is that there's no way they can be proven wrong. A belief is essentially some unit of knowledge which has no basis in experience. The only reason they know a belief is because they were *taught* it, not because they were able to learn it. (I'm willing to concede this point if some Powder-esque recluse were able to write the Bible without outside influence, but I find this pretty improbably.) Faith is literally believing something without any reason to believe it, so, in the words of Disney's Sleepy Hollow, "you can't reason with a headless man". Thus, faith is more powerful than reason, since it can always defeat it. But this is a problem: if you can't trust the universe operates with a basis of reason, then the universe means nothing: it might as well be just random garbage, which is pretty much the definition of a pointless life. Therefore, faith is a poor basis for one's life: you might as well just kill yourself; life's just going to be arbitrary nonsense anyway.
Here's my suggestion, something I did: Co-op. Trust me. What else are you going to put on your resume? "I worked at The Gap and did a pile of unrelated schoolwork".
Also, my school teaches pretty much everything with a Linux bias. You should try to learn the opposite of whatever the school teaches at your co-op job or on your free time.
I never did this, but I have some friends that did, and I think I would recommend it: Google Summer of Code.
Get some interest outside of CS that's useful to an employer. Very few companies do CS-only work, and it would be an asset if you knew something about what they did (engineering, chemistry). Try if you can to do a minor in this thing.
Get involved with some level of student government; it looks great on a resume. Even computer science club is fine.
Finally, friends are your friends. The more people you know, the more people that can help you if you get stuck on some assignment or exam.
I'm kind of pissed at the flack people give us students for using Wikipedia.
Right now, I'm taking a class on game programming. On every lecture's slides, he sources wikipedia.org. Thanks; I like paying $500 to read (poorly) regurgitated wikipedia articles.
I was under the impression, having travelled to Iceland a while back, that ISK = Icelandic Kronur, i.e, their native currency, not EVE's. When I was over there, it was pretty much exactly 100ISK = 2CAD, which means 14 billion CAD was ripped off. Confusing title.
Why play the physical game at all? Why not play a (free) computer version of it? The whole point of a board game is the tactile experience; computer games are obviously much better at ever other aspect of it. In conclusion, fuck off Parker Bros.
has made me think long and hard about weird random stuff like this.
I'm assuming they're talking about a spherical camera that captures a spherical image, or at least a half a sphere. Not some sort of retarded donut thing. The already kinda did that; it's called The Matrix, only backwards.
To record a regular movie, you need film that is basically three dimensional: two for the two dimensional image you'll see on your TV and one for time. What we end up with is an image that should be 2Ds of space and 1D of time, but isn't because we don't have the ability to move about in time as easily as space, so it ends up being a series of slices of 2D spacetime. You could stack them into a cube instead of a strip so that you have a 3(Space)D image. We've converted a time D into a space D. When you load the strip into the projector and play it, that third space D is converted back into a time D, so we have 3S -> 2S+1T. Now, there's a problem with this spherography (if you will). Spherography consists of 3S + 1T = 4D, so to record this, we're going to need 4S right? So we do what we originally did: instead of having a 3D stack of slides, we place the slides side by side, compressing 3D into 2D. To do this to 4D, each frame would be a sphere, and the "strip" would be a string of these frames. So you load them into the spherography projector and it jams some light inside and projects onto the giant silver sphere that is the theatre.
A new problem arises when you're carrying a big box of these things around and you drop the box. Either you say you're VERY Catholic and you need a very long rosary, or it's an extremely long set of anal beads. I'm not sure which is worse.
This just in: Microsoft has developed a new method of hashing files. It's been called "ParityBit.NET" and is scheduled for integration into currently existing and newly released Microsoft products.
a riddle I heard from somewhere in some archaic form of English:
Howe manye donkeyes tales behoueth reche from the Erthe to the Moone?
Just one, an' it be longe enough.
I'm doing this from memory, and my Olde Timee Englishe isn't that good, but it translates to something like:
How many donkey's tales tied together does it take to reach the moon? One, if it's long enough.
From what I've seen, Sony is a pile of shitheads, so I don't intend to buy their system. Firstly, everything I've bought from Sony has been a piece of feculent overpriced garbage. Secondly, they really shouldn't be in the electronics industry if they're not going to innovate at all.
I mean, come on, the PS2 was what, maybe 4 times as powerful as PS1? I remember playing the PC port of GTA San Andreas and barfing everywhere because it looked so crappy. (Don't get me wrong -- otherwise I loved it.) After a while, I guess I got used to it, but then I played a couple of XBox ports like Prince of Persia Warrior Within and Fable, and I barfed for whole new reasons (i.e., because they're gorgeous and don't slow down at all on my ever-aging PC like GTA SA did).
I really hope Nintendo pulls their heads out of their asses on this next generation of consoles. I mean, each Mario was about a thousand times better than its predecessors (maybe SMB2 excepted) in terms of innovation, up until the GC ones, which I admittedly have never touched. Speaking of touched, WarioWare Inc for GBA was one of those games where I thought, "OMFG d00d3rs! The video games being put out today by mainstream companies don't entirely suck!" Besides the GTA series, I have yet to play a game for PS2 that is any good in terms of being different from all other games, and even it's getting a tad stale.
Now, Microsoft's doing some groovy stuff with online gaming, and I really salute them for that, (as well as the harddrive; memory cards are obsolete dudes), but beyond FPSs and sports games (which were never really my bag), I have yet to hear of a good multiplayer game for XBox.
So here's my take on the whole next gen sitchy-ation:
Microsoft: They're doing the right thing hardware wise, i.e., actually something. But the games are pretty much what you'll find on PS2 with better graphics, sound, yada yada. So, shinier box around the same piece of dog shit.
Sony: They're king of the mountain and don't have to do much to maintain their position there. So they don't. PS3 = PS2 + 16MB RAM + 100Mhz processing power. If they use that same damn controller again, I'm gonna plotz. (On a flip-flopping sidenote, PSP is really cool in my opinion, though retardedly pricey and lacking focus.)
Nintendo: You're my only hope for salvation, so don't fuck it up. Nintendo's in the unfortunate position of being the underdogs, and thus do I root for them. They can't win by recycling their existing library of games (barring Zelda, Mario, and the like, because those always rule), so they're gonna have to do something awesomely new, which is what they're doing, from what I've heard.
I think technically, "increasing a limit by a factor of four" would mean that the limit would be lower, i.e., from 54Mb/s to 13.5Mb/s. Pedantic, I know.
Buffy kinda gives me a blah feeling. I never watched religiously. Firefly, on the other hand, seems pretty decent so far (I've only watched a few episodes). There are a few parts per episode where I think to myself, Wow, that was good and it transcends typical sci-fi/fantasy geekdom and becomes a real show, the feeling I get for entire episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
However, there are times when I think, Joss Whedon, you are a giant tool and you can't get past it. The whole space cowboy thing is great and all, but all the suspendors, floppy hats, and utterly retarded imitation of cowboy speak doesn't do it for me. It seems incredibly out of place. Maybe it just takes some getting used to.
I think this is somewhat akin to Minority Report, wherein video billboards identify a person by his retinas from a distance and change the billboard accordingly. Except now they aren't changing something that's their property, but mine. Jerks.
OMFG1!!11!!1!
Okay, let me get this straight. The guy is taking a whole bunch of numbers (which he calls 'data'), tabulating it, and producing trends from said data? Wow, that's some revolutionary shit you've got going there. Sounds like somebody should have thought of this earlier.
Someone has a fulltime job and you call them going to the job 'predicting the future'? That's almost a revelatory as predicting I might go to sleep sometime in the next week.
Jerks.
Despite the fact that I'm annually paying approximately ten grand for a university education, I would attribute about 75% of my knowledge of computing and maybe 50% of my general knowledge to the internet. Unfortunately, I don't think formal education can keep up with technology. Computing just moves too fast for an essentially immutable medium like print too teach me anything useful besides algorithms that have been around since the seventies and are certainly described, illustrated, and implemented a thousand times better from hundreds of sources on the internet.
For example, I used to work at a helpdesk for an engineering firm. It was fairly poorly managed, e.g., the IT department was 4 people for approximately 300 users. Anyway, during one of my afternoons where I just didn't much feel like running Spybot for the six thousandth time, I discovered a lovely little internet gem I, and others, presumably, like to call Wikipedia, most likely via our good friend Slashdot. I am in love with Wikipedia. At the present time, our helpdesk software consisted primarily of pens and paper, so I decided I'd make a wiki out of it, then everyone can add to it, &c. Not to toot my own horn (well, yeah, why else would I be posting on Slashdot?), but it was pretty much the best development in the department ever, in my opinion. My bosses were thoroughly impressed and on more than one occasion offered me oral sexual favours, assorted Ferraris, and the like.
There's no way I would have thought up the idea of a wiki on my own, let alone written one from scratch (thanks, PmWiki!). So in effect, the company probably owes the internet money, if anything. Besides the wiki, I couldn't count the number of times I drew on random internet knowledge to solve a problem.
Taking away my ability to surf the internet at work would not only have resulted in a multiple murder-suicide, but lost much of the efficacy of our department.
Slashdot Mirror
In Soviet Russia, North Pole takes over YOU!
Wait...
Still an interesting idea. But how this makes you look like less of an idiot than flailing your arms around is beyond me.
is that there's no way they can be proven wrong. A belief is essentially some unit of knowledge which has no basis in experience. The only reason they know a belief is because they were *taught* it, not because they were able to learn it. (I'm willing to concede this point if some Powder-esque recluse were able to write the Bible without outside influence, but I find this pretty improbably.) Faith is literally believing something without any reason to believe it, so, in the words of Disney's Sleepy Hollow, "you can't reason with a headless man". Thus, faith is more powerful than reason, since it can always defeat it. But this is a problem: if you can't trust the universe operates with a basis of reason, then the universe means nothing: it might as well be just random garbage, which is pretty much the definition of a pointless life. Therefore, faith is a poor basis for one's life: you might as well just kill yourself; life's just going to be arbitrary nonsense anyway.
Here's my suggestion, something I did: Co-op. Trust me. What else are you going to put on your resume? "I worked at The Gap and did a pile of unrelated schoolwork". Also, my school teaches pretty much everything with a Linux bias. You should try to learn the opposite of whatever the school teaches at your co-op job or on your free time. I never did this, but I have some friends that did, and I think I would recommend it: Google Summer of Code. Get some interest outside of CS that's useful to an employer. Very few companies do CS-only work, and it would be an asset if you knew something about what they did (engineering, chemistry). Try if you can to do a minor in this thing. Get involved with some level of student government; it looks great on a resume. Even computer science club is fine. Finally, friends are your friends. The more people you know, the more people that can help you if you get stuck on some assignment or exam.
I'm kind of pissed at the flack people give us students for using Wikipedia. Right now, I'm taking a class on game programming. On every lecture's slides, he sources wikipedia.org. Thanks; I like paying $500 to read (poorly) regurgitated wikipedia articles.
I was under the impression, having travelled to Iceland a while back, that ISK = Icelandic Kronur, i.e, their native currency, not EVE's. When I was over there, it was pretty much exactly 100ISK = 2CAD, which means 14 billion CAD was ripped off. Confusing title.
12/31/2006 = December the Thirty-First, Two Thousand Six. Same ordering as language. Makes sense to me.
For a second there, I thought you were talking about Doctor Claw.
Why play the physical game at all? Why not play a (free) computer version of it? The whole point of a board game is the tactile experience; computer games are obviously much better at ever other aspect of it. In conclusion, fuck off Parker Bros.
Thanks for the IMDB link to this completely irrelevant movie! I was wondering where that was.
Only Slashdot would someone pine for a "robust" society. :P
has made me think long and hard about weird random stuff like this. I'm assuming they're talking about a spherical camera that captures a spherical image, or at least a half a sphere. Not some sort of retarded donut thing. The already kinda did that; it's called The Matrix, only backwards.
To record a regular movie, you need film that is basically three dimensional: two for the two dimensional image you'll see on your TV and one for time. What we end up with is an image that should be 2Ds of space and 1D of time, but isn't because we don't have the ability to move about in time as easily as space, so it ends up being a series of slices of 2D spacetime. You could stack them into a cube instead of a strip so that you have a 3(Space)D image. We've converted a time D into a space D. When you load the strip into the projector and play it, that third space D is converted back into a time D, so we have 3S -> 2S+1T. Now, there's a problem with this spherography (if you will). Spherography consists of 3S + 1T = 4D, so to record this, we're going to need 4S right? So we do what we originally did: instead of having a 3D stack of slides, we place the slides side by side, compressing 3D into 2D. To do this to 4D, each frame would be a sphere, and the "strip" would be a string of these frames. So you load them into the spherography projector and it jams some light inside and projects onto the giant silver sphere that is the theatre.
A new problem arises when you're carrying a big box of these things around and you drop the box. Either you say you're VERY Catholic and you need a very long rosary, or it's an extremely long set of anal beads. I'm not sure which is worse.
This just in: Microsoft has developed a new method of hashing files. It's been called "ParityBit.NET" and is scheduled for integration into currently existing and newly released Microsoft products.
So what? We're getting a story for every minor update to every opensource project now? Move along.
a riddle I heard from somewhere in some archaic form of English:
Howe manye donkeyes tales behoueth reche from the Erthe to the Moone?
Just one, an' it be longe enough.
I'm doing this from memory, and my Olde Timee Englishe isn't that good, but it translates to something like:
How many donkey's tales tied together does it take to reach the moon? One, if it's long enough.
I mean, come on, the PS2 was what, maybe 4 times as powerful as PS1? I remember playing the PC port of GTA San Andreas and barfing everywhere because it looked so crappy. (Don't get me wrong -- otherwise I loved it.) After a while, I guess I got used to it, but then I played a couple of XBox ports like Prince of Persia Warrior Within and Fable, and I barfed for whole new reasons (i.e., because they're gorgeous and don't slow down at all on my ever-aging PC like GTA SA did).
I really hope Nintendo pulls their heads out of their asses on this next generation of consoles. I mean, each Mario was about a thousand times better than its predecessors (maybe SMB2 excepted) in terms of innovation, up until the GC ones, which I admittedly have never touched. Speaking of touched, WarioWare Inc for GBA was one of those games where I thought, "OMFG d00d3rs! The video games being put out today by mainstream companies don't entirely suck!" Besides the GTA series, I have yet to play a game for PS2 that is any good in terms of being different from all other games, and even it's getting a tad stale.
Now, Microsoft's doing some groovy stuff with online gaming, and I really salute them for that, (as well as the harddrive; memory cards are obsolete dudes), but beyond FPSs and sports games (which were never really my bag), I have yet to hear of a good multiplayer game for XBox.
So here's my take on the whole next gen sitchy-ation:
[/entirely excessively long rant]
I think technically, "increasing a limit by a factor of four" would mean that the limit would be lower, i.e., from 54Mb/s to 13.5Mb/s. Pedantic, I know.
Buffy kinda gives me a blah feeling. I never watched religiously. Firefly, on the other hand, seems pretty decent so far (I've only watched a few episodes). There are a few parts per episode where I think to myself, Wow, that was good and it transcends typical sci-fi/fantasy geekdom and becomes a real show, the feeling I get for entire episodes of Battlestar Galactica. However, there are times when I think, Joss Whedon, you are a giant tool and you can't get past it. The whole space cowboy thing is great and all, but all the suspendors, floppy hats, and utterly retarded imitation of cowboy speak doesn't do it for me. It seems incredibly out of place. Maybe it just takes some getting used to.
I think this is somewhat akin to Minority Report, wherein video billboards identify a person by his retinas from a distance and change the billboard accordingly. Except now they aren't changing something that's their property, but mine. Jerks.
Check it, foo': http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://slashdot.org
What's a 'non-profit corporation'?
Hey, dickhead, 'grammar' has two A's in it. Take your own advice.
OMFG1!!11!!1! Okay, let me get this straight. The guy is taking a whole bunch of numbers (which he calls 'data'), tabulating it, and producing trends from said data? Wow, that's some revolutionary shit you've got going there. Sounds like somebody should have thought of this earlier. Someone has a fulltime job and you call them going to the job 'predicting the future'? That's almost a revelatory as predicting I might go to sleep sometime in the next week. Jerks.
For example, I used to work at a helpdesk for an engineering firm. It was fairly poorly managed, e.g., the IT department was 4 people for approximately 300 users. Anyway, during one of my afternoons where I just didn't much feel like running Spybot for the six thousandth time, I discovered a lovely little internet gem I, and others, presumably, like to call Wikipedia, most likely via our good friend Slashdot. I am in love with Wikipedia. At the present time, our helpdesk software consisted primarily of pens and paper, so I decided I'd make a wiki out of it, then everyone can add to it, &c. Not to toot my own horn (well, yeah, why else would I be posting on Slashdot?), but it was pretty much the best development in the department ever, in my opinion. My bosses were thoroughly impressed and on more than one occasion offered me oral sexual favours, assorted Ferraris, and the like.
There's no way I would have thought up the idea of a wiki on my own, let alone written one from scratch (thanks, PmWiki!). So in effect, the company probably owes the internet money, if anything. Besides the wiki, I couldn't count the number of times I drew on random internet knowledge to solve a problem.
Taking away my ability to surf the internet at work would not only have resulted in a multiple murder-suicide, but lost much of the efficacy of our department.
It's called 'Windows XP SP2'.