When in the hell did Slashdot sink this low? I thought there were even moderately technically people that posted here, not people that understand computers less than my mom does.
Take a deep breath. The guy had a misconception about file types; quite unfortunately, it's one that a lot of people raised on Windows do have or have had at one point. And yes, there are going to be more and more people fitting that description showing up in forums like this one as time goes on. Unless he's trolling, there's no reason for him to willfully publicly embarrass himself. As much as his mistake offends you, berating newcomers for what they don't know yet is only going to turn people off to the field and is ultimately counter-productive. It's possible to educate without insulting, as some of your sibling posts have done. There's no reason that professional adults can't make their points both forcefully and respectfully. If educating others without demeaning them is a hassle for you, fair enough, you're not their parent and you don't owe them computer lessons. But if you don't sweat it, and let others step in and comment constructively, the field will ultimately be better off for it.
But unless you have inside info about how the text was rendered and obfuscated, you're better off taking a step back and squinting.
Little Girl: "Wow! It's a schooner!"
Willam: "You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!"
Little Boy: "A schooner is a sailboat, stupidhead!"
Willam: "Well you know what? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY! OVER THERE, THAT'S JUST A GUY IN A SUIT!!"
why do we need 20 diffrent math books? why not have one in which allthe prof's can contribute to?
Not all variety in textbooks on the same subject is accounted for by differences in what material is left out; often authors disagree on how best to present the same core concepts. This variety is good: professors can find the best match to his or her course, and students/researchers can seek out books that resonate with their learning styles. One massive, exhaustive textbook would be a valuable resource for its completeness, but potentially a nightmare to learn from. The problem would only be exacerbated if the authors did not conform to a single standard for notation and terminology, which in itself is asking a lot.
No. Inspiring the next generation of poor, angry, anti-American would-be-terrorists is not keeping us safe, it is setting us up for long-term failure.
Day to day life has been devastated for many in the middle east, with aggressive US foreign policy as the catalyst (if not cause). Rightly or wrongly, it gives a new generation someone on which to assign blame for the problems they face.
Sure, and many (most?) journals do their peer review "online"... with Word.docs as attachments. I'm sure it can be even more online with Google's word processor....
I'm sure this varies from field to field, but academic papers are overwhelming written using LaTeX in my circle. The thought of writing a paper using Goggle's online processor makes me cringe.
I for one haven't heard the term, "AJAX", nearly enough.
Well, that's because AJAX is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. There's, um, AJAX kebabs, AJAX creole, AJAX gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple AJAX and lemon AJAX, coconut AJAX, pepper AJAX, AJAX soup, AJAX stew, AJAX salad, AJAX and potatoes, AJAX burger, AJAX sandwich... That's, that's about it.
If you can't even tell a language and a dialect apart.... you really shouldn't talk about linguistics. Shut your trap and don't embarass yourself.
While it is pretty cut-and-dry for British-vs-American English, the distinction is not always non-controversial. Usually there are political motivations for clouding the distinction, e.g. various "dialects" of Chinese that are mutually unintelligible, or the various Scandinavian "languages" that are to different degrees mutually intelligible (I could go on). Some linguists prefer the term "variety" to avoid the whole dialect-language controversy altogether.
Should be accessible via a skinny icon that reads "players/1.4mb" to the right of "Listen Live" (it looks like the "playlist" img). Not sure why they didn't just include it in the list with the other stream options.
Further, they offer a 1.4Mbps uncompressed stream (they claim to be the first station to do that) and a 14 day archive. There are some really good programs, but even the variety mix is well above average - if you haven't checked it out before I highly recommend it.
So we'll see what comes up on the official site, which to the best of my knowledge, isn't up yet.
This excerpt is taken from the
In August, Comedy Central signed an extension of a deal with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and agreed to create a new joint venture to spread South Park materials across the Web, on mobile phones and video games.
So far, the venture, SouthParkStudios.com, features a small collection of video clips from the show.
I didn't notice anything claiming one way or the other, so I'm just speculating, but maybe they'll just expand the content here? Does anyone know?
you've already been owned by the other replies so I'll sum it up for you: customer service is not a zero sum game.
You two are bickering over semantics. The ambiguity I see is whether "treating customers better" refers to:
A) Better than their former treatment, or
B) Better than the other customers.
Those interpreting it to be A, yourself included, validly point out that a customer base or subsets thereof can be treated better or worse as time progresses. Those interpreting it to be B, the parent included, validly point out that if a subset of a customer base's treatment improves, the complement of that set is now treated "worse" than fortunate subset of customers, i.e. it is a zero sum game. Whether or not anyone is asserting P and not P depends on what P means... nobody is being owned.
And yes, it asks you repeatedly. How is that "directly dangerous?" Annoying, yes (as the OP said), but not directly dangerous (as, once again, the OP said).
I agree with you that it is not "directly dangerous," under a reasonable definition of that term. And of course, this is unlikely to fool any slashdot readers.
Still, this is bad news. Unsophisticated computer users, jaded from a barrage of popups regarding computer security (e.g. from Norton, McAfee, or Windows), may well be "bullied" into installing the software. To an untrained eye, it doesn't look that different from Norton suggesting a scan and update. Of course, this sort of trick is not new, but having it be spring forth from "safe" websites (I saw this several times on allmusic.com) makes it a lot more likely to catch people with their guard down.
Re:Got me excited there for a minute.
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IMAP is an option for me and I only registered my Gmail account a month or so ago. I put off getting a Gmail account for quite some time only because it lacked IMAP support - I couldn't be happier with this development.
All of the video lectures I've watched via Berkeley's Webcast or MIT's Open CourseWare video selection were in RM, too. Side note: while I've heard a lot more about MIT's OCW, I was surprised and impressed by Berkeley's collection of video lectures, which I find are far easier to learn from than simply reading course notes pdfs...
I can't believe in this day and age someone would recommend starting with vi/vim.... Here's this crappy text-based editor, and then you can use these other command line tools to compile and then debug your program in text mode. Linux is pretty advanced!
While I agree that vim may not be the best place to start, I feel that it is a great place to end up, and I strongly disagree with calling it a "crappy text-based editor."
Crappy by what standards? Since when is a powerful text-based editor bad for editing text? I was raised on the Visual Studio IDE, but as soon as I discovered vim I jumped ship and have never returned. I find vim/make/gdb to be a far easier/faster/more convenient way to code. However much of an "archaic modality" this is, it is superior for my needs, and something that I encourage any coder to at least try.
I acknowledge that the "command line" part of the equation may cause problems for debugging GUI programs, that it may be subpar for managing a large number of files, etc. Indeed, it certainly isn't for everyone or every task; however, for the majority of the data-slinging / scientific computation / non-graphical coding and development I do, I wouldn't use a visual IDE if I was paid. The reason why I believe Linux is pretty advanced is because it supports an array of powerful tools like vim, make and gdb.
I could have sworn I've seen Dell selling machines with AMD CPUs.
You have. This is historical, not current activity
My parents purchased a Dell Dimension E521 on Tuesday with an AMD Athlon(TM) 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ processor. (Delivered Thursday!) Seems pretty current to me.
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Take a deep breath. The guy had a misconception about file types; quite unfortunately, it's one that a lot of people raised on Windows do have or have had at one point. And yes, there are going to be more and more people fitting that description showing up in forums like this one as time goes on. Unless he's trolling, there's no reason for him to willfully publicly embarrass himself. As much as his mistake offends you, berating newcomers for what they don't know yet is only going to turn people off to the field and is ultimately counter-productive. It's possible to educate without insulting, as some of your sibling posts have done. There's no reason that professional adults can't make their points both forcefully and respectfully. If educating others without demeaning them is a hassle for you, fair enough, you're not their parent and you don't owe them computer lessons. But if you don't sweat it, and let others step in and comment constructively, the field will ultimately be better off for it.
Clearly they named it Gazelle because ultimately they expect it to be killed off by safari.
cut it out you're make'ing my head hurt.
I see you installed the Firefox add-on "Spell-Check-B-Gone."
In compliance with the your "Spelling-Nazi-B-Gone," I will now stop talking.
Little Girl: "Wow! It's a schooner!"
Willam: "You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!"
Little Boy: "A schooner is a sailboat, stupidhead!"
Willam: "Well you know what? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY! OVER THERE, THAT'S JUST A GUY IN A SUIT!!"
Not all variety in textbooks on the same subject is accounted for by differences in what material is left out; often authors disagree on how best to present the same core concepts. This variety is good: professors can find the best match to his or her course, and students/researchers can seek out books that resonate with their learning styles. One massive, exhaustive textbook would be a valuable resource for its completeness, but potentially a nightmare to learn from. The problem would only be exacerbated if the authors did not conform to a single standard for notation and terminology, which in itself is asking a lot.
No. Inspiring the next generation of poor, angry, anti-American would-be-terrorists is not keeping us safe, it is setting us up for long-term failure.
Day to day life has been devastated for many in the middle east, with aggressive US foreign policy as the catalyst (if not cause). Rightly or wrongly, it gives a new generation someone on which to assign blame for the problems they face.
Bush's bandaid will fall off sooner or later.
Get a BRAIN!
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/mullet
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For the record, noticing that I spelled Google as Goggle also makes me cringe.
A) Better than their former treatment, or
B) Better than the other customers.
Those interpreting it to be A, yourself included, validly point out that a customer base or subsets thereof can be treated better or worse as time progresses. Those interpreting it to be B, the parent included, validly point out that if a subset of a customer base's treatment improves, the complement of that set is now treated "worse" than fortunate subset of customers, i.e. it is a zero sum game. Whether or not anyone is asserting P and not P depends on what P means... nobody is being owned.
Still, this is bad news. Unsophisticated computer users, jaded from a barrage of popups regarding computer security (e.g. from Norton, McAfee, or Windows), may well be "bullied" into installing the software. To an untrained eye, it doesn't look that different from Norton suggesting a scan and update. Of course, this sort of trick is not new, but having it be spring forth from "safe" websites (I saw this several times on allmusic.com) makes it a lot more likely to catch people with their guard down.
IMAP is an option for me and I only registered my Gmail account a month or so ago. I put off getting a Gmail account for quite some time only because it lacked IMAP support - I couldn't be happier with this development.
Crappy by what standards? Since when is a powerful text-based editor bad for editing text? I was raised on the Visual Studio IDE, but as soon as I discovered vim I jumped ship and have never returned. I find vim/make/gdb to be a far easier/faster/more convenient way to code. However much of an "archaic modality" this is, it is superior for my needs, and something that I encourage any coder to at least try.
I acknowledge that the "command line" part of the equation may cause problems for debugging GUI programs, that it may be subpar for managing a large number of files, etc. Indeed, it certainly isn't for everyone or every task; however, for the majority of the data-slinging / scientific computation / non-graphical coding and development I do, I wouldn't use a visual IDE if I was paid. The reason why I believe Linux is pretty advanced is because it supports an array of powerful tools like vim, make and gdb.