I loathe Freecell. I also play an average of 3 or 4 games of it a day. I don't think I get any satisfaction from the act of playing or from winning, but it has become the primary opportunity to shut off my brain for a moment or two between tasks. I cannot count the number of times I have opened the game, then closed it because I could find no motivation to play, then re-opened it and played a game 15 minutes later. In the meantime, I could be reading/. or wikipedia or playing a real game, but none of these other diversions quite fill the short-term, no thought required niche that the hated Solitaire game does. There is something seriously wrong with me...
Interesting. I recently bought the pack that has all 4 games with their expansions after a long hiatus from being a Civ II junkie. So far I've only played III because I want to completely enjoy it before I move on to IV and have a hard time coming back. It seems like a great game (much better than any other supposed Civ II successor I've played), but it does have some very annoying features, like being totally screwed if you can't get access to certain resources in the mid-to-late game. If Civ IV has all the good features of III and some others, it should be fantastic.
The Legislative system in United States governments at the federal and state levels have two separate bodies, the Senate and the House of Representatives. In order to become law, bills must pass both houses. What happened here is that the Senate wrote and passed a bill, which was voted down by the House.
I am a CS graduate student at a mid-level US university, and am part of a research group that is working on different parts of a project from a grant that pays all of us to accomplish some desired tasks while working on our own (hopefully related) research. One member of this group, a student from another school, recently defended his Ph.D. At his defense, the truth came out that a system he was supposed to have implemented had never actually been written and that his published results were mere fabrications. His academic career ended quickly, and the rest of us in the group have been struggling to make sure that any work he supposedly did has been replicated by someone else, as we had jointly published papers together. Neither I nor any of the other people involved in this research group had ever heard of something like this happening.
So yes, it seems that cheating on a thesis is possible, although avoiding detection is difficult. I find it difficult to believe that any significant percentage of grad students is cheating in this way. As for classes, I suppose I can see it. I don't know of any instances, but most graduate students I know view classes as a waste of time distracting them from the real work of their degree. If any attitude leads people to take shortcuts, it would be that one.
As we try to teach our students, use the best tool for the job. In my opinion, that means only using automated testing when necessary. I am teaching a course (Programming in C & the UNIX Environment) the first time this summer. (I was fortunate enough to be granted a research assistantship when I was accepted to grad school, so I was never a grader.) I was offered the use of some automatic collection and grading scripts developed by someone in the department decades ago, but I decided to avoid them.
In my case, grading does not constitute a significant percentage of my teaching and prep work. I only have 5 students in the class. Although this system would have saved me some time, I remembered my own experiences with a professor when I was an undergraduate. I do not know whether or not this professor used automatic testing, but he was rather draconian about things being written exactly the way that he would have written them and that they produce exactly the output that he envisioned. Unfortunately, I have learned from trying to complete his assignments and from my experiences in industry that it is extremely difficult to completely and unambiguously write a specification document. Furthermore, I wanted my students to be able to use their creativity in their assignments -- I instruct them, for example, that their program should produce certain pieces of data as their output, and that these should be organized in some tabular form, but I do not require that their output look exactly like mine. Thus, automated testing would be of little use.
That said, you asked for resources, not to be talked out of it, and I assume your situation is significantly different from mine that the benefits of automation outweigh the drawbacks. The collection part is easy; either write a script they can call to copy their files to some specified destination, or write one that goes out at the submission deadline and copies from a standard location in their home directories. On UNIX, require the students to include a makefile with the all target. I am not very familiar with Java, but I presume they have a similar cross-platform approach. Assuming that all of the programs read from standard input and write to standard output, the testing part is also rather straightforward. Write your own implementation of the assignment. (An important step in any case!) Write some input files as test cases, capture your implementation's output for each of them, and then compare them to the output produced by the students' code with diff. For added security, do the entire compilation and testing steps in a chroot environment.
If you adopt this though, remember that you still have to look through everyone's code, even the ones that pass all tests. Hopefully you are grading for style in addition to correctness, and you need to verify that students aren't plagiarizing each other.
I never stop being amazed by the arrogance and closed-mindedness of atheists who accuse theists of those same characteristics. (Theists with the same types of attitudes are just as annoying, but there are already 1000/. posters here to condemn them.)
It is a simple and obvious fact that neither the existence nor the non-existence of a deity can be proven based on evidence gathered from a human perspective. So some people look at the evidence available to them and conclude that God probably exists, while others such as yourself conclude that He probably does not exist. Until either side can prove their conclusion, which is impossible, it is all just speculation. Given that different people have different evidence before them (transcendent experiences or whatnot) it seems quite logical that they might come to different conclusions. To imply that people who disagree with you have failed to use their intelligence or, as you do later when responding to alucinor, to assert that their experiences can only be symptoms of mental illness is both arrogant and offensive.
As for your question regarding the things religion is needed for, I fail to see how that is a useful question. Can you name anything for which atheism is needed? For what are automobiles needed? For what is/. needed? Something may be of value or desired whether or not it is needed.
Overall,I do like the idea that you should give back what you got. Kind of the Good Samaritan approach.
Sorry, this is offtopic and already covered by an AC, but this is really quite annoying. For those who are unfamiliar with the Good Samaritan story, it is a parable told by Jesus in the Christian Bible.
The basic idea of the story is that someone gets mugged. A number of prominent people notice his situation but do nothing about it. Someone of a different and unfriendly race finds him, gets medical care for him, provides financially for his recovery, etc.
There is no indication in the story that the Samaritan had received anything from the guy who was mugged or that he expected to receive something in the future. The entire point of the story is that people should be generous without requiring compensation.
I am not asking you to believe it, but at least understand it if you are going to quote it.
People who accept the sacrifice of Christ to cover their sins are not bound to follow the Israelite Law. However, this does not mean that the Old Testament "doesn't apply", nor that God changed his mind. Both sections are included because they are both believed to be the inspired word of God, because together they paint a clearer picture of God than either could by itself, and, as the other poster mentioned, the Old Testament provides the context for everything that happens in the New Testament.
Jesus himself said it best in Matthew 5: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."
Installing the version packaged for Debian Sarge systems automatically installs and enables the autovacuum daemon. Or at least it did about two months ago.
I have a hard time deciding what I think about this issue. I have anecdotal evidence from my own life that it isn't really a problem. After playing GTA3 for a while I would think about how cool it would be to see if I could make a handbrake turn in real life, but I haven't ever actually thought about doing it other than in a controlled situation. When driving around, my roommate and I would often try to categorize vehicles that we passed as cars from GTA3, but that was more to annoy our girlfriends than anything else. My experiences with FPS games such as Counter-Strike and Thief definitely cause me to think about the most defensible spots in a room, but I am not convinced that is a bad thing. To summarize, the experiences I have had with thinking about games while not playing them have been fun rather than disturbing.
On the other hand, One of my closest friends in college had a real problem with games. I haven't ever known someone closely who had a drug-related addiction, but this seemed as frightening as I imagine that being. My friend was, for three years, just one of the guys that would play games together. But last year he started playing City of Heroes, and everything changed. He stopped attending classes, lost interest in the things we used to do together, and lied consistently to his closest friends and his fiance about what he was doing. That friend failed all his classes that year, had his engagement broken, and has alienated himself from all his friends now. It makes me sick now to think of the times I urged him to skip a class to help represent our clan in a CS game, knowing now that I may have been contributing to destroying his life.
In conclusion, I really don't know what to think about this. I used to firmly believe that gaming addiction was a myth spread by hysterical mothers, but I have seen it with my own eyes. However, I sincerely believe that it was not games themselves that pulled my friend in, that if not for games he might have become an alcoholic or obsessed over something else. I certainly don't want to ban games, but I will definitely look at them with a bit more caution in the future.
Oh, and here's an appropriate quote to this discussion from a GTA3 radio segment:
Lazlow: "Okay, and speaking of impossible, Jane from Cedar Grove is on the line, and she wants to talk about how difficult it is being a parent today. Hello Jane..."
Jane: "Hi Lazlow, I love the show, I'm a first time caller. I wanted to say something about these videogames, they are warping our kids minds. My sons dog, Bugle, got hit by a truck, and he says 'Mummy, mummy, where's the reset button?.' Kids these days, they think life is a game. Well it's not a game Lazlow. It is very, very serious. I let my kid play video games, and now, he runs around the house looking for gold coins. This is teaching our children to go chase money. My eldest has been playing this new videogame, called Pogo the Monkey..."
Lazlow: "Yeah, I've heard of that one..."
Jane: "The shop teacher called me today, and Sam made a home-made banana cannon in shop class, and was lobbing them across the street at a fast-food restaurant. And it's all because of videogames. Lazlow...life does not have a reset button!"
Lazlow: "Right, but this show does..." *beeeeep* "I love that button."
Yes, the parent understands this well. Modern music is all about the creation and release of tension. The standard dissonant chord, if there is such a thing, would be the dominant 7th. Without the existence of this chord jazz could not exist in any recognizable form. While it is not so often used explicitly in classical music, a sparse progression often implies dissonance. Rather than the analogy to visualizing depth, I would say that music without dissonance is like a novel that contains no conflict. Sure, it is legible, but incredibly boring.
And now, time for a shameless plug. I am working on a somewhat related project in computer-aided composition. Unfortunately, my current methods are highly computationally expensive. So, I have called my project "Chording At Home", similar to the old SETI@home project. If you would be willing to help me out, just download the file at http://sea-lion.eecs.lehigh.edu/ChordingAtHome/ to a Linux machine and run it for a few days. It takes one argument, which is the IP address of the server it should receive data from, which is currently 128.180.121.4. Oh, and if you actually run it you will definitely want to make it a "nice" process, unless you don't mind your machine being unusable.
If anybody is willing to help out or just wants more information, email cmhREMOVE204@lehigh.edu and let me know. And please be nice, this is NOT an enterprise-level server.
I have to disagree. Mormonism is most definitely considered a cult by mainstream Christianity, as is the church of Jehovah's Witnesses, although both have hundreds of thousands of members. On the other hand, I have been attending an independent church with less than 100 members, and I don't know anyone who would consider us a cult. Then again, I can't say I would agree with the definition of a cult given at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult. I would say a cult is any religious group that considers itself a subsect of a larger religious group, but who's teaching are significantly different from that of the group to which they claim to belong.
As for your second paragraph, I couldn't agree more. Someone's.sig that I read recently was simply "Jesus was a liberal." This is certainly true, and the church at large is sadly less than open to liberal points of view.
I have to agree. I find that almost all people I meet who are racist are age 30 and above. And I don't mean it in the sense of using racial slurs and talking about hanging people, although that does happen too. My parents, for example, have never said anything I can remember that was a specific attack against black people, but anytime they tell me a story or something they always mention the race of the people involved, as if it is extremely important to understanding the story. I think it is just a holdover from when segregation and lynchings were the norm. Children, on the other hand, seem to be completely oblivious to race.
If your major sources for a research paper are encyclopedias of any type, you are probably going to have bigger issues. An encyclopedia (dead tree) is a great place to look if you have no idea what a term refers to, or are looking for a list of more complete resources for the topic, but I would not consider it useful as a citable source for anything but the simplest of papers. And when you look at encyclopedias in this context, I think Wikipedia is quite acceptable. If you read the article on Alexander Hamilton you will know that he was an American citizen who lived in the latter part of the 18th century and that he served as Secretary of the Treasury. Additionally there are links to more than half a dozen in-depth resources for anyone who is doing serious research on Hamilton.
Not to say that I have ever used a cracked version of SoundForge from Radium, but I can assure you the program is fairly awful. For recording and some very simple edits it could be passable, but 90% of the things you could do from the toolbars would go from having no noticable effect to producing something that could hardly be classified as music as you turned up the level. Sonic Foundry Vegas, on the other hand, is a very nice multi-track recorder.
Anyway, Google translations are the best!
If one opens one of these files with note PAD, then one sees first only letter salad - clear, is also a sound file.
Given my high level of interest in this article and the relatively few comments it had, I thought I would try reading at a level of -1. Wow. It was an enlightening experience, but never again.
Interesting that you add grad students to this. I am a grad student, and I definitely would not consider myself underpaid. I mean, I make $13,000 a year, but that is enough to pay the rent for a small apartment and eat for a year. Sure, it would be nice to have more money, but after paying out the ass for my undergrad education, it seems amazing to be paid to attend classes and perform research. On the other hand, I can definitely agree that students may be overworked. I am fortunate enough to have a very understanding research advisor, but I have still spent entire nights in the lab rather frequently. I guess the real issue is that I don't have a wife and kids. If I did, I can't imagine living this way.
Or is something missing from TFA? I mean, this guy flies down to Colombia, hires a private pilot and drivers, performs scientific experiments, and risks his life trying to acquire / smuggle coca plants. Nowhere in the article does he say anything about being a government official, a biologist, or someone else who might have a reason for doing this other than pure curiosity.
I am certainly no expert on the matter, but I have had software RAID5 running on a FC1 installation for several months with no problems. Sure, if you are running a business and the information on this machine is mission-critical I would think hardware would be much more reliable and efficient, but that doesn't seem to be the focus of this question.
For a poor college student like myself, cobbling together software RAID from commodity hardware is relatively inexpensive and easy. Given that a) I don't need to store huge amounts of data and b) I was building the system to be fault-tolerant, I decided I could just buy cheap used hard drives from eBay. For connecting all the drives, I bought an old Promise Ultra66 IDE controller for $15 at a Marketpro show.
It isn't remotely fast, but it has solidly protected my personal PostgreSQL databases and music collection. It should go without saying, but YMMV. Good luck!
BTW, I haven't seen anyone else mention this so I will. Buying a lot of identical drives from a manufacturer may not be the best idea. All the drives you purchased were probably manufactured in the same batch, and they might be likely to fail together.
Likely not since most people with the ability and talent are just too lazy to make their own music. (It's easier than you think. If you can set up a Cisco network, you can make your own music.)
I can't say that has been my experience. And a look at the forums at a site such as www.homerecording.com seems to show quite a lot of people who would agree that it is quite difficult. Despite multiple computers, different sound cards ranging in quality from the onboard sound on Intel mobos to an M-Audio Delta1010LT, and several different multi-tracking software programs, I have never found a single setup where I could sit down, record a track, play it and record another track, and have them play back together. Usually they start together, but then one of them wanders off half a beat or so somewhere. If you have a simple solution to this problem, I would love to hear it!
Disclaimer: IHNSUACN ( I have never set up a Cisco network )
Know for sure, no. But I am fairly certain that it is not true. I live in South Bethlehem, just a few miles away from Allentown, and PP&L sent out fliers to all the homes in the area to gauge interest in expanding their BPL program to our area. I called the company and talked to someone who made it sound as though the signal is actually travelling through the standard power line to the local transformer, where it terminates in a WAP.
I, for one, welcome our new broadband selling electric overlords. The price they quoted me was about half of what it would cost to get DSL or Cable service in my area, and it was for 3Mbps up / 3Mbps down.
I can't see why people hate Deus Ex 2 so much. Sure, it wasn't an exact copy of Deus Ex 1, but it was still a good game despite the fact that it was suffering from mild console syndrome. Oh well.
People hate it because they expected a game that was at least as good as Deus Ex, and they certainly did not get it. Although I agree with what most of the other people cited as failings of the game, I can't belive noone mentioned that the experience system of Deus Ex (1) was dropped. Maybe it is just me, but the combination of the gameplay of an FPS game with the ability to customize / upgrade your character of an RPG with the open-endedness that allowed you to gain much more experience than if you just followed the plot.
To me, that is what a good open-ended game needs. Yeah, its great that you can explore all over the place and whatnot, but if there is no long-term benefit to doing so it is much less enjoyable. In Deus Ex I wanted to make sure to explore EVERYTHING to get all of the experience, weapon mods, biomods, money, etc.
Deus Ex: IW dumbed this system down to the point that it didn't matter what you chose.
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I loathe Freecell. I also play an average of 3 or 4 games of it a day. I don't think I get any satisfaction from the act of playing or from winning, but it has become the primary opportunity to shut off my brain for a moment or two between tasks. I cannot count the number of times I have opened the game, then closed it because I could find no motivation to play, then re-opened it and played a game 15 minutes later. In the meantime, I could be reading /. or wikipedia or playing a real game, but none of these other diversions quite fill the short-term, no thought required niche that the hated Solitaire game does. There is something seriously wrong with me ...
Interesting. I recently bought the pack that has all 4 games with their expansions after a long hiatus from being a Civ II junkie. So far I've only played III because I want to completely enjoy it before I move on to IV and have a hard time coming back. It seems like a great game (much better than any other supposed Civ II successor I've played), but it does have some very annoying features, like being totally screwed if you can't get access to certain resources in the mid-to-late game. If Civ IV has all the good features of III and some others, it should be fantastic.
The Legislative system in United States governments at the federal and state levels have two separate bodies, the Senate and the House of Representatives. In order to become law, bills must pass both houses. What happened here is that the Senate wrote and passed a bill, which was voted down by the House.
True Story:
I am a CS graduate student at a mid-level US university, and am part of a research group that is working on different parts of a project from a grant that pays all of us to accomplish some desired tasks while working on our own (hopefully related) research. One member of this group, a student from another school, recently defended his Ph.D. At his defense, the truth came out that a system he was supposed to have implemented had never actually been written and that his published results were mere fabrications. His academic career ended quickly, and the rest of us in the group have been struggling to make sure that any work he supposedly did has been replicated by someone else, as we had jointly published papers together. Neither I nor any of the other people involved in this research group had ever heard of something like this happening.
So yes, it seems that cheating on a thesis is possible, although avoiding detection is difficult. I find it difficult to believe that any significant percentage of grad students is cheating in this way. As for classes, I suppose I can see it. I don't know of any instances, but most graduate students I know view classes as a waste of time distracting them from the real work of their degree. If any attitude leads people to take shortcuts, it would be that one.
As we try to teach our students, use the best tool for the job. In my opinion, that means only using automated testing when necessary. I am teaching a course (Programming in C & the UNIX Environment) the first time this summer. (I was fortunate enough to be granted a research assistantship when I was accepted to grad school, so I was never a grader.) I was offered the use of some automatic collection and grading scripts developed by someone in the department decades ago, but I decided to avoid them.
In my case, grading does not constitute a significant percentage of my teaching and prep work. I only have 5 students in the class. Although this system would have saved me some time, I remembered my own experiences with a professor when I was an undergraduate. I do not know whether or not this professor used automatic testing, but he was rather draconian about things being written exactly the way that he would have written them and that they produce exactly the output that he envisioned. Unfortunately, I have learned from trying to complete his assignments and from my experiences in industry that it is extremely difficult to completely and unambiguously write a specification document. Furthermore, I wanted my students to be able to use their creativity in their assignments -- I instruct them, for example, that their program should produce certain pieces of data as their output, and that these should be organized in some tabular form, but I do not require that their output look exactly like mine. Thus, automated testing would be of little use.
That said, you asked for resources, not to be talked out of it, and I assume your situation is significantly different from mine that the benefits of automation outweigh the drawbacks. The collection part is easy; either write a script they can call to copy their files to some specified destination, or write one that goes out at the submission deadline and copies from a standard location in their home directories. On UNIX, require the students to include a makefile with the all target. I am not very familiar with Java, but I presume they have a similar cross-platform approach. Assuming that all of the programs read from standard input and write to standard output, the testing part is also rather straightforward. Write your own implementation of the assignment. (An important step in any case!) Write some input files as test cases, capture your implementation's output for each of them, and then compare them to the output produced by the students' code with diff. For added security, do the entire compilation and testing steps in a chroot environment.
If you adopt this though, remember that you still have to look through everyone's code, even the ones that pass all tests. Hopefully you are grading for style in addition to correctness, and you need to verify that students aren't plagiarizing each other.
Good luck
I never stop being amazed by the arrogance and closed-mindedness of atheists who accuse theists of those same characteristics. (Theists with the same types of attitudes are just as annoying, but there are already 1000 /. posters here to condemn them.)
/. needed? Something may be of value or desired whether or not it is needed.
It is a simple and obvious fact that neither the existence nor the non-existence of a deity can be proven based on evidence gathered from a human perspective. So some people look at the evidence available to them and conclude that God probably exists, while others such as yourself conclude that He probably does not exist. Until either side can prove their conclusion, which is impossible, it is all just speculation. Given that different people have different evidence before them (transcendent experiences or whatnot) it seems quite logical that they might come to different conclusions. To imply that people who disagree with you have failed to use their intelligence or, as you do later when responding to alucinor, to assert that their experiences can only be symptoms of mental illness is both arrogant and offensive.
As for your question regarding the things religion is needed for, I fail to see how that is a useful question. Can you name anything for which atheism is needed? For what are automobiles needed? For what is
Sorry, this is offtopic and already covered by an AC, but this is really quite annoying. For those who are unfamiliar with the Good Samaritan story, it is a parable told by Jesus in the Christian Bible.
The basic idea of the story is that someone gets mugged. A number of prominent people notice his situation but do nothing about it. Someone of a different and unfriendly race finds him, gets medical care for him, provides financially for his recovery, etc.
There is no indication in the story that the Samaritan had received anything from the guy who was mugged or that he expected to receive something in the future. The entire point of the story is that people should be generous without requiring compensation.
I am not asking you to believe it, but at least understand it if you are going to quote it.
Since you seem genuinely interested:
People who accept the sacrifice of Christ to cover their sins are not bound to follow the Israelite Law. However, this does not mean that the Old Testament "doesn't apply", nor that God changed his mind. Both sections are included because they are both believed to be the inspired word of God, because together they paint a clearer picture of God than either could by itself, and, as the other poster mentioned, the Old Testament provides the context for everything that happens in the New Testament.
Jesus himself said it best in Matthew 5: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."
Installing the version packaged for Debian Sarge systems automatically installs and enables the autovacuum daemon. Or at least it did about two months ago.
I have a hard time deciding what I think about this issue. I have anecdotal evidence from my own life that it isn't really a problem. After playing GTA3 for a while I would think about how cool it would be to see if I could make a handbrake turn in real life, but I haven't ever actually thought about doing it other than in a controlled situation. When driving around, my roommate and I would often try to categorize vehicles that we passed as cars from GTA3, but that was more to annoy our girlfriends than anything else. My experiences with FPS games such as Counter-Strike and Thief definitely cause me to think about the most defensible spots in a room, but I am not convinced that is a bad thing. To summarize, the experiences I have had with thinking about games while not playing them have been fun rather than disturbing.
On the other hand, One of my closest friends in college had a real problem with games. I haven't ever known someone closely who had a drug-related addiction, but this seemed as frightening as I imagine that being. My friend was, for three years, just one of the guys that would play games together. But last year he started playing City of Heroes, and everything changed. He stopped attending classes, lost interest in the things we used to do together, and lied consistently to his closest friends and his fiance about what he was doing. That friend failed all his classes that year, had his engagement broken, and has alienated himself from all his friends now. It makes me sick now to think of the times I urged him to skip a class to help represent our clan in a CS game, knowing now that I may have been contributing to destroying his life.
In conclusion, I really don't know what to think about this. I used to firmly believe that gaming addiction was a myth spread by hysterical mothers, but I have seen it with my own eyes. However, I sincerely believe that it was not games themselves that pulled my friend in, that if not for games he might have become an alcoholic or obsessed over something else. I certainly don't want to ban games, but I will definitely look at them with a bit more caution in the future.
Oh, and here's an appropriate quote to this discussion from a GTA3 radio segment:
Lazlow: "Okay, and speaking of impossible, Jane from Cedar Grove is on the line, and she wants to talk about how difficult it is being a parent today. Hello Jane..."
Jane: "Hi Lazlow, I love the show, I'm a first time caller. I wanted to say something about these videogames, they are warping our kids minds. My sons dog, Bugle, got hit by a truck, and he says 'Mummy, mummy, where's the reset button?.' Kids these days, they think life is a game. Well it's not a game Lazlow. It is very, very serious. I let my kid play video games, and now, he runs around the house looking for gold coins. This is teaching our children to go chase money. My eldest has been playing this new videogame, called Pogo the Monkey..."
Lazlow: "Yeah, I've heard of that one..."
Jane: "The shop teacher called me today, and Sam made a home-made banana cannon in shop class, and was lobbing them across the street at a fast-food restaurant. And it's all because of videogames. Lazlow...life does not have a reset button!"
Lazlow: "Right, but this show does..." *beeeeep* "I love that button."
Yes, the parent understands this well. Modern music is all about the creation and release of tension. The standard dissonant chord, if there is such a thing, would be the dominant 7th. Without the existence of this chord jazz could not exist in any recognizable form. While it is not so often used explicitly in classical music, a sparse progression often implies dissonance. Rather than the analogy to visualizing depth, I would say that music without dissonance is like a novel that contains no conflict. Sure, it is legible, but incredibly boring.
And now, time for a shameless plug. I am working on a somewhat related project in computer-aided composition. Unfortunately, my current methods are highly computationally expensive. So, I have called my project "Chording At Home", similar to the old SETI@home project. If you would be willing to help me out, just download the file at http://sea-lion.eecs.lehigh.edu/ChordingAtHome/ to a Linux machine and run it for a few days. It takes one argument, which is the IP address of the server it should receive data from, which is currently 128.180.121.4. Oh, and if you actually run it you will definitely want to make it a "nice" process, unless you don't mind your machine being unusable.
If anybody is willing to help out or just wants more information, email cmhREMOVE204@lehigh.edu and let me know. And please be nice, this is NOT an enterprise-level server.
I have to disagree. Mormonism is most definitely considered a cult by mainstream Christianity, as is the church of Jehovah's Witnesses, although both have hundreds of thousands of members. On the other hand, I have been attending an independent church with less than 100 members, and I don't know anyone who would consider us a cult. Then again, I can't say I would agree with the definition of a cult given at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult. I would say a cult is any religious group that considers itself a subsect of a larger religious group, but who's teaching are significantly different from that of the group to which they claim to belong.
.sig that I read recently was simply "Jesus was a liberal." This is certainly true, and the church at large is sadly less than open to liberal points of view.
As for your second paragraph, I couldn't agree more. Someone's
I have to agree. I find that almost all people I meet who are racist are age 30 and above. And I don't mean it in the sense of using racial slurs and talking about hanging people, although that does happen too. My parents, for example, have never said anything I can remember that was a specific attack against black people, but anytime they tell me a story or something they always mention the race of the people involved, as if it is extremely important to understanding the story. I think it is just a holdover from when segregation and lynchings were the norm. Children, on the other hand, seem to be completely oblivious to race.
If your major sources for a research paper are encyclopedias of any type, you are probably going to have bigger issues. An encyclopedia (dead tree) is a great place to look if you have no idea what a term refers to, or are looking for a list of more complete resources for the topic, but I would not consider it useful as a citable source for anything but the simplest of papers. And when you look at encyclopedias in this context, I think Wikipedia is quite acceptable. If you read the article on Alexander Hamilton you will know that he was an American citizen who lived in the latter part of the 18th century and that he served as Secretary of the Treasury. Additionally there are links to more than half a dozen in-depth resources for anyone who is doing serious research on Hamilton.
Anyway, Google translations are the best!
If one opens one of these files with note PAD, then one sees first only letter salad - clear, is also a sound file.
Given my high level of interest in this article and the relatively few comments it had, I thought I would try reading at a level of -1. Wow. It was an enlightening experience, but never again.
Interesting that you add grad students to this. I am a grad student, and I definitely would not consider myself underpaid. I mean, I make $13,000 a year, but that is enough to pay the rent for a small apartment and eat for a year. Sure, it would be nice to have more money, but after paying out the ass for my undergrad education, it seems amazing to be paid to attend classes and perform research. On the other hand, I can definitely agree that students may be overworked. I am fortunate enough to have a very understanding research advisor, but I have still spent entire nights in the lab rather frequently. I guess the real issue is that I don't have a wife and kids. If I did, I can't imagine living this way.
How long before those are the tactice the Haven-ots need to ... wtf are Haven-ots? Are they like Huguenots?
Perhaps I should go back to bed ...
Or is something missing from TFA? I mean, this guy flies down to Colombia, hires a private pilot and drivers, performs scientific experiments, and risks his life trying to acquire / smuggle coca plants. Nowhere in the article does he say anything about being a government official, a biologist, or someone else who might have a reason for doing this other than pure curiosity.
I am certainly no expert on the matter, but I have had software RAID5 running on a FC1 installation for several months with no problems. Sure, if you are running a business and the information on this machine is mission-critical I would think hardware would be much more reliable and efficient, but that doesn't seem to be the focus of this question.
For a poor college student like myself, cobbling together software RAID from commodity hardware is relatively inexpensive and easy. Given that a) I don't need to store huge amounts of data and b) I was building the system to be fault-tolerant, I decided I could just buy cheap used hard drives from eBay. For connecting all the drives, I bought an old Promise Ultra66 IDE controller for $15 at a Marketpro show.
It isn't remotely fast, but it has solidly protected my personal PostgreSQL databases and music collection. It should go without saying, but YMMV. Good luck!
BTW, I haven't seen anyone else mention this so I will. Buying a lot of identical drives from a manufacturer may not be the best idea. All the drives you purchased were probably manufactured in the same batch, and they might be likely to fail together.
Can't find it on Google so it may not be true though.
Because we all know that if you had been able to find it on Google, it would have to be true!
No more reading /. stories when very tired. Every time he used the word "pomo", I read it as "porno" and lost my concentration. Back to bed...
I can't say that has been my experience. And a look at the forums at a site such as www.homerecording.com seems to show quite a lot of people who would agree that it is quite difficult. Despite multiple computers, different sound cards ranging in quality from the onboard sound on Intel mobos to an M-Audio Delta1010LT, and several different multi-tracking software programs, I have never found a single setup where I could sit down, record a track, play it and record another track, and have them play back together. Usually they start together, but then one of them wanders off half a beat or so somewhere. If you have a simple solution to this problem, I would love to hear it!
Disclaimer: IHNSUACN ( I have never set up a Cisco network )
Know for sure, no. But I am fairly certain that it is not true. I live in South Bethlehem, just a few miles away from Allentown, and PP&L sent out fliers to all the homes in the area to gauge interest in expanding their BPL program to our area. I called the company and talked to someone who made it sound as though the signal is actually travelling through the standard power line to the local transformer, where it terminates in a WAP.
I, for one, welcome our new broadband selling electric overlords. The price they quoted me was about half of what it would cost to get DSL or Cable service in my area, and it was for 3Mbps up / 3Mbps down.
Nice sig, but I think it should be:
Insightful? Troll? I'm the guy with the [gun|keyboard].
Preceeded of course by "What are you? I'm the troll aichpvee and you're the insightful aichpvee. You're an insightful little two-shoes."
People hate it because they expected a game that was at least as good as Deus Ex, and they certainly did not get it. Although I agree with what most of the other people cited as failings of the game, I can't belive noone mentioned that the experience system of Deus Ex (1) was dropped. Maybe it is just me, but the combination of the gameplay of an FPS game with the ability to customize / upgrade your character of an RPG with the open-endedness that allowed you to gain much more experience than if you just followed the plot.
To me, that is what a good open-ended game needs. Yeah, its great that you can explore all over the place and whatnot, but if there is no long-term benefit to doing so it is much less enjoyable. In Deus Ex I wanted to make sure to explore EVERYTHING to get all of the experience, weapon mods, biomods, money, etc.
Deus Ex: IW dumbed this system down to the point that it didn't matter what you chose.