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Forget about taking notes in class with a laptop.

For some EE classes there is absolutely no way you are going to be able to take notes with all of the integrals, subscripts, superscripts, greek letters and strange symbols (but don't let that all scare you). The best way to get this all down is to write it down on paper, but I have seen some students do decently with a tablet computer (the kind that have a rotating/folding screen).

The other problem with a laptop (as another poster has mentioned, but I just wanted to emphasize) is that you will end up distracted. All it takes is for the lecture to slow down or someone to ask a silly question and the next thing you know is that the lecture is over and you're in the middle of some article about the next Apple product.

Base your decision on what you will be using your computer for outside of class: programming, maths simulation, circuit simulation, and lab reports. All of those can be done from within a Windows VM.
amen ... oftentimes a cache look-up is way faster than re-computation, and by developing your associative memory, you're effectively "increasing the size of your cache" over time, which is never a bad thing. some of the smartest people i know have incredible memories and are able to pull together memories from seemingly disparate times, places, and subjects to generate insights that are simply impossible to come up with by stubbornly deriving from first principles
you can make arbitrary friend lists and share most things specifically to a list.
Speaking of high school grade systems, my school had grades out of 100. Talk about unnecessary competitiveness (both with yourself and others). I obsessed over getting 97s and 98s rather than 94s and 95s. While we weren't officially ranked, it was well known that out of 700-800 students in your class, a 98 average put you in the top 5, and a 94 put you somewhere in the top 100-200. Because the school released college admissions statistics (in the format of GPA | SAT | accepted/rejected/waitlist), you could see that you have empirically little chance of getting into Harvard with that 94, but a very very good chance with that 98.

That said, most people were generally very smart, passionate and inspiring people to be around. They actually cared about at least some subset of what they were learning. But a lot of the work was pure grind, and to impose that on a bunch of smart creative people is a shame.
1080p is actually significantly better than 720p on large screen sizes at standard computing distances (or if you have 20/20 eyesight and sit at standard TV distances from a ~50" or larger screen). I'd also expect at least 4mbit for streaming 720p feature movies in H.264.

Very high bandwidth links are also useful for lowering the delay involved in bulk transfers like uploading videos, and a higher link speed (even if the total bandwidth is throttled) results in shorter individual packet transmission times, and thus lower interactive latency.
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Seems to me that this is what the GTD Weekly Review is all about - you take stock of your world once a week, decide what is important and then spend the rest of the week executing those decisions - you are not allowed to second-guess yourself because GTD is all about having "integrity in the moment of choice" regarding your decisions.
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Poisoning statistical spam filters?
You're leaving out a fairly large middle ground of boring medium-length proofs. See, e.g. construction of the reals from the rationals using Dedekind cuts in Rudin's book: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Real_Analysis/Dedekinds_constru....
Thank you. So the study is mostly referring to deep fried foods, white flour and soda / processed sugar?
The California Adventure park in Anaheim, CA has a hemispherical screen theater that incorporates moving seats and scents sprayed into the air.
Bold but risky.
But I suppose there are some people that fetishize the smell of wood pulp and who love signaling how smart they are to the world with shelves of impressive-looking unread books, and who therefore overlook a reading experience that is superior in every other way.

Your original statement was not set in a possible future, or in an theoretically different copyright regime.

Today, in the world we live in, books and e-books each continue to have their own strengths and weaknesses, with substantial portions of the market being better served with paper books, and a growing portion being better served by e-books, as reader technology improves.

Your comment was wrong. It was very, very wrong. And it still is.

And now I'm going to go curl up with a paper book, and fall asleep. I'm not using one of my readers, because that's a recipe for a broken reader.
That's interesting, do you know how the diatomaceous earth traps bedbugs?
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But if it's targeted at people who are causally selling their crap, not products, then you want lots of photos to be sure of the kind of crap you're buying. The seller might just want to unload it.
Yet another mobile payment solution?
Scientists studying a 17-year-old girl with the body and behaviour of a baby
I successfully used a duck when designing a site for my old company, who insisted I place the CMS in the root directory, so users don't get confused when the URL shows up in the address bar.

I told them it would get addressed immediately.

It got addressed via an .htaccess file that masked the URL.

Ducks ftw
There are two problems with this though: a) either jail-breaking or torrenting the book (if it is even available as a torrent) isn't something that the average reader would be able to figure out how to do (in my opinion) and b) it would open one up to the possibility of being charged with piracy, and the penalties for that are getting scarier all the time. I'm not convinced that the likelihood of being charged is minuscule either. Neither of these seem to be reasonable options for most people.

And in any case, I have now received a refund, so I wouldn't feel comfortable jail-breaking a copy. I may buy the Kindle version when I get an iPad though. I have a bit more confidence in the durability of that format. Not enough to start acquiring many books in it, but since this particular book is unavailable in any other way, and it is really important to me, I'll probably relax my principles for it.
Right now I'm just getting fatter, my cloths smell because i'm too tired to do laundry, though I see my girl friend every day I'm too tired to do anything.

None of those problems seem to be because you don't live in a forest. They will not magically disappear even if you did live in a forest.
He forgot my favorite book formats of all, HTML and plain text.
Had a similar issue in Vancouver where a neighbour in an apt. complex was majorly infected resulting in all surrounding apts. having to be treated as well.

After checking google for bedbugs here in Vancouver I noticed that same site and was shocked to see the amount of reports. There's hardly a block in the city which hasn't experienced problems.
So, even if you're cautious & clean you can still get affected by your next door neighbour.
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I'm not sure how to interpret this. I get the sense that you believe that Stross and Scalzi are rationalizing what you believe is learned helplessness on their part? If so, that isn't what I believe they are saying. I think that Stross is mostly expressing that publishers contribute significantly more to the bookmaking process than most people think, and that these contributions are actually useful.
Good to know as I'm planning on crossing the ditch soon :)
You mean your 'friends' can spread information about you without your knowledge?
What deficiencies of http://www.reversehttp.net/ is this trying to solve?

I've been happy with the reliability of reversehttp for all the testing I've done with it.

If you're using ruby, hookout does a great job running your rack app as a reversehttp endpoint: http://github.com/paulj/hookout
"Bold" implies "risky", as in the old adage, "there are bold pilots and there are old pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots".
Building an Agile Environment
2. Enable FileVault, if the password is entered wrong too many times it will wipe the drive.

I've never heard of FileVault wiping the user's encrypted sparse image after too many bad password attempts. Googling gives me nothing. If too many bad passwords do wipe the sparse image, how do I disable that? I have backups, but I don't want anyone to be able to delete my data so easily.

4. Never use open WiFi.

Umm... why? Pretty much every site uses HTTPS or hashes your password in JavaScript before sending it over the wire. Sure there's a chance of HTML injection if the login form is sent over HTTP, but it's a very small one. Unless you're at DEF CON or something, open wifi isn't a major risk. I guess if you're super paranoid, set up a VPN server and connect to it when you're on an untrusted network.

I think the ideal solution is to use FileVault or some sort disk encryption, then also have a cron job runs a script every hour/day/whatever. This script would check a certain URL for a message (say https://your-website/is/my/computer/stolen). If that message says, "yes I am stolen", the script would activate the camera, e-mail the picture to you, and run shred on the drive. Basically a poor man's version of http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/mac/
iPads are at the bottom of a multi-year growth cycle. FarmVille is near the top of its growth cycle. It may not be important today but it will probably matter to Zynga in the 2-5 year timeframe whether they stick with Flash or create mobile apps for touchscreen devices.
Though glucose is better than fructose, there's still enough credible concern out there about spiking glucose levels and insulin issues that your self-treatment may not be the boon you think it is.

In any case, a lot of formed and powedered candies are almost pure 'dextrose' -- so you don't need to go to industrial suppliers. Just grab some Sweetarts/Lik-M-Aid/PixieStix. (No corn syrup is listed on the ingredients of these, but sometimes 'maltose' is. It's two joined glucose molecules, but I don't know if it splits cleanly to that and only that in the body.)
I don't know the histories of the items you mention, but I imagine at some point in time somebody was screwing around (i.e., playing) with a predecessor technology when they "should" have been doing "productive work". I remember the days when microprocessors and personal computers were derided as toys. UNIX and Linux were once "toy" operating systems. RC planes and flight sims were the toys of hyper-nerdy outcasts in my high school; but nobody laughs at a predator drone strike.

Pesticides might not be toys, but I bet the chemists and biologists who develop them have spent a good deal of time screwing around with the underlying constituents. I recently rented a rotary hammer to perform a particular task, but spent a good amount of time afterward playing with it to see what I could jackhammer into oblivion. At what point did it stop being a tool and become a toy? I learned a good deal about the operation of the hammer and improved my technique, does that mean I wasn't playing but was getting educated? Maybe our preconceptions about work, play, and education aren't really clear or useful?

What's the useful distinction between "toy" and "tool"? Is there a bright line between toolness and toyness? Or a continuum that depends on attitude, context, and use? I'd argue the latter is a more useful and meaningful perspective for those of us who do not directly depend on our "tools" for day-to-day survival. I'd guess that most hunters are not subsistence hunters and employ their hunting rifles recreationally, during leisure time, doesn't this make them more "toy-like" than "tool-like"? Recreational ornamental horticulturalists produce nothing of "value" (in the narrow sense of receiving remuneration); does this make their use of pesticides toy-like? Is a Schrebergarten a toy garden in the same way a Tonka is a toy truck? If you eat vegetables from the Schrebergarten or use the Tonka to dolly a load, are they still toys?

The original commenter distinguished between toys (e.g., iPad) and non-toys (e.g., Blackberry). I don't see that as a useful distinction: one man's tool is another man's toy (even tractors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhKfTFdtmCk). The President claims a distinction between information as distraction, diversion, or entertainment vs. empowerment. I don't see that clear line: one man's marathon Tecmo Super Bowl session is another's all nighter studying B.F. Skinner. Who is to say which is a distraction which is a better use of that time? Were people who watched hundreds of hours of Buffy the Vampire Slayer distracted, diverted or empowered? If they got tenure from it does that change the answer?
insects hate powders, and the Diatomaceous earth screws with their exoskeleton.
Facebook Confirms Location Feature
What's your target audience? Everyone who has internet? Seriously? You must be bonkers.

You can't seriously be suggesting that I'd opt to choose your site instead of a local one, merely because there's just a crapload of crap from everywhere of the world which pretty much clutters the whole plainfield for every player in the market of crapmania.

Why would I upload a 1$ picture when there's no users to speak of? I mean, the site itself has no indication of how much people is using it. So if I'm a potential seller who wants to sell his crap, why would I opt a site that shows in no way how much users it has (if it's not public knowledge that the site has a lot of users).
Again?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1275177
Well maybe he doesn't understand the differences between:
computer scientist

computer programmer

software engineer

You might think they are the same thing but they're not. A computer scientist would end up in academia doing research. A computer programmer writing programs and a software engineer design then building systems.

Learning to program for a budding computer scientist is the worst possible thing to do. It contaminates the mind with what ever preconceptions the chosen language may provide. Ok, maybe Lisp and Scheme not so much - but still ...
Mostly because I can just throw them onto my portable device, I'll almost always prefer a plain text file over a pdf.
ReverseHTTP is just a spec and not a very popular one. Localtunnel is based on SSH tunneling which has been around longer than ReverseHTTP, especially for this particular purpose. And while Hookout is a great tool, I'm not sure why it was made specific to Ruby Rack...
I know that Dell in particular can set a password on the BIOS that is extremely non-trivial to bypass. Other hardware makers probably offer similar functionality. Taking this a step further and allowing this to be set from the running OS could be possible, thus effectively bricking the computer (barring access to hardware support channels, but you registered your computer anyway, didn't you?)
My grandmother just turned 99. She's sharp as a whip, but doesn't use a computer, so she misses out on all of the family photos that the rest of us see on facebook or by email. Picwing solves this problem. My grandma loves it.
They both suffered from severe depression. Only Wallace committed suicide.
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Wedding rings symbolize love and commitment. Hence you must always select a best wedding ring for your future bride. And the best place from where you can start your search of best wedding ring is the internet.
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So you don't accept inductive proofs? This will rather limit the amount of mathematical tools available to you.
I wonder how things would work if ebook publishers would drop the idea of owning books entirely, and just go subscription-based. You'd pay a monthly fee and have DRM'd access to all the books in the catalog. Stop paying the fee, access is gone. You wouldn't have local copies, except for caching, just books viewed from the publisher's server.

Now it would be no problem that the service might go out of business in a year and take the catalog out with it. You'd subscribe while it lasts, read all sorts of books you want to read but don't care to own, and then find a new service when the old one's gone.
I think you're missing the joke. (That is, transhumanists believe that we'll live forever.)
And, I'm guessing some of the less productive employees.
66. High speed rail service in US not economically feasible when compared with auto and air travel

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Sure, with current safety standards for trains and with the way that track maintenance is treated (as opposed to road maintenance).

When you get a clean bullet train (that isn't overweight because of excessive regulations) people will stop driving as much between cities.
Is anyone able to outline the main differences between Basecamp and Teambox?
I have just started using Basecamp - I like it, but I feel that is not exactly what I want for running my projects...a bit too "stiff".
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Deep focus on work-related problems while driving a car? I think I'll pass on this one.
How froc works (functional reactive programming in OCaml)
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Am I the only one that has a problem wrapping my head around the infinity times infinity argument?

If you got infinity people on infinity busses, you would only have infinity people, not infinity squared. The moment when you close down the first bus and start with person 1 on bus 2, this person should already be on bus 1, or else must bus 1 be finite.
Did this remind anyone else of continuations and infinite streams?
Nope. Content is different.
It's hard for me to believe I'm saying this, but if this new study is true then apparently it's time to revisit the Atkins diet.
Had a bedbug attack on some recent travels (stayed in dodgy hostels all over the world for 6 months and it happened in a nice hotel in Italy).

We had our bags cryogenically frozen when we got home, I'm not kidding. The extreme temperature kills them off. It seemed to work, no bedbugs survived if they did manage to get into the bags.
It's not about placing more rapidly. If you don't know the material then you need to learn it somehow, but if the course goes at a snail's pace then who the hell wants to waste their time showing up?

You need not just proper placement, but proper speed.

Placing out of a boringly paced class into a different boringly paced class doesn't help.
that was IMHO the point of the first part of the article. You would never be able to close down the first bus because it does contain an infinite amount of people, so you need to find a way to process people across buses if you want to process the all.
I think the "imputed values" are not measured (i.e. filler). It is just showing "without carbs" or "breading". There are probably better sources for this data.
To save you the trouble, the last two digits are 42. That is, the answer to life the universe and everything...
i appreciate your answer, which i think is the best kind of answer people generally give.

but i want to ask you to consider something without any incredulity about my seriousness:

if you had not been born, you would not be bothered by not existing. and when eventually your parents die, they would no longer be bothered by not having had children.
It is technically correct, but the implication is malicious activity, and also possibly physical activity. It's the 'run' part.

edit: "still in its uncontrolled "zombiesat" drift toward orbits occupied by other spacecraft" Ok, it is running amok. It is doing more than just radio interference.
Can someone who has tried Teambox and Open Atrium (http://openatrium.com/) give their opinions on both?
I think one aspect you're missing is that infinity does not always mean everything. For example, there are infinite decimals between 1.0 and 2.0, and between 3.0 and 4.0 — however, there is no overlap at all between the sets.

That's how I imagined the busses to be; two non-overlapping infinite sets. No one from the first bus was also on the second.
The title should read 500 * 10^9 digits of e, that is american billion. European billion is 10^12, that may lead to some confusion...
The infinity is a fascinating concept, but be careful it can drive you insane and into madness [1]. At least that happend to Georg Cantor and Kurt Goedel and some other famous minds.

[1] See "BBC: Dangerous Knowledge"
e.g. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/modern/node/164
for the record, i don't think families with two six digit incomes should have children either. they're existence is dependent on the lives of people who do not earn six digit incomes, and so they are guilty of just as much misery in this world.
I often see programmers with a C/C++ background enter the Java world using Yoda conditions, where such practices serve no use.

I used to work with a guy who insisted on using yoda conditions, "just to be sure". This guy would also make sure he'd "null" out all his variables at the end of the method for the same reason.
That her development ceased around that of a 1 year old suggests to me she has not ceased aging, but ceased developing. Either the next step is broken, or her internal time clock is frozen, but the former seems more likely.

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression aging is different from the development that happens until our mid twenties, so how can finding what's stopping her development help us stop aging?
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When attending a serious dispute, try to throw in

"You\We are both right!"
Helps wonders.
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Then don't interpret it as a dichotomy :-)

While fast learning per se is an asset in any field, however, in many occupations learning seems to be taken as a necessary evil that merely makes you wish you could do things like you used to and go on like that. You get trained to be something and when your field changes, you're forced to learn something new and you only do it then.

Programmers on the other hand—well, their job is to learn new stuff. Sometimes it's a new codebase, sometimes it's a new framework or library or language or protocol or a set of tools but there's always something new. The ultimate new thing is writing a program that hasn't existed before: everything is new. And even that new stuff doesn't have value per se, it's just a prerequisite for a programmer to "get things done". Stuff gets into the fashion and stuff becomes obsolete, but the programmer is riding on the front wave.

Not only good programmers have to be able to learn, they have to be able to learn fast. Programmers can't afford to take a six-month course to learn something new. If you can't learn new stuff and successfully map out the diffs of how it relates to stuff you already know, you're out soon.

As someone pointed out, while being able to learn also means that the programmer has undoubtedly learned a lot, I still argue that the value is indeed in the ability itself. A junior guy with the good programmer aptitude and ability to learn can bump himself into shape in a few years of time. Another programmer who has already learned a lot but who has lost the willingness to learn anything new is toast sooner than that.

Learning is implicit in the job of a programmer. When your job is to circle around the boundaries of unknown, it is something that you can't avoid.
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