Wish I had mod points for this. I've stopped counting the number of blank looks I get from people whenever this comes up in conversation. It makes me sad when someone asks me what I can do with my BA in Math and Japanese Lit.
I bet Tesla contracted the labour company with the best bid, probably consistent with whatever the going rate for American labour in that area is. I bet the labour company then hired a bunch of foreign workers for five bucks an hour, 70 hours a week, and pocketed the difference.
Now I'm really curious what Barrie Kirk's job duties entail, such that he has been having so much sex in the self driving cars, that he has become an expert at it.
reply#2: But I was commenting on the value of the content, not on the cost (in risk) of getting it. I was trying to convey how much more valuable one's personal time is than anything else in life, really. Whether you pay for it or not, the content we watch is seldom worth the opportunity cost of the time we give up to watch it. And yet we habitually choose to use large portions of our waking life staring at lights on a piece of glass instead of going out and actually living.
Absolutely. This is opportunity cost in action; basic economics. The value of my TV is worth more to you than the value of your time and the risk of getting caught.
This law doesn't require people to use a bathroom that matches their plumbing, it requires them to use a bathroom that matches the plumbing their birth certificate indicates
So, in NC, persons must produce papers for the pee-pee po-po to proceed to the plumbing?
I think the distinction is that it's not some level of government mandating that businesses not transact with NC. These are private people and private corporations exercising their rights to not do business in NC, basically because they don't feel like it.
I recommend M. P. doCarmo's "Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces" (Prentice Hall, 1976). It's pretty intuitive, and it restricts to |R^3, so you don't need tensors or graded algebras to understand it.
Yeah, DOS was a great thing to learn on because it was simple and useful at the same time.
tldr: wah, I want the '80s back.
Say what you want about DOS, but it was simple enough that, as a teenager, I could read the printed OS manual and understand almost everything it could do. It was a great way to graduate from the VIC-20 at home and the TRS-80s at school, into "real" computers, whatever the hell that means. So when someone at University introduced me to Slackware and ftp.cdrom.com back in '95, I was already primed to deal with that particular learning curve.
I think that simplicity is key to successful skill aquisition. It lets you ramp up the learning curve in bite size chunks. With the VIC, I got to deal with big connectible components, like the Datasette, the RF modulator, power connectors, cartridges, etc. I learned that you have to always turn off and unplug before switching cartridges if you don't want to blow a fuse (ask me how I know this). I also learned how to take apart a VIC-20 and identify, purchase, and change a fuse. And there used to be all kinds of interesting things in Radio Shack to look at, besides all those fuses. Like the Tandy computers at the front of the store, running Shamus. Already having experience with the TRS-80 model 1's and model 3's at my junior high school made me feel like an expert when I sat down at these and played away my after school time. I lusted after these machines, or even just a floppy drive of my own for the VIC, but they were financially unattainable.
So yeah, simple, but usefulness is also necessary. Turtle Graphics in grade nine was boring as hell, because all you could do with it was move the cursor around on the screen. But with BASIC, you could write an actual game that other people could play. I devoured everything I could find in print on programming BASIC. I got, by specific request, the VIC-20 Programmer's Reference guide for my 13'th birthday (my parents must have thought I was nuts) and the Usborne programming books were solid gold. Again, I think it was important that the programming environment of these computers was simple enough that an interested kid could digest and apply the information available. And there were tons of games for them, so you had examples of what was possible. These systems were more than generic computing tools; they came with really good educational documentation, and there was a significant ecosystem around them geared to that end as well.
I remember in high school, seeing MS-DOS 5.0 for the first time, and the paradigm shift that happened when I realized that BASIC wasn't the computer, but rather just another program on a disk. It was sort of all there already on the Tandy, but it didn't really click in my head until I experienced that bare command prompt. This is where I found the aforementioned printed DOS manual. I would sneak into the lab after school and mess around with reinstalling DOS on a bare 10MB hard drive (which I didn't know was a thing, before then). God, I loved fdisk, and all those extra flags on the "format" command. So yeah, there was that second paradigm shift, when I grokked that the OS itself was just another program on a disk. The computer was now interconnected component hardware and the BIOS screen. Too cool. I also brought a screwdriver to school and spent an unauthorized weekend locked in the lab, taking apart and reassembling a couple of the computers. Luckily, they never figured out who burned that one motherboard by forgetting to unplug the video cable from the live monitor.
When I went to University, I was already pretty comfortable with assembling hardware and installing DOS from floppies. Without this, I think linux would have defeated me, or at least taken me more time than I had to spare after classes. A buddy and I spent all night in the Physics Reading Room ftp'ing Slackware onto fifty-seven 1.44Mb floppy disks, and then a couple more nights in his basement installing it onto a partition of his Cyrix 386SLC2 based PC. I remember being blown away on th
Saying "Don't be evil" isn't a semantically null phrase though. They're not saying it for the benefit of shareholders or the public; it's for the people working there. It's a virtual smack in the back of the head, a way to say "use your common sense", or "think about how you would feel if someone did this to you", I think. "Do the right thing" just doesn't have the same focus on users that "Don't be evil". It feels more... slippery, at least to me.
I keep it all in a separate drive, and only mount it when I want to look at the data. Also, I mount it under.porn, so it isn't visible in a casual listing.
Ironically, clicking on the link from an iPad puts me into an interface with absolutely no controls, so I had to kill the Slashdot app and navigate back here by hand, to respond. Not sure whether to blame Slashdot or Apple.
I've seen tons of 17" and 19" 4x3 LCDs, as has probably everyone else here older than the age of 14, but I couldn't tell from a distance what the native resolution was, or whether the pixels were square or not. That's the kind of thing I'd check with a test image or a magnifying glass, to verify published specs. I also don't think I've ever personally seen a physically 5x4 LCD (or CRT, for that matter), which a 1280x1024 resolution would require, in order to have square pixels.
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Wish I had mod points for this. I've stopped counting the number of blank looks I get from people whenever this comes up in conversation. It makes me sad when someone asks me what I can do with my BA in Math and Japanese Lit.
I bet Tesla contracted the labour company with the best bid, probably consistent with whatever the going rate for American labour in that area is. I bet the labour company then hired a bunch of foreign workers for five bucks an hour, 70 hours a week, and pocketed the difference.
I think Uber just found their next business model. I'd like to see the cab companies compete with that!
Now I'm really curious what Barrie Kirk's job duties entail, such that he has been having so much sex in the self driving cars, that he has become an expert at it.
reply#2: But I was commenting on the value of the content, not on the cost (in risk) of getting it. I was trying to convey how much more valuable one's personal time is than anything else in life, really. Whether you pay for it or not, the content we watch is seldom worth the opportunity cost of the time we give up to watch it. And yet we habitually choose to use large portions of our waking life staring at lights on a piece of glass instead of going out and actually living.
Absolutely. This is opportunity cost in action; basic economics. The value of my TV is worth more to you than the value of your time and the risk of getting caught.
It has value to me. Maybe not monetary value, but it's worth the time I waste watching it, so in a sense, I have paid for it.
This law doesn't require people to use a bathroom that matches their plumbing, it requires them to use a bathroom that matches the plumbing their birth certificate indicates
So, in NC, persons must produce papers for the pee-pee po-po to proceed to the plumbing?
I think the distinction is that it's not some level of government mandating that businesses not transact with NC. These are private people and private corporations exercising their rights to not do business in NC, basically because they don't feel like it.
Is it what you say after a failed #kudatah?
I recommend M. P. doCarmo's "Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces" (Prentice Hall, 1976). It's pretty intuitive, and it restricts to |R^3, so you don't need tensors or graded algebras to understand it.
They're edging their hedges, and hedging their bets.
Begun, the drone wars have.
tldr: wah, I want the '80s back.
Say what you want about DOS, but it was simple enough that, as a teenager, I could read the printed OS manual and understand almost everything it could do. It was a great way to graduate from the VIC-20 at home and the TRS-80s at school, into "real" computers, whatever the hell that means. So when someone at University introduced me to Slackware and ftp.cdrom.com back in '95, I was already primed to deal with that particular learning curve.
I think that simplicity is key to successful skill aquisition. It lets you ramp up the learning curve in bite size chunks. With the VIC, I got to deal with big connectible components, like the Datasette, the RF modulator, power connectors, cartridges, etc. I learned that you have to always turn off and unplug before switching cartridges if you don't want to blow a fuse (ask me how I know this). I also learned how to take apart a VIC-20 and identify, purchase, and change a fuse. And there used to be all kinds of interesting things in Radio Shack to look at, besides all those fuses. Like the Tandy computers at the front of the store, running Shamus. Already having experience with the TRS-80 model 1's and model 3's at my junior high school made me feel like an expert when I sat down at these and played away my after school time. I lusted after these machines, or even just a floppy drive of my own for the VIC, but they were financially unattainable.
So yeah, simple, but usefulness is also necessary. Turtle Graphics in grade nine was boring as hell, because all you could do with it was move the cursor around on the screen. But with BASIC, you could write an actual game that other people could play. I devoured everything I could find in print on programming BASIC. I got, by specific request, the VIC-20 Programmer's Reference guide for my 13'th birthday (my parents must have thought I was nuts) and the Usborne programming books were solid gold. Again, I think it was important that the programming environment of these computers was simple enough that an interested kid could digest and apply the information available. And there were tons of games for them, so you had examples of what was possible. These systems were more than generic computing tools; they came with really good educational documentation, and there was a significant ecosystem around them geared to that end as well.
I remember in high school, seeing MS-DOS 5.0 for the first time, and the paradigm shift that happened when I realized that BASIC wasn't the computer, but rather just another program on a disk. It was sort of all there already on the Tandy, but it didn't really click in my head until I experienced that bare command prompt. This is where I found the aforementioned printed DOS manual. I would sneak into the lab after school and mess around with reinstalling DOS on a bare 10MB hard drive (which I didn't know was a thing, before then). God, I loved fdisk, and all those extra flags on the "format" command. So yeah, there was that second paradigm shift, when I grokked that the OS itself was just another program on a disk. The computer was now interconnected component hardware and the BIOS screen. Too cool. I also brought a screwdriver to school and spent an unauthorized weekend locked in the lab, taking apart and reassembling a couple of the computers. Luckily, they never figured out who burned that one motherboard by forgetting to unplug the video cable from the live monitor.
When I went to University, I was already pretty comfortable with assembling hardware and installing DOS from floppies. Without this, I think linux would have defeated me, or at least taken me more time than I had to spare after classes. A buddy and I spent all night in the Physics Reading Room ftp'ing Slackware onto fifty-seven 1.44Mb floppy disks, and then a couple more nights in his basement installing it onto a partition of his Cyrix 386SLC2 based PC. I remember being blown away on th
We really should be trying to get that down below 30%.
Every time he speaks he offends me, and I will vote for ANYBODY who runs against him.
And this, I think is the actual endgame here. Any stigma attached to the Bush name is fading fast in the face of the alternatives.
Saying "Don't be evil" isn't a semantically null phrase though. They're not saying it for the benefit of shareholders or the public; it's for the people working there. It's a virtual smack in the back of the head, a way to say "use your common sense", or "think about how you would feel if someone did this to you", I think. "Do the right thing" just doesn't have the same focus on users that "Don't be evil". It feels more... slippery, at least to me.
Maybe, just maybe, (sometimes, but only if the conditions warrant it), being evil is the right thing to do.
I keep it all in a separate drive, and only mount it when I want to look at the data. Also, I mount it under .porn, so it isn't visible in a casual listing.
Ironically, clicking on the link from an iPad puts me into an interface with absolutely no controls, so I had to kill the Slashdot app and navigate back here by hand, to respond. Not sure whether to blame Slashdot or Apple.
Just don't taunt it.
That's actually pretty cool. I always just assumed they were physically 4x3. Lesson learned, I guess.
I've seen tons of 17" and 19" 4x3 LCDs, as has probably everyone else here older than the age of 14, but I couldn't tell from a distance what the native resolution was, or whether the pixels were square or not. That's the kind of thing I'd check with a test image or a magnifying glass, to verify published specs. I also don't think I've ever personally seen a physically 5x4 LCD (or CRT, for that matter), which a 1280x1024 resolution would require, in order to have square pixels.
1280x1024 is 5:4.
Yup, that was his point; there used to be non-4x3 pixels (back in the CRT days). I wonder if anyone ever made a native LCD in that resolution.
Hey, Moo yourself; gentoo had the drivers you were looking for back then.