I'm asking because I just don't know: I'm an OOL customer (Nassau County, LI, NY), and lately I've been growing more and more dissatisfied with the cable modem service. DSL around here is considerably more expensive (~$10-$15 more a month). Since Cablevision is the only cable provider here, could they be considered a monopoly, and if so, could I, the common consumer, do anything to force competition in my area? I'd bet that if TW/AOL or RR or whatever had the option to move in here, we'd get some better service and better prices -- and maybe even some choice as to what services we could receive. But IANAL -- can anyone answer these questions?
Have you ever noticed how awkwardly some writers alter their writing to use "she" or "he/she" instead of "he", to seem cool and PC-savvy and inclusive, to the point of making their writing unreadable? Go re-read M$'s vulnerability report. The user is always referred to as "he", and the attacker is always referred to as "she". How subvertive! What are they trying to tell us?
...it has the ability to throw practically any pitch within the strike zone.
If all this thing can throw is strikes, any half-decent batter should be able to smack the crap out of it. The reason good pitchers are good is because they get the batter to swing at stuff they just can't hit.
The way this season is going, they'll probably get this robot into the Mets' bullpen.:(
The winning team from 1998 included Charles Leiserson. He co-authored the algorithms text I used in grad school. Yeah, like anyone has a chance of beating him.
Damn, I would claim my own eternal bragging rights if I could get a program to compile in a contest he's in.
I'd love to see the experts' (/. readers?) opinions of the essential questions about computer science that need to be answered. Obviously, it's a young field, so there are probably a million questions we're not even smart enough to ask yet, but what would you add to such a list?
My initial ideas:
How fast can information be transmitted from one machine to another? Is fiber optic the way to go? What about the time spent in routers and switches?
How fast can we search a database? Is there some fundamental sorting algorithm that we've missed?
How many instructions per second can the microprocessor as we know it execute?
Yes, it's a terrible outrage that this kid's stuff got confiscated and he was locked up for a week because of a web page.
But it seems to me that a lot of people are missing the central point here. If this kid had published the contents of his web page in the school newspaper, he'd likely be suspended for libel. OK, so maybe Bubba and Buford in the Backwater, UT sheriff's office were a little jumpy, and maybe their reaction was somewhat overboard, but the kid broke the law. Let's not start storming city hall just yet. He wasn't locked up for being different, or for being a hacker, or a non-athlete, or for his pink hair. He was locked up for libel. As strong a reaction as that might seem, he's not some doe-eyed innocent.
I'd always wondered where pr0n producers come up with movie titles as original as "Sheepless in Montana" and "Shaving Ryan's Privates". Now I know -- they get them from/.! I can't wait for "Porn Worm: The Movie" to come to DVD.
Does this bring a second meaning to "trojan advertising"?
Am I the only one who got confused by the sentence "the CPU looks like a fish standing on its tail"? The CPU is a little square of silicon. The case is what looks like a fish. I'm surprised that C|Net would contribute to a confusion of terms like that.
I do not think that word means what you think it means. - The Princess Bride
If this little gadget is all it's cracked up to be (and it certainly seems that way), might we see a whole Beowulf cluster on one person's desk in the near future?
My aunt, before she passed away last year, was a principal in a grammar school. I will never forget the day she told me that kids in kindergarten (kindergarten!) were using calculators. What possible good could come from kids that young using machines to do simple math?
Seems to me that the basic problem is this: People have come to look upon the computer (in any of its forms) as a panacea for all the ills suffered by the educational system. "This technology is great! Let's get it to the kids!" Very few people seem to have given any forethought to *what* kids will be using computers for, though. As stated countless times, a computer is a tool. Just as a screwdriver is useless if you don't understand how a screw works, a computer is useless if you don't know basic grammar or arithmetic.
I see no reason at all for kids that aren't yet in high school to have computers. People must first learn basics, and then learn how to learn, before being presented with fancy tools to get the job done. Imagine learning calculus before algebra.
What *I'm* dying to know is when I can start downloading AvantGo using my Linux machine. They seem to only support Mac and Windows. Anyone have any news, insights, or hacks?
Now it's easy to tell which readers live where. Most of you that don't like cold pizza probably aren't passionate about hot pizza. I'm fortunate enough to live in the NYC Metro area, where pizza has transcended sustenance, and is a form of art. In my insignificant little suburb, for instance, there are four different places that craft Pizza perfectly, as it was meant, in the knowledge handed down from St. Pepperoni (look it up!). Even cold, their creations are far superior to anything I've endured -- at any temperature -- from other parts of the US (especially Virginia. Yuck!) I can only imagine what British "pizza" is like.::shudder:: (And remember, budding Pizza artisans -- it's all in the water!)
I still read a newspaper every day, and I don't plan to stop. Partially because it makes my commute seem shorter (and if you ride the LIRR, you know how valuable *that* is), but mostly because Newsday is still my best source for entertaining and informative stories about my beloved Mets. ESPN.com and CNNSI.com don't come close to the local flavor sports fans need. Yeah, Newsday sucks for technology, and they're only OK for news (which, as Katz said, I already read on line the day before), but there's nothing better for my daily baseball fix.
I can't say enough about my Logitech products. Naturally, YMMV, but they've been a godsend for me. It all started when I developed tendinitis in my right wrist. Being a musician, this freaked the crap out of me. When I showed up at work that Monday, I realized that moving the mouse hurt like hell. So, I got a Logitech tracball and a Micros~1 split keyboard (which is unfortunate, because that's all my co. could order. The 6 is on the wrong side.) Pain went away almost immediately (ice and a brace helped too), and hasn't come back.
For home, I have a Logitech split keyboard with built-in touchpad. Like emacs, you either love the touchpad or hate it, but it's working wonders for me. Oh, and I ordered everything from www.logitech.com.
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I'm asking because I just don't know: I'm an OOL customer (Nassau County, LI, NY), and lately I've been growing more and more dissatisfied with the cable modem service. DSL around here is considerably more expensive (~$10-$15 more a month). Since Cablevision is the only cable provider here, could they be considered a monopoly, and if so, could I, the common consumer, do anything to force competition in my area? I'd bet that if TW/AOL or RR or whatever had the option to move in here, we'd get some better service and better prices -- and maybe even some choice as to what services we could receive. But IANAL -- can anyone answer these questions?
You seem to have forgotten:
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
1) Buy one of these.
3) Profit.
I wasn't able to use Galeon with Citibank a couple months ago. But I called and complained, and now it works just fine.
And they say you can't fight city hall...
Of course it does! Only your friends can touch your private parts!
Have you ever noticed how awkwardly some writers alter their writing to use "she" or "he/she" instead of "he", to seem cool and PC-savvy and inclusive, to the point of making their writing unreadable? Go re-read M$'s vulnerability report. The user is always referred to as "he", and the attacker is always referred to as "she". How subvertive! What are they trying to tell us?
/sbin/init is always Job 1.
Unix: Where
Just remember what Asimov said:
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny
If all this thing can throw is strikes, any half-decent batter should be able to smack the crap out of it. The reason good pitchers are good is because they get the batter to swing at stuff they just can't hit.
The way this season is going, they'll probably get this robot into the Mets' bullpen. :(
The winning team from 1998 included Charles Leiserson. He co-authored the algorithms text I used in grad school. Yeah, like anyone has a chance of beating him.
Damn, I would claim my own eternal bragging rights if I could get a program to compile in a contest he's in.
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Anytown, NJ
and we promise we'll send you whatever our product is.
New Jersey. Go figure. :)
I would have, but that question was already covered in the aforementioned article
My initial ideas:
- How fast can information be transmitted from one machine to another? Is fiber optic the way to go? What about the time spent in routers and switches?
- How fast can we search a database? Is there some fundamental sorting algorithm that we've missed?
- How many instructions per second can the microprocessor as we know it execute?
I know there are others. What do you think?I went for the non-thesis track for my M.S. Suckers. :)
People still live in fucking boxes on the sidewalk, and the government's Big New Plan is e-mail? How about we get everyone a snail-mail address first?
Unfortunately for the world, it's hard to imagine a more poorly equipped society to deal
with the Human Genome Project than the U.S.
Yeah, too bad that 1940s Germany didn't get a hold of this information.
Try the decaf, Jon.
Just about all of us have spent hours debugging Perl code which did this to us, because we misspelled a variable name.
:)
That's what "use strict" is for.
I can just see myself growing up in *that* household. "Assembly again!? Forget it. I'll do the dishes tonight." :)
Yes, it's a terrible outrage that this kid's stuff got confiscated and he was locked up for a week because of a web page.
But it seems to me that a lot of people are missing the central point here. If this kid had published the contents of his web page in the school newspaper, he'd likely be suspended for libel. OK, so maybe Bubba and Buford in the Backwater, UT sheriff's office were a little jumpy, and maybe their reaction was somewhat overboard, but the kid broke the law. Let's not start storming city hall just yet. He wasn't locked up for being different, or for being a hacker, or a non-athlete, or for his pink hair. He was locked up for libel. As strong a reaction as that might seem, he's not some doe-eyed innocent.
I'd always wondered where pr0n producers come up with movie titles as original as "Sheepless in Montana" and "Shaving Ryan's Privates". Now I know -- they get them from /.! I can't wait for "Porn Worm: The Movie" to come to DVD.
Does this bring a second meaning to "trojan advertising"?
Am I the only one who got confused by the sentence "the CPU looks like a fish standing on its tail"? The CPU is a little square of silicon. The case is what looks like a fish. I'm surprised that C|Net would contribute to a confusion of terms like that.
I do not think that word means what you think it means. - The Princess Bride
If this little gadget is all it's cracked up to be (and it certainly seems that way), might we see a whole Beowulf cluster on one person's desk in the near future?
Seems to me that the basic problem is this: People have come to look upon the computer (in any of its forms) as a panacea for all the ills suffered by the educational system. "This technology is great! Let's get it to the kids!" Very few people seem to have given any forethought to *what* kids will be using computers for, though. As stated countless times, a computer is a tool. Just as a screwdriver is useless if you don't understand how a screw works, a computer is useless if you don't know basic grammar or arithmetic.
I see no reason at all for kids that aren't yet in high school to have computers. People must first learn basics, and then learn how to learn, before being presented with fancy tools to get the job done. Imagine learning calculus before algebra.
What *I'm* dying to know is when I can start downloading AvantGo using my Linux machine. They seem to only support Mac and Windows. Anyone have any news, insights, or hacks?
Now it's easy to tell which readers live where. Most of you that don't like cold pizza probably aren't passionate about hot pizza. I'm fortunate enough to live in the NYC Metro area, where pizza has transcended sustenance, and is a form of art. In my insignificant little suburb, for instance, there are four different places that craft Pizza perfectly, as it was meant, in the knowledge handed down from St. Pepperoni (look it up!). Even cold, their creations are far superior to anything I've endured -- at any temperature -- from other parts of the US (especially Virginia. Yuck!) I can only imagine what British "pizza" is like. ::shudder:: (And remember, budding Pizza artisans -- it's all in the water!)
I still read a newspaper every day, and I don't plan to stop. Partially because it makes my commute seem shorter (and if you ride the LIRR, you know how valuable *that* is), but mostly because Newsday is still my best source for entertaining and informative stories about my beloved Mets. ESPN.com and CNNSI.com don't come close to the local flavor sports fans need. Yeah, Newsday sucks for technology, and they're only OK for news (which, as Katz said, I already read on line the day before), but there's nothing better for my daily baseball fix.
For home, I have a Logitech split keyboard with built-in touchpad. Like emacs, you either love the touchpad or hate it, but it's working wonders for me. Oh, and I ordered everything from www.logitech.com.