The point was that scientists use mathematics. They also often use pens or pencils. That doesn't make pens or pencils 'science' any more than it makes mathematics a 'science.'
This is embarassingly low level stuff. Don't they teach these things in school anymore?
Wikipedia says that engineers "use creativity, technology, and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems," which sounds like part of computer science, but certainly not all of it.
Correct. Engineers are not scientists. They are usually end-users of science, but so are breakfast cereal companies. Engineers are applied technologists.
And you drew the correct parallel to computer 'scientists' for us. Computer 'scientists' are not engaging in science.
The most 'deep' theoretical levels of 'computer science' are branches of mathematics. Most 'computer science' is just button sorting.
But on the other side of the coin, CA and NY are where the people are. Why should a vote in the Senate from a Rectangle State count 40 times more than mine? Why should Kansas have so much say over what goes on in California? But on the other side of the coin, CA and NY are where the people are. Why should a vote in the Senate from a Rectangle State count 40 times more than mine? Why should Kansas have so much say over what goes on in California?
You have a point. And on the day when you are not allowed to move to Kansas or California as you wish, it will be a more valid point.
And: why should California have so much to say over what goes on in Kansas? Secret answer: we're one nation.
I have written embedded code for medical devices. So 'Software Engineer' is on my resume. But I've also qualfied the designs of all discrete electronic circuits.
I bristle when a recruiter or HR person tries to bracket me as 'IT.'
Trotsky wanted a future for Russia that was as bad, or worse, than what Stalin brought it. Remember, Stalin was the pragmatist who took power and corrupted the system. Trotsky wanted to fan the flames of class war more freely. He and Lenin were strong advocates of terrorist tactics against 'class enemies' within the USSR.
The fact of the matter is that Trotsky gets a 'cleaner role in history' because he was purged before he could do the nasty shit he advocated.
It's important to maintain that this is the case with ANY politician. There are people who would sell us down the river by maintaining it is 'those bad Republicans' and if you just vote for 'the Democrats' things would be better.
The PR would be better and the mechanisms of State more happy-shiney in appearance. But the same stink emanates from the backside of the beast.
Not only were the people in Guantanamo Bay not arrested inside the United States, they also are not being held within the United States. The US IS still a haven of civil rights. That, specifically, is why the people being held are at Guantanamo Bay and not on US soil. If they were on US Soil it would be impossible for them to be held in the way they are. Really, there's a big complex and rather powerful mechanism in place that would spring them in a minute.
Scary thought isn't it? Police arresting people and we aren't supposed to know what they are arrested for.
Do you have evidence that this is happening, except the instance of people arrested outside the U.S. who were deliberately bearing arms against US Military personnel?
We used to have a bunch of JASL cards printed up. I distributed them to younger females in the pre-Internet BBS-based 'online chat' community. They could wave their 'JASL sash' at all the horn-toads asking them 'what are you wearing.'
Emmanuel Goldstein was modeled after Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky was a nasty person, one who belived in the same sort of oppression and state-terrorism as V.I.Lenin. He didn't survive Stalinism, though, so became an un-person.
It's amazing the complicated dance that many young people are led through to prevent them understanding that Orwell's '1984' is a direct indictment of Stalinism and Soviet Communism. It's almost as if there was a concerted effort made by those who revere 'Communism/socialism' in theory.
(Your website is 'picknit' so I will nitpick a bit)
Don't say _any_ version of Office. I have Office 4.3 on CDROM for Windows (3.1 or greater) and also Office 4 on floppies for Macintosh. Both will run quite well on a machine with 4 megs of RAM.
I agree completely that a freenix on that laptop is much more powerful than Windows 98. But as a dumb cheap laptop for word processing and a few spreadsheets it's usable with Windows 98 and Office 2000 and a non-runner with OpenOffice. But it's really best utilized IMO running NetBSD and a light X environment like FVWM, Motif (mwm- isn't it amazing that Motif can now be called a 'light' X environment?!?), or even good old twm (Tab Window Manager rules, comes by default in the X11 distribution, and is 'light' enough that it even runs well on my Macintosh SE/30 running NetBSD). There are decent older tools for such a beast to do a lot of useful work, i.e. vi for writing, etc.
I thought the slowest Pentium III that Intel ever made was 450 MHz. That's the one I bought for my first PIII anyway. I remember at the same time having the 'fastest' PII made, which was 450 MHz.
And I'm typing this on a Dell Optiplex with a PIII 500MHz processor, with NetBSD 3 on Mozilla. (under FVWM, etc.) Go figure. I'm cheap and refuse to waste ANY more money on 'horsepower' when if I have a processor-hungry computing task I can pull another Dell PIII machine out of storage and hang it off a free port on the KVM switch.
I only have one 'fast' machine for my limited interest in 'gaming' and that's just a shitty Sempron (one of those motherboard/processor combo at Frys for $79).
The laptop in question has 32M of memory and is very usable for light Word or Excel dabbling. Completely unusable with Open Office. And below the recommended minimum for all of the above.
My Harmon-Kardon 'Award 100' series integrated amplifier (all vacuum tube from the late 60's) is so low-noise that you can turn the volume up all the way and you hear almost no 'hiss' or hum. You do hear an ominous small amount of noise as the tone arm on the turntable is lifted by the turntable mechanism, though, and it warns you to TURN IT DOWN because if you don't you'll be thrown across the room when the needle hits vinyl.
That's low noise, not low distortion, but it's also a low distortion amplifier. Not insanely low, of course, there were McIntosh amps for that if you were a millionaire back then.
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Am I the only one who would give anything to hear the top story on the news being about cigars and blue dresses instead of what we're seeing today?
Clinton sent bombing raids into Iraq specifically to keep cigars and blue dresses out of the news. On several well-doccumented occasions.
Just 35 years ago ... internet was all UNIX.
Huh??
Printers were thermal and almost non-existant.
Printers were offset or letterpress and there were printers in every locality of modern civilization.
The point was that scientists use mathematics. They also often use pens or pencils. That doesn't make pens or pencils 'science' any more than it makes mathematics a 'science.'
This is embarassingly low level stuff. Don't they teach these things in school anymore?
Wikipedia says that engineers "use creativity, technology, and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems," which sounds like part of computer science, but certainly not all of it.
Correct. Engineers are not scientists. They are usually end-users of science, but so are breakfast cereal companies. Engineers are applied technologists.
And you drew the correct parallel to computer 'scientists' for us. Computer 'scientists' are not engaging in science.
The most 'deep' theoretical levels of 'computer science' are branches of mathematics. Most 'computer science' is just button sorting.
You weren't even a glint in your daddy's eye yet, youngster.
I prefer to be a member of the "part of the solution crowd".
Well, good for you, then.
I prefer to be part of the precipitate crowd.
Yay.
But on the other side of the coin, CA and NY are where the people are. Why should a vote in the Senate from a Rectangle State count 40 times more than mine? Why should Kansas have so much say over what goes on in California?
But on the other side of the coin, CA and NY are where the people are. Why should a vote in the Senate from a Rectangle State count 40 times more than mine? Why should Kansas have so much say over what goes on in California?
You have a point. And on the day when you are not allowed to move to Kansas or California as you wish, it will be a more valid point.
And: why should California have so much to say over what goes on in Kansas? Secret answer: we're one nation.
No, the logical conclusion is that there is evidence that mandatory voting has no effect on the quality of goverment resulting from the election.
This should be posted under Technology.
I have written embedded code for medical devices. So 'Software Engineer' is on my resume. But I've also qualfied the designs of all discrete electronic circuits.
I bristle when a recruiter or HR person tries to bracket me as 'IT.'
IT are the clerks of the data world.
Trotsky wanted a future for Russia that was as bad, or worse, than what Stalin brought it. Remember, Stalin was the pragmatist who took power and corrupted the system. Trotsky wanted to fan the flames of class war more freely. He and Lenin were strong advocates of terrorist tactics against 'class enemies' within the USSR.
The fact of the matter is that Trotsky gets a 'cleaner role in history' because he was purged before he could do the nasty shit he advocated.
Well, those are the off topic facts that you've now successfully drifted off to rant about.
A Chickenhawk is a homosexual man who preys on underage boys.
Not that it sounds particularly familiar.
It's important to maintain that this is the case with ANY politician. There are people who would sell us down the river by maintaining it is 'those bad Republicans' and if you just vote for 'the Democrats' things would be better.
The PR would be better and the mechanisms of State more happy-shiney in appearance. But the same stink emanates from the backside of the beast.
Not only were the people in Guantanamo Bay not arrested inside the United States, they also are not being held within the United States. The US IS still a haven of civil rights. That, specifically, is why the people being held are at Guantanamo Bay and not on US soil. If they were on US Soil it would be impossible for them to be held in the way they are. Really, there's a big complex and rather powerful mechanism in place that would spring them in a minute.
The 1960's called, and they want you to return the paranoid psuedo-revolutionary frenzy. Don't eat the purple dot.
Scary thought isn't it? Police arresting people and we aren't supposed to know what they are arrested for.
Do you have evidence that this is happening, except the instance of people arrested outside the U.S. who were deliberately bearing arms against US Military personnel?
We used to have a bunch of JASL cards printed up. I distributed them to younger females in the pre-Internet BBS-based 'online chat' community. They could wave their 'JASL sash' at all the horn-toads asking them 'what are you wearing.'
Boy, those days were a hoot.
Emmanuel Goldstein was modeled after Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky was a nasty person, one who belived in the same sort of oppression and state-terrorism as V.I.Lenin. He didn't survive Stalinism, though, so became an un-person.
It's amazing the complicated dance that many young people are led through to prevent them understanding that Orwell's '1984' is a direct indictment of Stalinism and Soviet Communism. It's almost as if there was a concerted effort made by those who revere 'Communism/socialism' in theory.
It comes with a little booklet: "Select Verses From The Koran"
(Your website is 'picknit' so I will nitpick a bit)
Don't say _any_ version of Office. I have Office 4.3 on CDROM for Windows (3.1 or greater) and also Office 4 on floppies for Macintosh. Both will run quite well on a machine with 4 megs of RAM.
I guess so, but I don't own any machines that don't have a floppy drive. And I have a SCSI floppy drive (several, actually) but no USB floppy drive.
Trailing edge, man.
I agree completely that a freenix on that laptop is much more powerful than Windows 98. But as a dumb cheap laptop for word processing and a few spreadsheets it's usable with Windows 98 and Office 2000 and a non-runner with OpenOffice. But it's really best utilized IMO running NetBSD and a light X environment like FVWM, Motif (mwm- isn't it amazing that Motif can now be called a 'light' X environment?!?), or even good old twm (Tab Window Manager rules, comes by default in the X11 distribution, and is 'light' enough that it even runs well on my Macintosh SE/30 running NetBSD). There are decent older tools for such a beast to do a lot of useful work, i.e. vi for writing, etc.
I thought the slowest Pentium III that Intel ever made was 450 MHz. That's the one I bought for my first PIII anyway. I remember at the same time having the 'fastest' PII made, which was 450 MHz.
And I'm typing this on a Dell Optiplex with a PIII 500MHz processor, with NetBSD 3 on Mozilla. (under FVWM, etc.) Go figure. I'm cheap and refuse to waste ANY more money on 'horsepower' when if I have a processor-hungry computing task I can pull another Dell PIII machine out of storage and hang it off a free port on the KVM switch.
I only have one 'fast' machine for my limited interest in 'gaming' and that's just a shitty Sempron (one of those motherboard/processor combo at Frys for $79).
The laptop in question has 32M of memory and is very usable for light Word or Excel dabbling. Completely unusable with Open Office. And below the recommended minimum for all of the above.
My Harmon-Kardon 'Award 100' series integrated amplifier (all vacuum tube from the late 60's) is so low-noise that you can turn the volume up all the way and you hear almost no 'hiss' or hum. You do hear an ominous small amount of noise as the tone arm on the turntable is lifted by the turntable mechanism, though, and it warns you to TURN IT DOWN because if you don't you'll be thrown across the room when the needle hits vinyl.
That's low noise, not low distortion, but it's also a low distortion amplifier. Not insanely low, of course, there were McIntosh amps for that if you were a millionaire back then.