I'm not convinced. I love having a 32 volume set of black leather bound Brittanica in my house, but we bought it something like 20 years ago, and its still in great condition due to the little use its actually had. I'm definitely not in a hurry to update it. Everything's on the web or, if I need something more specialist, I'll go and buy a book dedicated to that subject. Usually from amazon.
On Wikipedia, OTOH, one finds several articles about slashdot trolls, for instance, while other (important) fields are still unwritten.
Its obviously the slashdot TROLLs who are the generous donors to Wikipedia, and Wayne knows that he can't upset the troll or his funding might dissapear.
Then again, it might just be that more people know about slashdot trolls that they do about ancient slovian history.
In general, science (especially physics) is covered quite well and the humanities less so. But that's what you'd expect given the profile of people who form the pool of contributers. This will change over the next x years are more and more of todays infant computer users grow up to be humanitarians.
The ATM in McMurdo is a Wells Fargo machine. I don't know who fills it up with cash, but if they run out, you have to walk to the closet bank: The Chilean "Banco de Creditos y Inversiones" (BCI) located at the chilean base. Its the only Bank on the continent, and there is a several-year-long waiting list for bank staff to get posted down there for six months. Usually less for the experience, and more for the "distance bonus" which is calculated on number of kilometers from home.
Chances are tho, her english won't be that great, so speak slowly. And, like all Chilean banks, they close at 2pm.
We've got a Lotus Admin here who is a huge fan of both Iron Maiden and Shania Twain. No, I don't understand it either.
Me, Network Architect, tend more towards Funk, Jazz and Tom Waits, tho there is still space for Metallica and old ZZ-Top (yeah, before they grew the beards), as well a lot of Latin Rock.
On high rotation this week: - Cafe Tacuba (because they just rock) - Ray Charles (in Memory Of) - Barry White (My fiancee. She's in finance)
You still need input variables to your model, and as the model is a simplification in itself, you need to be extremely careful how you interpret the output.
I'm not saying that models have no value, but if the model tells you exactly what the gold price is going to be in 30 days time (for example), you need to know what the uncertainty is... which means we are back to probabilities and statistics.
A good way to use models is to perturb the inputs slightly and see how your outputs diverge. This is classic chaos theory. If a small change in input doesn't change the output, your model is stable.
Its relation to reality is another thing entirely. I've seen beautiful models that produce beautiful, stable, consistent but utterly meaningless results.
_ALL_ Economics is based on "frankly don't have a clue on how to address it", except for the little bit that actually understands that the economy is a dynamic system with a _huge_ number of bodies and variables, and thus you must consider it using probablistic and statistical methods.
First step is to realise that "The Economy" is something that _WE_ created.... there is no intrinsic economy created by some supreme being.. and we shouldn't get carried away considering it as something holy that needs to be studied.
> The show was great. Even the songs I didnt > recognize were great. My only complaint was that > they were a bit loud and my left ear is still > ringing seven days later).
No, dude.. you are just getting old... like the rest of us.:)
I saw them on the Flood tour. I can't even handle a loud radio anymore, and my youthful concert pursuits have left me with less than perfect hearing.
'I, Robot" takes place in Chicago circa 2035, a city where spectacular new skyscrapers share the skyline with landmarks like the Sears (but not the Trump) Tower. The tallest of the buildings belongs to U.S. Robotics.
How much did 3Com pay for that bit of product placement?
When I was at Uni, we found a bug in the University Library search system that allowed you to find out the home address, phone number, date of birth etc of any student as long as you knew their full name.
We wrote it up anonymously and dropped it in the library submissions box. Nothing happened. So we dropped a copy in the (Left-run) University Newspaper submissions box.
They published it, the Library screamed, to which the paper replied "Hey, its your fuck up. Fix it".
> Forcing people to use SSL? That's not something > netadmins can force thousands of students to do.
Bollocks. Of course you can. 99% of users just want something that will work. Post an SSL alternative in a nice central location, then block all the ports that the non-ssl version use.
I did something similar recently after finally convincing the boss that POP3 bad, IMAP4 good.* We sent emails to everybody a good month in advance, telling them how to "upgrade" (ie, choose a different button in their email client), then one Monday when we had nothing pending, we closed port 110, and spent the next two days redirecting callers to the website.
* No, we didn't feel like playing with pop3s because most deployed clients don't speak it.
Yeah... I never learned perl, so sue me:)
Almost anything that needs to be done more than once can be done via:
for i in `cat list.txt`
do
# something funky with awk and sed
done
IPv6 will be popular. As of Jan 2005, Cisco are including it in the CCIE lab exam, which means every Large Network Admin is going to implement it to some degree so s/he has the experience to pass the exam.
I don't do drugs. In general, they don't interest me. Sure, during my university years I drank like a fish and still enjoy a bottle of wine or a few beers... and yeah... even the odd blinder now and then. I've never done any hard drugs (I don't count the odd joint as a hard drug, and anyway... pot gives me an hour of giggles then three of headaches and paranoia).
But Acid has always struck me as something interesting. Something I'd like to try.
So, for the newbie, what's your advice?
- How do I ensure I'm getting the real thing? - What enviroment, music, people etc etc should I be in/with/etc. - If things go bad, what can others do to help me through it? - Any other pointers?
In Bariloche... read tourist trap.. I paid around US 50c an hour.. downtown, in amongst all the chocolate shops...which is the most expensive part of the city as its where all the tourists are.
> In some cases, we may reevaluate our data if we
> can get solid evidence that our prices are wrong.
What do you need for solid evidence?
First of all, the majority of internet cafes are not going to have websites. What's the point? People don't go to one net-cafe to look for a cheaper one.
As I stated in another post, in Chile, where I have lived and travelled widely, I have _never_ seen a netcafe as expensive as US$3. The centre of Santiago is full of places for between 400 and 600 peso per hour. Given that 1 US dollar is 650 pesos, that equates to 60 - 90 cents.
In the remote "touristy" places, such as San Pedro de Atacama, where is maybe 1 internet cafe, I still paid around 1000 pesos (US$1.50). That's as expensive as its going to get.
Even when I was in Chillan... a place in the south so isolated we got stuck there for three days due to rough weather, I had internet access for 800 pesos an hour: US$1.20.
An average of US$1 is more accurate.
Sure, if you take into account what the top hotels charge their clients, the price will go up, but those prices are irrelavent to your survey as they are not internet cafes.
Rather than stating "We will change our prices if you convince us", you'd be better off talking to slashdotter, many of whom live in the countries you are surveying, and using their figures as an indication.
The prices in Chile are nowhere near US$300 an hour.
In Santiago (the capital), internet access is around 400-600 pesos per hour. US$1 = CLP$650, so we are talking 60 - 90 US cents. I've also seen these rates on the beach side towns and in the south (on the Island of Chiloe, currently isolated from the mainland due to band weather, but still with reasonably priced internet).
In places like San Pedro de Atacama in the North and Puerto Natales in the South, both remote places heavily infested with gringo touriests, you might push $1000 an hour, so US$1.50 max.
Slashdot Mirror
Platinum? Sheesh. They are going for the top end of the market, aren't they?
No idea what OS it runs, tho, but I'd be interested if anybody knows.
I'm not convinced. I love having a 32 volume set of black leather bound Brittanica in my house, but we bought it something like 20 years ago, and its still in great condition due to the little use its actually had. I'm definitely not in a hurry to update it. Everything's on the web or, if I need something more specialist, I'll go and buy a book dedicated to that subject. Usually from amazon.
Its obviously the slashdot TROLLs who are the generous donors to Wikipedia, and Wayne knows that he can't upset the troll or his funding might dissapear.
Then again, it might just be that more people know about slashdot trolls that they do about ancient slovian history.
In general, science (especially physics) is covered quite well and the humanities less so. But that's what you'd expect given the profile of people who form the pool of contributers. This will change over the next x years are more and more of todays infant computer users grow up to be humanitarians.
The ATM in McMurdo is a Wells Fargo machine. I don't know who fills it up with cash, but if they run out, you have to walk to the closet bank: The Chilean "Banco de Creditos y Inversiones" (BCI) located at the chilean base. Its the only Bank on the continent, and there is a several-year-long waiting list for bank staff to get posted down there for six months. Usually less for the experience, and more for the "distance bonus" which is calculated on number of kilometers from home.
Chances are tho, her english won't be that great, so speak slowly. And, like all Chilean banks, they close at 2pm.
We've got a Lotus Admin here who is a huge fan of both Iron Maiden and Shania Twain. No, I don't understand it either.
Me, Network Architect, tend more towards Funk, Jazz and Tom Waits, tho there is still space for Metallica and old ZZ-Top (yeah, before they grew the beards), as well a lot of Latin Rock.
On high rotation this week:
- Cafe Tacuba (because they just rock)
- Ray Charles (in Memory Of)
- Barry White (My fiancee. She's in finance)
You still need input variables to your model, and as the model is a simplification in itself, you need to be extremely careful how you interpret the output.
I'm not saying that models have no value, but if the model tells you exactly what the gold price is going to be in 30 days time (for example), you need to know what the uncertainty is... which means we are back to probabilities and statistics.
A good way to use models is to perturb the inputs slightly and see how your outputs diverge. This is classic chaos theory. If a small change in input doesn't change the output, your model is stable.
Its relation to reality is another thing entirely. I've seen beautiful models that produce beautiful, stable, consistent but utterly meaningless results.
_ALL_ Economics is based on "frankly don't have a clue on how to address it", except for the little bit that actually understands that the economy is a dynamic system with a _huge_ number of bodies and variables, and thus you must consider it using probablistic and statistical methods.
First step is to realise that "The Economy" is something that _WE_ created.... there is no intrinsic economy created by some supreme being.. and we shouldn't get carried away considering it as something holy that needs to be studied.
> The show was great. Even the songs I didnt
:)
> recognize were great. My only complaint was that
> they were a bit loud and my left ear is still
> ringing seven days later).
No, dude.. you are just getting old... like the rest of us.
I saw them on the Flood tour. I can't even handle a loud radio anymore, and my youthful concert pursuits have left me with less than perfect hearing.
Ahh.. to be young again.
'I, Robot" takes place in Chicago circa 2035, a city where spectacular new skyscrapers share the skyline with landmarks like the Sears (but not the Trump) Tower. The tallest of the buildings belongs to U.S. Robotics.
How much did 3Com pay for that bit of product placement?
When I was at Uni, we found a bug in the University Library search system that allowed you to find out the home address, phone number, date of birth etc of any student as long as you knew their full name.
We wrote it up anonymously and dropped it in the library submissions box. Nothing happened. So we dropped a copy in the (Left-run) University Newspaper submissions box.
They published it, the Library screamed, to which the paper replied "Hey, its your fuck up. Fix it".
Which finally they did.
> Forcing people to use SSL? That's not something
> netadmins can force thousands of students to do.
Bollocks. Of course you can. 99% of users just want something that will work. Post an SSL alternative in a nice central location, then block all the ports that the non-ssl version use.
I did something similar recently after finally convincing the boss that POP3 bad, IMAP4 good.* We sent emails to everybody a good month in advance, telling them how to "upgrade" (ie, choose a different button in their email client), then one Monday when we had nothing pending, we closed port 110, and spent the next two days redirecting callers to the website.
* No, we didn't feel like playing with pop3s because most deployed clients don't speak it.
Yeah... I never learned perl, so sue me :)
Almost anything that needs to be done more than once can be done via:
for i in `cat list.txt`
do
# something funky with awk and sed
done
> "IPv6 will be popular"
IPv6 will be popular. As of Jan 2005, Cisco are including it in the CCIE lab exam, which means every Large Network Admin is going to implement it to some degree so s/he has the experience to pass the exam.
(Yes, this is written with tongue in cheek)
I don't do drugs. In general, they don't interest me. Sure, during my university years I drank like a fish and still enjoy a bottle of wine or a few beers... and yeah... even the odd blinder now and then. I've never done any hard drugs (I don't count the odd joint as a hard drug, and anyway... pot gives me an hour of giggles then three of headaches and paranoia).
But Acid has always struck me as something interesting. Something I'd like to try.
So, for the newbie, what's your advice?
- How do I ensure I'm getting the real thing?
- What enviroment, music, people etc etc should I be in/with/etc.
- If things go bad, what can others do to help me through it?
- Any other pointers?
I back that up.
.which is the most expensive part of the city as its where all the tourists are.
In Bariloche... read tourist trap.. I paid around US 50c an hour.. downtown, in amongst all the chocolate shops..
> In some cases, we may reevaluate our data if we > can get solid evidence that our prices are wrong. What do you need for solid evidence? First of all, the majority of internet cafes are not going to have websites. What's the point? People don't go to one net-cafe to look for a cheaper one. As I stated in another post, in Chile, where I have lived and travelled widely, I have _never_ seen a netcafe as expensive as US$3. The centre of Santiago is full of places for between 400 and 600 peso per hour. Given that 1 US dollar is 650 pesos, that equates to 60 - 90 cents. In the remote "touristy" places, such as San Pedro de Atacama, where is maybe 1 internet cafe, I still paid around 1000 pesos (US$1.50). That's as expensive as its going to get. Even when I was in Chillan... a place in the south so isolated we got stuck there for three days due to rough weather, I had internet access for 800 pesos an hour: US$1.20. An average of US$1 is more accurate. Sure, if you take into account what the top hotels charge their clients, the price will go up, but those prices are irrelavent to your survey as they are not internet cafes. Rather than stating "We will change our prices if you convince us", you'd be better off talking to slashdotter, many of whom live in the countries you are surveying, and using their figures as an indication.
> What do the Gray areas on the World Map indicate?
:)
:).
> Most of Europe is gray, and the key does not
> explain the meaning of this color.
You haven't been to europe, have you
Gray is the colour of the sky in the UK and ireland for the entire year, bar about 4 weeks
However, by this reasoning, Scandinavia should be black.
The prices in Chile are nowhere near US$300 an hour.
In Santiago (the capital), internet access is around 400-600 pesos per hour. US$1 = CLP$650, so we are talking 60 - 90 US cents. I've also seen these rates on the beach side towns and in the south (on the Island of Chiloe, currently isolated from the mainland due to band weather, but still with reasonably priced internet).
In places like San Pedro de Atacama in the North and Puerto Natales in the South, both remote places heavily infested with gringo touriests, you might push $1000 an hour, so US$1.50 max.
> would you have put up with Star Wars without Darth?
We already have: Episode I and Episode II.
Any they both sucked.
(No, this isn't a troll because its true).
I actually have hopes for Episode III... but then I had hopes for the third Matrix movie as well.
"Duke Nukem Forever" isn't out for windows yet.
This is slashdot.
:)
Why didn't you write it in obfuscated perl?
>> Hellboy should have been called Dullboy.
:)
> Heckboy, perhaps?
No, if Hellboy becomes Dullboy, then Heckboy becomes Duckboy. Probably doesn't have quite the pulling power.
> the girl that gave blowjobs in the back room.
She posts to slashdot?
Sorry. That company provide the software, or that company is the one bombarding you with unwanted calls?
(Not trolling, just want clarification)
Matt