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(...) How are kids placed in different classes? Do the teachers nominate them? Is there a test? Don't be afraid to ask a teacher, guidance counselor, administrator, school board member, or even your parents about this stuff. It definitely shouldn't (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Huh. Well, often test taking skill is different from either intelligence or ability to get As. Are you doing really well in your current class (100% or above if you teacher believes in extra credit)? If so, you might want to talk to your (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Jeremy: (...) Since they just use evolutionary programming to _design_ constructions, I doubt that they would ever need Mindstorms. Their claims about the lightness of the table[1] is most dubious. Alone the fact that it isn't symmetric. And just (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I saw this on Slashdot today. Seems some folks calling themselves the "Dynamical & Evolutionary Machine Organization", and funded partially by the Office of naval Research, are using Lego bricks and evolutionary programming to determine optimal (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) one (...) of the year since 2nd grade (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And you're in the same school system? Did you take a test of some sort? (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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When I was in 6th grade I was the 2nd smartest person in my math class and one of my friends got C's while I got A's and B's but when we went to Middle School he got Pre-Algerbra and I got general Math. Is there any explanation for this? and this (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (URL) program. A little slow the last time I tried it, but free. (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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[ FUT lugnet.off-topic.geek ] Doc: (...) I don't get as far as connecting to _any_ Linux machine. (...) Where can I pick that up? Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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This coming Tuesday, Tim Berners-Lee will be speaking about his book Weaving the Web at MIT, 7 p.m. MIT 34-101, Edgerton Center, 50 Vassar St. between Main St. and Mass Ave., Cambridge. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I have used the product under NT. It isn't very stable. But it works. The problem is that your apps are looking for fonts that you haven't installed into the X server on the Mac. There is a faq for MI/X on their site, which includes a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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[ XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek ] Mike Stanley: (...) Didn't work. There is some kind of font problems that don't make sense. (...) I am not a Mac person either. - And I would like to stay that way (but still get the d*** thing to work). No plain and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) c /pooling of interest/purchase transaction/ meaning dilutive to TSFW stockholders. (...) I'll say. PS to Eric and others. I hope so! Our product has already been integrated with Mercator behind the scenes and it will be a dot release or in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sounds a little more fun that just having your division's intellectual property purchased. (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I use TSI's Mercator product all the time in my job at IBM. I actually like the product alot it is a very powerful and flexible extraction tool that we use for getting data out of SAP and loading Data Warehouses. Who know's maybe we will bump (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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[ FUT lugnet.publish ] Matthew: [...] (...) Would you care to give a lazy web site manager a hint for doing this with Apache? Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Heh. I used to work for Systemhouse... getting acquired begins to wear after the 4th or 5th time. :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just as a "you might find this interesting", it was announced today that TSI Software has acquired us. (URL) (pdf version of release) (URL) (FAQ and html version of release) TSI Software is a leading EAI vendor, about 11 times bigger than us, and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you're the site admin, there's not a security problem. The security issue is with letting your _users_ use SSI, because those commands execute as the user which owns the web server. Which, if you don't trust your users, is a bad thing. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) My ISP (io.com) serves .shtml so they expire quickly (I believe but haven't tested), but .html files with the executable file attribute (using XBitHack) are served as if they were static, even with SSI code. I use the XBitHack approach. It's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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