning to replace the textbook. But still, I don't see how that could be so much better when doing math problems is easier on paper. If the questions are given on the laptop, it still is no better than a textbook. Students should be listening to the teacher in class though, and doing homework at home (imo - get the most use out of class time).
Monitors are hard on your eyes after a while. I haven't used a laptop for a long amount of time (don't own one), but this could just add more health problems. (well, very minor ones I'm sure - headaches and such at the worst)
Textbooks get better written and updated with new information all the time. I think they ought to be spending any extra money on textbooks, not useless laptops. I know my high-school classes could have used better ones. My new, expensive college textbooks are excellent.
People care about privacy.
Microsoft cares about money.
People would pay money for privacy.*
Microsoft cares about privacy.
At least as much as is necessary.
Microsoft isn't inherently evil. They like money.
* They'd pay in a round-about manner, though.
The weather in Spain, Italy, the UK, and France isn't due to global warming, it's due to local warming. Dense cities with lots of traffic-related pollution warm up quite quickly. Plus it's the summer time. At least that's what I suspect: is the temperature in rural areas in those countries as bad? I don't see how true global warming could only affect Europe...
AFAIK you can also get into this state somewhat without magnetic fields or even drugs. I saw a hypnotist the other night and that stuff was pretty amazing. The "victims" were completely focused on the guys voice (they never seemed too bothered by an audience laughing at them -- they were totally zoned out), it was the strangest thing though. In the end they didn't even have any perception of the time that passed, which the hypnotist said was like how your perception of time gets lost when you are focusing on the tv or a math problem. Maybe you could even focus so much as to train your brain to do complex math effortlessly.
The thing this article didn't bring up was that while savants have this amazing ability, it might stem from the fact that they have great concentration (my idle theory). Savants could easily pass the time rocking in a chair or drawing, and hence they get good at it (well the rocking isn't particulary interesting).
I don't know how the whole conceptual/abstract-thinking thing ties into the concentration, but basically I really hope lots of research goes into this sort of stuff in the years to come.;)
I'm going to laugh at you wearing a $10,000 hat if I can achieve the same thing by hypnotising myself.
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So they should cut their nails. Why grow them so long anyway? It looks ridiculus.
I fail to see how it is really a gender issue. Is long nails a property of having two X chromosomes? No. Does even the majority of women have long fingernails? And for any reason?
I play classical guitar so at least I have an excuse. But I learned to play with relatively short nails so I could type comfortably.
Maybe they can't measure the dimensions of your engine that accurately...
Nowadays I take 1000MB to be 1GB (well I was born in the early 80s). With the units that measure in "mebibytes" and such, I have no problem with some people representing data in the standard "1000 of one unit equals 1 of the higher unit" style. You aren't being decieved now if they're telling the truth (by today's definitions of megabytes).
I always thought 56/8 would give you the true max speed of 7KB/s.
Despite that being the max, I've actually downloaded at around 20KB/s (rarely). It isn't a file in my cache, and it isn't lying (the file really finishes quickly). I think either that file was compressed in transit (rare for a binary to be compressed a lot so that would explain the rarity in experiencing this speed), or all conditions would just right. I have a V.90 modem, so I guess it can compress a little bit.
I'm not the average customer, and I'm even confused! I never know what unit someone is using!
Aren't the only televisions that use almost full power while turned off old ones? I thought newer ones are more efficient in that regard. Then, the TV ought to be using power to remember settings.
Trick?
I think you mean to say feature.
How are Rogue/Nethack/etc. (Diablo?) not RPGs?
I don't see the problem. What's the difference between global patents and USA patents? Just the magnitude.
So that doesn't make me feel any way about the WTO.
The G isn't a matter of your dialect, it's just a matter of proper pronunciation of a name.
:)
Gnu is pronounced Guh-new, because Richard Stallman (I think) said so. And I assume that convention carries over to any G prefixed words (in the right context).
You wouldn't call Bjarne Stroustrup Buh-jarn just because that's how you think you say it. It's Be-yarn-uh.
Or so I think...
The G isn't a matter of your dialect, it's just a matter of proper pronunciation of a name. Gnu is pronounced Guh-new, because Richard Stallman (I think) said so. And I assume that convention carries over to any G prefixed words (in the right context). You wouldn't call Bjarne Stroustrup Buh-jarn just because that's how you think you say it. It's Be-yarn-eh. Or that's what I think... :)
OT: Do you use linux on the mac? I just wanted to know how compatibility is for x86 linux apps on macs... Slick computers, if I can ever get the money.
Fluxbox has crummy taskswitching, afaik. That was a major turnoff.
I ran Windows 95 on 16 or 32 megs of ram... I forget. It was on my 16mhz 386 even! Needless to say it was painfully slow.
I had Windows 95 on the hard-drive I put in it and decided to try using it (after all, it was a pain to use non-multitasking dos).
I wouldn't count third-party apps. Gnome has many more apps than Windows comes with (actually I can only think of pdf reader and archiving right now because i'm new) and thus should be consistent; but a lot of basic software for Windows is still third-party and don't have to be consistent. I still don't think you should count third-party though..
And they are! All the time!
A big site went down recently. It may have just been that people didn't realize how much bandwidth they still need to host thousands of torrents served up thousands of times per day.
(I stopped my piracy when I started college though.)
I agree, sort of.
I don't think BitTorrent sucks, but it isn't what it's hyped out to be. (not by the author, mind you) It isn't a proper P2P tool at all. I think it would be Ok if a server seeded the file and offered a torrent, so that if lots of people started getting it they'd save some of the initial server's bandwidth. But then again, if you're going to be hosting files, expect to pay for bandwidth!
BitTorrent certainly doesn't compare to Kazaa or eDonkey (where I can find the most obscure files).
Just because it's such a fuzzy issue for some, but there are obvious downsides to allowing this sort of behaviour, he should be told to stop by the FBI or be prosecuted next time (or this time).
Maybe Amazon will take notice when EBay's hacked and hire some consultants.
For analogys, I see this more of as: he breaks into your bank at night. Rifles through cabinets and drawers, and tells you you left some keys to the security gun cabinet. Who knows what else he did though? And he did break into your bank. And what if you catch the next person in your bank and they tell you they were trying to help you out.
If they really get lazy enough, something bad will happen! Tough. But they'll learn from that mistake and others will take notice. Especially if the mistake costs them their billion dollar company (unlikely though if they make billions!). Nobody should be excused from breaking the law like this just because they were helpful about it. As someone mentioned earlier, who knows what his intentions really are? And what if other people use a good-intentions excuse if they're caught in the process?
I think I'd opt for security darwinism.
This makes me think the solution is this: make an agency that goes around trying to unobtrusively hack certain sites (I guess the biggest ones with more money involved). Lamo did fix some holes relating to banks! So he did some good, only illegally. If it seems important though, make an agency. I read about the idea initially at the Don Lindsay archive. I thought about how much it *could* work after reading this.
I cannot see any reason to spend this much on something that will do so little. (Note: media classes are exempt; laptops are useful in them.)
A laptop might let you take notes quicker, and save for some minor annoyances like key-tapping and maybe computer-noises, that's a pro. But other than that, is there anything laptops can add to a class?
Maybe quizes could be administered quickly. But with that sort of technology it could be easier to cheat. And would quizes really be any better than on paper?
There would be some communication benefits perhaps. Nothing will be any better than someone sticking up their hand, though - and in this case the whole class can hear the question (or ignore it). So silent questions to the teacher while in class is out. It wouldn't be good to allow students to communicate like that, I think, since they could get off topic too quickly. It will be easier to focus without chatting.
A big con is that students could possibly be installing games and crap they shouldn't be using when instead they are supposed to be learning.
Maybe laptops could provide more interactive learning to replace the textbook. But still, I don't see how that could be so much better when doing math problems is easier on paper. If the questions are given on the laptop, it still is no better than a textbook. Students should be listening to the teacher in class though, and doing homework at home (imo - get the most use out of class time).
Monitors are hard on your eyes after a while. I haven't used a laptop for a long amount of time (don't own one), but this could just add more health problems. (well, very minor ones I'm sure - headaches and such at the worst)
Textbooks get better written and updated with new information all the time. I think they ought to be spending any extra money on textbooks, not useless laptops. I know my high-school classes could have used better ones. My new, expensive college textbooks are excellent.
Waste of money...
People care about privacy. Microsoft cares about money. People would pay money for privacy.* Microsoft cares about privacy. At least as much as is necessary. Microsoft isn't inherently evil. They like money. * They'd pay in a round-about manner, though.
The weather in Spain, Italy, the UK, and France isn't due to global warming, it's due to local warming. Dense cities with lots of traffic-related pollution warm up quite quickly. Plus it's the summer time. At least that's what I suspect: is the temperature in rural areas in those countries as bad? I don't see how true global warming could only affect Europe...
Or maybe not; correct me if I'm wrong.
AFAIK you can also get into this state somewhat without magnetic fields or even drugs. I saw a hypnotist the other night and that stuff was pretty amazing. The "victims" were completely focused on the guys voice (they never seemed too bothered by an audience laughing at them -- they were totally zoned out), it was the strangest thing though. In the end they didn't even have any perception of the time that passed, which the hypnotist said was like how your perception of time gets lost when you are focusing on the tv or a math problem. Maybe you could even focus so much as to train your brain to do complex math effortlessly.
;)
The thing this article didn't bring up was that while savants have this amazing ability, it might stem from the fact that they have great concentration (my idle theory). Savants could easily pass the time rocking in a chair or drawing, and hence they get good at it (well the rocking isn't particulary interesting).
I don't know how the whole conceptual/abstract-thinking thing ties into the concentration, but basically I really hope lots of research goes into this sort of stuff in the years to come.
I'm going to laugh at you wearing a $10,000 hat if I can achieve the same thing by hypnotising myself.