> Keep in mind that I'm no cryptographer (IANAC), but judging from their description of the cryptosystem, its only a half-step up from rot-13.
Personally, I'd like to see a chosen-plaintext secure garage door opener, and for greater security, a chosen ciphertext secure garage door opener under the postprocessing model.
Call for greater garage door security, otherwise the terrorists(TM) have won!
> I bet i know more about computers than you do, from EXPERIENCE.
You have experience with me? I'm sorry, I don't belive we've met.
Believe it or not, I know a good bit about all of those things you mentioned, assuming you meant "data structures", though my area of research is elsewhere. Any thorough CS undergrad curriculum should include nearly all of those things, though all students may not choose to take all of them. Quantum computing has lovely math in it, which may make it unsuitable for a general undergrad curriculum. I am somewhat curious how much quantum computing work you did, if you don't like calculus that much, and you haven't even mentioned abstract algebra.
The physics of charge and current -- which you claim to understand -- is rooted in calculus. Simplifications are used for chip design, becasue of the immense number of factors involved, and becasue we are reaching rather uncertain levels. Still, the physics is calculus-based, and you can't work out the most basic problems without it.
>Please, no one Ive ever met whos a computer science in the industry has ever used calculus unless its too write a game and even then games dont use real physics so unless you want to make a sim of the atomic bomb explosions or work on writing a genetic algorithm to help boeing design new aircrafts what Math are you talking about.
You've just listed several uses. Congrats. Simulations of all kinds use quite a bit of obvious math.
Also, not everyone is in industry. Colleges and universities want to prepare people for all sorts of careers, including academia.
>Math rigor? What is math rigor? yes you do problem solving when you write programs sometimes but 90 percent of writing programs is fixing bugs and using code thats already written, most algorithms are already there and you can just steal them, sure to be a GREAT programmer you need to be good at math but the average programmer they only know up to algebra.
Many of the coding concepts you use have direct ties to mathematics. Recursion and inductive proof, for example. Type systems and second-order logic. (Look up the Curry-Howard correspondence, if you're curious. It's very pretty.) Knowing the background behind these things can help people program better, becasue they understand exactly why something is correct, and they can prove that it is so. Think of it as a human-centered version of proof-carrying code.
>Discrete Math I dont have a problem with, I dont have a problem with Combinatorics, I dont have a problem with Algebra even, its calculus that I have a problem with, and Linear Algebra and the BS stuff they teach us which has absolutely nothing to do with computer science.
Do you include abstract algebra in there? It's very useful in CS, especially where I am.
Linear algebra is very useful for modeling. The advanced kind has more interesting uses as well, but you're probably not talking about that.
Statistics is also useful, of course, but the point is that all sorts of math are useful, and perhaps you shouldn't complain quite so much about having to take em.
>Give me an example of when you'll use math, the only math you will use is Combinatorics and some basic Algebra.
You've given me some yourself. Crypto uses non-basic abstract algebra, generally, but also uses all sorts of other things, like linear algebra. A lot of computing involves modeling, which is right out of the linear algebra playbook, and also may involve all sorts of other things, like calculus. There are many more examples.
As to being flip, I meant the part about "watch out, they're taking over the world!"
Might help to call em women, instead of girls, too, even though that's mostly due to some interesting awkwardness in the English language, which I assume you are not normally subject to.
Does Sweden have universal daycare, out of curiousity? And lags behind what? (If it's the US, you may be in trouble:P)
1. there may be some good reason they're avoiding you. maybe you smell. I don't know you, so I don't know.
2. coding is not CS. it's a useful tool, but I've found math to be much more useful. I know somewhere around 7 languages pretty well, but I don't use them, generally, becasue I do math. Yet I'm in CS! Oh my! Something must be wrong here! And it's not very unusual to be able to superficially pick up similar languages from observation, hate to burst your bubble.
3. women are differnt from each other, as are geek women. The guys I've dated had no complaints. I also think you're doing the other people around here a disservice in assuming they're recruiting becasue they want dates. Striving for equal rights and encouragement is often an altruistic pursuit. Don't ascribe one person's motives to everyone. Ans as for your comment about music people, that's rather common. In fact, at Berkeley, most of the Wind Ensemble is made up of engineers.
4. some teachers suck. it happens. If you want to swap horror stories, I'll do so, but I'd like to point out that I know some that are a lot worse that have happened to women of my acquantance. I've found it varies a lot by school district.
5. don't flaunt your scores if you're trying to prove that other people are dumb. Really. I got higher scores than you did, quite signifigantly higher in many cases, and I know that that says just about zilch about my intellegence -- the SAT's are justly deprecated. The AP's tend to be better, but vary widely between subjects. (and while I'm on the subject, the GRE's are pretty silly as well)
Just becasue the women that you know don't point out that they're smart, doesn't mean they aren't. Perhaps you haven't met smart ones -- since there's a smaller pool, it's a bit restrictive. I would simply be very, very careful about assuming women are not as intellegent or as educated as you belive yourself to be. I personally know quite a few very intellegent women in CS. I have been doing rather well for myself as well, thus far.
As for your statement that "for the first time, they're surrounded by a lot of guys who are good, know it, and can best them everytime," it's been my experience that a lot of guys have this issue. I certainly met a lot who expressed these sorts of anxieties, and when you go to grad school, at least at CMU, they point out to you that it's normal.
Feel free to email me if you'd like to discuss this further.
Computer science is heavily math-based. Especially what I do. I'm female, btw, and I'm doing quite well, thank you. Have you not met any women, that you must rely on what you hear from others, and what you can determine to be likely inaccurate from the links in this story? Mathematical rigor seems quite necessary in most branches of computer-based work, though most of my experience has been in research.
Software engineering, on the other hand, is not. Perhaps there wasn't a separate major for it, where you went. Still, math is helpful to teach you logic and new ways of thinking. Discrete mathematics and formal logic might have been more helpful, but calculus is generally introduced before those topics, for whatever reason.
... and you have just proven that FIRST works. congrats:)
I also did FIRST, but coming from my high school, it was student-designed, student-built. Nice school. I was the only girl on the real inner-circle of the team, and the NASTY things that the guys talked about at 3am. Ugh. Still, can't complain about lack of exposure to math and science in that school, certainly.
I had my doubts, since most of the teams seem to have heavily engineer-run teams, and all the kids get out of it is cheerleading. Fun, certainly, but the real fun is in the guts. (Strange thing to say, since I quit robotics in favour of cryptography, in part becsaue of too much soldering!)
Would this be CMU? They jumped after they changed their admissions standards (not AA, just changed to reflect who was doing well in the classes, and what their backgrounds were like).
>The fact is, the nature of the subject, and anything else requiring in-depth knowledge, will not appeal to most girls, just like armed robbery doesn't appeal to most girls.
Wow. Where/have/ you been living?
I actually am one of those people who keeps a lot of balls in the air at once, but it certainly hasn't prevented me from gaining rather deep knowledge in several subjects. Think of that as the ability to keep a lot of state in your head. While I'm reading a paper, I am also making connections to other papers I've read, research I'm doing, research I'd like to do, research my advisor'd like me to do, and other random things floating around my head.
My grandfather's wife could be described as, well, a little ditzy. She is a very accomplished seamstress, though (ever heard of GunnySax?), and the sheer number of details that you need to keep track of at once for really nice clothes astonishes me (she's been teaching me). It's rather in-depth, although not the same sort of thing at all.
Oddly enough, this has always helped me out in acquiring deep knowledge, since it connects to several things at once. It doesn't help me listen to lectures, since I get figety, and start working or writing poetry or short stories in class. It doesn't help me out in coding, since I get bored, only doing one or two things at a time, so I sing while I code. My officemates are very happy I'm not a systems person, I'm sure.
Learning, like everything else, is very individual. How well you learn depends very heavily on how well you were taught to think, and if you were taught to think in a style the compliments your inner strengths.
And no, I don't have any oranges up my jumper. They're real. And so is my knowledge.
That reminds me of a funny story Anita Borg told me once.
Once upon a time, there was this group of (male) engineers, trying to design a labour-saving device for house cleaning. They finshed, and started production. They were very excited about it, and showed it off to the other engineers, one of whom was female. She couldn't make it work -- it required so much strength to turn the handle on the device that most housewives, who tend to be rather busy and don't lift weights much (at this time, anyways), couldn't use it at all.
And I know you're being flippant, but I know a lot more guys who want to take over the world than women. I also know a lot more women who just want to be given equal rights, and not discriminated against. Weird world, eh?
In addition to the implementation errors, of which we've seen flocks, there is some interesting information that can be gleaned from watching the timing of the packets. This however, is not exactly easy to fix in a robust and efficent manner.
I wouldn't eat it, but I don't like the taste of meat. In fact, I know a lot of vegetarians like that, espeically the ones who were raised that way -- it's just "icky" to em. And no, it's not a vegetable, it's animal tissue, but made without mistreating animals. The whole vitro aspect doesn't make it a member of kingdom Plantae...
The real dietary problem that people seem to have with meat is cooking it in unhealthy ways and eating WAY too much of it, which I don't think this would stop. Still, mitigating the environmental inpact and the mistreatment of "industrial" animals is a great thing.
Most vegans I know would wear synthetic substitutes, sure, which is essentially what these are, but some would not want to be taken as supporting the animal-related practices these things imply, which would likely change if the vast majority of these products were made with the synthesized version.
I can't speak to veganism, but as a vegetarian I've never had an issue. I find if I eat what I feel like eating, I am very healthy -- if I get lazy and eat what's around I start feeling crappy. It is NOT hard, unless I'm in some place like McDonald's.
YMMV, of course. I was raised on a very balanced diet, and so that's what I like eating. I also have very specific food cravings if I get off balance "MUST HAVE BEANS NOW! AND TOMATOES! MANY TOMATOES!"
Most people I know don't eat a reasonable balance and variety anyways, so the whole argument is just silly.
It's no effort at all, I just eat what I want, I don't go out of my way at all. Mass-wise, this depends on what you eat, and doesn't have much to do with vegetarianism, much more to do with the amount of fat in your diet, as well as your calorie requirements and how far over them you are. If you mean vegetables, that's water mass, mostly, something they have to take anyways, and something that they need to have them eating no matter the dietary makeup.
Chicks also dig people who don't have perpetual chair-prints on their asses. Funny that:)
I'm a geek myself, certainly, but I like to do other things too, and I know I'm not alone in that, or wanting to share that with my friends -- and my signifigant other had better be one of em.
Speaking of which, I'd better go back to drooling over a new lens, new board game, new pots, and new hip!
Read the David Sedaris book Holidays on Ice. It, like all of his work, is hilarious, and includes a story about a Christmas hooker. (he might have called her the Christmas Whore instead, I don't remember) Also includes Santaland Diaries, which is incredibly funny.
Also comes in "book on CD", where he reads his own stuff, also well worth it (one of the things that holiday money is going for!)
fink and 10.2 do not work well together as of the last time I installed it (a few weeks ago). you need to dig up some directions, otherwise it will be Bad and Annoying.
you have to install all packages from source from now, and compile fink, and use cvs-selfupdate.
As usual I expect all trolls to be bash me and tell me to use the standard. Well I don't care, no old people go to my site.
Sayeth the grandparent:
I'm 31 and have better than 20/20 eyes.
Sayeth the parent:
What does the first half of your sentence have to do with the second half? Are you trying to say that because you're 31 the rest of your comment (and prior comments) are more important? Do you want to brag about having good vision?
Err... look in the "son_of_spam" ebay user's "about me" page. it's linked in another reply already. I just read it and noticed someone with the same name listed as a spammer. maybe it's just a common name, maybe not.
Err... most of the editing, overall, is done without pay by other researchers and graduate students in the field. Where you work may be an exception, but at least in CS, this is how it works. Peer review, you know. By peers who don't get paid, they do it to build up some positive karma.
In the case of conferences, the committee is not paid, and they (and unpaid people they delegate to -- except in the technical sense that my advisor pays me) do the review and editing.
Certainly there are other expenses involved, but I doubt that review is much of one. The papers are emailed to the reviewer, so there's not even any paper/shipping cost.
This sort of thing is certainly "paid for" by someone -- the universities and the groups that fund them, and the companies that have major research labs, and the groups that fund them. Same people who pay for the journals and proceedings, oddly enough.
Err... I wouldn't be so hasty about claiming culinary superiority, there certainly are people who cook around here, and that well.
As for nutrients, I haven't had any problem with my diet, even when training heavily at martial arts, and I'm a vegetarian. Granted, I eat cheese, but that's vegetarian under most definitions (at least the rennet-free stuff).
Here I am, coming off as a Mac zealot, I guess, but I have an iBook, and it's been sturdy -- certainly sturdier than my thinkpad is. I know a lot of people who throw em in their backpacks, which is really hell on a laptop, pick em up by the LCD, drop em, whatever. The thing's been nice and sturdy thus far. It is a little heavier than my X20, which kinda sucks. Better battery life, though, and a CDRW/DVD drive actually comes in handy (I don't have one at all besides this one).
The keyboard will bow if you push hard on it, but frankly I don't type that hard, it would make my hands ache. I do know one person who bitched about it when he first got his, but I guess he got used to it, sine it doesn't bother him anymore.
Oh, and USB mice help with that, though I've found it's not needed, since there isn't the ubiquity of context menus that I've seen in other parts of the computing world.
I miss my Palm Vx. it was great for reading books on the bus, but the damn thing loses its touchscreen config almost immediately, so it's useless, I can't write on it. ahwell.
Well, besides some possible effects from the Microsoft Reality Distortion Field, I don't see how either of those things make too much difference, unless it's to commiserate over busy fathers with said woman. The "nerd" thing is generally more important.
Then again, maybe he's not trying to pick up any representatives of the female geek population.
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> Keep in mind that I'm no cryptographer (IANAC), but judging from their description of the cryptosystem, its only a half-step up from rot-13.
Personally, I'd like to see a chosen-plaintext secure garage door opener, and for greater security, a chosen ciphertext secure garage door opener under the postprocessing model.
Call for greater garage door security, otherwise the terrorists(TM) have won!
Lea
> I bet i know more about computers than you do, from EXPERIENCE.
You have experience with me? I'm sorry, I don't belive we've met.
Believe it or not, I know a good bit about all of those things you mentioned, assuming you meant "data structures", though my area of research is elsewhere. Any thorough CS undergrad curriculum should include nearly all of those things, though all students may not choose to take all of them. Quantum computing has lovely math in it, which may make it unsuitable for a general undergrad curriculum. I am somewhat curious how much quantum computing work you did, if you don't like calculus that much, and you haven't even mentioned abstract algebra.
The physics of charge and current -- which you claim to understand -- is rooted in calculus. Simplifications are used for chip design, becasue of the immense number of factors involved, and becasue we are reaching rather uncertain levels. Still, the physics is calculus-based, and you can't work out the most basic problems without it.
>Please, no one Ive ever met whos a computer science in the industry has ever used calculus unless its too write a game and even then games dont use real physics so unless you want to make a sim of the atomic bomb explosions or work on writing a genetic algorithm to help boeing design new aircrafts what Math are you talking about.
You've just listed several uses. Congrats. Simulations of all kinds use quite a bit of obvious math.
Also, not everyone is in industry. Colleges and universities want to prepare people for all sorts of careers, including academia.
>Math rigor? What is math rigor? yes you do problem solving when you write programs sometimes but 90 percent of writing programs is fixing bugs and using code thats already written, most algorithms are already there and you can just steal them, sure to be a GREAT programmer you need to be good at math but the average programmer they only know up to algebra.
Many of the coding concepts you use have direct ties to mathematics. Recursion and inductive proof, for example. Type systems and second-order logic. (Look up the Curry-Howard correspondence, if you're curious. It's very pretty.) Knowing the background behind these things can help people program better, becasue they understand exactly why something is correct, and they can prove that it is so. Think of it as a human-centered version of proof-carrying code.
>Discrete Math I dont have a problem with, I dont have a problem with Combinatorics, I dont have a problem with Algebra even, its calculus that I have a problem with, and Linear Algebra and the BS stuff they teach us which has absolutely nothing to do with computer science.
Do you include abstract algebra in there? It's very useful in CS, especially where I am.
Linear algebra is very useful for modeling. The advanced kind has more interesting uses as well, but you're probably not talking about that.
Statistics is also useful, of course, but the point is that all sorts of math are useful, and perhaps you shouldn't complain quite so much about having to take em.
>Give me an example of when you'll use math, the only math you will use is Combinatorics and
some basic Algebra.
You've given me some yourself. Crypto uses non-basic abstract algebra, generally, but also uses all sorts of other things, like linear algebra. A lot of computing involves modeling, which is right out of the linear algebra playbook, and also may involve all sorts of other things, like calculus. There are many more examples.
Lea
As to being flip, I meant the part about "watch out, they're taking over the world!"
:P)
Might help to call em women, instead of girls, too, even though that's mostly due to some interesting awkwardness in the English language, which I assume you are not normally subject to.
Does Sweden have universal daycare, out of curiousity? And lags behind what? (If it's the US, you may be in trouble
Lea
Look, people are individuals.
1. there may be some good reason they're avoiding you. maybe you smell. I don't know you, so I don't know.
2. coding is not CS. it's a useful tool, but I've found math to be much more useful. I know somewhere around 7 languages pretty well, but I don't use them, generally, becasue I do math. Yet I'm in CS! Oh my! Something must be wrong here! And it's not very unusual to be able to superficially pick up similar languages from observation, hate to burst your bubble.
3. women are differnt from each other, as are geek women. The guys I've dated had no complaints. I also think you're doing the other people around here a disservice in assuming they're recruiting becasue they want dates. Striving for equal rights and encouragement is often an altruistic pursuit. Don't ascribe one person's motives to everyone. Ans as for your comment about music people, that's rather common. In fact, at Berkeley, most of the Wind Ensemble is made up of engineers.
4. some teachers suck. it happens. If you want to swap horror stories, I'll do so, but I'd like to point out that I know some that are a lot worse that have happened to women of my acquantance. I've found it varies a lot by school district.
5. don't flaunt your scores if you're trying to prove that other people are dumb. Really. I got higher scores than you did, quite signifigantly higher in many cases, and I know that that says just about zilch about my intellegence -- the SAT's are justly deprecated. The AP's tend to be better, but vary widely between subjects. (and while I'm on the subject, the GRE's are pretty silly as well)
Just becasue the women that you know don't point out that they're smart, doesn't mean they aren't. Perhaps you haven't met smart ones -- since there's a smaller pool, it's a bit restrictive. I would simply be very, very careful about assuming women are not as intellegent or as educated as you belive yourself to be. I personally know quite a few very intellegent women in CS. I have been doing rather well for myself as well, thus far.
As for your statement that "for the first time, they're surrounded by a lot of guys who are good, know it, and can best them everytime," it's been my experience that a lot of guys have this issue. I certainly met a lot who expressed these sorts of anxieties, and when you go to grad school, at least at CMU, they point out to you that it's normal.
Feel free to email me if you'd like to discuss this further.
Lea
Computer science is heavily math-based. Especially what I do. I'm female, btw, and I'm doing quite well, thank you. Have you not met any women, that you must rely on what you hear from others, and what you can determine to be likely inaccurate from the links in this story? Mathematical rigor seems quite necessary in most branches of computer-based work, though most of my experience has been in research.
Software engineering, on the other hand, is not. Perhaps there wasn't a separate major for it, where you went. Still, math is helpful to teach you logic and new ways of thinking. Discrete mathematics and formal logic might have been more helpful, but calculus is generally introduced before those topics, for whatever reason.
Lea
... and you have just proven that FIRST works. congrats :)
I also did FIRST, but coming from my high school, it was student-designed, student-built. Nice school. I was the only girl on the real inner-circle of the team, and the NASTY things that the guys talked about at 3am. Ugh. Still, can't complain about lack of exposure to math and science in that school, certainly.
I had my doubts, since most of the teams seem to have heavily engineer-run teams, and all the kids get out of it is cheerleading. Fun, certainly, but the real fun is in the guts. (Strange thing to say, since I quit robotics in favour of cryptography, in part becsaue of too much soldering!)
Lea
Would this be CMU? They jumped after they changed their admissions standards (not AA, just changed to reflect who was doing well in the classes, and what their backgrounds were like).
Lea
>The fact is, the nature of the subject, and anything else requiring in-depth knowledge, will not appeal to most girls, just like armed robbery doesn't appeal to most girls.
/have/ you been living?
Wow. Where
I actually am one of those people who keeps a lot of balls in the air at once, but it certainly hasn't prevented me from gaining rather deep knowledge in several subjects. Think of that as the ability to keep a lot of state in your head. While I'm reading a paper, I am also making connections to other papers I've read, research I'm doing, research I'd like to do, research my advisor'd like me to do, and other random things floating around my head.
My grandfather's wife could be described as, well, a little ditzy. She is a very accomplished seamstress, though (ever heard of GunnySax?), and the sheer number of details that you need to keep track of at once for really nice clothes astonishes me (she's been teaching me). It's rather in-depth, although not the same sort of thing at all.
Oddly enough, this has always helped me out in acquiring deep knowledge, since it connects to several things at once. It doesn't help me listen to lectures, since I get figety, and start working or writing poetry or short stories in class. It doesn't help me out in coding, since I get bored, only doing one or two things at a time, so I sing while I code. My officemates are very happy I'm not a systems person, I'm sure.
Learning, like everything else, is very individual. How well you learn depends very heavily on how well you were taught to think, and if you were taught to think in a style the compliments your inner strengths.
And no, I don't have any oranges up my jumper. They're real. And so is my knowledge.
Lea
That reminds me of a funny story Anita Borg told me once.
Once upon a time, there was this group of (male) engineers, trying to design a labour-saving device for house cleaning. They finshed, and started production. They were very excited about it, and showed it off to the other engineers, one of whom was female. She couldn't make it work -- it required so much strength to turn the handle on the device that most housewives, who tend to be rather busy and don't lift weights much (at this time, anyways), couldn't use it at all.
And I know you're being flippant, but I know a lot more guys who want to take over the world than women. I also know a lot more women who just want to be given equal rights, and not discriminated against. Weird world, eh?
Lea
Hi Tom.
In addition to the implementation errors, of which we've seen flocks, there is some interesting information that can be gleaned from watching the timing of the packets. This however, is not exactly easy to fix in a robust and efficent manner.
Lea
That's nothing -- my laptop warms /other/ people's hands!
Lea
do you have any citations of this? I remember threat letters were being sent out to random companies, but nothing else.
Lea
Also a PITA if you have a one-button mouse -- I don't carry my 3+ button one around with me, which has never been a problem before!
Lea
Sayeth the parent:
How'd they know it was hers?
DNA testing. Said so in the article.
Sayeth me:
Read harder. It also says the results of those tests have not been disclosed, so we don't actually know, even if they do.
Lea
I wouldn't eat it, but I don't like the taste of meat. In fact, I know a lot of vegetarians like that, espeically the ones who were raised that way -- it's just "icky" to em. And no, it's not a vegetable, it's animal tissue, but made without mistreating animals. The whole vitro aspect doesn't make it a member of kingdom Plantae...
The real dietary problem that people seem to have with meat is cooking it in unhealthy ways and eating WAY too much of it, which I don't think this would stop. Still, mitigating the environmental inpact and the mistreatment of "industrial" animals is a great thing.
Most vegans I know would wear synthetic substitutes, sure, which is essentially what these are, but some would not want to be taken as supporting the animal-related practices these things imply, which would likely change if the vast majority of these products were made with the synthesized version.
Lea
I can't speak to veganism, but as a vegetarian I've never had an issue. I find if I eat what I feel like eating, I am very healthy -- if I get lazy and eat what's around I start feeling crappy. It is NOT hard, unless I'm in some place like McDonald's.
YMMV, of course. I was raised on a very balanced diet, and so that's what I like eating. I also have very specific food cravings if I get off balance "MUST HAVE BEANS NOW! AND TOMATOES! MANY TOMATOES!"
Most people I know don't eat a reasonable balance and variety anyways, so the whole argument is just silly.
It's no effort at all, I just eat what I want, I don't go out of my way at all. Mass-wise, this depends on what you eat, and doesn't have much to do with vegetarianism, much more to do with the amount of fat in your diet, as well as your calorie requirements and how far over them you are. If you mean vegetables, that's water mass, mostly, something they have to take anyways, and something that they need to have them eating no matter the dietary makeup.
Lea
Chicks also dig people who don't have perpetual chair-prints on their asses. Funny that :)
I'm a geek myself, certainly, but I like to do other things too, and I know I'm not alone in that, or wanting to share that with my friends -- and my signifigant other had better be one of em.
Speaking of which, I'd better go back to drooling over a new lens, new board game, new pots, and new hip!
Lea
Read the David Sedaris book Holidays on Ice. It, like all of his work, is hilarious, and includes a story about a Christmas hooker. (he might have called her the Christmas Whore instead, I don't remember) Also includes Santaland Diaries, which is incredibly funny.
Also comes in "book on CD", where he reads his own stuff, also well worth it (one of the things that holiday money is going for!)
Lea
fink and 10.2 do not work well together as of the last time I installed it (a few weeks ago). you need to dig up some directions, otherwise it will be Bad and Annoying.
you have to install all packages from source from now, and compile fink, and use cvs-selfupdate.
Lea
Sayeth the great-grandparent:
As usual I expect all trolls to be bash me and tell me to use the standard. Well I don't care, no old people go to my site.
Sayeth the grandparent:
I'm 31 and have better than 20/20 eyes.
Sayeth the parent:
What does the first half of your sentence have to do with the second half? Are you trying to say that because you're 31 the rest of your comment (and prior comments) are more important? Do you want to brag about having good vision?
Sayeth me:
Read what he's replying to before you reply.
Err... look in the "son_of_spam" ebay user's "about me" page. it's linked in another reply already. I just read it and noticed someone with the same name listed as a spammer. maybe it's just a common name, maybe not.
in any case, keep it in mind.
Lea
Err... most of the editing, overall, is done without pay by other researchers and graduate students in the field. Where you work may be an exception, but at least in CS, this is how it works. Peer review, you know. By peers who don't get paid, they do it to build up some positive karma.
In the case of conferences, the committee is not paid, and they (and unpaid people they delegate to -- except in the technical sense that my advisor pays me) do the review and editing.
Certainly there are other expenses involved, but I doubt that review is much of one. The papers are emailed to the reviewer, so there's not even any paper/shipping cost.
This sort of thing is certainly "paid for" by someone -- the universities and the groups that fund them, and the companies that have major research labs, and the groups that fund them. Same people who pay for the journals and proceedings, oddly enough.
Lea
Err... I wouldn't be so hasty about claiming culinary superiority, there certainly are people who cook around here, and that well.
As for nutrients, I haven't had any problem with my diet, even when training heavily at martial arts, and I'm a vegetarian. Granted, I eat cheese, but that's vegetarian under most definitions (at least the rennet-free stuff).
Lea
Here I am, coming off as a Mac zealot, I guess, but I have an iBook, and it's been sturdy -- certainly sturdier than my thinkpad is. I know a lot of people who throw em in their backpacks, which is really hell on a laptop, pick em up by the LCD, drop em, whatever. The thing's been nice and sturdy thus far. It is a little heavier than my X20, which kinda sucks. Better battery life, though, and a CDRW/DVD drive actually comes in handy (I don't have one at all besides this one).
The keyboard will bow if you push hard on it, but frankly I don't type that hard, it would make my hands ache. I do know one person who bitched about it when he first got his, but I guess he got used to it, sine it doesn't bother him anymore.
Oh, and USB mice help with that, though I've found it's not needed, since there isn't the ubiquity of context menus that I've seen in other parts of the computing world.
I miss my Palm Vx. it was great for reading books on the bus, but the damn thing loses its touchscreen config almost immediately, so it's useless, I can't write on it. ahwell.
Lea
Well, besides some possible effects from the Microsoft Reality Distortion Field, I don't see how either of those things make too much difference, unless it's to commiserate over busy fathers with said woman. The "nerd" thing is generally more important.
Then again, maybe he's not trying to pick up any representatives of the female geek population.
Lea