I'm running on Gutsy Gibbon right now, but for some reason my Update Manager won't recognize that there's a new release available. What do you have to do to network upgrade?
The key to a proper rickroll is posting the Rick Astley video in such a way that erstwhile readers of your posting click it under the impression that it's something other than Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
That, or playing the song loudly in a public place.
All I have to say is: I sincerely hope they finally get the AR5008 (aka the Apple Airport Extreme card from recent Macbooks and Macbook Pros) working by some method other than ndiswrapper VERY, VERY SOON. I dual-boot between OSX and Ubuntu because I can develop under Ubuntu, but the lack of wireless is a real pain in the ass.
What, you haven't noticed the strange congruence between people who major in computer science and people who have a bizarre love for any and everything Japanese?
Well sure, but what if I belong to multiple social groups with differing interests? For instance, what if I belong to a Cthulhu fan group (just since we're having a con over here this weekend) and a fitness group. Will the algorithm try to tell me how to get fit with Cthulhu, or will it send me ads for both tentacle porn and diet supplements?
DO NOT GO TO RPI! DO NOT GO TO RPI! I AM WARNING YOU! ALSO, PRESIDENT SHIRLEY JACKSON IS A LYING LIZARD-WOMAN FROM THE ILLUMANATI (or something like that, who in God's name knows?!)!!!
I have lived with an RPI prof for five years, I was admitted to RPI for CS last year, and I know people in the RPI CS department. It isn't very good. You will learn to program, certainly, and you will take a bunch of annoying engineering courses, and they will make you pay $1500 for some crappy Lenovo laptop, but RPI simply has nothing to do but work. The most popular sport there is Beer Pong, and not because it's a party school, but because nobody has anything better to do. Also, they don't do very much interesting research.
I am fucking warning you, don't go to RPI. What liberal arts school admitted you?
What year are you in? If you're an upperclassmen who still has to jump through the needless hoops of weeder courses, you're at the wrong school.
Upper-level CS courses usually don't involve much grunt work; they're hard as hell because you have to bang your head against the really important, deep concepts.
I went to the best tech school that accepted me (Rensselaer). HA-HA!
Yeah, I almost went to RPI. Almost.
I totally agree about needing warm weather, but the problem is that the Northeast doesn't have a beach with temperate weather year-round. I think it's stupid, but most people seem to want to stay close to home for college.
Are you the submitter? DON'T GO TO RPI! PRESIDENT JACKSON IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU!
I was accepted to RPI last year and chose to go to UMass Amherst instead. For computer science. Yeah, UMass is #17 nationwide and RPI is #34 last I checked.
Anyway, the number of transfer students from RPI who show up in my math, science, and CS courses (conspicuously high) says that I chose rightly.
For engineering RPI is good, but don't bother enduring the Troylet and the winter weather there for a CS degree when plenty of schools will give you a better education in the field for less misery and much less money.
The biggest gotcha of the UC system is that it's so heavily biased towards in-state students that only 12.5% of, say, Berkeley's latest freshman class comes from out-of-state. For your average not-so-good-not-so-bad state school that's normal, but for one of the top universities in America it doesn't make much sense.
Wrong. American politics: everyone goes on about what a good Christian they are. European politics: every social problem is blamed (sometimes even justifiably!) on Muslim immigrants.
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I'm running on Gutsy Gibbon right now, but for some reason my Update Manager won't recognize that there's a new release available. What do you have to do to network upgrade?
Nah. If someone buries this the UMass Amherst student body will riot and kill them.
I *go* to UMass Amherst; I'm in one of their dorms right damn now. This is a huge hippie school.
The key to a proper rickroll is posting the Rick Astley video in such a way that erstwhile readers of your posting click it under the impression that it's something other than Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
That, or playing the song loudly in a public place.
Funny. I've never seen a RickRoll on Slashdot.
But is it a Ceiling Cat or a Floor Cat? Or a quantum superposition of Ceiling AND Floor cats?
Does Hardy have a way to turn off my bloody touchpad when I plug a USB mouse in?
All I have to say is: I sincerely hope they finally get the AR5008 (aka the Apple Airport Extreme card from recent Macbooks and Macbook Pros) working by some method other than ndiswrapper VERY, VERY SOON. I dual-boot between OSX and Ubuntu because I can develop under Ubuntu, but the lack of wireless is a real pain in the ass.
Yup, this year the Messiah will arrive, and kosher pigs will fly over a freezing-cold Hell!
In fact, tell me your anti-spammed email. I've got an e-book "On Understanding Types" that you could bang your head on.
What, you haven't noticed the strange congruence between people who major in computer science and people who have a bizarre love for any and everything Japanese?
Well sure, but what if I belong to multiple social groups with differing interests? For instance, what if I belong to a Cthulhu fan group (just since we're having a con over here this weekend) and a fitness group. Will the algorithm try to tell me how to get fit with Cthulhu, or will it send me ads for both tentacle porn and diet supplements?
OK, I should elaborate. RPI is great for engineering, just not, IMHO, for CS. They do little research and have few employers near them.
Take the class on compilers. A REAL compilers class has lots of math stuff that you probably haven't seen before.
In fact, take more theory. Learn lambda calculus and functional programming. Type theory. All that good stuff.
DO NOT GO TO RPI! DO NOT GO TO RPI! I AM WARNING YOU! ALSO, PRESIDENT SHIRLEY JACKSON IS A LYING LIZARD-WOMAN FROM THE ILLUMANATI (or something like that, who in God's name knows?!)!!!
I have lived with an RPI prof for five years, I was admitted to RPI for CS last year, and I know people in the RPI CS department. It isn't very good. You will learn to program, certainly, and you will take a bunch of annoying engineering courses, and they will make you pay $1500 for some crappy Lenovo laptop, but RPI simply has nothing to do but work. The most popular sport there is Beer Pong, and not because it's a party school, but because nobody has anything better to do. Also, they don't do very much interesting research.
I am fucking warning you, don't go to RPI. What liberal arts school admitted you?
What year are you in? If you're an upperclassmen who still has to jump through the needless hoops of weeder courses, you're at the wrong school.
Upper-level CS courses usually don't involve much grunt work; they're hard as hell because you have to bang your head against the really important, deep concepts.
Yeah, I almost went to RPI. Almost.
I totally agree about needing warm weather, but the problem is that the Northeast doesn't have a beach with temperate weather year-round. I think it's stupid, but most people seem to want to stay close to home for college.
Are you the submitter? DON'T GO TO RPI! PRESIDENT JACKSON IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU!
I was accepted to RPI last year and chose to go to UMass Amherst instead. For computer science. Yeah, UMass is #17 nationwide and RPI is #34 last I checked.
Anyway, the number of transfer students from RPI who show up in my math, science, and CS courses (conspicuously high) says that I chose rightly.
For engineering RPI is good, but don't bother enduring the Troylet and the winter weather there for a CS degree when plenty of schools will give you a better education in the field for less misery and much less money.
The biggest gotcha of the UC system is that it's so heavily biased towards in-state students that only 12.5% of, say, Berkeley's latest freshman class comes from out-of-state. For your average not-so-good-not-so-bad state school that's normal, but for one of the top universities in America it doesn't make much sense.
Also, pushing down comes before popping up if you don't want to get a stack underflow.
Oh, my, God. Did you just call Scheme an object-oriented language?
Oh, sure, drag Midrash into this.
Wrong. American politics: everyone goes on about what a good Christian they are. European politics: every social problem is blamed (sometimes even justifiably!) on Muslim immigrants.
Yesh hip-hop beYisrael!
Sorry, I had to. My favorite hip-hop group is from there.
There's a dark side to it, though. Most geeks I've met seem to think you're weird if you take any particular pride in your ethnic/racial heritage.
And only Europe is so bloody obsessed with their citizens' religion.