I was about in your situation a few months ago (except probably younger, I'm still 15:)). Anyway, you described me pretty well - self-taught, no formal training or experence, PERL/C/C++. All that. It's me.
Anyway, once I got DSL KPPP wouldn't excactly work for bandwidth monitoring, so I went searching on Freshmeat and came across a nice little PERL script that took info from/proc/net/dev and printed it up. But the UI sucked. Anyway, I wanted to be able to just look over and understand it, so guess what I did? I wrote a new UI! I submitted it to the guy running the project, it was accepted, now I'm even mentioned in the credits.
Anyway, that's my story of getting involved... may you have luck too.
Indeed I agree. Maybe not aliens, but the ancient egyptians alone certainly didn't do it. Even today we couldn't match them (note: we can build taller, more structurally sound building, but we can't do it with a heap of rocks in a pyramid form). Anyway, here's my opinion on it all.
Both that exact configuration of Orion and the Milkyway and the star rising and being visible through that tunnel also happened only once in history, so that's how other scientist claim they know how old the pyramids really are.
Which, btw, happened in ~10450, I believe. Not many people believe that the pyramids were built back then. Then again, I still find it hard to believe the ancient egyptians actually built the pyramids themselves.
Well, yes, technically, the source code in Outlook, but I meant more the whole way they designed it, I'll pick on Windows for bad programming and source code, in Outlook they _meant_ to put this "feature" in, so I can't really call it a mistake in the source code, but a mistake in the design.
This wouldn't work very well for some obscure story that actually is better then a "more visible" one. Often the stories on some back-website are more informitive then one on a major one and those would never be shown here.
Well, the force of gravity would also be stronger right about the surface of a 50k solar mass black hole, as opposed to a 1b solar mass one. At least I think, right?
I agree it might be just a dense part of space. And yes, the event horizen of black holes do grow as they get larger, however, according to Einstein, the singularity has zero space (and, therefore infinite mass, but... that's obviously not true or the entire universe would be pulled to a black hole (of course, there is the theory that the uiverse is a black hole... but that's a whole different thing)). And, if you believe Hawking, they also shrink as time goes on.
You don't really even need the LRP. You can just use any old Linux box with two ethernet cards and ipchains. As long as your load isn't too high that should be fine. (it's what I used when I hooked up the network for my family, 6 PCs, 1 100Mhz Linux box as a router and a nice DSL connection:))
I'm a 15 (woo! got my learners today:)) year old nerd (yes, nerd....geeks suck:-p) and I started programming when I was ~5 on my old Apple ][e with, you guessed it, BAISC. I know I'll get flamed out of existance for this, but it really is a good starting language.
And, as for them not being interested in C or PERL, I'm just a little older, but their my two favorite languages. However, if they want to program games, perhaps a more Win-like language would be better. But, I still say that BASIC gives you the thinking skills for programming, languages can be learned, thinking skills need to be developd while their young.
BTW - I'm glad to see other people my age getting into programming. I so much see so-called "computer gurus" and stuff and all they can do is maybe solve simple Win based problems. I hope you have good luck teaching your kids that there is more to computers then games and that learning something that is portable is invaluable (especially when Winblows loses it's market share).
Unless you're doing a really big project or a high traffic CGI script, I'd say do it in whatever you feel most comfortable in (PERL for me...).
Of course, there are advantages to all languages, and disadvantages to all.... in the end, it doesn't really matter what it's written in as long as it does what it's suppose to.
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If a first move was disadvantageous could it be a perfect move?
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Well, yeah, random legal moves....
It would, unless it finally played enough games for another computer (or human, for that matter) would figure out a way to beat that, if not by any other way, by randomly guessing. And, yes, that could mean possible trying every way to do it...
And, no, it's not possible for black to win a perfect game (both sides play perfect, that is). White goes frst, therefore has an advantage, the best black can hope for is stalemate.
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Screw the monkeys, but the concept is pretty good. Randomly playing chess moves, when a computer sees that a certain move is good, take a note of it.
Or, more likely, set a network of computers to all play against each other. Use some AI to have them "learn", and realise what they did wrong in the past, and what they should do better in the future. Given enough time, either all games should end in stalemate, or white would win all games.
Aha! I should have know fellow shashdotters would watch On the Inside...especially ones about Area 51....
Anyway, yeah, I remember that.... They used to bring everybody in through buses and planes, blah, blah, blah...and I think it was toxic waste, not radiation. They still have the warning signs "Tresspassers will be shot" and the guards. They also have optical sensors that detect when somebody has gone into "Area 51". Too bad that they bought the one hill where you could actually get a good look at the base:( (the other is about 26 mi. away).
Anyway, most people pretty much believe that things like the F-117 and F-22 were developed there (hence the "black shadows" and airplanes that could do things no others could do). I'd kinda like to think that the're keeping it guarded to conseal their new locations from investigation by the public. I mean, that is why they closed this one down....
Thoguh choosing our destination might become a problem, what if they were left around from the big bang, when the universe was really small?
Of course, if we have to build them by manually going out there, we should probably build them as quickly as we can, so as not to let the universe expand a lot further before we decide it would be a good idea.....
This is _very_ useful. If we want to ever go outside of our solar system, we will need another way besides a rocketship. Just to go to Alpha Certura (the closet star to the sun, at 4.5 light years), it would, going light-speed, take 4.5 years, to a traveller on the spacecraft, to us on earth, he'd take a whole lot longer because of time dialation, the breakeven point between speed/time dialation is about71% the speed of light, so, let's just say that there's no reason to ever go faster then that. Going that speed, it would take 6.3 year to get there, from the stadpoint of the spacecraft, it would still be longer on earth.
As we can see, there's a minor problem if we ever want to even leave our solar system, much less our galaxy (70k light years across) or, the universe (~15*10^9 light years across)....you do the math, to get over there, even going the speed of light, from the spacecraft's standpoint, the universe will have expanded so much and cooled so much, that it'd be pointless to go there.
However, if there were wormholes, perhaps left over from the big bang (when the universe was about the size of the plank legnth), then it would be very reasonable to travel across the universe, through a wormhole.
Another possibility is that space is curved on top of it-self, and that some stars we see in the sky are duplicates. This might happen if there was enough gravity to collapse that universe, but it also might provide some shortcuts to distant places.
2. Maybe I missed somthing, but, I think anybody who would say that their "tech-savvy", and, dare I say, use a buzzword, probably isn't. To me, tech-savvy isn't being able to pull up Yahoo! or maybe change the background in Windoze. Tech-savvy is understanding the technology, something which you stated girls just don't care about.
3. Web-design isn't complicated. At least not most of it. Unless you have a really high-traffic site with lot's and lot's of CGI/SQL/Java, it's just pretty easy. I've even heard some people saying "Everybody and his/her grandma has a webpage!" -It really isn't that hard, Jon, is it? (though, I've never seen any html in your posts.....hmm.....)
4. How can you _NOT_ want to understand something. I don't think this is a male/female thing, this has to do with you being a nerd (or geek or whatever you call it....). I've wanted to understand _everything_ before I've used it, my whole life.
5. Blah, it's just as easy for a girl to have an interest in science/math/technology as a guy, only girls, as a whole, just don't care about it! I know 4 girls who very much are interested in science, the amazing thing is, all have been homeshcooled. It is simply people would rather be popluar then smart, something, which, I just can't understand.
6. I hardly think that girls coming online are going to be the second most important thing to happen to the internet. Come on Jon, get a reality check...how many "best" things can we really have?
7. So, girls some how intuitivly grasp technology, huh? I don't think so...not the ones I know. If they learn things quickly, they seen to grasp tech quickly too, if they don't, well.....their still wondering how to get AIM....
8. And, as a side note, I'm interested in using the internet to find girls too:)
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Nope, I can promise you that you'll never see a Aurora Australis in Arizona. Reason: Australis are in the southern hemisphere. Arizona isn't (of course, if we take the continental drift into account, then we actually _could_ have a Aurora Australis in Arizona....in a few million years). But, however unlikly it is, you have at least a small minte chance of an Aurora Borielis (sp?) occuring that you can see.
Now that launching/maintaining a satillite is pretty cheap (relitively, compared to a few years ago...) we should build a space-server. Give it a wireless connection, and voila, freedom forever....
Except it'd have to be in geo-syncronus orbit, which woulkd cost a little (lot) more, unless we had multible ground based recieveing/transmitting stations. And if it's in geo-sync orbit, it'd also take a lot of power (cleverly done be solar power...good for the next 5 billion years...) to get the signal to earth....
And, as for protection, being 37 million meters away from the nearest government should work....
But still, it's a thought.... (of course, redundency could pose an ecomomical problem....)
Besides, we will always have a place where we can be free, today, remote areas of earth, tomorrow, space, in the not-so-distant future, the moon or perhaps mars.... Freedom will always survive, no matter how oppressed our friends on earth become.
If I had to do it today, though, I'd checkout some pacific island....
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I was about in your situation a few months ago (except probably younger, I'm still 15 :)). Anyway, you described me pretty well - self-taught, no formal training or experence, PERL/C/C++. All that. It's me.
/proc/net/dev and printed it up. But the UI sucked. Anyway, I wanted to be able to just look over and understand it, so guess what I did? I wrote a new UI! I submitted it to the guy running the project, it was accepted, now I'm even mentioned in the credits.
Anyway, once I got DSL KPPP wouldn't excactly work for bandwidth monitoring, so I went searching on Freshmeat and came across a nice little PERL script that took info from
Anyway, that's my story of getting involved... may you have luck too.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep... pick two.
They quite clearly had outside help.
Indeed I agree. Maybe not aliens, but the ancient egyptians alone certainly didn't do it. Even today we couldn't match them (note: we can build taller, more structurally sound building, but we can't do it with a heap of rocks in a pyramid form). Anyway, here's my opinion on it all.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep... pick two.
Both that exact configuration of Orion and the Milkyway and the star rising and being visible through that tunnel also happened only once in history, so that's how other scientist claim they know how old the pyramids really are.
Which, btw, happened in ~10450, I believe. Not many people believe that the pyramids were built back then. Then again, I still find it hard to believe the ancient egyptians actually built the pyramids themselves.
Here's my take on the pyramids.
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I made the world software piracy level according to the BSA go down by setting back the clock on my computer ;)
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Well, yes, technically, the source code in Outlook, but I meant more the whole way they designed it, I'll pick on Windows for bad programming and source code, in Outlook they _meant_ to put this "feature" in, so I can't really call it a mistake in the source code, but a mistake in the design.
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Erm, it has nothing to do with source code, but the avreage intellegence of the users :) (oh, yeah, and some stupid design things in Outlook too...)
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This wouldn't work very well for some obscure story that actually is better then a "more visible" one. Often the stories on some back-website are more informitive then one on a major one and those would never be shown here.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
Well, the force of gravity would also be stronger right about the surface of a 50k solar mass black hole, as opposed to a 1b solar mass one. At least I think, right?
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
I agree it might be just a dense part of space. And yes, the event horizen of black holes do grow as they get larger, however, according to Einstein, the singularity has zero space (and, therefore infinite mass, but... that's obviously not true or the entire universe would be pulled to a black hole (of course, there is the theory that the uiverse is a black hole... but that's a whole different thing)). And, if you believe Hawking, they also shrink as time goes on.
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You don't really even need the LRP. You can just use any old Linux box with two ethernet cards and ipchains. As long as your load isn't too high that should be fine. (it's what I used when I hooked up the network for my family, 6 PCs, 1 100Mhz Linux box as a router and a nice DSL connection :))
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
I'm a 15 (woo! got my learners today :)) year old nerd (yes, nerd....geeks suck :-p) and I started programming when I was ~5 on my old Apple ][e with, you guessed it, BAISC. I know I'll get flamed out of existance for this, but it really is a good starting language.
And, as for them not being interested in C or PERL, I'm just a little older, but their my two favorite languages. However, if they want to program games, perhaps a more Win-like language would be better. But, I still say that BASIC gives you the thinking skills for programming, languages can be learned, thinking skills need to be developd while their young.
BTW - I'm glad to see other people my age getting into programming. I so much see so-called "computer gurus" and stuff and all they can do is maybe solve simple Win based problems. I hope you have good luck teaching your kids that there is more to computers then games and that learning something that is portable is invaluable (especially when Winblows loses it's market share).
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
hmm.....that'd actually be awesome....even if it'd have to be a totally mathematical/non-graphical game. But maybe something like chess in 10D?
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Unless you're doing a really big project or a high traffic CGI script, I'd say do it in whatever you feel most comfortable in (PERL for me...).
Of course, there are advantages to all languages, and disadvantages to all.... in the end, it doesn't really matter what it's written in as long as it does what it's suppose to.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
If a first move was disadvantageous could it be a perfect move?
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Well, yeah, random legal moves....
It would, unless it finally played enough games for another computer (or human, for that matter) would figure out a way to beat that, if not by any other way, by randomly guessing. And, yes, that could mean possible trying every way to do it...
And, no, it's not possible for black to win a perfect game (both sides play perfect, that is). White goes frst, therefore has an advantage, the best black can hope for is stalemate.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
Screw the monkeys, but the concept is pretty good. Randomly playing chess moves, when a computer sees that a certain move is good, take a note of it.
Or, more likely, set a network of computers to all play against each other. Use some AI to have them "learn", and realise what they did wrong in the past, and what they should do better in the future. Given enough time, either all games should end in stalemate, or white would win all games.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
Aha! I should have know fellow shashdotters would watch On the Inside...especially ones about Area 51....
:( (the other is about 26 mi. away).
Anyway, yeah, I remember that.... They used to bring everybody in through buses and planes, blah, blah, blah...and I think it was toxic waste, not radiation. They still have the warning signs "Tresspassers will be shot" and the guards. They also have optical sensors that detect when somebody has gone into "Area 51". Too bad that they bought the one hill where you could actually get a good look at the base
Anyway, most people pretty much believe that things like the F-117 and F-22 were developed there (hence the "black shadows" and airplanes that could do things no others could do). I'd kinda like to think that the're keeping it guarded to conseal their new locations from investigation by the public. I mean, that is why they closed this one down....
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
Thoguh choosing our destination might become a problem, what if they were left around from the big bang, when the universe was really small?
Of course, if we have to build them by manually going out there, we should probably build them as quickly as we can, so as not to let the universe expand a lot further before we decide it would be a good idea.....
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
This is _very_ useful. If we want to ever go outside of our solar system, we will need another way besides a rocketship. Just to go to Alpha Certura (the closet star to the sun, at 4.5 light years), it would, going light-speed, take 4.5 years, to a traveller on the spacecraft, to us on earth, he'd take a whole lot longer because of time dialation, the breakeven point between speed/time dialation is about71% the speed of light, so, let's just say that there's no reason to ever go faster then that. Going that speed, it would take 6.3 year to get there, from the stadpoint of the spacecraft, it would still be longer on earth.
As we can see, there's a minor problem if we ever want to even leave our solar system, much less our galaxy (70k light years across) or, the universe (~15*10^9 light years across)....you do the math, to get over there, even going the speed of light, from the spacecraft's standpoint, the universe will have expanded so much and cooled so much, that it'd be pointless to go there.
However, if there were wormholes, perhaps left over from the big bang (when the universe was about the size of the plank legnth), then it would be very reasonable to travel across the universe, through a wormhole.
Another possibility is that space is curved on top of it-self, and that some stars we see in the sky are duplicates. This might happen if there was enough gravity to collapse that universe, but it also might provide some shortcuts to distant places.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
Too late, they allready have all the big "guns" :)
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1. Chickclickers is a really sucky name.
:)
2. Maybe I missed somthing, but, I think anybody who would say that their "tech-savvy", and, dare I say, use a buzzword, probably isn't. To me, tech-savvy isn't being able to pull up Yahoo! or maybe change the background in Windoze. Tech-savvy is understanding the technology, something which you stated girls just don't care about.
3. Web-design isn't complicated. At least not most of it. Unless you have a really high-traffic site with lot's and lot's of CGI/SQL/Java, it's just pretty easy. I've even heard some people saying "Everybody and his/her grandma has a webpage!" -It really isn't that hard, Jon, is it? (though, I've never seen any html in your posts.....hmm.....)
4. How can you _NOT_ want to understand something. I don't think this is a male/female thing, this has to do with you being a nerd (or geek or whatever you call it....). I've wanted to understand _everything_ before I've used it, my whole life.
5. Blah, it's just as easy for a girl to have an interest in science/math/technology as a guy, only girls, as a whole, just don't care about it! I know 4 girls who very much are interested in science, the amazing thing is, all have been homeshcooled. It is simply people would rather be popluar then smart, something, which, I just can't understand.
6. I hardly think that girls coming online are going to be the second most important thing to happen to the internet. Come on Jon, get a reality check...how many "best" things can we really have?
7. So, girls some how intuitivly grasp technology, huh? I don't think so...not the ones I know. If they learn things quickly, they seen to grasp tech quickly too, if they don't, well.....their still wondering how to get AIM....
8. And, as a side note, I'm interested in using the internet to find girls too
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
Nope, I can promise you that you'll never see a Aurora Australis in Arizona. Reason: Australis are in the southern hemisphere. Arizona isn't (of course, if we take the continental drift into account, then we actually _could_ have a Aurora Australis in Arizona....in a few million years). But, however unlikly it is, you have at least a small minte chance of an Aurora Borielis (sp?) occuring that you can see.
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Good: You can keep things secret.
Bad: You can keep things secret.
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What if Newton had patented gravity?
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Overseas? huh? you're thinking in the past.
Now that launching/maintaining a satillite is pretty cheap (relitively, compared to a few years ago...) we should build a space-server. Give it a wireless connection, and voila, freedom forever....
Except it'd have to be in geo-syncronus orbit, which woulkd cost a little (lot) more, unless we had multible ground based recieveing/transmitting stations. And if it's in geo-sync orbit, it'd also take a lot of power (cleverly done be solar power...good for the next 5 billion years...) to get the signal to earth....
And, as for protection, being 37 million meters away from the nearest government should work....
But still, it's a thought.... (of course, redundency could pose an ecomomical problem....)
Besides, we will always have a place where we can be free, today, remote areas of earth, tomorrow, space, in the not-so-distant future, the moon or perhaps mars.... Freedom will always survive, no matter how oppressed our friends on earth become.
If I had to do it today, though, I'd checkout some pacific island....
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.