You have introduced a false dichotomy. Not all streaming services involve "listening to music selected by someone else." Napster, for example, lets you listen to any song you want, any time you want. They do offer "radio stations", but, very importantly, when I get to a song I don't like, I simply hit the "Next" button and it's gone. Try doing that with satellite radio.
Actually, as long as you need heat in your house, how can efficiency possibly be an issue? Isn't all of the lost power simply converted into heat, which is something you need anyway? 100% of the energy is being used for something you want.
Based on this thinking, in the winter-time I've stopped harping on the kids to turn off the lights when they leave the room.
Take a look at sitebar at http://sitebar.org/. It is open-source, and easy to install on your own server. There is a Firefox plugin that allows you to use it as a sidebar. I've been using it for several months.
Our doctor advised us once that we should not do genetic assays unless it was a serious health situation. Anything that you learn in the negative direction may be grounds for future denial of health insurance coverage. If you're just curious -- it is probably better not to know.
You are either Orson Scott Card, slumming on Slashdot in disguise, or your opinions precisely parallel his own on the subject:
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2007-04-15-1 .html
He has written several articles discussing ideas about better city designs. I generally agree with him on those.
Orson Scott Card routinely makes the first five or six chapters of his books freely available on his website. He's hooked me several times that way. His forthcoming book "Empire" is receiving the treatment right now.
http://www.hatrack.com/
Those interested in an authoritative treatment of the above subjects might like Dennis Richie's article "Early Unix history and evolution". He was there, of course.
I think it's interesting that this was modded Funny. I find it to be an entirely serious and convicting statement. We live in an age where ability is valued more than character, by a long shot. I wonder what would be the result of a more balanced perspective?
You are so wrong. This particular book recommendation was _precisely_ on topic. Blue Mars had me thinking real hard about the implications of deja vu and its cousins, and about my presumed destiny as an elderly adult. If you ever get to thinking about how much of your identity is wrapped up in your memory, Blue Mars will be a very challenging and interesting read.
I, too, have experienced deja vu so strong that I knew what was going to happen next, and I turned out to be right. It's happened twice. One of the times, the predicted event was fairly mundane, so it might have just been dumb luck. But for the second one, I don't think there was anything in the situation that could have lead to a natural prediction of the following event. I'm with the parent poster -- I am a scientist through and through, but I must also reconcile science with my actual experiences.
The Napster-to-Go service, which uses the Microsoft Plays For Sure provisions, has the following restrictions:
Computers: You can have three authorized PCs at a time. You can unregister one PC per month. Authorized PCs are used to store/playback downloaded music. This is not a restriction on the number of PCs that can _stream_. You can have Napster on any number of PCs and use the client for streaming on all of them.
Portable devices: You can have two registered devices at a time. You can unregister one device a month. Registered devices can be used to listen to tracks that you haven't purchased. This is not a restriction on the number of devices to which you can transfer _purchased_ tracks.
These contraints seem quite reasonable to me. I have never needed more.
I don't know anything about the teaching side, but the JUnit framework has an equivalent C++ version, known as CppUnit. See http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki/FrontP age for details. NUnit has also been noted elsewhere as a.NET alternative.
He was quite self-deprecating, apparently! As I listened to all of his exploits and successes, I could only marvel at the wide range of talents, experiences, and interests that he packed into his life.
Richard Feynman, prominent physicist, Nobel laureate, and general renaissance man, was also a prolific and entertaining author, and many of his books are available as unabridged audio books. I find it hard to imagine that any geek would not find these interesting, insightful, and humorous (+5 on all scales, of course!)
My first +5 moderated post ever, and then I have to go and make a fool of myself. At least few people chose to use their mod points to "-1 flamebait" me into oblivion.
Wow, what do you suppose the chances are of getting two responses from folks with user IDs within 6 of each other? 11211748 vs. 11211742?
Next will come responses from two slashdot members with very similar slashdot user IDs who will somehow collaborate to beat this. . .
How do you suppose two or three hours of warning would help in the task of evacuating 50 to 100 million people? Take, for example, the recent rash of hurricanes in the southeast U.S. Even with days of notice, the interstate highways out of Florida resembled parking lots.
It seems to me, as with the asteroid collision possibility, that the better (only?) approach is prevention. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to investigate the possibility of gradually, and very, very carefully, relieving the stress on this cracked volcano, so that a 90-second catastrophic slide is replaced with a sustained slow erosion of the material.
There would still be a difficult political situation. It is entirely possible that the stress relief effort would carry its own risks of _causing_ the catastrophe it was designed to prevent. Similar tradeoffs occur in almost any risk mitigation strategy, although seldom with the stakes being this high.
In Windows Explorer, right click on the root directory of your CVS tree. Select "Search". In the resulting Search dialog, type "CVS", and start the search. In the right-hand pane of the search window, all of the CVS sub-directories of your root directory will appear. Click anywhere in that pane. CTRL-A for "Select all" (or do this manually through the menu system: Edit...Select All), and press the Delete key.
Also, depending on your CVS client, the CVS directories will probably be marked as "hidden", in which case you do need to click on "Advanced options" in the initial Search dialog, and press "Search hidden files and folders" before launching the search.
The program TealScript (www.tealpoint.com) lets you create any set of strokes you want, including the original Grafitti. When I originally heard about the Xerox suit, I became intrigued by the real unistroke alphabet, which is drastically and obviously different than Grafitti. See http://sandbox.parc.xerox.com/parctab/csl9501/node 4.html
I used TealScript to create a profile that allows me to write using the Xerox unistroke alphabet. After years of use, I have become more proficient. It is indeed faster than Grafitti and much less error prone, because each character is very easily distinguishable from all other characters.
I personally find the FITALY keyboard (www.fitaly.com) to be far faster than any handwriting recognition (5x-10x). I do have accuracy problems, but even taking the time for error correction into account, I would estimate I am 3 times faster with FITALY than with unistroke character recognition.
There's obviously something I don't know about how to create a hyperlink in a slashdot post, since all of the above three links are pointing to slashdot somehow. Sorry about that. The displayed text of the URLs is correct. I used the A HREF tag to create them. I did not find any info in the FAQ on how to do this.
The same companies that make fireproof safes for paper also make them for media. My safe has a foam layer around the actual storage compartment. When exposed to high heat, the foam chemically turns into a very high-insulating material. The safe is certified to keep internal temperatures below 150 degrees F for 30 minutes in a fire whose temperatures exceed 1500 degrees. Or something like that. The safe was about $250, and is large enough to store two or three hard disks in removable caddies, and maybe ten jewel cases for DVDs/CDs, or maybe 25 small backup tape cartridges.
I have all of my home video on DVD. There is a backup copy of each DVD in that fireproof safe, along with a large hard disk that has a backup of all of my personal data.
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You have introduced a false dichotomy. Not all streaming services involve "listening to music selected by someone else." Napster, for example, lets you listen to any song you want, any time you want. They do offer "radio stations", but, very importantly, when I get to a song I don't like, I simply hit the "Next" button and it's gone. Try doing that with satellite radio.
Actually, as long as you need heat in your house, how can efficiency possibly be an issue? Isn't all of the lost power simply converted into heat, which is something you need anyway? 100% of the energy is being used for something you want. Based on this thinking, in the winter-time I've stopped harping on the kids to turn off the lights when they leave the room.
Take a look at sitebar at http://sitebar.org/. It is open-source, and easy to install on your own server. There is a Firefox plugin that allows you to use it as a sidebar. I've been using it for several months.
Our doctor advised us once that we should not do genetic assays unless it was a serious health situation. Anything that you learn in the negative direction may be grounds for future denial of health insurance coverage. If you're just curious -- it is probably better not to know.
You are either Orson Scott Card, slumming on Slashdot in disguise, or your opinions precisely parallel his own on the subject: http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2007-04-15-1 .html
He has written several articles discussing ideas about better city designs. I generally agree with him on those.
GDS does have a "re-index" now option. Options...Indexing...Re-Index.
Perhaps the phrase you are looking for is "degrees of freedom".
Orson Scott Card routinely makes the first five or six chapters of his books freely available on his website. He's hooked me several times that way. His forthcoming book "Empire" is receiving the treatment right now. http://www.hatrack.com/
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
I think it's interesting that this was modded Funny. I find it to be an entirely serious and convicting statement. We live in an age where ability is valued more than character, by a long shot. I wonder what would be the result of a more balanced perspective?
The only thing interesting about this instance of the lame joke is that you spelled it as an assembly language mnemonic. The sign of a true geek.
You are so wrong. This particular book recommendation was _precisely_ on topic. Blue Mars had me thinking real hard about the implications of deja vu and its cousins, and about my presumed destiny as an elderly adult. If you ever get to thinking about how much of your identity is wrapped up in your memory, Blue Mars will be a very challenging and interesting read.
I, too, have experienced deja vu so strong that I knew what was going to happen next, and I turned out to be right. It's happened twice. One of the times, the predicted event was fairly mundane, so it might have just been dumb luck. But for the second one, I don't think there was anything in the situation that could have lead to a natural prediction of the following event. I'm with the parent poster -- I am a scientist through and through, but I must also reconcile science with my actual experiences.
You are right, there are two button presses required to stab. One to build up force, and the second to actually trigger the stabbing action.
The Napster-to-Go service, which uses the Microsoft Plays For Sure provisions, has the following restrictions:
Computers: You can have three authorized PCs at a time. You can unregister one PC per month. Authorized PCs are used to store/playback downloaded music. This is not a restriction on the number of PCs that can _stream_. You can have Napster on any number of PCs and use the client for streaming on all of them.
Portable devices: You can have two registered devices at a time. You can unregister one device a month. Registered devices can be used to listen to tracks that you haven't purchased. This is not a restriction on the number of devices to which you can transfer _purchased_ tracks.
These contraints seem quite reasonable to me. I have never needed more.
I don't know anything about the teaching side, but the JUnit framework has an equivalent C++ version, known as CppUnit. See http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki/FrontP age for details. NUnit has also been noted elsewhere as a .NET alternative.
He was quite self-deprecating, apparently! As I listened to all of his exploits and successes, I could only marvel at the wide range of talents, experiences, and interests that he packed into his life.
Richard Feynman, prominent physicist, Nobel laureate, and general renaissance man, was also a prolific and entertaining author, and many of his books are available as unabridged audio books. I find it hard to imagine that any geek would not find these interesting, insightful, and humorous (+5 on all scales, of course!)
Audible.com has them.
"The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
My first +5 moderated post ever, and then I have to go and make a fool of myself. At least few people chose to use their mod points to "-1 flamebait" me into oblivion.
Wow, what do you suppose the chances are of getting two responses from folks with user IDs within 6 of each other? 11211748 vs. 11211742? Next will come responses from two slashdot members with very similar slashdot user IDs who will somehow collaborate to beat this. . .
It seems to me, as with the asteroid collision possibility, that the better (only?) approach is prevention. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to investigate the possibility of gradually, and very, very carefully, relieving the stress on this cracked volcano, so that a 90-second catastrophic slide is replaced with a sustained slow erosion of the material.
There would still be a difficult political situation. It is entirely possible that the stress relief effort would carry its own risks of _causing_ the catastrophe it was designed to prevent. Similar tradeoffs occur in almost any risk mitigation strategy, although seldom with the stakes being this high.
In Windows Explorer, right click on the root directory of your CVS tree. Select "Search". In the resulting Search dialog, type "CVS", and start the search. In the right-hand pane of the search window, all of the CVS sub-directories of your root directory will appear. Click anywhere in that pane. CTRL-A for "Select all" (or do this manually through the menu system: Edit...Select All), and press the Delete key.
Also, depending on your CVS client, the CVS directories will probably be marked as "hidden", in which case you do need to click on "Advanced options" in the initial Search dialog, and press "Search hidden files and folders" before launching the search.
I used TealScript to create a profile that allows me to write using the Xerox unistroke alphabet. After years of use, I have become more proficient. It is indeed faster than Grafitti and much less error prone, because each character is very easily distinguishable from all other characters.
I personally find the FITALY keyboard (www.fitaly.com) to be far faster than any handwriting recognition (5x-10x). I do have accuracy problems, but even taking the time for error correction into account, I would estimate I am 3 times faster with FITALY than with unistroke character recognition.
There's obviously something I don't know about how to create a hyperlink in a slashdot post, since all of the above three links are pointing to slashdot somehow. Sorry about that. The displayed text of the URLs is correct. I used the A HREF tag to create them. I did not find any info in the FAQ on how to do this.
Seriously, how is that counted? Was it a ball?
The same companies that make fireproof safes for paper also make them for media. My safe has a foam layer around the actual storage compartment. When exposed to high heat, the foam chemically turns into a very high-insulating material. The safe is certified to keep internal temperatures below 150 degrees F for 30 minutes in a fire whose temperatures exceed 1500 degrees. Or something like that. The safe was about $250, and is large enough to store two or three hard disks in removable caddies, and maybe ten jewel cases for DVDs/CDs, or maybe 25 small backup tape cartridges. I have all of my home video on DVD. There is a backup copy of each DVD in that fireproof safe, along with a large hard disk that has a backup of all of my personal data.