Received my copy here in the UK at 14:00 Zulu. Arrived by courier - delivered overnight from Ireland, so pretty fast delivery.
Impression so far:
Spotlight & Dashboard blow me away. System is snappier than before even though Spotlight is currently indexing external firewire drive and 20GB iPod.
I have to agree. Fascinating from a historical perspective, but so relevent for today. How to live a full year by working for 6 weeks. You can't argue with the logic.
Last day at work, made a good impression, everyone is very happy with me. A few hours to go and I decide to start playing around on a misson critical Unix box, write a few perl scripts to test out some ideas on inter process communication. Put the pipe in the wrong place. Kick them off. Nothing seems to happen. 'ps -ef' shows a few hundred spawned processes all under my login. Ten seconds later, 'ps -ef' shows a few thousand. My God, how quickly can you type 'kill -9'? Luckily, nobody noticed. Just as well it was a friday.
Ali G did a similar show in the UK - I think it was broadcast on HBO. Who knows, maybe this is where MTV stole the idea. The Ali G shows were also taped and edited to show the 'guest' in the worst possible light. However, Ali G's interview with Tony Benn, the elder left-wing statesman of British politics, back fired. Benn threw everything back at Ali G with humourous contempt - and I think it was only at the very end of the segment that Benn (possibly) realised it was a set up.
Other interviewsee of note: CIA director Woolsey, a bigotted Orangeman and Naomi Wolf who didn't come out so well.
Booyakasha!
Is it possible that OSS will help bridges between East & West - could the sharing/helping ethos behind OSS set a good example despite the mistrust (from some) on each 'side'?
Dawkin's article is about writing popular science texts - he's saying scientific theories presented to the lay person should be simplified for clarity only and need not be dumbed down. There is no reason why a poluar science book written this way should be disqualified as contender for a Nobel prize.
Hacking a 4GL (remember them?) to do something it was never designed to do. I was actually quite successful, but sure did make me bitter! Abstraction is important, but don't ever work on a project where you have to abstract upwards then downwards to get what you want!
Yes, but actually the first algorithm could be improved by using simple statistics. Given N choices evaluate n (I can't recall what the fraction n/N should be at the moment), then pick the best of the subset n.
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perl thrashes and crashes trying to crunch seriously large amounts of data
I seem to remember one of the side-effects of broadband over power lines is interference to shortwave radio reception. May not impact you, but a lot of radio hams are dead set against it.
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Received my copy here in the UK at 14:00 Zulu. Arrived by courier - delivered overnight from Ireland, so pretty fast delivery.
Impression so far:
Spotlight & Dashboard blow me away. System is snappier than before even though Spotlight is currently indexing external firewire drive and 20GB iPod.
You could always plug a SW radio into the headphones jack on your Mac then use Rogue Amoebas Audio Hijack Pro to record the program.
God lord, Apple isn't even a certified UNIX
So, and your point is, exactly?
Three words for you buster: "Click on Terminal.app"
I have to agree. Fascinating from a historical perspective, but so relevent for today. How to live a full year by working for 6 weeks. You can't argue with the logic.
Life!
If they can work something in 5 minutes, it's not a particularly clever device.
See, folks with that attitude just don't get it. They never will. Apple has - look at the market share they have with the iPod.
Last day at work, made a good impression, everyone is very happy with me. A few hours to go and I decide to start playing around on a misson critical Unix box, write a few perl scripts to test out some ideas on inter process communication. Put the pipe in the wrong place. Kick them off. Nothing seems to happen. 'ps -ef' shows a few hundred spawned processes all under my login. Ten seconds later, 'ps -ef' shows a few thousand. My God, how quickly can you type 'kill -9'? Luckily, nobody noticed. Just as well it was a friday.
Ali G did a similar show in the UK - I think it was broadcast on HBO. Who knows, maybe this is where MTV stole the idea. The Ali G shows were also taped and edited to show the 'guest' in the worst possible light. However, Ali G's interview with Tony Benn, the elder left-wing statesman of British politics, back fired. Benn threw everything back at Ali G with humourous contempt - and I think it was only at the very end of the segment that Benn (possibly) realised it was a set up.
Other interviewsee of note: CIA director Woolsey, a bigotted Orangeman and Naomi Wolf who didn't come out so well. Booyakasha!
You are not allowed to ship this book into the UK? I don't belive you.
I submitted a story to /. on this a while back. Rejected - but there is more info here
Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 has a weekly show called In Our Time discussing science, history etc with experts in the field.
Is it possible that OSS will help bridges between East & West - could the sharing/helping ethos behind OSS set a good example despite the mistrust (from some) on each 'side'?
Where's -1, Ignorant when you need it?
Dawkin's article is about writing popular science texts - he's saying scientific theories presented to the lay person should be simplified for clarity only and need not be dumbed down. There is no reason why a poluar science book written this way should be disqualified as contender for a Nobel prize.
Ok, can't resist...
In Soviet Russia, the atoms snitch you!
RPN OK Rules!
... from the UK the transit starts at approx 6:19am. Who's getting up at that time?
"The blasts tended to blind the enemy." Excuse me....? I thought the idea was to render the enemy incable of fighting in a war?
It is against the Geneva Conventions to use a weapon to blind the enemy. The US ratified this in 1999.
Karma Sutra MOD me up! Or down.
Pity the poor souls who have to meta moderate all the April 1st threads that will show up in a day or two.
Hacking a 4GL (remember them?) to do something it was never designed to do. I was actually quite successful, but sure did make me bitter! Abstraction is important, but don't ever work on a project where you have to abstract upwards then downwards to get what you want!
Wouldn't this algorithm be better?
Yes, but actually the first algorithm could be improved by using simple statistics. Given N choices evaluate n (I can't recall what the fraction n/N should be at the moment), then pick the best of the subset n.
perl thrashes and crashes trying to crunch seriously large amounts of data
Yep, that's why it did this.
I seem to remember one of the side-effects of broadband over power lines is interference to shortwave radio reception. May not impact you, but a lot of radio hams are dead set against it.
I started using NetNewsWire and my IP was banned almost immediately. Didn't get access back until 3 days later.
/. since then.
Haven't used it for