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House Buying Tips
I have not posted anything lately because: A) I had to write a paper that ended up being half the size of my Masters thesis, in less than two weeks, and it was about a computer program that I also had to write, myself, from scratch; and B) V and I have been in the…
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Read This or Else
So I finished my last and only exam today. The following occured to me: In grad school, it’s not really writing exams that matters, but the threat of writing exams. See, marks don’t really matter. In a grad course, everyone is going to get a good mark no matter how well (or poorly) they do…
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Magic Numbers
I’ve blabbed a bit about DRM here before, mostly in the context of music. However, it’s also a problem with movies. I don’t know if any non-geeks noticed this, but the controversy over DRM came to a hilarious climax over the last few days. HD-DVDs, one of the new high-definition versions of DVD, are all…
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