How old is your son? If he's a teenager (or older), there's really nothing to worry about. If
he's younger than that, there's really nothing worse than you'd find in a saturday morning cartoon, but I doubt he really understands some of the jokes. As for "moderately bad language"... I don't ever recall any of the characters cursing, but feel free to show me an instance of such. Not that it makes any difference to me, but I'm curious where you got the idea they they are foul mouthed.
no obvious means of generating revenue Link to their online store
They make a ton of money off of t-shirt sales. In fact, they make enough to pay for bandwidth and support themselves so they don't have to get a real job.
I've been to the site and it just looks like a bunch of crap in Flash.
It's comedy goodness. Just because it's Flash doesn't mean it's crap. I bet you're the type that judges anime as "child stuff" because it's animated. Since you didn't notice the store page, I really wonder how much time you spent at the site. The most popular part of the site are the Strongbad emails. There's a link directly to them at the bottom of the page labled "SB Emails". There are over 100 of them and are produced once a week. If you really want to get an idea of what they're like, I recommend just starting at the first one (at the bottom) and working your way up.
They're also fond of making flash games that are similar to and somewhat make fun of old 8-bit games from the 80s and early 90s. They're surprisingly fun and always have humor to them.
It's basically just some guys (and one girl) who are quite creative and funny (to a lot of people, though as for humor there's never any accounting for taste) and having a good time.
The slashdot blurb forgot to mention that this is a $79 charge per year. The first time I read it I thought it was $79/mo, then I read it again, saw no timeframe, and thought it was $79 for your lifetime. Now I actually RTFA (read the f-ing ad) and it's $79/year. Wouldn't this be important to include in the description?
That's a good point, and I certaintly didn't mean to downplay collegate sports in general. I'm on a sport team myself at college, and have to pay money out of my own pocket because the University doesn't fund us nearly enough. I was more refering to what the parent poster was saying, where there are athletes at colleges who get basically free degrees with no work because they are athletes. In those cases, it's purely financial, or as you said publicity raisers.
Do you really think universities have sports programs to give students career opportunities? What are you on? Because I want some too.
Seriously, sports at universities are fund raising to the extreme. Selling tickets, selling merchandise, selling advertising, etc. It's a huge moneymaker. That's why universities try to attract good athletes with full scholarships and easy classes.
So here's what you do if you really want to get the word out - take the article, print it yourself, and hand it out to students just off of school grounds. The principal can't do anything about it, and it actually gives the article much more edge, since it was "Banned by the school! Read what the principal doesn't want you to read!"
Exeem uses libtorrent as its codebase, with extra coding for the decentralized tracker. Libtorrent is an open source GPL'd C++ implementation of the bittorrent protocol. The only requirements for compiling it are support for STL and the latest Boost. This means it works in Windows, Linux, Mac OSX... even cygwin! It's also a library, so it can be plugged into any application.
I've had many communications with the creator, and he's a very cool guy and quite dedicated to the work. I helped a little with debugging, etc, but my main interest at the time was using it to in my own graphical interface. I never completed the project, but I still feel a good connection to libtorrent.
100GB can be one song. I've never understood using that anaology.
Reminds me of when I saw people typo "minute" as "minuet"... I would conteplate what the conversion factor from minuet to minute was. Never came up with a satisfactory answer.
However, here's some math. MP3s tend to be about 1MB per minute of song, at 128-bit encryption (the minimum people will bear to listen to). So 100GB = 102,400MB. I guess the RIAA is selling 24.5 second songs!
When I do something like 137 + 48 in my head, I tend to work backwards... it's kind of odd but it's how my brain works (also allows me to do it as I read the numbers, and start giving the answer before I finish adding). So, in this case, I'd immediately see a 3-digit number plus a 2-digit, so I start with 1, the I see 3+4 which is 7, so 17, then 8+7 which is 8+8-1=15 (it's faster for me to do that than remember what 8+7 is since I'm bad at memorizing), so the answer is 185. You may have been exaggerating when you said you can't do that addition in your head, but if you weren't I hope this helped.
Something with a lot of carryovers works the same way. For example, 999+999... 18, 198, 1998 done. 547+943.. 14, 148, 1490.
As for pure math concepts, they are heavily based in logic, and if you can do computer programming, I really don't see why you wouldn't be able to understand them as well. Maybe you've convinced yourself that you can't understand it, so instead of saying "wait, what was that?" you simply glaze over and say "right, uh huh, yup." Obvsiously, if you miss something important early on, you won't be able to follow the rest of the idea.
As for assembly, well, assembly wasn't designed to be written by humans. If you want to write anything worthwhile in assembly, you really need to write out pseudo-code first, then break it down line-by-line.
Just a few thoughts.
I find that being a computer geek makes me worse at poker than the normal Joe Schmoe. Now, physicists, on the other hand, tend to be better than the average. The difference, I believe, is that although computer people would tend to have the necessary math and analytical skills to play poker, they tend to think algorithmically which really doesn't work in a poker setting.
The only time I've felt I had an advantage was when the people I was playing against didn't know how to play poker.
What are these seasons "autumn" and "winter"? I live in San Diego, where the only two seasons are "Summer" and "Other Summer" where it's slightly cooler and rains a lot (sometimes as many times as 5 days a month!)
I went to Haverford High School, and let me tell you that the school administration could care less about the radio station. It was primarily student run and student funded. I can tell you that any action to move from a Class D license, such as converting to Class A, would have taken far more money than the administration would be willing to even consider.
I remember they recently replaced the failing tower with a brand new one, and that took years of student effort and organization, not to mention a whole lot of begging for funding.
So, basically, a radio station that has been around since 1949 and primarilly run and maintained by high school students suddenly must shut down (with all the student's efforts for naught) because some corperation wants a frequency in the area that no one else has used in 55 years.
Do they really think the community is going to listen to this station, after it has trounced out the highschool station that has been there as long as they can remember?
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves a made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." -- Douglas Adams
There's no way I can modify this quote so that it is on topic and still has the same zing. So use your imagination:)
Rebates are basically cash back from the manufacturer after you purchase something made by them from a store. You send in the rebate form, proof of purchase, and receipt, and they send you a check. Usually takes 3-4 months to get the money. Companies generally use rebates in order to discount products that they're trying to get rid of, such as older computer hardware (like a 120gb HD that they've stopped making). Since the rebate comes from the manufacturer, the stores don't have to soak up the loss in revenue.
It's also a ploy. Many, many people are too lazy to send in rebate forms, or simply forget to, so when they purchase the product, they think "wow! This hard drive is only $60 after this $50 rebate!" but they end up paying the $110 because they forgot about the rebate form.
Replacement laptop keyboards are all over ebay. I recently replaced my keyboard, and though there were definately some difficulties*, I eventually got the right kind of keyboard.
*Difficulties: The first one I bought wasn't for the model laptop I have, even though the model was listed as a compatible one on the ebay listing. I was refunded my money without having to send back the keyboard. The second one was the correct keyboard, but I had to use some superglue to get the spacebar working right. Oh well, it was dirt cheap compared to the cost of buying one from a warehouse place.
A large number of the popular BitTorrent downloads have around 2000 total peers (summing up seeders and leechers) during peak time. For files distributed by corporations, the sky is the limit (400,000 is possible for the WoW beta). The current generation of trackers do NOT prioritize IPs by location, and thus if I connect to this tracker and there are 10 other people on campus downloading it, the chances of any of us even finding each other is very slim, since the average client gets around 30 random ips from the tracker in one shot.
It would be nice if you could specify to the tracker a range of IPs to always give, but I doubt many tracker operators would want to suck up the extra bandwidth to recieve those requests.
Libtorrent (a c++ implementation of a BT client, currently in pre-beta stages) supports trying to connect to an IP directly, but you'd still have to know about someone else on campus downloading the torrent.
The only solutions I can think of put even more strain on the trackers, which go down more often than most porn stars.
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How old is your son? If he's a teenager (or older), there's really nothing to worry about. If he's younger than that, there's really nothing worse than you'd find in a saturday morning cartoon, but I doubt he really understands some of the jokes. As for "moderately bad language"... I don't ever recall any of the characters cursing, but feel free to show me an instance of such. Not that it makes any difference to me, but I'm curious where you got the idea they they are foul mouthed.
no obvious means of generating revenue
Link to their online store
They make a ton of money off of t-shirt sales. In fact, they make enough to pay for bandwidth and support themselves so they don't have to get a real job.
I've been to the site and it just looks like a bunch of crap in Flash.
It's comedy goodness. Just because it's Flash doesn't mean it's crap. I bet you're the type that judges anime as "child stuff" because it's animated. Since you didn't notice the store page, I really wonder how much time you spent at the site. The most popular part of the site are the Strongbad emails. There's a link directly to them at the bottom of the page labled "SB Emails". There are over 100 of them and are produced once a week. If you really want to get an idea of what they're like, I recommend just starting at the first one (at the bottom) and working your way up.
They're also fond of making flash games that are similar to and somewhat make fun of old 8-bit games from the 80s and early 90s. They're surprisingly fun and always have humor to them.
It's basically just some guys (and one girl) who are quite creative and funny (to a lot of people, though as for humor there's never any accounting for taste) and having a good time.
A train station is where a train stops, a bus station is where a bus stops, on my desk I have a workstation...
yes?
"Here's a driver's license officer"
"Uh, this isn't you"
"I'm not required to show MY license am I?"
Yeah, I don't think that would go over well.
Though humorous, this is a fictitious story.
http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm
Which one is cold? Which one takes less time between buying and drinking? Which one gives that satisfying "kerplunk" sound when it's vended?
In certain situations, that's worth 80 cents.
Wow, titles really shouldn't contain information that the blurb does not contain. Oh well, I guess I should look more carefully next time.
The slashdot blurb forgot to mention that this is a $79 charge per year. The first time I read it I thought it was $79/mo, then I read it again, saw no timeframe, and thought it was $79 for your lifetime. Now I actually RTFA (read the f-ing ad) and it's $79/year. Wouldn't this be important to include in the description?
That's a good point, and I certaintly didn't mean to downplay collegate sports in general. I'm on a sport team myself at college, and have to pay money out of my own pocket because the University doesn't fund us nearly enough. I was more refering to what the parent poster was saying, where there are athletes at colleges who get basically free degrees with no work because they are athletes. In those cases, it's purely financial, or as you said publicity raisers.
Do you really think universities have sports programs to give students career opportunities? What are you on? Because I want some too.
Seriously, sports at universities are fund raising to the extreme. Selling tickets, selling merchandise, selling advertising, etc. It's a huge moneymaker. That's why universities try to attract good athletes with full scholarships and easy classes.
So here's what you do if you really want to get the word out - take the article, print it yourself, and hand it out to students just off of school grounds. The principal can't do anything about it, and it actually gives the article much more edge, since it was "Banned by the school! Read what the principal doesn't want you to read!"
Whoops, typo I guess. Must have been tired when I wrote that. Of course I meant 128 bitrate, but I guess I typed 128-bit and "encryption" followed.
Exeem uses libtorrent as its codebase, with extra coding for the decentralized tracker. Libtorrent is an open source GPL'd C++ implementation of the bittorrent protocol. The only requirements for compiling it are support for STL and the latest Boost. This means it works in Windows, Linux, Mac OSX... even cygwin! It's also a library, so it can be plugged into any application.
I've had many communications with the creator, and he's a very cool guy and quite dedicated to the work. I helped a little with debugging, etc, but my main interest at the time was using it to in my own graphical interface. I never completed the project, but I still feel a good connection to libtorrent.
100GB can be one song. I've never understood using that anaology.
Reminds me of when I saw people typo "minute" as "minuet"... I would conteplate what the conversion factor from minuet to minute was. Never came up with a satisfactory answer.
However, here's some math. MP3s tend to be about 1MB per minute of song, at 128-bit encryption (the minimum people will bear to listen to). So 100GB = 102,400MB. I guess the RIAA is selling 24.5 second songs!
Yes, and we all know how well that worked out for Star Wars.
Let's hope you're right, though, and Star Trek has a better fate, and we don't end up with Jar Jar Bock, a rastafarian android.
1+1=3 for extremeley high values of 1.
When I do something like 137 + 48 in my head, I tend to work backwards... it's kind of odd but it's how my brain works (also allows me to do it as I read the numbers, and start giving the answer before I finish adding). So, in this case, I'd immediately see a 3-digit number plus a 2-digit, so I start with 1, the I see 3+4 which is 7, so 17, then 8+7 which is 8+8-1=15 (it's faster for me to do that than remember what 8+7 is since I'm bad at memorizing), so the answer is 185. You may have been exaggerating when you said you can't do that addition in your head, but if you weren't I hope this helped. Something with a lot of carryovers works the same way. For example, 999+999... 18, 198, 1998 done. 547+943.. 14, 148, 1490. As for pure math concepts, they are heavily based in logic, and if you can do computer programming, I really don't see why you wouldn't be able to understand them as well. Maybe you've convinced yourself that you can't understand it, so instead of saying "wait, what was that?" you simply glaze over and say "right, uh huh, yup." Obvsiously, if you miss something important early on, you won't be able to follow the rest of the idea. As for assembly, well, assembly wasn't designed to be written by humans. If you want to write anything worthwhile in assembly, you really need to write out pseudo-code first, then break it down line-by-line. Just a few thoughts.
That's funny, because when I pass a fast-food place, it makes me want to throw up.
I find that being a computer geek makes me worse at poker than the normal Joe Schmoe. Now, physicists, on the other hand, tend to be better than the average. The difference, I believe, is that although computer people would tend to have the necessary math and analytical skills to play poker, they tend to think algorithmically which really doesn't work in a poker setting.
The only time I've felt I had an advantage was when the people I was playing against didn't know how to play poker.
What are these seasons "autumn" and "winter"? I live in San Diego, where the only two seasons are "Summer" and "Other Summer" where it's slightly cooler and rains a lot (sometimes as many times as 5 days a month!)
Ok, you've got me... what does "tripsidaisical" mean? I tried google, I tried dictionary.com, I tried asking friends. Nothing.
I went to Haverford High School, and let me tell you that the school administration could care less about the radio station. It was primarily student run and student funded. I can tell you that any action to move from a Class D license, such as converting to Class A, would have taken far more money than the administration would be willing to even consider. I remember they recently replaced the failing tower with a brand new one, and that took years of student effort and organization, not to mention a whole lot of begging for funding. So, basically, a radio station that has been around since 1949 and primarilly run and maintained by high school students suddenly must shut down (with all the student's efforts for naught) because some corperation wants a frequency in the area that no one else has used in 55 years. Do they really think the community is going to listen to this station, after it has trounced out the highschool station that has been there as long as they can remember?
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves a made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." -- Douglas Adams There's no way I can modify this quote so that it is on topic and still has the same zing. So use your imagination :)
Rebates are basically cash back from the manufacturer after you purchase something made by them from a store. You send in the rebate form, proof of purchase, and receipt, and they send you a check. Usually takes 3-4 months to get the money. Companies generally use rebates in order to discount products that they're trying to get rid of, such as older computer hardware (like a 120gb HD that they've stopped making). Since the rebate comes from the manufacturer, the stores don't have to soak up the loss in revenue.
It's also a ploy. Many, many people are too lazy to send in rebate forms, or simply forget to, so when they purchase the product, they think "wow! This hard drive is only $60 after this $50 rebate!" but they end up paying the $110 because they forgot about the rebate form.
Replacement laptop keyboards are all over ebay. I recently replaced my keyboard, and though there were definately some difficulties*, I eventually got the right kind of keyboard.
*Difficulties: The first one I bought wasn't for the model laptop I have, even though the model was listed as a compatible one on the ebay listing. I was refunded my money without having to send back the keyboard. The second one was the correct keyboard, but I had to use some superglue to get the spacebar working right. Oh well, it was dirt cheap compared to the cost of buying one from a warehouse place.
A large number of the popular BitTorrent downloads have around 2000 total peers (summing up seeders and leechers) during peak time. For files distributed by corporations, the sky is the limit (400,000 is possible for the WoW beta). The current generation of trackers do NOT prioritize IPs by location, and thus if I connect to this tracker and there are 10 other people on campus downloading it, the chances of any of us even finding each other is very slim, since the average client gets around 30 random ips from the tracker in one shot.
It would be nice if you could specify to the tracker a range of IPs to always give, but I doubt many tracker operators would want to suck up the extra bandwidth to recieve those requests.
Libtorrent (a c++ implementation of a BT client, currently in pre-beta stages) supports trying to connect to an IP directly, but you'd still have to know about someone else on campus downloading the torrent.
The only solutions I can think of put even more strain on the trackers, which go down more often than most porn stars.
Just my two cents.