I'm a divorced mother of seven trying to put my life put back together after the death of my fourth husband. My kids still blame me for his death (it wasn't my fault, honest!), and I'm having a tough time meeting new people. What should I do?
--Sleepless in Sarasota
Based on what you said you liked...
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I'd start out with these:
DJ Tiesto - "Summerbreeze" BT - "Movement in Still Life" or "Ima" Oakenfold's "Tranceport" is a classic George Acosta - "Next Level" or "Awake"
Also, if you don't have Sasha's Xpander EP, it is IMO his best work (and I really like his stuff), Northern Exposure (which he did with Digweed) is also at the very top of their music as well.
Some others worth considering: Dave Ralph Dave Seaman Chemical Brothers The Prodigy Boards of Canada Ray Munns Orbital The Crystal Method Underworld
A lot of people are recommending these: Aphex Twin Square Pusher Q-Burns Abstract Message Autchere
While all of these are very good bands, I don't think that they are particularly accessable to someone who is new to Electronica.
The solution is that the only person to answer is the one that sees two hats of the same color on the other person. In 6 of the 8 cases that means that only 1 person says anything (and they are correct). In the 2 losing cases, they all say that they have the incorrect hat color. They can all answer at the same time and still have a 75% success rate.
3k was great! I wizzed on that MUD back in the summer of... was it 92? Ack I can't even remember, but I my wizards name was Gerin. Yep, staying up till 8 or 9 in the morning, skipping all my classes. Made the best internet friends on that MUD that I've ever had. Memories:).
There is a difference between the way a UI should behave on an application versus a utility. An application is something that gets used frequently and for extended periods of time. It takes up a significant portion of the users time while in front of the computer. Because of this, the app's UI having total compliance to the operating systems UI is not as important as the user can be expected to spend a little time. The Mozilla/Netscape browser can be considered an application.
On the other hand, a utility is a program that is used infrequently and for shorter periods of time (like quicktime). It is a much larger sin for a program like this to not have a comfortable, conformant UI. Because it is used so infrequently, users don't have enough time to become expert users in an alternative UI.
My personal feeling is that a program should have as the default a UI that is compliant to the operating system that it is being used in. Just give the user the option to play around with it if they want to. I think that the UI in Mozilla isn't so radical as to be a large problem and the customizability that they offer through XUL is a great idea.
I bet that showing your teacher this thread (and all of the great ideas contained in it) would go a long way towards educating them and impressing upon them that Linux is something worthy for you to be taught.
I recently bought a Linksys 4 port dsl/cable router/switch and I'm very happy with it overall. The only problem that I've had so far is that connecting multiple clients from behind the router to a quake server on the internet drops the connection of both computers. Apparently quake sees that 2 clients are connecting from the same IP (as the NAT server makes it look like both are from the same location) and get's messed up. It seems like there has to be a 1 to 1 correlation between quake clients and IP numbers as seen by the server. From what I've heard, Unreal Tournament doesn't suffer from this limitation and allows multiple clients to connect from the same IP.
I thought for sure that with a headline like: MPAA Head Valenti on DVD "Hackers" that Valenti was going to join Ebert rating movies. We get to hear withat Valenti thinks of Johnny Lee Miller's performance in the semi-abysmal Hackers.
Haven't tried it with MSVC5.0 but the readme does say that it requires MSVC6.??, I haven't looked at it closely enough yet to see why, but I think that if it would be able to run with VC5, they would have said that.
Yes this is offtopic, but the "dept." tagline reminded me of a really funny SNL Celebrity Jepordy where Sean Connery mistakes the category "Therapists" for something else:). You can find it here.
Umm...to keep it a little on topic, hmmm...go open source! Good luck to the defendants!:)
-FGP
Blind Faith is bad, Critical Thinking is good
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I have a friend who was a journalism major. I remember being appalled when she told me about how some of their classes that train them to be reporters actually have assignments wherein they are supposed to bias the news. If the paper/media source that you work for is a liberal one, you are supposed to be able to put a liberal slant on your topic. Same thing for conservative sources. Journalists aren't trained in telling the Truth (TM), they are trained in observing from a particular point of view and they have the same biases as any other human.
While I think that digitaly editing news broadcasts is a bad thing, it really isn't any different than what we already have to deal with, just a little more blatant.
-FGP
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Don't kid yourself. The thing is that even though your bank didn't go under, and the government didn't have to bail you out, you spent a lot more than a dime on Y2K. Even if you didn't buy any products directly related to Y2K, you subsidize (sp?) it with just about every purchase you make. Every company that had to spend money upgrading and checking their systems passes that cost on to the customer.
I don't necessarily mean to target this at this particular review, but why do practically all book reviews on/. get 8's? It kind of invalidates the ratings for me as it feels like all of the reviewers are afraid to give anything else. They don't want to praise a book to highly in case there are peeps out there who will rip them to shreds for rating it too high, and they don't want to rate it too low for the same reason. Howabout a couple book ratings for 3 books! I want to know what to avoid as well as what to buy.
I've had a 256k line for about a year and a half now (USWest in St. Cloud, MN). I pay 29.95 a month for the line and another 17.95 for the ISP charge (USWest as well). I have been very happy with the price and the level of service. The line hasn't gone down in the last 6 months and only went down about 5 times in the first year.
I know I'm spoiled, but what I want now is for the high end of the price structure to come down. What I'd like to do is upgrade to a faster line, but the cost starts to become prohibitive quickly. Last I checked, a 4mb down/1mb up was 480 bucks a month. And going to a 512k line (the next step up) jumps by about $40 a month, almost double. Hopefully these prices will come down.
For some reason St. Cloud seems to be a competitive hotbed of high bandwidth providers (1 DSL provider and 2 seperate Cable internet providers).
This is great. I was just thinking last week about submitting a question about the D. M. Pinkwater-Geek relationship. I was heavily influenced by Pinkwater when I was growing up. Fat Men from Space, Lizard Music, Alan Mendelson: Boy From Mars, and others are all fantastic books. They were great when I was eleven, but I reread Lizard Music last week and still enjoyed it. I'd suggest just about all of Pinkwaters stuff to anyone reading/., especially if you have children.
In some ways they style of humor reminds me of the Simpsons, but a little more subtle, the same kind of poking fun at authority thought.
Along the lines of teaching people not to respond to trolls: How about a "The Slashdot community discourages replying to Troll's (as anything you say only encourages them). Are you sure you want to post this reply?" message that pops up when someone clicks on the "Reply to this" on an article that has been marked "Troll". This might give many people pause and stop much wasted discussion and thought for trolls, but it would also allow those people who thought they _really_ needed to respond to the troll to do so, thereby not limiting free speech.
I had a Herc TNT2 Ultra for about a month and a half. Last week I started having problems and called tech support. Someone there named Joel told me to send the card in and then they would send a replacement. I got an RMA and the address and sent it in 2 days ago. He didn't say anything at all about them having problems. Then I read this about Herc closing their doors and how they won't be filling any more orders. Do I have any recourse here? Is there a chance that I'm just out $250? I feel sorry for Herc for going out of business, but right now I feel more sorry for me and my money.
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Dear Linux Administrator,
I'm a divorced mother of seven trying to put my life put back together after the death of my fourth husband. My kids still blame me for his death (it wasn't my fault, honest!), and I'm having a tough time meeting new people. What should I do?
--Sleepless in Sarasota
I'd start out with these:
DJ Tiesto - "Summerbreeze"
BT - "Movement in Still Life" or "Ima"
Oakenfold's "Tranceport" is a classic
George Acosta - "Next Level" or "Awake"
Also, if you don't have Sasha's Xpander EP, it is IMO his best work (and I really like his stuff), Northern Exposure (which he did with Digweed) is also at the very top of their music as well.
Some others worth considering:
Dave Ralph
Dave Seaman
Chemical Brothers
The Prodigy
Boards of Canada
Ray Munns
Orbital
The Crystal Method
Underworld
A lot of people are recommending these:
Aphex Twin
Square Pusher
Q-Burns Abstract Message
Autchere
While all of these are very good bands, I don't think that they are particularly accessable to someone who is new to Electronica.
They do have to answer at the same time. The reason that it works at 75% is because of probability. Here are the possible outcomes:
RRR -Lose
RRB -Win
RBR -Win
RBB -Win
BRR -Win
BRB -Win
BBR -Win
BBB -Lose
The solution is that the only person to answer is the one that sees two hats of the same color on the other person. In 6 of the 8 cases that means that only 1 person says anything (and they are correct). In the 2 losing cases, they all say that they have the incorrect hat color. They can all answer at the same time and still have a 75% success rate.
-FGP
3k was great! I wizzed on that MUD back in the summer of ... was it 92? Ack I can't even remember, but I my wizards name was Gerin. Yep, staying up till 8 or 9 in the morning, skipping all my classes. Made the best internet friends on that MUD that I've ever had. Memories :).
There is a difference between the way a UI should behave on an application versus a utility. An application is something that gets used frequently and for extended periods of time. It takes up a significant portion of the users time while in front of the computer. Because of this, the app's UI having total compliance to the operating systems UI is not as important as the user can be expected to spend a little time. The Mozilla/Netscape browser can be considered an application.
On the other hand, a utility is a program that is used infrequently and for shorter periods of time (like quicktime). It is a much larger sin for a program like this to not have a comfortable, conformant UI. Because it is used so infrequently, users don't have enough time to become expert users in an alternative UI.
My personal feeling is that a program should have as the default a UI that is compliant to the operating system that it is being used in. Just give the user the option to play around with it if they want to. I think that the UI in Mozilla isn't so radical as to be a large problem and the customizability that they offer through XUL is a great idea.
-FGP
I bet that showing your teacher this thread (and all of the great ideas contained in it) would go a long way towards educating them and impressing upon them that Linux is something worthy for you to be taught.
There is a caveat if you are a quake player.
I recently bought a Linksys 4 port dsl/cable router/switch and I'm very happy with it overall. The only problem that I've had so far is that connecting multiple clients from behind the router to a quake server on the internet drops the connection of both computers. Apparently quake sees that 2 clients are connecting from the same IP (as the NAT server makes it look like both are from the same location) and get's messed up. It seems like there has to be a 1 to 1 correlation between quake clients and IP numbers as seen by the server. From what I've heard, Unreal Tournament doesn't suffer from this limitation and allows multiple clients to connect from the same IP.
If anyone knows a way around this, let me know!
I thought for sure that with a headline like: MPAA Head Valenti on DVD "Hackers" that Valenti was going to join Ebert rating movies. We get to hear withat Valenti thinks of Johnny Lee Miller's performance in the semi-abysmal Hackers.
-FGP
Haven't tried it with MSVC5.0 but the readme does say that it requires MSVC6.??, I haven't looked at it closely enough yet to see why, but I think that if it would be able to run with VC5, they would have said that.
-FGP
Yes this is offtopic, but the "dept." tagline reminded me of a really funny SNL Celebrity Jepordy where Sean Connery mistakes the category "Therapists" for something else :). You can find it here.
:)
Umm...to keep it a little on topic, hmmm...go open source! Good luck to the defendants!
-FGP
I have a friend who was a journalism major. I remember being appalled when she told me about how some of their classes that train them to be reporters actually have assignments wherein they are supposed to bias the news. If the paper/media source that you work for is a liberal one, you are supposed to be able to put a liberal slant on your topic. Same thing for conservative sources. Journalists aren't trained in telling the Truth (TM), they are trained in observing from a particular point of view and they have the same biases as any other human.
While I think that digitaly editing news broadcasts is a bad thing, it really isn't any different than what we already have to deal with, just a little more blatant.
-FGP
Don't kid yourself. The thing is that even though your bank didn't go under, and the government didn't have to bail you out, you spent a lot more than a dime on Y2K. Even if you didn't buy any products directly related to Y2K, you subsidize (sp?) it with just about every purchase you make. Every company that had to spend money upgrading and checking their systems passes that cost on to the customer.
-FGP
I know Jon K. was kidding, but its an urban legend that Walt Disney is frozen. AFU (and "Ask Cecil") put that one to rest a while ago.
:)
For myself, I resolve to stop making resolutions.
-FreshGroundPepper
(Yes this is sort of off-topic, but the geek in me can't let this slide without saying something
I don't necessarily mean to target this at this particular review, but why do practically all book reviews on /. get 8's? It kind of invalidates the ratings for me as it feels like all of the reviewers are afraid to give anything else. They don't want to praise a book to highly in case there are peeps out there who will rip them to shreds for rating it too high, and they don't want to rate it too low for the same reason. Howabout a couple book ratings for 3 books! I want to know what to avoid as well as what to buy.
-FreshGroundPepper
I've had a 256k line for about a year and a half now (USWest in St. Cloud, MN). I pay 29.95 a month for the line and another 17.95 for the ISP charge (USWest as well). I have been very happy with the price and the level of service. The line hasn't gone down in the last 6 months and only went down about 5 times in the first year.
I know I'm spoiled, but what I want now is for the high end of the price structure to come down. What I'd like to do is upgrade to a faster line, but the cost starts to become prohibitive quickly. Last I checked, a 4mb down/1mb up was 480 bucks a month. And going to a 512k line (the next step up) jumps by about $40 a month, almost double. Hopefully these prices will come down.
For some reason St. Cloud seems to be a competitive hotbed of high bandwidth providers (1 DSL provider and 2 seperate Cable internet providers).
This is great. I was just thinking last week about submitting a question about the D. M. Pinkwater-Geek relationship. I was heavily influenced by Pinkwater when I was growing up. Fat Men from Space, Lizard Music, Alan Mendelson: Boy From Mars, and others are all fantastic books. They were great when I was eleven, but I reread Lizard Music last week and still enjoyed it. I'd suggest just about all of Pinkwaters stuff to anyone reading /., especially if you have children.
In some ways they style of humor reminds me of the Simpsons, but a little more subtle, the same kind of poking fun at authority thought.
Along the lines of teaching people not to respond to trolls: How about a "The Slashdot community discourages replying to Troll's (as anything you say only encourages them). Are you sure you want to post this reply?" message that pops up when someone clicks on the "Reply to this" on an article that has been marked "Troll". This might give many people pause and stop much wasted discussion and thought for trolls, but it would also allow those people who thought they _really_ needed to respond to the troll to do so, thereby not limiting free speech.
I had a Herc TNT2 Ultra for about a month and a half. Last week I started having problems and called tech support. Someone there named Joel told me to send the card in and then they would send a replacement. I got an RMA and the address and sent it in 2 days ago. He didn't say anything at all about them having problems. Then I read this about Herc closing their doors and how they won't be filling any more orders. Do I have any recourse here? Is there a chance that I'm just out $250? I feel sorry for Herc for going out of business, but right now I feel more sorry for me and my money.