I'll dispute that. My Foreman grill has definitely saved me from malnutrition on my leave terms... whereas I would normally have been eating ramen nonstop, I now keep a bunch of chicken breasts marinating in the fridge... they keep for about a week, so you can buy the family size pack and have chicken sandwiches at lunchtime for a week. It only takes about 5 minutes, it's cheap if you buy your meats on sale, and it gets a much-needed source of proteins into the diet. They're good for steaks, fish, not so good for pork chops, and fantastic for grilled cheese (or grilled ham and cheese, or turkey and cheese, or whatever).
As I said, they are not so good for pork - for some reason pork always comes out dry for me, I can't seem to get the cooking time right on the Foreman. But get a bottle of that McCormick Montreal Steak Seasoning, and a sirloin bought on sale, and you've got yourself a hell of a meal on the cheap - sirloin can be had for $2.79 a pound if you're willing to wait for a special.
Conclusion: Foreman++. Absolutely the best thing you can buy, especially if you send a hot pot or rice cooker as well.
Imagine the gyroscope starts to fall to one side. That side becomes lower than the other side. But then that side spins around to the high side, and so now the gyroscope starts leaning the other way. This continuous counter-balancing keeps it level.
Sure, if that were actually how gyroscopes worked...
'Course, they don't work that way -- that doesn't explain how the CM of a gyroscope can be off to one side of the base without the gyroscope falling, nor does it adequately explain precession or nutation... you need math for that.
Make them yourself! All you need is a couple of graphite rods, an airtight container, a vacuum pump, a power supply (preferably one for an arc welder, but a computer power supply will do the same thing much more slowly in a pinch) and some benzene or toluene to wash the buckyballs out of the soot.
Whittle one end of each graphite rod to a point and place them in the airtight container, with the points close but not touching. Pump out the air, and backfill with helium (Oxygen will cause the rods to burn instead of just creating soot). Apply low voltage at high current to generate an arc between the two rods - 5 V at as many amps as you can get is a good start. Wait a while, then wash the rods with toluene. The buckyballs will dissolve in the toluene, and you can recover them as a film by evaporating the toluene away.
RTFGPL! Anyone who has licensed the code under the GPL can, in turn, license the code under the same terms to another party. I could go download a copy of MySQL right now and license it to NuSphere, and they would get from me exactly the same rights they got from MySQL AB under the GPL.
Now if you want to argue that this is not the _intent_ of the GPL, then we're just violently agreeing. But it's not the intent that matters - it's the text. The FSF will have to fix this loophole in GPL v2.0.
the Ivy League has become home to lazy, blow-dried hair idiots, the ultimate in PHBs whose only merit is being litter from the loins of previous graduates.
Hey, fuck you, buddy. Some of us (I would even say most) got here on our own merit, and are working damn hard to stay here. Maybe the business schools graduate PHB's, but you weren't talking about Wharton, were you?
I don't appreciate getting a bunch of uninformed crap just because of where I chose to go to school.
Respectfully yours,
Zach Keane '03, Dartmouth College
some good ol' Locke (Essay on Human Understanding)
I hope you're not seriously suggesting dumping Locke on an unsuspecting HS English class. You need so much background to comprehend the Essay on Human Understanding that there's no way a group of average high school sophomores would get through it. His language is so convoluted as to be nearly impenetrable; consequently, it takes me about ten times as long to read Locke as it does to read an equivalent amount of, say, Shoemaker, Blackburn, or Molnar, to pick some examples of contemporary philosophers who deal with many of the questions Locke raises. Best to stick with things the students will be able to digest; there's plenty of time for philosophy once you get to college.
Well, they have the matrices all right, but still no working model of, say, a NAND gate, afaik. I just finished a course last term in QC, and we used Nielsen and Chuang's excellent textbook, the name of which escapes me at present. Check it out if you like; I found the explanations astonishingly clear.
Once you have that, you should get some heavy duty image software, such as IRAF [noao.edu] which I used extensively during my PhD
I had the misfortune of having to use IRAF to reduce some spectra we took for my astro class last term. It wouldn't have been so bad without the time constraints, but the learning curve is incredibly steep. I agree that IRAF is an incredible package, but be forewarned that when you get into IRAF, you're getting into some serious shit.
Well, it certainly is a hoax... but MIT and its affiliates do, in fact, carry out secret research. Lincoln Lab was up here recruiting last week, and you had to be a US citizen to apply, because you had to be able to get a security clearance. Ballistic missile defense is a bitch like that.
Unofficially, it's impossible to make sure that funds go to the people you intend.
Naturally - but we did not send that money to the Taleban so that they would eradicate opium; we sent the money to the farmers because the Taleban eradicated opium. That is the point I was trying to make.
And as for the crops, there were one or two fields which were destroyed for the cameras (cameras are illegal in Afghanistan strangely enough).
Fortunately, the cameras on our satellites can easily tell the difference between a field full of poppy and a field whose crop has been destroyed. I believe the destruction of the crop has been verified, but I am not sure.
It was very difficult to find any information regarding this last I looked
Here's a start: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=115999 2&lastnode_id=1159948
giving the Taleban (about) $60m to "stop producing opium", which of course they didn't.
The Taleban decided to eradicate the poppy crop in Afghanistan because it was "inconsistent with Islamic principles." This year's poppy crop was, in fact, destroyed. The US Government, recognizing that there were plenty of already-poor poppy farmers who would be left with no livelihood, allocated ~40 Million USD in humanitarian aid, _specifically bypassing the Taleban._ Check out Sec. Powell's statement on the aid shipments, if you like; it's been posted on Everything2, and should be pretty easy to find if you poke around a bit.
As the article states, MSIE 5.1 on OS X will decode.hqx files, then execute the result if the result is an executable. Apparently IE assumes that anything.hqx is also.sit, and intended to launch Stuffit Expander... but if it's an executable.hqx, then the executable gets run.
Look, if you document your sources properly (i.e. "I got this idea from such-and-such, and on this project I worked with these classmates of mine to finish the project"), academic mosconduct shouldn't worry you at all. If you take an algorithm from some piece of OSS, without saying so, then you have a problem.
But as long as you're honest about where your ideas come from, you will not run into academic misconduct charges.
If you would read the article, you might see that, first off, there are way too many letters being sent for it to be one person; second, the organizations responsible for sending the letters have been identified, and are Microsoft-backed groups; and third, they attempted to lie about the extent of their involvement in writing the letters before forced to admit that they had actually written every word.
The facts are there for you to read; I suggest you do so.
Only a fool would go about his daily business as root...
There is a very good reason to do the bulk of your computing as a nonprivileged user, and this is it. Unfortunately, being a nonprivileged user is not an option in WinXP...
The article states specifically that the researchers are working in binary. The property they are looking for to prove normality is a property of a binary number. The base-10 numbers they gave were probably just examples that "normal" people would understand.
So if anything, they are proving normality to base 2^n, NOT base 10^n. And it may actually be that their proof is general enough to show normality in all bases - the article is not clear on that point.
Users have every right to do anything they like with the content you provide for their own private use. There is nothing you can do to stop that and any attempt on your part is infringing on my privacy in a way that even the most repressive governments on the planet don't attempt.
I'm sure Jack Valenti would be glad to know that even the most repressive government in the world wouldn't try to stop people running a simple transform on the data provided on DVDs. In America, at least, users have no rights. --
Resource forks generally contain stuff such as executable code segments, pictures, icons, dialog-templates, alert-templates, sounds, menus, strings, configuration info, etc... In the case of an application: everything!
Not anymore... all PPC native binaries (i.e. everything for the last several years) store their code in the data fork. The days of CODE resources are past, AFAICT. At least, I've never seen one in a recent program.
All those other resource types are still there, though. --
How do you think an 'air' sucking scramjet will make space cheap. Like I said maybe it will be useful for launching things into space.. but getting things around once they're in space and building things off planet should be where they focus.
Well, like you said, it is useful for launching things into space. Getting into orbit currently uses much, much more fuel than moving around once you're in orbit, and is therefore much, much more expensive. If you only need hydrogen to burn in the atmosphere, you save a lot of weight (the oxygen weighs 8 times as much as the hydrogen), and therefore a whole hell of a lot of money.
Being able to move things around in space won't do us much good if we can't get them to orbit cheaply. That's what the scramjet's good for. --
There is no such thing as a secure system or secure copy protection. Name me one that has never been broken.
Well, as far as secure crypto systems go, no one-time pad, properly executed, has ever been broken, nor will one ever be broken. Note that utter stupidity, such as reusing a pad or using a compromised key, does not count, and should not count, as breaking the system. A broken implementation of anything will get you nowhere... --
You're right - it has nothing to do with buying video games. In fact, if the ban did have anything to do with buying video games, or indeed anything at all that people do in their own homes, I could see why you'd have a problem with it. But, as has been stated before, this is really no different from requiring parental consent to see R-rated movies in a theater. Kids will still be able to rent any movie, and any game, they damn well please and watch or play at home. Of course, maybe I'm looking at this all wrong - maybe we should let 5 year olds go to porn flicks and strip clubs - after all, it's "free speech," right?
But I don't think so. After all, we're not restricting the game companies from producing their games, nor the strippers from dancing - so whether or not you believe that video games and bouncing breasts are actually protected speech (dubious), even then we're not abridging their right to speak. Minors _DO NOT_ have Constitutional protections! Even if they did, there's no right to see porn or play violent games in the Constitution. I checked!
Bottom line: Michael, you need to calm down a bit.
(And if anyone has anything to say in response to me, please e-mail me... i don't read slashdot very much anymore) --
as much as they suck they keep on growing, how do they do it?
It's quite simple, really. People want slick, prepackaged content, even if it means they don't get the whole story or they have to pay more. Think about it: The AP news wire is cheap, readily available on the web IIRC, and much more comprehensive than USA Today or even the New York Times. But people still buy those papers. why? because it's easier. You don't have to do anything for yourself. Ditto for AOL. --
Slashdot Mirror
If you look for an MX record and none is found, the nameserver returns an A record. So it definitely screws with spam filtering.
I'll dispute that. My Foreman grill has definitely saved me from malnutrition on my leave terms... whereas I would normally have been eating ramen nonstop, I now keep a bunch of chicken breasts marinating in the fridge... they keep for about a week, so you can buy the family size pack and have chicken sandwiches at lunchtime for a week. It only takes about 5 minutes, it's cheap if you buy your meats on sale, and it gets a much-needed source of proteins into the diet. They're good for steaks, fish, not so good for pork chops, and fantastic for grilled cheese (or grilled ham and cheese, or turkey and cheese, or whatever).
As I said, they are not so good for pork - for some reason pork always comes out dry for me, I can't seem to get the cooking time right on the Foreman. But get a bottle of that McCormick Montreal Steak Seasoning, and a sirloin bought on sale, and you've got yourself a hell of a meal on the cheap - sirloin can be had for $2.79 a pound if you're willing to wait for a special.
Conclusion: Foreman++. Absolutely the best thing you can buy, especially if you send a hot pot or rice cooker as well.
Imagine the gyroscope starts to fall to one side. That side becomes lower than the other side. But then that side spins around to the high side, and so now the gyroscope starts leaning the other way. This continuous counter-balancing keeps it level.
Sure, if that were actually how gyroscopes worked...
'Course, they don't work that way -- that doesn't explain how the CM of a gyroscope can be off to one side of the base without the gyroscope falling, nor does it adequately explain precession or nutation... you need math for that.
Make them yourself! All you need is a couple of graphite rods, an airtight container, a vacuum pump, a power supply (preferably one for an arc welder, but a computer power supply will do the same thing much more slowly in a pinch) and some benzene or toluene to wash the buckyballs out of the soot.
Whittle one end of each graphite rod to a point and place them in the airtight container, with the points close but not touching. Pump out the air, and backfill with helium (Oxygen will cause the rods to burn instead of just creating soot). Apply low voltage at high current to generate an arc between the two rods - 5 V at as many amps as you can get is a good start. Wait a while, then wash the rods with toluene. The buckyballs will dissolve in the toluene, and you can recover them as a film by evaporating the toluene away.
Cake.
RTFGPL! Anyone who has licensed the code under the GPL can, in turn, license the code under the same terms to another party. I could go download a copy of MySQL right now and license it to NuSphere, and they would get from me exactly the same rights they got from MySQL AB under the GPL.
Now if you want to argue that this is not the _intent_ of the GPL, then we're just violently agreeing. But it's not the intent that matters - it's the text. The FSF will have to fix this loophole in GPL v2.0.
until the copyright owner decides to give it to them again, they cannot distribute the code.
ITYM "The copyright owner or anyone else who has licensed the code from the copyright owner under the GPL."
the Ivy League has become home to lazy, blow-dried hair idiots, the ultimate in PHBs whose only merit is being litter from the loins of previous graduates.
Hey, fuck you, buddy. Some of us (I would even say most) got here on our own merit, and are working damn hard to stay here. Maybe the business schools graduate PHB's, but you weren't talking about Wharton, were you?
I don't appreciate getting a bunch of uninformed crap just because of where I chose to go to school.
Respectfully yours,
Zach Keane '03, Dartmouth College
some good ol' Locke (Essay on Human Understanding)
I hope you're not seriously suggesting dumping Locke on an unsuspecting HS English class. You need so much background to comprehend the Essay on Human Understanding that there's no way a group of average high school sophomores would get through it. His language is so convoluted as to be nearly impenetrable; consequently, it takes me about ten times as long to read Locke as it does to read an equivalent amount of, say, Shoemaker, Blackburn, or Molnar, to pick some examples of contemporary philosophers who deal with many of the questions Locke raises. Best to stick with things the students will be able to digest; there's plenty of time for philosophy once you get to college.
Well, they have the matrices all right, but still no working model of, say, a NAND gate, afaik. I just finished a course last term in QC, and we used Nielsen and Chuang's excellent textbook, the name of which escapes me at present. Check it out if you like; I found the explanations astonishingly clear.
Once you have that, you should get some heavy duty image software, such as IRAF [noao.edu] which I used extensively during my PhD
I had the misfortune of having to use IRAF to reduce some spectra we took for my astro class last term. It wouldn't have been so bad without the time constraints, but the learning curve is incredibly steep. I agree that IRAF is an incredible package, but be forewarned that when you get into IRAF, you're getting into some serious shit.
Good luck, whatever you decide.
Any reason not to name the country, or are we supposed to deduce it from the .tr TLD?
Well...
Help root out and erradicate redundancies
Oh, the irony...
Well, it certainly is a hoax... but MIT and its affiliates do, in fact, carry out secret research. Lincoln Lab was up here recruiting last week, and you had to be a US citizen to apply, because you had to be able to get a security clearance. Ballistic missile defense is a bitch like that.
Naturally - but we did not send that money to the Taleban so that they would eradicate opium; we sent the money to the farmers because the Taleban eradicated opium. That is the point I was trying to make.
And as for the crops, there were one or two fields which were destroyed for the cameras (cameras are illegal in Afghanistan strangely enough).
Fortunately, the cameras on our satellites can easily tell the difference between a field full of poppy and a field whose crop has been destroyed. I believe the destruction of the crop has been verified, but I am not sure.
It was very difficult to find any information regarding this last I looked
Here's a start: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=115999 2&lastnode_id=1159948
The Taleban decided to eradicate the poppy crop in Afghanistan because it was "inconsistent with Islamic principles." This year's poppy crop was, in fact, destroyed. The US Government, recognizing that there were plenty of already-poor poppy farmers who would be left with no livelihood, allocated ~40 Million USD in humanitarian aid, _specifically bypassing the Taleban._ Check out Sec. Powell's statement on the aid shipments, if you like; it's been posted on Everything2, and should be pretty easy to find if you poke around a bit.
As the article states, MSIE 5.1 on OS X will decode .hqx files, then execute the result if the result is an executable. Apparently IE assumes that anything .hqx is also .sit, and intended to launch Stuffit Expander... but if it's an executable.hqx, then the executable gets run.
Think!
But as long as you're honest about where your ideas come from, you will not run into academic misconduct charges.
The facts are there for you to read; I suggest you do so.
There is a very good reason to do the bulk of your computing as a nonprivileged user, and this is it. Unfortunately, being a nonprivileged user is not an option in WinXP...
So if anything, they are proving normality to base 2^n, NOT base 10^n. And it may actually be that their proof is general enough to show normality in all bases - the article is not clear on that point.
I'm sure Jack Valenti would be glad to know that even the most repressive government in the world wouldn't try to stop people running a simple transform on the data provided on DVDs. In America, at least, users have no rights.
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Not anymore... all PPC native binaries (i.e. everything for the last several years) store their code in the data fork. The days of CODE resources are past, AFAICT. At least, I've never seen one in a recent program.
All those other resource types are still there, though.
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Well, like you said, it is useful for launching things into space. Getting into orbit currently uses much, much more fuel than moving around once you're in orbit, and is therefore much, much more expensive. If you only need hydrogen to burn in the atmosphere, you save a lot of weight (the oxygen weighs 8 times as much as the hydrogen), and therefore a whole hell of a lot of money.
Being able to move things around in space won't do us much good if we can't get them to orbit cheaply. That's what the scramjet's good for.
--
Well, as far as secure crypto systems go, no one-time pad, properly executed, has ever been broken, nor will one ever be broken. Note that utter stupidity, such as reusing a pad or using a compromised key, does not count, and should not count, as breaking the system. A broken implementation of anything will get you nowhere...
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But I don't think so. After all, we're not restricting the game companies from producing their games, nor the strippers from dancing - so whether or not you believe that video games and bouncing breasts are actually protected speech (dubious), even then we're not abridging their right to speak. Minors _DO NOT_ have Constitutional protections! Even if they did, there's no right to see porn or play violent games in the Constitution. I checked!
Bottom line: Michael, you need to calm down a bit.
(And if anyone has anything to say in response to me, please e-mail me... i don't read slashdot very much anymore)
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It's quite simple, really. People want slick, prepackaged content, even if it means they don't get the whole story or they have to pay more. Think about it: The AP news wire is cheap, readily available on the web IIRC, and much more comprehensive than USA Today or even the New York Times. But people still buy those papers. why? because it's easier. You don't have to do anything for yourself. Ditto for AOL.
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