Honestly, it has been years. The last time I checked all X apps ran in a single window on OSX. At least my Mac buddies claimed that was the best they could do. Maybe I will give it another shot?

"you know, the main technical drawback to mac osx, is the lack of x...."

One main reason I have never moved to max was the limited support for X the last time I checked.

So technically you are correct because I don't use a mac due to their technical limitations.

All that's missing is some mention of hosts files.

I just wanted to notify you, informally, that you've infringed upon my patent that details a process for complaining about patents. I'll make sure that my lawyers send you the appropriate notice paperwork by the end of next week.

Back in the day, a story wasn't a story until it hit slashdot at least three times, a trupe.

I still remember seeing a story duped on the front page just a couple of posts between the two, like the "editors" didn't even look at the site.

Maybe google should have selected users based on pretentiousness? This glasshole thing may limit their adoption long-term more than any technology issue.

Not sure what to blame the g+ failure on. I went to check that wasteland again today. After the reader debacle I have lost a lot of faith.

Maybe I start the bing? Does it work with the tubes?

Come tomorrow, I guess I should stop by the Department Chair's office and let him know that he should revoke my endowed scholar position, let alone the positions of my colleagues, as we're all apparently fools.

I chuckled heartily over this, especially considering that Autodesk hasn't released a native 3DS Max binary for OS X.

Private entities rarely, if at all, focus a majority of their efforts into pure research, unlike the national labs. Funding pure research, which is one of the few actions that the US Government at least does halfway correctly, is ultimately essential if we are to progress the state of the art and thus create new fields and products that are ripe for commercialization.

Don't you still have freedom to associate? They are just keeping tabs on whom you associate with.

I would stick with privacy (which is not in the constitution). Just unreasonable search and seizure AFAIK.

I just started playing around with scratch, which lets you get stuff running easily without hardware headaches.

Simple stuff like making a sprite move or make noise in response to keypresses is pretty cool for little kids. And me.

The other think I like about it is the format. "Code" still looks like code, with nested for/if statements.

It can be slow ans it breaks down for medium to complex stuff, but making crappy flash games is easy. And they apparently have a decent version for dealing with NXT robots...

Arctic is shrinking and Antarctic is growing. Global mean appears flat to me.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg/

I thought we were going to all be killed by global warming hurricanes? Or is that off topic?

Anyone near Augusta GA or Columbia SC should check out the big mo. Three screens and apparently going strong!

http://www.thebigmo.com/

Kids activities, good food selection, and double features on each screen. They started talking about the transition years ago, hopefully they will survive.

If we are getting 1080p on 5" phones you hold 10" from your eyes, I want similar resolution on my 30" desktop that I sit 20" from.

Maybe my math is wrong, but 2x distance should require 1/2 the pixel density. But 6x the size would be something around 6000x3000 on my desktop I think. I am happy with 2650x1600, but it could use 4x the pixels I guess.

I am happy with 52" 1080p in my den at 8' but 4k would be better...

I have been craving more pixels since I found I could make my 486 33 run some games in xga mode, getting 1024x768 amazing pixels.

Diff EQ and Linear Algebra were also very shaky for me, they did not make sense until later in grad school when I finally found more relevant physical examples. Now I review them in engineering courses when I teach and I make a point to pull out various applications more explicitly.

I wish math profs would do a better job on this topic. At GT I had a great prof that taught calculus for engineers. He got it. Some math profs don't. They won't let engineering profs teach basic math from accreditation standpoint AFAIK, even though it is like requiring a novelist teach basic grammar.