I wasn't trying to slam windows. In fact, at the time I was a 100% windows user. I just thought it would be fun to mention an interesting place to see windows since I didn't have any interesting linux locations to report. I doubt anyone who passed the machine would have had any idea that it was running windows if it wasn't for the fact that it had a BSOD up.

I always write See ID on my card in place of a signature. Sometimes they even look at it and ask for my ID! When they do I always make sure to thank them for asking. I realize this doesn't help if my credit card number is stolen, but at least it might help somewhat if someone were to steal my wallet. The signature system is a joke.

I've never seen linux anywhere weird, but one time I saw an arcade game (I want to say it was San Francisco Rush but it could have been some other racing game as it was 2002) that had a classic windows BSOD displaying instead of the game.

I've been visiting slashdot for about the same amount of time. Yesterday I was redirected to the beta. I immediately logged in to look for a way to set it to default to classic, but couldn't find one. The day that classic slashdot is gone is the last day I'll visit slashdot.

Unfortunately most people don't realize that there are multiple types of ADHD, and often confuse it with the inattentive branch (that was formerly called ADD). The best thing you can do is educate those who misunderstand.

I couldn't tell you. I cut the cord three years ago and haven't looked back. Sure I don't get to see the latest and greatest things, and must instead wait for video/netflix, but it's been worth it.

I came here to say this. My wife and I enjoy ingress immensely. It's not a traditional mmo in the way people think of mmos, but it's a lot of fun.

A lot of learning Math is learning problem solving skills, or even more importantly it's about learning how to learn new problem solving skills. Sure there are many advanced Math skills that can be useful in industry, but learning how to think about problems in multiple ways can be helpful for developing solutions to problems. Additionally, Math can be useful for determining complexity and optimizing programs.

It sounds to me like you're more interested in software development than in computer science. These two fields are often confused for each other, but are certainly not the same thing.

The only thing I'm likely to find torrents of would be pirated copies of textbooks. A digital textbook and dead tree textbook are going to be pretty comparable. I was referring to non-textbook materials, as that's what the parent and GP post were about.

When I've looked I've come across a complete lack of material for most topics beyond say third semester calculus and second semester differential equations that one can read to actually learn a subject. While there are certainly some example problems out there, a cohesive narration of how to go about solving more advanced problems especially with a consistent notation seems to be lacking. Sure there's resources like Pauls Online Math Notes, but that drops off before then. Wikipedia has some formulas and descriptions, but often doesn't have example problems. For many topics, you can find small pieces of information all over the web, but if you want to actually read up on a specific subject I haven't seen anything on the internet that rivals a good old fashioned text book.

Now, I don't see any reason for there to be new editions as often as there are. Many of the textbooks I read in my spare time are actually pretty old, but outside of some of the topics that rely on technology there isn't a whole lot of reason to have new editions. Even something such as numerical analysis (which should probably have a technology based theme for CAS) doesn't really need to be updated very often as the algorithms don't change, just the languages that may be used.

Perhaps I'm just biased, but a well written text book seems much more useful than gleaning bits of information from a variety of sources that all use different notations and symbols for learning about a topic in math.

That may be the case in some fields, but in most cases I haven't seen materials available online that compare to the texts that I use as a student in advanced mathematics.

*WOOSH*

Am I the only one who misread as "...it interesting to pit pigeons..."? I was just thinking jeez, can't we just leave birds alone? First sparrows, now pigeons?

I'm not sure how well the GPS is going to work inside the buildings I spend most of my day inside of. Having a pedometer on my phone seems to work much better than any pedometer that I've ever used in the past as it doesn't accidentally get reset, and I don't have to worry about clipping it somewhere just to have it count my steps.

Well that would certainly break the pedometer apps out there.