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[2005-03-08 07:57:35] - "It is an Internet in which virtually all content should come at a price, even when that content has been made freely available. It is an Internet that would seek to cut off subscriber access based on mere allegations of wrongdoing, without due process or oversight from a judge or jury. " -dave
[2005-03-08 07:57:31] - http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1110150624459&call_pageid=970599119419 Canada looking to crack down on Internet. -dave
[2005-03-08 07:39:03] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/08/tut.scan.ap/index.html CT scan of Tut's mummy suggest he wasn't murdered. -dave
[2005-03-08 07:36:24] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/08/auctioned.dime.ap/index.html dime sells for 1.3 million -dave
[2005-03-08 07:35:06] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/07/china.npc.law/index.html China creates new law that lists military force as an option to keep Taiwan from seceding -dave
[2005-03-07 14:03:23] - aaron: yeah, sounds interesting. I'd never heard of it - vinnie
[2005-03-07 13:00:16] - Aaron: I wouldn't mind seeing it. -Paul
[2005-03-07 12:53:33] - anybody interested in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340163/">hostage</a>? - aaron
[2005-03-07 12:03:27] - yeah. it's funny because everything in the message (that the title is from) was incorrect. "paul" (no, i'm not paul) "adrian and i are at saw" (no, i am adrian and i am not at saw) "this is adrian" (no, no you're not) ~a
[2005-03-07 11:57:37] - a: I was so stumped on what that title meant until today "saw?? the verb? or the movie? are there two adrians? why would adrian say adrian and i?!" - aaron
[2005-03-07 11:47:03] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/diet.fitness/03/07/milk.bones.reut/index.html drinking milk not necessarily the best way to get healthier bones -dave
[2005-03-07 10:54:07] - a: I completely forgot that! That explains everything. I haven't seen any documentation on it, but I think the window for a perfect in the arcade is about 20 ms on both sides (that's what I have to set DWI to for it to "feel right") - aaron
[2005-03-07 10:28:56] - (19ms to be more exact) ~a
[2005-03-07 10:15:46] - aaron: keep in mind 1/64 notes (which means 1/64 of a measure) are actually 1/16 of a beat so all your measurements were off by a factor of four. 5ms => 20ms. ~a
[2005-03-06 10:43:55] - a: I guess what I'm trying to say, is it's really hard to tell with faster songs whether the bug is there or not. I can SDG "Ordinary World" which is like nothing but 1/3 notes, and Tim's AAAed Burning Heat which is nothing but 1/3 notes... but Bag seems very sloppy. Maybe it's just the BPM and rounding effects amplified, it's hard to tell - aaron
[2005-03-06 10:43:01] - Bag is mostly 1/6 beat notes (1/12 in some places...) and the difference between 1/6 of a beat and 11/64 at 65 bpm is like 5 thousandths of a second.... hmm that still doesn't seem significant, i wonder if my math is wrong - aaron
[2005-03-06 10:38:00] - a: I read that, I don't know. It's really hard to tell in the faster songs. I mean in Burning Heat, you're talking about the difference between 1/3 of a beat and 21/64 of a beat, which at 160 bpm is like 2 thousandths of a second of difference - aaron
[2005-03-05 21:26:12] - aaron: the other songs with tripplets have faster bpms so the difference between 1/64th notes and 1/12th notes are not as big (in milliseconds). the difference between 1/64th notes and 1/12th notes "also affects songs such as 'Burning Heat!' and 'AFRONOVA', but the problem is amplified in bag due to its slow BPM." (which is 65bpm, fyi) ~a
[2005-03-05 16:30:29] - a: It's not just the rendering engine that renders bag's steps at 64 bpm, but the "grading engine" or whatever - I mean according to the game, they are all 1/64 notes. The problem does not occur in other songs with "triplets" so I'm not sure what the deal is with bag. - aaron
[2005-03-04 17:43:46] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Burns
[2005-03-04 17:20:29] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Text_Revolution
~a[2005-03-04 17:17:27] - "SAKURA is another 10-footer that appears in DDR EXTREME. However, it is extremely easy compared to songs like MAX 300 and PARANOIA survivor MAX, and nearly all DDR players don't consider it to be a real 10-footer." ~a
[2005-03-04 17:16:15] - paul: yeah i was looking at dj and s&p . . . so it didn't hit anything. ~a
[2005-03-04 17:15:35] - aaron: "bag also has notoriously difficult timing, caused by the game engine's inability to properly space triplet-based notes (it rounds them to 1/64ths)" of course wiki has a ddr page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_dance_revolution ~a[2005-03-04 17:07:39] - a: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NASDAQ_IXIC_-_dot-com_bubble_small.png -Paul
[2005-03-04 17:05:53] - a: I don't think the dot-com bubble burst was as sudden as some of the other events. There really wasn't a Black Thursday that you can point to where the market went down some huge percentage. -Paul
[2005-03-04 17:02:28] - "the actual reversal and subsequent bear market may have been triggered by the adverse findings of fact in the Microsoft antitrust case in the US. The findings, which declared Microsoft a monopoly, were widely expected in the weeks before their release on April 3." ~a
[2005-03-04 17:01:49] - from wiki: "The dot-com bubble burst, numerically, on March 10, 2000" ~a
[2005-03-04 16:59:42] - paul: that's the downturn. i was talking about the dot-com bust. wiki says that it was at the end of the 1990s, but really doesn't give a year or month. ~a
[2005-03-04 16:59:13] - mel: i make lots of "observations" when i'm using crappy applications. ~a
[2005-03-04 16:47:10] - a: you're right, "issue" is better than "anomaly." and "observation" takes the cake. I've -got- to start saying that. -mel
[2005-03-04 16:44:47] - I love wikipedia. -mel
[2005-03-04 16:44:09] - a: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_downturn_of_2002 -Paul
[2005-03-04 16:41:52] - i guess i shouldn't be looking at and index, but instead be looking at amazon or something. ~a
[2005-03-04 16:41:21] - i'm looking at the charts for the indexes. strangly, it's not easy to see a "crash" in 1999 or 2000. ~a
[2005-03-04 16:39:56] - But I meant 1929, the big one. -Paul
[2005-03-04 16:39:37] - There hasn't been an LA area pro-football team since the Raiders (1994). -mel
[2005-03-04 16:39:23] - My bad, I misread it: "crash or 'adjustment'". -Paul
[2005-03-04 16:39:19] - i guess it wasn't 2001, was it? when was the .com bust? 1999? 2000? ~a
[2005-03-04 16:38:54] - a: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash According to wikipedia, there is only one.
-Paul[2005-03-04 16:38:52] - Plan unveiled to develop the Pasadena Rose Bowl for a future NFL team. Woah. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2003-04-23-rose-bowl_x.htm -mel
[2005-03-04 16:37:26] - paul: which crash? 1929, 1987, or 2001? ~a
[2005-03-04 16:32:17] - a: If you think four years of no growth is unfair, then you should be glad you weren't around during the crash. Those people had a more legitimate gripe I think.
-Paul[2005-03-04 16:31:39] - a: If you own the right ones. Even then, I think four years is fairly short term in the grand scheme of things. It doesn't seem uncommon for the market to go down for a couple years every once in awhile. -Paul
[2005-03-04 16:29:41] - paul: in the short term i agree. however, realistically, in the long term "stocks" (if you have enough of them, or an index fund) will go up. ~a
[2005-03-04 16:27:36] - a: Stocks aren't "supposed" to go up. Past performance is no indicator of future success. -Paul
[2005-03-04 16:22:22] - dave: but stocks are supposed to go up. the fact that they're lower than they were four years ago is depressing. on average the stock market goes up 10% per year. over four years, that's 46% ~a
[2005-03-04 16:18:55] - Paul: Woo! 5% sell! sell! hehe -dave
[2005-03-04 16:16:40] - http://news.com.com/The+coming+crackdown+on+blogging/2008-1028_3-5597079.html?tag=st.prev crazies want to apply campaign finance reform to internet blogs - mig
[2005-03-04 16:08:10] - Dave: It's too bad my stocks don't reflect that.
Although I am tempted to sell my mining stock since it went up over 5% today. -Paul[2005-03-04 16:04:13] - paul: well, if nothing else, the dow went up over 100 pts today -dave
[2005-03-04 16:03:21] - Except, oddly enough, in my mining stock which I bought because I figured it would be good protection for when the market slumps.
-Paul[2005-03-04 16:02:54] - a: but yeah, the stock market has been relatively high for awhile, so a month ago they might not have been that hugely different -dave
[2005-03-04 16:02:16] - Well, I only own 5 stocks so my sample size is incredibly small and unrepresentative, but I haven't noticed any huge gains in the stocks I own. -Paul
[2005-03-04 16:01:30] - a: I know for a fact that way back in the heydey of stocks, the S&
was around 1230, and it's at 1222 now -dave[2005-03-04 16:00:19] - http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BD06F3733%2D0B12%2D435E%2DA9B9%2D421FE33DC2B6%7D&siteid=mktw&dist= title of the article is "Blue chips rally to June '01 highs" -dave
[2005-03-04 16:00:05] - a: weird, they seem really high to me -dave
[2005-03-04 15:46:55] - dave: the market seems normal to me. the dj composite and the dj industrial are both lower than they were in 2001. and the stocks i sold in february (for the down payment on my condo) are up less than a percent. ~a
[2005-03-04 15:46:48] - Dave: Essentially Nazr Mohammed for Malik Rose I think. -Paul
[2005-03-04 15:40:18] - Paul: what was the Spurs/Knicks trade? -dave
[2005-03-04 15:37:26] - dang, sell your stocks now, the market's at a lvl that we haven't seen in for-ever -dave
[2005-03-04 15:08:10] - dave: i'm sure it was for some cap reasons. from what i've seen, the rules regarding the nba salary cap are somewhat insane (even more so than the nfl's). - mig
[2005-03-04 15:08:05] - dave_aaron: also he wants to actually commit the crimes, not merely get caught or prosecuted. ~a
[2005-03-04 14:59:32] - Dave: But basically, it wasn't to make the team better this year.
As for the Spurs/Knicks trade, I have no idea what the point of that was for the Knicks. -Paul[2005-03-04 14:58:43] - Dave: What was the point for the Hawks? I think they got some other plays and/or possibly a draft pick in the deal. Plus, they also got rid of Walker's big contract (which would allow them to go after free agents) and it also frees them up to play some of their youngsters. -Paul
[2005-03-04 14:55:21] - aaron: well a guy could confess to doing something, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he intended to do it -dave
[2005-03-04 14:47:58] - a: It wouldn't need to be proven if the guy confessed his crime - aaron
[2005-03-04 14:38:00] - so what was the point of trading payton to the Hawks just for the Hawks to waive him and Payton to resign with the Celtics? -dave
[2005-03-04 14:30:40] - paul: intent is hard to prove. ~a
[2005-03-04 14:11:54] - Aaron: I wonder if you have to actually succeed in hunting a whale in order for it to be illegal. Otherwise, you could probably just stick a harpoon on your car and claim to be looking for Moby Dick. -Paul
[2005-03-04 13:10:14] - paul: Hehe. Hunting whales in utah. I think i read an article about some hunters trying to hook up a "hunt by internet" kind of thing, with web cams and remotely-operated firearms. Maybe he could hunt whales that way. - aaron
[2005-03-04 10:57:59] - http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0303crime-spree03.html Prankster planning crime wave -Paul
[2005-03-04 09:25:34] - http://www.shmoo.com/idn/ Here's a good page for testing whether or not your browser protects against spoofed URLs or not - aaron
[2005-03-04 07:29:20] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/03/03/mozilla.security.ap/index.html Firefox release fixes url spoofs -dave
[2005-03-04 02:28:27] - by the way, everyone... three weeks from now, I'm officially off my current project! I'll actually be in town for extended periods of time (assuming nothing changes in the next three weeks and that I don't get assigned to another travel-heavy project)! - pierce
[2005-03-04 02:00:03] - btw, Object.clone() is protected. So you can't just call it on an object that doesn't override it and explicitly make it public, unless you are a derived class of that object. - pierce
[2005-03-04 01:57:45] - a: okay, well we can establish that anything used to write device driver-level code must have a memory model. But do you do that often? And if not, what code do you write that requires pointer arithmetic? - pierce
[2005-03-03 16:36:44] - aaron: haha, portly is such a fun word. - aba
[2005-03-03 15:14:56] - a: yes, in the uk a "series" is really the equivalent on a "season" in our terms. - mig
[2005-03-03 14:58:55] - pierce: at what level? i think when writing device drivers or filesystem code, pointer arithmatic (stuff that uses memcpy and asm) is muy importante. ~a
[2005-03-03 14:50:59] - a: It looks like it. Either that, or there was a lot of typos. -Paul
[2005-03-03 14:41:21] - paul: does the uk have different definition for "series" than we do? it seems like they said "series" a few times when they meant seasons. ~a
[2005-03-03 14:31:41] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4312767.stm Star Trek campaign 'raises $3m' -Paul
[2005-03-03 13:43:41] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/03/sweden.portly.ap/index.html Swedish security door stops portly police officers - aaron
[2005-03-03 13:23:24] - heh. google caches itself. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J:www.google.com/+google&hl=en&start=1 i guess futerama was right, the huge brain can scan itself. ~a
[2005-03-03 12:30:16] - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7068360 Video game concerts draw packed crowds -Paul
[2005-03-03 11:43:22] - aaron: this article doesn't even try to be unbiased (maybe it's an editorial?) http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html ~a
[2005-03-03 11:20:38] - aaron: ok i understand what you're saying now. you're saying that object.clone can be dangerous and should only be usable when a class implements clonable. i agree. ~a
[2005-03-03 11:18:30] - aaron: MAYBE, but i don't think so. i think the main purpose is networks will be able to control which shows you can put onto a dvd or which shows you can share with friends. ~a
[2005-03-03 11:14:56] - a: And where did you read that about recording HDTV? I'm trying to figure out what they want to accomplish by that. So basically networks will be able to control which shows can be recorded I guess? - aaron
[2005-03-03 11:13:58] - a: I was just trying to defend Java's approach to cloning because I think it's a logical one, and results in a minimal amount of code (pretty much zero) to enable or disable its default behavior - aaron
[2005-03-03 11:12:49] - a: I did read the javadocs for object.clone. You were saying that shallow copy would be an obvious default functionality for Java, and I was saying if Java behaved that way, then for any class for which you didn't want that default functionality, you would have to override clone() to throw some kind of exception - aaron
[2005-03-03 10:54:14] - on "July 1, it will be illegal for anyone in the United States to manufacture a device that records high-definition television unless it's built to obey a special signal – the [broadcast] flag – emitted by stations broadcasting HD shows." what?! really? ~a
[2005-03-03 10:53:22] - in cpp, when you say a=b then it does a shallow copy. in java when you say a=b then it just copies the reference. in java a=b.clone() does a shallow copy. ~a
[2005-03-03 10:51:52] - aaron: yes. lots of stuff is native. like system calls. you aren't going to find much non-native code in the System.out.println source. classes for which it isn't suitable/logical you just have to NOT-implement clonable. if you don't implement clonable, then Object.clone will ALREADY throw an exception. read the javadocs for Object.clone ~a
[2005-03-03 10:46:17] - a: So cloning is built into objects, it's just "off" by default, whereas in cpp it is "on" by default (is that true?) - aaron
[2005-03-03 10:43:01] - a: Oh okay, I didn't see an implementation of that method when I was looking at the source for the Object class. I just saw an empty placeholder implementation. I guess that's what "native" means, it means the method isn't implemented with java code - aaron
[2005-03-03 10:40:52] - a: Yes, and then for classes for which that wasn't suitable/logical you could override "clone" to throw an exception... that's definitely a different way of doing things - aaron
[2005-03-03 10:39:43] - aaron: the Object.clone() "method creates a new instance of the class of this object and initializes all its fields with exactly the contents of the corresponding fields of this object, as if by assignment; the contents of the fields are not themselves cloned. Thus, this method performs a 'shallow copy' of this object, not a 'deep copy'" ~a
[2005-03-03 10:38:28] - aaron: wait wait wait. there is an Object.clone() (like miguel said) and it does exactly what i described. ~a
[2005-03-03 10:34:17] - aaron: shallow copy would be the obvious default clone() function. like the way cpp does it. copy it bit for bit (so it would obviously be native) from one object to the other. ~a
[2005-03-03 08:53:15] - If you're saying "it's stupid that when you define a class, if you want to copy instances of that class, then you have to define how to copy instances of that class" then i guess I'd have to hear an alternative that you would consider less stupid - aaron
[2005-03-03 08:51:05] - mig: Plenty of objects make no sense to clone, i.e file output streams... And the "clone" method isn't implemented in Object, so I'm not sure what you mean by that last part - aaron
[2005-03-03 08:41:36] - pierce: i really think cloneable should be implemented on java.lang.object at the very least. it's so stupid you have to implement cloneable to use a function already in object anyway. - mig
[2005-03-03 01:24:35] - I admit that it's not the prettiest thing in the world, and that you're boned if the class you're using (but didn't author) doesn't overload clone(), though... especially if the class is declared final. - pierce
[2005-03-03 01:22:33] - mig: I think conceptually, java just doesn't want to invisibly make a copy of your object without you knowing it. If you really want the equivalent of pass by value, then just overload Object.clone() and call it during your method invocation. - pierce
[2005-03-03 01:20:51] - mig: I assume you mean particular java class instances that you wish were passed by value, because AFAIK primitives are all passed by value. - pierce
[2005-03-03 01:15:59] - 6. This has nothing to do with the author's argument about CEO salaries, but in that case it's his fault for including it in the article: the crack about college professors being overpaid is a red herring if ever I saw one. Besides which, the author is a college professor! If you find the salary that objectionable, quit! - pierce
[2005-03-03 01:10:34] - 5. The article also fails to discuss important factors in CEO salary determination, such as the fact that he or she may be a member of or a direct personal influence upon the group that makes that determination. - pierce
[2005-03-03 01:09:01] - (that was point 4, by the way). - pierce
[2005-03-03 01:08:48] - The cost of keeping CEOs from going to another company is a valid one, but unrelated to the question at hand. What we're looking at is whether the services CEOs provide (decision-making, being a public face/scapegoat for the company) are worth their salaries, and the other cost described is completely incidental to those services. - pierce
[2005-03-03 01:06:19] - 3. The "$300 computer" example is circular reasoning. You can't answer the question of whether CEOs are disproportionately compensated for their services by saying "would companies pay that much for their services if those services weren't worth the money?". - pierce
[2005-03-03 01:03:07] - And while you could make the argument that the other decision makers (including the board of directors and the stockholders) are also rewarded for the success of the company, you'd still have to address the question of whether the CEO was disproportionately rewarded. - pierce
[2005-03-03 01:01:25] - 2. In comparing salaries/bonuses to the increase in revenue, the author erroneously attributes all of the credit for the increase to the CEO. Even disregarding environmental factors like market shifts, there are many more people in a company, and many more creditable decision-makers than just the guy at the top of the food chain. - pierce
[2005-03-03 00:59:42] - If you're going to complain about anecdotal examples of worldcom and enron, then you can't devote most of your argument to anecdotal examples yourself. - pierce
[2005-03-03 00:58:37] - Regarding the wnd CEO compensation article: soooo many logical flaws. 1. In discussing CEOs who have received hefty salaries while they presided over huge increases in revenue, the author is ignoring the discussion of CEOs who get multi-million dollar bonuses even when the company is suffering hard times. - pierce
[2005-03-03 00:55:35] - pierce: i don't know but i certainly thought of a few occassions when in java when i would have preferred to pass some things by value rather than by reference. - mig
[2005-03-03 00:21:30] - a: just out of curiosity, what do you do with pointer arithmetic that's so valuable to you? - pierce
[2005-03-03 00:18:47] - com
[2005-03-02 21:22:42] - a: isn't that what c# is to some extent: references but allows for pointer operations?
[2005-03-02 18:48:22] - i want things to be like java but allow pointer arithmatic. ~a
[2005-03-02 18:48:13] - the most annoying problems: references do not support polymorphism plus you can't do any sort of static upcast or downcast anyways. why is that? references have to point to something, you can't set a reference to null. why is that? basically i can never use references where i want to since polymorphism is so important. ~a
[2005-03-02 18:48:07] - is anyone besides me angry that cpp's references and pointers are so similar but different in annoying ways? i can never decide which one to use, and once i've made my decision, i often have to switch. for those who don't know, you can do more with references than just pass-by-reference. you can create a reference like a variable anywhere. ~a
[2005-03-02 18:04:18] - I like how the counter-argument is: "There's a very strong video game industry in this state that we want to support. We don't want to bring undo attention to an area where there's actually jobs being created, where there's actually some good economic development in our state" -Paul
[2005-03-02 18:03:54] - http://komonews.com/stories/35494.htm Bill Would Hold Game Makers Accountable For Players' Actions -Paul
[2005-03-02 17:20:11] - 7 = 22 + 12 + 12 + 12. 15 = 32 + 22 + 12 + 12. ~a
[2005-03-02 17:18:36] - aaron: however, every number can be represented as a sum of four squares (i have the proof but it gets complicated to prove it for primes; after you prove it for primes the rest is dead simple). ~a
[2005-03-02 17:17:40] - no. 7 and 15 (for example). ~a
[2005-03-02 16:36:23] - a: Can every number be represented as a sum of three squares? - aaron
[2005-03-02 15:12:12] - aaron: all 50 of them. ~a
[2005-03-02 15:04:11] - a: How many digits in that fourth number are actually digits of pi? I don't recognize anything past 279 - aaron
[2005-03-02 13:36:34] - paul: Anal paul would be allowed if I understand the list - aaron
[2005-03-02 13:19:04] - http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43107 Are CEOs overpaid? -Paul
[2005-03-02 12:58:09] - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961/ Going last may be best. -Paul
[2005-03-02 12:45:08] - 692 + 7409954655270186045062852 + 36891992463199545694942182 = 14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 ~a
[2005-03-02 11:58:56] - Does that mean "Anal Paul" would be allowed? -Paul
[2005-03-02 11:58:46] - Aaron: There were a few on there which I guess I don't understand (I think "go me" was the biggest). I'm also not sure why they needed to explicitly ban stuff like "Anal Annie" when "Anal" was already banned. -Paul
[2005-03-02 11:54:30] - paul: I'm a little confused by "budweiser" but really confused by "go me" - aaron
[2005-03-02 11:17:11] - a: Despite the serious nature of the matter, I thought that article had a few funny parts to it. -Paul
[2005-03-02 11:16:12] - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1502387,00.html Wife’s Lib makes Indian divorce soar -Paul
[2005-03-02 11:14:10] - "She asserts that when plaintiff 'delivered' his sperm, it was a gift. There was no agreement that the original deposit would be returned upon request." oh my god, that is so fed up. ~a
[2005-03-02 11:05:32] - http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=521955 Women unhappy with Schwarzenegger's remarks. -Paul
[2005-03-02 11:03:01] - http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/02/24/national/a095250S07.DTL Court: Man Can Sue Over Surprise Pregnancy -Paul
[2005-03-02 10:38:17] - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=402&e=5&u=/ibsys/20050301/lo_kgtv/2607389 State Lawmakers Consider Calif. Mileage Tax -Paul
[2005-03-02 10:33:06] - http://outsports.com/nfl/2005/0301nflshopnaughtywords.htm This is the list of "naughty" words not allowed on personalized jerseys at the NFL Shop. Words are probably not safe for work, but there are no bad pictures. -Paul
[2005-03-02 10:09:20] - a: Thanks for the heads up. -Paul
[2005-03-02 10:09:12] - a: Oh, wow, so he actually was correct in his spelling and usage of the word. I hadn't even considered that as a possibility.
-Paul[2005-03-02 10:04:10] - "an electronic device that must be attached to a computer in order for it to use protected software" ~a
[2005-03-02 10:03:15] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle ~a
[2005-03-02 10:02:25] - dongle is a piece of hardware. it's sometimes used to verify that a user isn't pirating software by checking if the hardware is plugged into the computer. ~a
[2005-03-02 09:47:02] - Aaron: Yeah, I think it's mentioned a couple of times and I can't even think of what he could be intending to say there. -Paul
[2005-03-02 09:40:55] - paul: http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/tickets43.htm as in "said he has broken his dongle, would like a replacement?" I don't know but it made me crack up - aaron
[2005-03-01 17:50:45] - Aaron: What is this dongle that keeps getting referred to? -Paul
[2005-03-01 17:42:05] - Aaron: http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/tickets21.htm -Paul
[2005-03-01 17:35:32] - My favorite was http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/tickets3.htm "her hole area can not send externail emails" - aaron
[2005-03-01 17:34:19] - paul: What page is that? that's a great one! - aaron
[2005-03-01 17:12:45] - Aaron: "she said i went completely dry" Priceless.
-Paul[2005-03-01 16:49:12] - http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/ logs from a very bad helpdesk technician. - aaron
[2005-03-01 16:48:25] - a: Yes that is true. They may make an exception if you are travelling in reverse at the speed of light but i'm not sure, my memory on the subject is foggy - aaron
[2005-03-01 16:21:44] - and if the speed limit is 15mph, then you can't go in reverse faster than 5mph? ~a
[2005-03-01 16:19:41] - By which I mean, places where it would be implicitly prohibited (not explicitly prohibited, like fire lanes...) - aaron
[2005-03-01 16:18:55] - a: I can't think of places with 20 mph speed limits where stopping would be prohibited, so I imagine the rule stands - aaron
[2005-03-01 15:44:45] - or 15mph? ~a
[2005-03-01 15:44:28] - aaron:
what if the speed limit is 20mph? ~a[2005-03-01 14:55:13] - http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=970 Some polling results for the academy awards. -Paul
[2005-03-01 13:56:07] - they feel entitled to because of the zipper rule (basically alternating cars). Both have their positive and negatives and neither is really illegal or even wrong (perhaps that article disagrees with me) but people can feel very different about it. -Paul
[2005-03-01 13:54:55] - Aaron: Exactly. I think merging is the best example I can think of. I always like to merge early, using my signal, and being grateful when people let me in since I feel like I am cutting in front of them in a way. Other people like to wait until the lane literally starts merging into the other one and move over without a turn signal because... -Pau
[2005-03-01 13:46:33] - paul: A perfect example is merging. I carpooled to work with someone who never signalled when he merged, and he got annoyed by people who treated it like a lane change. He also always followed people closely in heavy traffic, rationalizing that if everybody did the same, there would be less traffic
- aaron[2005-03-01 13:44:17] - a: For the record, minimum legal driving speed (unless explicitly posted) is 20 mph under the posted maximum speed limit - aaron
[2005-03-01 13:39:20] - a: And even if some other guy thought his driving habit of waiting until the last second to merge over was good, I still wouldn't like it and would get annoyed when people do it to me, even if it's not particularly rational. -Paul
[2005-03-01 13:31:09] - a: I don't think I really let how people feel about my driving affect me any unless I can see their point of view and agree with it. If people tell me I merge over to the other lane too early and I think it over and agree, I will merge over later. If I don't agree, then I probably wouldn't change how I drive. -Paul
[2005-03-01 13:29:22] - a: I wouldn't do it because I don't think it saves much time, if any. If my mom thought it was stupid and gets pissed off at people who make right turns, that wouldn't stop me from doing it. -Paul
[2005-03-01 13:27:44] - paul: you're holding yourself to a higher standard. you end up NOT pissing off people like your mom, because you never do it. and you aren't pissed off by people who do it. so relative to you everybody is happy. ~a
[2005-03-01 13:26:08] - paul: re: the library thing. you think "it's stupid and silly that such a thing is illegal" . . . but it's something that you yourself would never do, right? ~a
[2005-03-01 13:22:57] - a: I'm not sure I follow. My point is that there really aren't varying levels of goodness in terms of driving habits. Just a bunch of people with different ideas of what is good. -Paul
[2005-03-01 13:19:52] - paul: which is why it's dangerous to hold people up to the same (or higher) standards than you hold for yourself . . . there's no room for error: either everybody has exactly the same standards, or people are (varrying levels of) unhappy. ~a
[2005-03-01 13:14:29] - I've been in cars where I've wryly noted that the driver is driving exactly like the type of person that I get annoyed at when I am driving and they are yelling at people who drive like I typically drive. -Paul
[2005-03-01 13:13:28] - And I think a lot of driving is like that. People can have totally opposite opinions on what is good and reasonable in terms of driving habits while thinking the opposite is just horrible. -Paul
[2005-03-01 13:13:08] - aaron: in cases like that, i would agree. it's probably best for you to wake that person up to reality. on the other hand, driving 15 in a 35 is probably illegal (and unsafe) anyways. ~a
[2005-03-01 13:12:08] - Mig: The reason why it reminds me of that is because I think it's stupid and silly that such a thing is illegal and my mom thinks it's great and she enjoys it when the cops sit there and ticket people and she thinks the people who get caught are stupid. -Paul
[2005-03-01 13:11:19] - Mig: It sort of reminds me of the library that my mom works at. The library is at the corner of the intersection of two roads and it has an entrance/exit at both roads and it's illegal for people to "cut through" and enter through one entrance and exit through the other. -Paul
[2005-03-01 12:58:00] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/02/25/polling.cell.users.ap/index.html difficulties in polling cell-phone-only people - aaron
[2005-03-01 12:55:02] - I mean you don't have to be rude and tailgate and lean on your horn but at least honking once or something? I think in some cases people are just oblivious or they don't know what they're doing is wrong - aaron
[2005-03-01 12:54:34] - So if you're on West Ox, a heavily trafficked 2-lane road with a 35 mph speed limit and no passing lanes. The person ahead of you is (legally) travelling 15 miles an hour and there is a 30 car lineup behind you. You don't think it would benefit the majority to hint to the person that it might be polite to drive faster? - aaron
[2005-03-01 12:52:52] - a: So you're saying that people deserve your scorn in life-threatening situations, but they don't deserve your scorn in trivial situations. I guess i can't argue with that - aaron
[2005-03-01 12:39:12] - if a guy cuts me off going 30 mph (when i'm going 60mph) it is VERY unsafe. the guy deserves to be honked at because 25% of the times he does that, one of the two of us will die. on the other hand, if he wants to NOT use his turnsignal when nobody is on the road (although using my turnsignal something i always do), i'm not going to fault him for it. ~a
[2005-03-01 12:39:06] - aaron: it's because i seperate things better than most people. it's really goes into the differences between "the standards i set for myself" and "the standards i hold other people up to". ~a
[2005-03-01 12:32:06] - If a line of cars comes up behind you in the left lane and honks, and you get out of their way, you can either ignore them (which is fair) or get out of their way (accomodate the needs of the many) so I thought it was pretty similar - aaron
[2005-03-01 12:30:58] - a: I guess i don't understand your distinction about driving to accomodate the needs of the many, then. - aaron
[2005-03-01 12:21:35] - s/no/now
[2005-03-01 12:21:26] - paul: horray, no police have more excuses to steal money from people! - mig
[2005-03-01 12:14:51] - i think that's a completely different issue. driving over 55 mph in the left lane is technically illegal. although i think refusing to drive over 55 mph can be unsafe and wrong, i don't see the point in being upset with someone for it. ~a
[2005-03-01 12:11:21] - a: right, sounds like our argument about driving 55 mph in the left lane. - aaron
[2005-03-01 12:09:16] - "The fastest way of moving traffic is to have altruistic drivers, If you have selfish or self-centered drivers, traffic doubles in time." i think this means driving "fairly" doesn't really even help anything, you have to go two steps beyond "unfair" and go directly to "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". ~a
[2005-03-01 12:07:21] - n/m i guess it talks about both. ~a
[2005-03-01 11:59:29] - aaron: i think the article is talking about illegally cutting in line. what you're talking about is different. ~a
[2005-03-01 11:35:09] - dave: I will definitely find out more about octave. -mel
[2005-03-01 11:34:53] - dave: yes, I agree with you. It starts to seem worth it once you think about development time. thanks for the heads up about octave.
-mel[2005-03-01 11:31:57] - paul: Hooray. I hate when people do that, there's a few roads near my house that narrow from 4 lanes to 2 and on busy days it really annoys me when people go down the empty lanes waiting to cut over at the last second - aaron
[2005-03-01 11:09:17] - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002192177_lanecheaters28m.html Police writing tickets for cutting in line in traffic. Includes a quote from a Virginia Tech scientist. -Paul
[2005-03-01 10:55:33] - Don't forget the "death sticks" from Episode Two.
[2005-03-01 10:52:22] - Mig: Constantine smoked a lot and he was a hero but the fact that smoking gave him lung cancer was a major part of the movie.
-Paul[2005-03-01 10:35:23] - horray for social engineering! - mig
[2005-03-01 10:34:52] - paul: i also recall that most of the time whenever someone smokes on tv, they are depicted as evil, and most everyone who drinks is depicted as an alcoholic. - mig
[2005-03-01 10:31:53] - paul: so that's why i'm watching less and less tv..... - mig
[2005-03-01 10:28:42] - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1502343,00.html Actors’ revolt silences the TV guns -Paul
[2005-03-01 08:49:59] - for the academic price to download it from vt servers. - mig
[2005-03-01 08:49:43] - Well Visual Studio by itself is pretty pricey, around $700, but you can get the individual components like just the C# and C++ compiler for like $100 each. Don't know how much the acadmeic prices are those but it might only be for visual studio. Of course, I don't think they sell them in stores anymore, since at tech they made people who wanted it
[2005-03-01 08:28:36] - http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3d9b6fee-892d-11d9-b7ed-00000e2511c8.html Top Music labels trying to raise prices on music downloads. You'd think the whole online music thing would have enlightened them... -dave
[2005-03-01 08:23:36] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/02/28/sony.pizza.order.ap/index.html ordering pizza from inside EQ2. -dave
[2005-03-01 07:31:09] - mel: If you need a free MATLAB tool, Octave is a GNU tool that does most of the stuff MATLAB does. -dave
[2005-03-01 07:30:32] - mel: yeah, it seems like a huge price. But on the other hand, if you think about how much development time has to go into them, and then also that most jobs are impossible without the tools, then you start to see how they can be "worth" that much to a company - although most times people still think they're too expensive -dave
[2005-03-01 07:29:17] - aba: yeah, orcad / pspice doesn't let you simulate circuits above a certain size for the student version. MATLAB student version lets you do everything though. The big limitaiton on student versions though is that you can't use it to make/create anything that goes into a commercial product. -dave
[2005-02-28 20:00:05] - i know a lot of the stat software that i used didnt package as much stuff in the student versions. - aba
[2005-02-28 18:52:06] - dave: wow. Thats such a big difference. On one hand its cool theres a discount for students, but on the other hand, it sucks to have to pay that much now. -mel
[2005-02-28 18:42:42] - mel: I'd wager stuff like Visual Studio etc has that disparity too -dave
[2005-02-28 18:41:44] - mel: actually, I think it's worse than that. If you add in all the toolboxes, MATLAB commercially ends up being like >$2k. It's still like ~$100 for students. Same with like other stuff like Orcad/PSPICE though. It's like $50 student, but like $2k commercial -ddave
[2005-02-28 16:04:07] - did you know student Matlab is $99 but Matlab for regular working folks is ~$500? -mel
[2005-02-28 15:45:31] - http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_id=704 Detailed comparison of Microsoft Technical Support vs Psychic Friends Network. -mel
[2005-02-28 12:20:10] - dave: yeah i saw that when i typed the entry but decided to post it anyways and see if anyone noticed. ~a
[2005-02-28 11:30:34] - mig: looks like the moss / coles deal fell through because coles wants a new contract -dave
[2005-02-28 11:29:50] - a: you can also construe that sentence to be saying that sun made unix the world standard, not made unix as in created it. -dave
[2005-02-28 11:20:47] - 1) Microsoft Technical Support and the Psychic Friends Network are about equal in their ability to provide technical assistance for Microsoft products over the phone 2) the Psychic Friends Network has a distinct edge over Microsoft in the areas of courtesy, response time, and cost of support; but 3) Microsoft has a generally better refund policy if they fail to solve your problem.
[2005-02-28 10:22:56] - "[John Gilmore] was employee No. 5 at Sun Microsystems, which made Unix, the free software of the Web, the world standard." aren't there a bunch of things wrong with this? 1. unix wasn't made at bell labs? 2. unix is free? 3. sun's solaris is free? ~a
[2005-02-28 08:48:10] - http://washingtontimes.com/sports/20050228-125627-1431r.htm samari rolle to the redskins most likely. - mig
[2005-02-25 12:36:30] - Mig: I would think the Jets would get the better end of the deal there, but Washington might not have any other choice if Coles really wants out. -Paul
[2005-02-25 12:10:38] - speaking of loony trades, i just heard on the radio that the skins are trading coles to the jets for santana moss. - mig
[2005-02-25 10:30:12] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/25/roadkill.candy.ap/index.html road kill candy angers animal activists - aaron
[2005-02-25 10:00:53] - Brad Miller was a solid player before moving to Sacramento and now he's a great center (in terms of stats). Kenney Thomas is just one season removed from being a pretty solid player himself (he was a double-double machine last year). -Paul
[2005-02-25 10:00:04] - Also, I think it's possible that Kenny Thomas could step into Webber's role and put up almost the same stats as Webber while being more effective on the defensive end. I think the system plays a large part of why Webber had such good stats. -Paul
[2005-02-25 09:48:45] - webber had gotten a decent amount of flak in Sacramento as well -dave
[2005-02-25 09:42:33] - Vinnie: The Christie trade made a little bit of sense to me in that I think Mobley is about as good. I think Webber was traded because the Kings realized that they could only keep Webber or Peja next year and they decided to go with the younger and less injury prone player. -Paul
[2005-02-25 09:40:37] - vinnie: one of the articles said that part of the webber trade might have been peja's unhappiness, but they weren't sure -dave
[2005-02-25 09:34:55] - yeah, what are the Kings doing? I didn't like the Christie trade or the Webber trade. I don't know the economics of it; maybe that's it - vinnie
[2005-02-25 07:13:21] - Paul: yeah, the webber deal was pretty shocking, although it makes some sense because of peja. I think I hated seeing christie go more though -dave
[2005-02-24 17:18:47] - Travis: Yeah, so many deals that don't make any sense to me. It boggles the mind. It's sad that the Webber deal makes the most sense to me out of all the deals done today.
-Paul[2005-02-24 16:58:04] - and that's not to mention all the other deals, baron davis to warriors, van horn to mavs, isiah mucking up the knicks again - travis
[2005-02-24 16:20:41] - Travis: Looks like we were thinking the same thing.
-Paul[2005-02-24 16:20:23] - http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1998923 Oh no... -Paul
[2005-02-24 16:17:33] - paul: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1998923 haha, you wanted them to get rid of payton but did you want walker back to do it?
- travis[2005-02-24 09:45:20] - Travis: That one I wasn't as surprised about. For whatever reason, Moss and the Raiders seem like a perfect fit to me. -Paul
[2005-02-24 09:41:19] - http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1998159 and of course the other deal that everyone's heard about by now, randy moss supposedly going to the raiders - travis
[2005-02-24 09:30:26] - Dave: Can you believe the Webber trade? I thought the Kings might've wanted to get rid of him but I'm still surprised. -Paul
[2005-02-24 08:34:43] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050223-4645.html Dual-Core Athlon 64 demo. Expected in 2nd half of 2005. Will be socket 939, and current 939 mobo's can use it with a BIOS update. -dave
[2005-02-24 08:12:11] - the 30 year old was a female teacher -dave
[2005-02-24 08:11:49] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/23/teacher.sex.arrest.ap/index.html 30 year old teaching intern found having sex with 16 year old student. Apparently they found them in a car with the windows steamed up...and the teacher's toddler in the backseat -dave
[2005-02-24 08:02:58] - http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&id=1998501 Webber traded to the 76ers. 0_o -dave
[2005-02-23 14:15:16] - http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/58023 old article about spyware products that are not removed by spyware scanning software. thy spyware are called "'Spyware SAFE' and are left intact on the systems of the software's users. [the] products did not change, back rubs were simply exchanged." ~a
[2005-02-23 14:03:18] - Dave: Wow, and their stock doesn't seem to be reflecting that at all. They're going to have such a huge bump in membership soon. -Paul
[2005-02-23 13:58:51] - http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMVZF77ESD_0.html I like the ESA's interface for its photos. They have a nice rotating Mars graphic and you can click on any of the images you want to see high-res photos for. -mel
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