Would it be a good or a bad idea to wear my white labcoat (see here and here) with a Linux shirt underneath?
My labcoat's pretty groovy looking (I wear it to my high school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays) and people seem to like it a lot; I was just wondering if this could be damaging to credibility any.
Alright, so I'm getting ready to go to college, and while doing a fastweb search for scholarships, I noticed that the NSA was offering an undergraduate training program for students planning on majoring in computer science, language, or mathematics. I hate the NSA as much as just about any other slashdotter, and so I probably won't be applying myself, but I thought it was still pretty interesting.
Is this the sort of thing which could benefit from distributed computing? Or is it one of those things, like protein folding computations, which have to be done on special, ultra-powerful machines?
I realize this is slightly off-subject, but this is something I (and probably other) minors probably need to know. Just today, I copylefted some source files by slapping on a "Copyright (C) 199 Neil Halelamien". Assuming minors can copyright, are there any legal issues we should be aware of? I'd in the past assumed that minors were able to, but the issues brought up in this discussion made me begin to wonder.
Here's a satire on a somewhat related topic I wrote for school a couple months back:
Not too long ago, as I sat in the kitchen perusing through various religious pamphlets I had received in the mail, I heard the unmistakable utterance of that vilest of words, "check," from my daughter's room. Fearing the worst, I rushed to her room, opened the door, and found the worst. I stared in horror as I saw my older daughter holding a figure of a horridly malformed horse chopped off at the neck. I stood petrified as I saw my daughter use this statuette, obviously of pagan-inspired origins, to knock over another piece, which I later learned to be termed a bishop, an obvious attempt of our immoral society to encourage the disrespect of our theocratic leaders. Finally taking action as a responsible parent, I swept all of the fetishes off the board and took the wicked "game" out of my children's sight. I immediately set the cursed work aflame--certain to have my children turn away for fear of any evil spirits locked within the hideous figurines. After much research, I have discovered that this chess is not the only supposed plaything our decrepit and immoral society has used in order to turn our children away from the most narrow path of righteousness. One of these is "Monopoly", a devilish work which teaches those engaged in it to capitalistically subvert helpless peons through the soulless acquisition of real estate. "Hungry, Hungry Hippos", a game in which the players push on the backs of multi-colored beasts, thereby forcing them to consume small white capsules, serves as the possible cause for why many of our formerly innocent children have become involved with illicit drugs. In the killing-simulator "Trouble", participants must vigorously strike a die-containing hemisphere (Bearing a shocking resemblance to the top of a human skull!) every turn, obviously encouraging them through this repetition to attack their peers in a similar manner. The debauchery termed "Twister" requires no further comment. Yet another example of a wretched attempt of our nonecclessiastic society to subvert our impressionable youth is a self-termed "classic game of battle field strategy" called "Stratego". Even the board of this game has been designed to look like that unholy place of death and destruction, the battlefield. In this game each player places several bomb,s obviously encouraging our playing children to plant explosives in the real world: I am certain that research would show that Timothy McVeigh had experiences in his childhood with this game, thus encouraging him to place, in a manner similar to that found in "Stratego", the bomb which killed so many in Oklahoma City. Have we learned nothing from Columbine? It is our duty as responsible parents to stop these reprehensible encroachments from corrupting the minds of our impressionable youth. We must carry out this duty through any and all necessary means: by pushing Congress to restrict the sale and production of these games, by boycotting all establishments where such establishments are found. We must take action now, for if we do not, we will ultimately find ourselves plummeting into an abyss of immorality and destruction, the abominable horror of which we cannot even begin to imagine.
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That's it. While I'm thinking about my aching fingers, does anybody know how to cut and past from an eterm to a netscape window?
On another, note, at my high school this Monday, we're going to wasting 15-30 minutes of school-time by having a "European fire drill"--basically a huge overreaction to Columbine. When we hear the "beep...beep...beep" we have to turn off the lights, lock the doors, and not let anybody in. Even if they ask and we know them (if they're late of the like) we can't let them in, but have to tell them to go to the auditorium. Then we have to get under the desks, being sure to stay as far away from the windows as possible.
Personally, I'm going to be finishing my calculus homework using by watch light.
I'm just curious about how the energy output of this thing compares to the energy required to power the laser. From reading the article, I'm pretty sure that it absorbs more than it releases, but if its not too big a difference, just a little more work could possibly turn this into a much bigger deal.
Just wondering, is this the sort of thing the ACLU would defend? You know, b/c of freedom of speech and stuff. If they did, this could actually turn out moderately advantageous for the emulation community.
Perfect for end users (such as myself). Other sites like it I've seen either tend to be either too technical or too shallow and stagnant. Should also be perfect to show to anybody that says there's not good apps & games for Linux. Since it's affiliated with TUCOWS, it hopefully will be updated frequently. And the Graphics are sooo CUTE!
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Hmm...perhaps it would be more fitting to get some MS folks to dress up as stormtroopers?
Would it be a good or a bad idea to wear my white labcoat (see here and here) with a Linux shirt underneath?
My labcoat's pretty groovy looking (I wear it to my high school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays) and people seem to like it a lot; I was just wondering if this could be damaging to credibility any.
Alright, so I'm getting ready to go to college, and while doing a fastweb search for scholarships, I noticed that the NSA was offering an undergraduate training program for students planning on majoring in computer science, language, or mathematics. I hate the NSA as much as just about any other slashdotter, and so I probably won't be applying myself, but I thought it was still pretty interesting.
Check out the info page at http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/emp loy/utp.html
Pretty creepy stuff...
or Better Business Bureau could get involved? Forgive me if it's a clueless question, but I haven't seen anybody comment on this yet.
Is this the sort of thing which could benefit from distributed computing? Or is it one of those things, like protein folding computations, which have to be done on special, ultra-powerful machines?
I realize this is slightly off-subject, but this is something I (and probably other) minors probably need to know. Just today, I copylefted some source files by slapping on a "Copyright (C) 199 Neil Halelamien". Assuming minors can copyright, are there any legal issues we should be aware of? I'd in the past assumed that minors were able to, but the issues brought up in this discussion made me begin to wonder.
That's all well and good, but you've gotta watch those psi storms.
Crackle...crackle...
Splat!
Offtopic, but next time I post (or anyone else posts for that matter) I/they should remember that whitespace between paragraphs is a Good Thing(TM).
Here's a satire on a somewhat related topic I wrote for school a couple months back:
Not too long ago, as I sat in the kitchen perusing through various religious pamphlets I had received in the mail, I heard the unmistakable utterance of that vilest of words, "check," from my daughter's room. Fearing the worst, I rushed to her room, opened the door, and found the worst. I stared in horror as I saw my older daughter holding a figure of a horridly malformed horse chopped off at the neck. I stood petrified as I saw my daughter use this statuette, obviously of pagan-inspired origins, to knock over another piece, which I later learned to be termed a bishop, an obvious attempt of our immoral society to encourage the disrespect of our theocratic leaders. Finally taking action as a responsible parent, I swept all of the fetishes off the board and took the wicked "game" out of my children's sight. I immediately set the cursed work aflame--certain to have my children turn away for fear of any evil spirits locked within the hideous figurines.
After much research, I have discovered that this chess is not the only supposed plaything our decrepit and immoral society has used in order to turn our children away from the most narrow path of righteousness. One of these is "Monopoly", a devilish work which teaches those engaged in it to capitalistically subvert helpless peons through the soulless acquisition of real estate. "Hungry, Hungry Hippos", a game in which the players push on the backs of multi-colored beasts, thereby forcing them to consume small white capsules, serves as the possible cause for why many of our formerly innocent children have become involved with illicit drugs. In the killing-simulator "Trouble", participants must vigorously strike a die-containing hemisphere (Bearing a shocking resemblance to the top of a human skull!) every turn, obviously encouraging them through this repetition to attack their peers in a similar manner. The debauchery termed "Twister" requires no further comment.
Yet another example of a wretched attempt of our nonecclessiastic society to subvert our impressionable youth is a self-termed "classic game of battle field strategy" called "Stratego". Even the board of this game has been designed to look like that unholy place of death and destruction, the battlefield. In this game each player places several bomb,s obviously encouraging our playing children to plant explosives in the real world: I am certain that research would show that Timothy McVeigh had experiences in his childhood with this game, thus encouraging him to place, in a manner similar to that found in "Stratego", the bomb which killed so many in Oklahoma City.
Have we learned nothing from Columbine? It is our duty as responsible parents to stop these reprehensible encroachments from corrupting the minds of our impressionable youth. We must carry out this duty through any and all necessary means: by pushing Congress to restrict the sale and production of these games, by boycotting all establishments where such establishments are found. We must take action now, for if we do not, we will ultimately find ourselves plummeting into an abyss of immorality and destruction, the abominable horror of which we cannot even begin to imagine.
--
That's it. While I'm thinking about my aching fingers, does anybody know how to cut and past from an eterm to a netscape window?
On another, note, at my high school this Monday, we're going to wasting 15-30 minutes of school-time by having a "European fire drill"--basically a huge overreaction to Columbine. When we hear the "beep...beep...beep" we have to turn off the lights, lock the doors, and not let anybody in. Even if they ask and we know them (if they're late of the like) we can't let them in, but have to tell them to go to the auditorium. Then we have to get under the desks, being sure to stay as far away from the windows as possible.
Personally, I'm going to be finishing my calculus homework using by watch light.
All of this talk of "the Believers" and "the Scientists" just reminded me I should be playing Alpha Centauri.
I'm just curious about how the energy output of this thing compares to the energy required to power the laser. From reading the article, I'm pretty sure that it absorbs more than it releases, but if its not too big a difference, just a little more work could possibly turn this into a much bigger deal.
You'd have to be pretty dumb to need to have a book to look for *that*. Like me? Pooh, confused again, sorry.
Just wondering, is this the sort of thing the ACLU would defend? You know, b/c of freedom of speech and stuff. If they did, this could actually turn out moderately advantageous for the emulation community.
How's this work under WINE? Enjoyed it before I deleted win95, but haven't had a chance yet to try it out myself under Linux.
Perfect for end users (such as myself). Other sites like it I've seen either tend to be either too technical or too shallow and stagnant. Should also be perfect to show to anybody that says there's not good apps & games for Linux. Since it's affiliated with TUCOWS, it hopefully will be updated frequently. And the Graphics are sooo CUTE!