5661. Max (dssstudentsxp.deans.wesleyan.edu) –
12 Apr 2007 14:44:39
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
It would be nice to allow authors to put in links to other levels in comments, especially if it is a mod of an existing level. |
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Yeah, that doc would have been pretty helpful, but I think I've learned pretty much everything on there... (the command-` thing and apple-O being the biggest stumbling blocks for me) |
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Also, apparently Janice really likes the program Quicksilver, which is what the Apple people copied when they came up with Spotlight. It's supposed to be faster. |
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Someone just passed along this link to me (guide to switching to a mac from a PC) ... it seems like a pretty handy reference.
lifehacker.com/software/mac/hack-attack-a-guide-for-switching-to-a-mac-224674.php |
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5655. Tom 7 (pool-71-253-25-198.pitbpa.east.verizon.net) –
12 Apr 2007 10:09:13
[ Happy Easter ]
Bizarre. Well, I added the charset to my HTTP headers, but I don't think this was the problem: for a long time I've put Unicode characters in the RSS feed without any problems (probably because of client-side detection or defaults different from RFC 3023).. it's just that character 27 seems to cause some parsers to choke. ESC is ASCII even, it's just not printable. |
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5654. mike kenny (user-208-64-115-54.lahey.org) –
12 Apr 2007 09:52:03
[ Scooped again! ]
haha, i picture many drunken belt-buckle bottle-openings ending up either with foamy beer firing down the front of the pants, or the bottle slipping and hitting the belt-buckle operator in the junk.
and then class action lawsuits! ;) |
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5651. D (gs5012.sp.cs.cmu.edu) –
11 Apr 2007 19:42:06
[ Scooped again! ]
That's pretty awesome. I think it just edges out the belt-buckle whiskey flask I once saw. Planning on getting one? |
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5650. nothings (adsl-71-141-228-92.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) –
11 Apr 2007 19:08:24
[ Happy Easter ]
Huh, I just coincidentally bumped into this on the web...
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/07/21/dive.html
"According to RFC 3023, every single one of those cached feeds being served as text/xml has a character encoding of us-ascii, not the encoding declared in the XML declaration. [...] Over 20% of the feeds I surveyed weren't even served with an XML content type, so they're automatically ill-formed. The vast majority of the rest were served as text/xml with no charset parameter. These could be well-formed, but RFC 3023 says they must be treated as us-ascii. But many contained non-ASCII characters, so they were not well-formed. They were properly encoded, but not properly served. That is, they were encoded in some non-ASCII character encoding that the publisher carefully declared in the XML declaration -- which must be ignored because of the HTTP Content-Type."
Of course that was 2004 so maybe the rules have changed since.
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Except really I like acoustic guitars much more than electric ones, and the only auto-tuning acoustic guitar is $14,500...! |
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5648. Tom 7 (h-66-167-250-12.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
11 Apr 2007 09:18:44
[ Urghhhhh ]
Well, usually I like at least one of those... |
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5647. Arthur (ctwboo101.ctw.utwente.nl) –
11 Apr 2007 08:01:28
[ Urghhhhh ]
Don't we all? |
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5642. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) –
10 Apr 2007 17:55:44
[ Urghhhhh ]
Also, yes, I fixed my RSS feed. As far as I can tell by reading the specifications, it was a legal XML document (0x1B = ESC appears to be a legal Unicode character, and the XML spec says that documents can contain any Unicode characters with a few specific exceptions). But more than just Livejournal was rejecting it, so I figured I'd just remove the offensive byte for those parsers that are not yet ready for our Space Future. |
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5641. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) –
10 Apr 2007 17:47:56
[ Urghhhhh ]
And now my headphones broke. |
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5640. Cortney (cmu-211462.andrew.cmu.edu) –
10 Apr 2007 17:46:10
[ Urghhhhh ]
Yes, now your blog is all angsty like LJ.
Have you checked to see if the radar LJ feed is fixed? I think it is. |
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5639. Max (c-24-2-139-110.hsd1.ct.comcast.net) –
10 Apr 2007 17:33:57
[ SIGBOVIK'd ]
Man I love Vargomax. |
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5638. jcreed (pool-70-20-118-116.pitt.east.verizon.net) –
10 Apr 2007 11:06:52
[ SIGBOVIK'd ]
The secret of grad school is doing things in the free time you don't have.
The Lulu proceedings are now linked to from sigbovik.org, and a copy ordered from them has been given to our secret nerd spy operative planted in a high-level position in the the library administration.
The book looks great, much better than depicted on the website. It is truly the super executive deluxe edition, for it has Mark Stehlik's (pseudonymous) contribution, and Greg Hanneman's "uh" paper, neither of which made it into the at-conference proceedings. |
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Yeah, you can see some of the smooth text at the right. Was it like a faxed-in wrong-deinterlacing GIF? |
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The best part is, the rest of the check is actually quite clear. Excellent length, much improved. |
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5632. mike (robot.me.cmu.edu) –
09 Apr 2007 16:49:23
[ Happy Easter ]
I pre-reject all of my conference papers with a red "REJECTED" stamp. |
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5631. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) –
09 Apr 2007 15:36:59
[ Happy Easter ]
You're not supposed to cop to such pooness until the paper is rejected/accepted... ;) |
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5630. Nels (dns1.pitairport.com) –
09 Apr 2007 15:10:35
[ Happy Easter ]
"I simply can't write something that big that fast if I want it to not be a pile of poo."
For supporting evidence, see my recent IROS submission. |
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5629. mike (robot.me.cmu.edu) –
09 Apr 2007 01:01:32
[ Happy Easter ]
That could have been at LEAST 4 posts right there. |
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5628. gwillen (chinchilla.wv.cc.cmu.edu) –
08 Apr 2007 20:33:52
[ SIGBOVIK'd ]
He writes WikiPLia for and April 1 conference, and you ask if he has free time? He obviously has way too much. |
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5627. Arthur (p54807e27.dip.t-dialin.net) –
08 Apr 2007 19:02:39
[ SIGBOVIK'd ]
Do you even have free time? |
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5625. yeah (ool-4576d989.dyn.optonline.net) –
07 Apr 2007 21:10:07
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
I got a 2030 on the NEW SAT, but I had very spaced out scores (two were in the 700s and one was in the 600s)
I think the 'anonymous' comment above (the extremely long, yet detailed one) says it all. Obviously, you need to be getting at least a 2000 on the NEW SAT to even attempt Ivy-League Universities, but above a 2100 is typical for any of them: [Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, UPenn, Yale].
Don't worry though, there are over 4,000 Undergraduate Universities that are out there. There is a college for everyone, and don't be discouraged by low SAT/ACT scores, or by a low GPA. Extracurricular activities, personal statements(essay), volunteer work, job experience, athletics, etc. are equally as important.
Extremely selective schools rarely accept more than 15% of their applicants anyways. For example, Harvard only accepts 11% of its total applicants each year, meaning that out of the 15,000+ students that apply, only about 1,650 are selected. Schools like Tufts, University of Chicago, Stanford, Duke, Amherst, Williams, etc. are almost as good (if not as good) as the Ivy's, but are not as highly regarded because they do not have Ivy status.
Just remember that life is not based around SAT scores. |
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