This is because they are usually presented at a very high level that hides most of the detail, often making them beyond the grasp of a non-mathematician
After an amount of time, one forgets what it is like to be a newbie. To linux, complex mathematics, even to life. This can only be overcome by spending time refreshing your memory by hanging out with users (user-testing), elementary math students, and children.
One example I have to relate occurred in my freshman calc class a number of years back. The professor had grown accustomed to spending his day discussing high-level mathematical proofs with his colleagues, and forgot what it is like to not know everything, and still be learning. Our assignment was to calculate the volume of a 3-dimensional curved object whose primary shape was a triangle.
When it came time to figure out the area of the triangle, he went through a 20 minute proof in front of the class which involved something like 8 different variables. Afterwards, I stood up and volunteered the formula I learned in high school, 1/2 (base x height). The professor was so shocked that I came up with the same answer in 2 lines of algebra, that he was unable to complete the rest of the calculus computation.
I'm no genius, but was there really any reason to try losing his students when the triangle wasn't the base of his lesson plan?
next thing you know they're going to have guards at music stores and require you to give proof you didn't download any mp3's off an album
Or, the bouncers at concerts will have those British facial-recognition spy cameras posted in the parking lots, so that they can cross-reference your face with your IP address. Then their gargoyles will shoot your ears with a precise laser blast so that you can't ever listen to songs with the embedded fingerprint for their band.
Gee, if I hadn't known any better, I would have thought that they were preaching for an online evangelist. Maybe hackers are just 1900 times better than Pat Robertson.
In order for people to start using this format, there need to be at least 2 easy to use free apps (or both in one)
a ripper
a player that can also handle mp3s
Aside from fans, I don't see anyone tightly tied to any mp3 players, as it's the content that really matters. If a player can handle both, then people will more freely be able to make the switch.
To avoid someone compromising my keyring, I keep my passwords encrypted on my Handspring Visor with GNU Keyring.
Perhaps the next step would be to keep my PGP key encrypted on my Visor, and anytime that I need to use it, pull a sync from the pda which requires a passphrase to access it
Better than a damn floppy which always crash and burn when I put them in my pocket.
It gets 100 miles per gallon and the exhaust smells like McDonald's fries.
That smell of McDonald's
french fries is actually manufactured in a plant in New Jersey... like the matrix pulling the wool over people's eyes, the food this nation consumes is like "living in a dream world".
the oil/auto industry has a long history of doing this just to make a *little more* money for worse decisions.
Near the birth of the auto industry, they found that running engines would knock, or ping, and this could be reduced by using certain additives to oil. One was methanol - made from corn. They figured that *breathing* lead wasn't as bad as eating it, and methanol couldn't be patented, so we got stuck with tetraethyl lead instead...
It's all about money. That's why we don't see flying cars or moon bases, is because those things haven't entered the realm of profitability.
If anyone can find a high-res version of this picture, please post it - I'd love to have Ofoto make an ultra high quality 8x10 for me.
Perhaps this is how NASA can focus on profitibiliy instead of relying upon their slowly withering venture capitol. It's high-time that they start paying attention to their bottom line, and not continue to operate at a loss every quarter. I mean, can our future really bear the brunt of losing nasa.gov the way that we've lost boo.com, pets.com, and etoys.com
NASA - I beg of you, please - for the children... allow us to purchase your pretty space pictures and other memoralbilia so that you may stay in business for another age to appreciate.
The last time that I heard of a "CURL" was when it was in reference to that POS system that Vignette hacked together, and when I was shipped off against my will to one of their training seminars. They used to refer to "Custom" URL, where you do some thing ugly like wired news: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42774,00. html the comma separated shit actually keys to a cached file in your database system...
I dunno - if you carried around a beowulf cluster in your pocket, you'd probably get more radiation sent into your gonads than a damn cel phone sends into your melon.
I never liked the term "left" or "right" wing. Where did those come from anyways? Were the terms created by how a certain arrangement of people used to sit in a certain assmebly? It's a convenient stereotype that people who want to use a label can tack onto a certain thought or action in order to better classify it.
This is a rather narrow-minded perception of political agendas, even when paired together with the notions of conservative and liberal, these polarized views of an assembly of people's opinions for the most part fails to line up with reality.
Can you walk into a music store, and categorize everything in there to go from technologically inspired to non? Perhaps at one side you'd have techno, and industrial, move a little bit down the line to hip-hop and rock, a little further to country and folk, and finally end up with classical and acapella. Most people wouldn't dig this one-dimensional classification, it certainly wouldn't allow you to go to one part in the line and say that all music here is good, and all music over there is bad. Yet it happens every day in the major media organizations.
These names and parties *do* exist. We can examine what are the general tendencies of these philosophies - Liberals seem to look to the future and change things, trying to improve them, whereas conservatives look into the past, and try to roll things back to a point that they felt was comfortable for them.
In the US, the democratic party has tried to fight for the people, the little guy, the worker. The republicans support the business executives, big money, and therefore corporations as well as conservative religious organizations.
In law student's tirade, he mentions: The left wing has a kind of right-on fashion appeal, which attracts unthinking students and such, (look at the sixties). The sixties were a long decade filled with many activities, some of the most notable were man landing on the moon and the civil rights movement. The imagery that he may be trying to conjure up could be of the group of people who burned out from using too many drugs. That was an unfortunate circumstance to a major societal change. Many things happened in that wave, including the people's hunger to protest their government's stupid ideas being re-ignited (remember, the US was created by a bunch of people who protested their government). Many more personal freedoms were gained, including more gender equity in the workplace, auto safety standards, and the peace corps.
Most people I discussed politics with last fall had an opinion about who they should vote for president. Most of the Gore and Nader supporters had some well thought out opinions that were grounded in facts. I have yet to meet one Bush (or Buchanan) supporter who has anything intelligent to say about them. What I usually heard was "we're tired of Clinton's penis". Fine - but don't deliver hypocrisy as a side-dish.
With the return of the Bush regime to power in the United States, the prime goal that we've seen so far is to reduce environmental standards, by increasing the limits of acceptible arsenic pollution in our water, and C02 emissions so the coal and oil companies can get just a little more profit this quarter, while those same executive's children grow up inhaling our legacy's soot and drinking water with chemicals, and eating dead cows with numerous diseases - leading to the development of all sorts of weird illnesses.
Political debates have raged back and forth for ages, and nothing will settle people's conflict better than facts. Though facts can always be manipulated to tell different truths. That's why an open, free democratic union should always consider all the options available, and never "shun this book, as it is unamerican and left wing" for the american people are left wing, and right wing, and diagonal wing, and some are all 3.
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Hmm, could this simply the introduction of "seeding" the market... (pun only halfway intened). If Monsanto flew over crop fields and dusted each farmer's crop with just a few seeds, then they could sue each farm until they own every farm on the continent.
Perhaps AOL might take a lesson from this, and sue everyone who touches an AOL cd for "mis-handling intellectual property"
Admittedly, MS Word.DOC files are a piece of cake under Linux, but that could change at a drop of a version from MS
I agree... to a point.
I've used Sun/StarOffice (bloated and slow as hell), I've used AbiWord, and was rather impressed. But I haven't done the pre-requisite research - can word.DOCs be interpreted by something that can be run on the command-line? At least to show text-only, or even add some limited formatting, á là lynx...
Slashdot Mirror
Great... now I can have goatse.cx in my palm.... uggh
smashing an endurance record for remotely controlled aircraft
I guess this does say aircraft, but I would think that Voyager (or V'ger) would have to hold the endurance record for a remotely controlled anything.
This is because they are usually presented at a very high level that hides most of the detail, often making them beyond the grasp of a non-mathematician
After an amount of time, one forgets what it is like to be a newbie. To linux, complex mathematics, even to life. This can only be overcome by spending time refreshing your memory by hanging out with users (user-testing), elementary math students, and children.
One example I have to relate occurred in my freshman calc class a number of years back. The professor had grown accustomed to spending his day discussing high-level mathematical proofs with his colleagues, and forgot what it is like to not know everything, and still be learning. Our assignment was to calculate the volume of a 3-dimensional curved object whose primary shape was a triangle.
When it came time to figure out the area of the triangle, he went through a 20 minute proof in front of the class which involved something like 8 different variables. Afterwards, I stood up and volunteered the formula I learned in high school, 1/2 (base x height). The professor was so shocked that I came up with the same answer in 2 lines of algebra, that he was unable to complete the rest of the calculus computation.
I'm no genius, but was there really any reason to try losing his students when the triangle wasn't the base of his lesson plan?
next thing you know they're going to have guards at music stores and require you to give proof you didn't download any mp3's off an album
Or, the bouncers at concerts will have those British facial-recognition spy cameras posted in the parking lots, so that they can cross-reference your face with your IP address. Then their gargoyles will shoot your ears with a precise laser blast so that you can't ever listen to songs with the embedded fingerprint for their band.
Remember, she *is* supposed to be the mother of Princess Leia. Carrie Fisher's portrayal didn't necessarily make her look buxom, nor voluptuous.
Then he met the 2600 Club.
Gee, if I hadn't known any better, I would have thought that they were preaching for an online evangelist. Maybe hackers are just 1900 times better than Pat Robertson.
So where's the line to pick up my gargoyle suit? :P
So now I know why I was raised playing "Asteroids" and "Missle Command", I was unwittingly trying out to be the "Ender" of our generation.
In order for people to start using this format, there need to be at least 2 easy to use free apps (or both in one)
Aside from fans, I don't see anyone tightly tied to any mp3 players, as it's the content that really matters. If a player can handle both, then people will more freely be able to make the switch.
So - what is he doing slacking off playing with toys instead of working to get this Ginger thing out and transform the way we travel in cities?
Come on Dean... we're all ready for the revolution - you can play battlebots when you're done
To avoid someone compromising my keyring, I keep my passwords encrypted on my Handspring Visor with GNU Keyring.
Perhaps the next step would be to keep my PGP key encrypted on my Visor, and anytime that I need to use it, pull a sync from the pda which requires a passphrase to access it
Better than a damn floppy which always crash and burn when I put them in my pocket.
It gets 100 miles per gallon and the exhaust smells like McDonald's fries.
That smell of McDonald's french fries is actually manufactured in a plant in New Jersey... like the matrix pulling the wool over people's eyes, the food this nation consumes is like "living in a dream world".
If you're interested in reading more about this, check out Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation"
the oil/auto industry has a long history of doing this just to make a *little more* money for worse decisions.
Near the birth of the auto industry, they found that running engines would knock, or ping, and this could be reduced by using certain additives to oil. One was methanol - made from corn. They figured that *breathing* lead wasn't as bad as eating it, and methanol couldn't be patented, so we got stuck with tetraethyl lead instead...
It's all about money. That's why we don't see flying cars or moon bases, is because those things haven't entered the realm of profitability.
Actually - the life of George Bush (Sr.) was saved during World War II when he was supported by ropes made of hemp as he parachuted to safety.
If anyone can find a high-res version of this picture, please post it - I'd love to have Ofoto make an ultra high quality 8x10 for me.
Perhaps this is how NASA can focus on profitibiliy instead of relying upon their slowly withering venture capitol. It's high-time that they start paying attention to their bottom line, and not continue to operate at a loss every quarter. I mean, can our future really bear the brunt of losing nasa.gov the way that we've lost boo.com, pets.com, and etoys.com
NASA - I beg of you, please - for the children... allow us to purchase your pretty space pictures and other memoralbilia so that you may stay in business for another age to appreciate.
The last time that I heard of a "CURL" was when it was in reference to that POS system that Vignette hacked together, and when I was shipped off against my will to one of their training seminars. They used to refer to "Custom" URL, where you do some thing ugly like wired news: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42774,00. html the comma separated shit actually keys to a cached file in your database system...
BTW, the first "0," means absolutely nothing.
I dunno - if you carried around a beowulf cluster in your pocket, you'd probably get more radiation sent into your gonads than a damn cel phone sends into your melon.
That would not be a Good Thing
I never liked the term "left" or "right" wing. Where did those come from anyways? Were the terms created by how a certain arrangement of people used to sit in a certain assmebly? It's a convenient stereotype that people who want to use a label can tack onto a certain thought or action in order to better classify it.
This is a rather narrow-minded perception of political agendas, even when paired together with the notions of conservative and liberal, these polarized views of an assembly of people's opinions for the most part fails to line up with reality.
Can you walk into a music store, and categorize everything in there to go from technologically inspired to non? Perhaps at one side you'd have techno, and industrial, move a little bit down the line to hip-hop and rock, a little further to country and folk, and finally end up with classical and acapella. Most people wouldn't dig this one-dimensional classification, it certainly wouldn't allow you to go to one part in the line and say that all music here is good, and all music over there is bad. Yet it happens every day in the major media organizations.
These names and parties *do* exist. We can examine what are the general tendencies of these philosophies - Liberals seem to look to the future and change things, trying to improve them, whereas conservatives look into the past, and try to roll things back to a point that they felt was comfortable for them.
In the US, the democratic party has tried to fight for the people, the little guy, the worker. The republicans support the business executives, big money, and therefore corporations as well as conservative religious organizations.
In law student's tirade, he mentions: The left wing has a kind of right-on fashion appeal, which attracts unthinking students and such, (look at the sixties). The sixties were a long decade filled with many activities, some of the most notable were man landing on the moon and the civil rights movement. The imagery that he may be trying to conjure up could be of the group of people who burned out from using too many drugs. That was an unfortunate circumstance to a major societal change. Many things happened in that wave, including the people's hunger to protest their government's stupid ideas being re-ignited (remember, the US was created by a bunch of people who protested their government). Many more personal freedoms were gained, including more gender equity in the workplace, auto safety standards, and the peace corps.
Most people I discussed politics with last fall had an opinion about who they should vote for president. Most of the Gore and Nader supporters had some well thought out opinions that were grounded in facts. I have yet to meet one Bush (or Buchanan) supporter who has anything intelligent to say about them. What I usually heard was "we're tired of Clinton's penis". Fine - but don't deliver hypocrisy as a side-dish.
With the return of the Bush regime to power in the United States, the prime goal that we've seen so far is to reduce environmental standards, by increasing the limits of acceptible arsenic pollution in our water, and C02 emissions so the coal and oil companies can get just a little more profit this quarter, while those same executive's children grow up inhaling our legacy's soot and drinking water with chemicals, and eating dead cows with numerous diseases - leading to the development of all sorts of weird illnesses.
Political debates have raged back and forth for ages, and nothing will settle people's conflict better than facts. Though facts can always be manipulated to tell different truths. That's why an open, free democratic union should always consider all the options available, and never "shun this book, as it is unamerican and left wing" for the american people are left wing, and right wing, and diagonal wing, and some are all 3.
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You can easily plug in some larger POS monitor to the Standard VGA output port.
clearly a reference to the impending colinial government of earth
dude - didn't you catch x-files tonight, they are on their way...
Hmm, could this simply the introduction of "seeding" the market... (pun only halfway intened). If Monsanto flew over crop fields and dusted each farmer's crop with just a few seeds, then they could sue each farm until they own every farm on the continent.
Perhaps AOL might take a lesson from this, and sue everyone who touches an AOL cd for "mis-handling intellectual property"
passion just had bad grammar... Whereas bad grammar shows a lack of thought
You are correct. I apologize for making a post to slashdot that wasn't entirely thought out.
It won't be the only one you find... :P
Admittedly, MS Word .DOC files are a piece of cake under Linux, but that could change at a drop of a version from MS
I agree... to a point.
I've used Sun/StarOffice (bloated and slow as hell), I've used AbiWord, and was rather impressed. But I haven't done the pre-requisite research - can word .DOCs be interpreted by something that can be run on the command-line? At least to show text-only, or even add some limited formatting, á là lynx...
That would be truly impressive
I wonder if this is how they came up with the idea for R2D2...