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Is it me, or does it seem like these nifty handheld things from (Sony and Nintendo) are not catching on very fast? I am a console owner, and plan to upgrade whenever the PS3 comes out and all that jazz, but I have felt pretty much zero interest in these new handhelds, at least among my friends and peers.

Maybe I'm just in the wrong demographic, but I remember when the Gameboy came out oh so many years ago and we all rushed to the store to grab one. It just doesn't seem like people are that excited about having one more handheld device to carry around.

Finally, as a person in a hiring position, I do not consider them at all, and am definitely prejudiced against someone who puts them on their resume.

I would agree with this, if the candidate had limited experience, but then had a low-tier certification. This might indicate an obvious attempt to simply beef up the resume. So I'm not going to come right out and call you a complete ass, since you might have a point in this circumstance.

However, for an already good candidate, one with several years experience, and a well-considered, higher-teir certification (like the RHCE), the certification should push them over other like-experienced candidates with no certification.

I've never worked for an employer that requires certification, and on the other side of the table, I've never required certification for any particular job I was hiring for. Furthermore I can't speak for what good an MSCE is, since I stay far far away from the windows side of things.

BUT... If there were two equivalent-on-paper candidates, and both interviewed well, but one has spent the time/effort to get certified, the certified one would definitely have the leg-up on the competition

With the mention of fiber connected homes and broadband connectivity, I cannot help but think perhaps the poster has some sort of idea like: "well we don't need schools anymore, let's have all the kids learn at home!" That's a beast of a discussion in and of itself.

As for the main question of how technology in general can help save money now being spent on fuel for school buses, the immediate choices are more obvious. They include things like hybridization of the vehicles, natural-gas burning buses, and other forms of making the fleet more fuel-efficient. It's only a matter of time before some of the efficiency improvements we're starting to see in the family car show up in school buses.

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Because that's what any linux desktop really needs -- more useless eye candy. At least we can look forward to desktop variants of linux looking great well into the future, no matter how much they may suck to use!

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Because that's what any linux desktop really needs -- more useless eye candy. At least we can look forward to desktop variants of linux looking great well into the future, no matter how much they may suck to use!

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Fall of 1999 - Akamai is at $150 per share shortly after IPO.

Jan 2000 - Akamai is at $325 per share.

Now the interesting bit. If someone were to have $650 laying around and bought 2 shares of Akamai in January of 2000, they would have about $28 left now.

If I had, instead, in January of 2000 bought 59 12 packs of rolling rock beer for $11 each w/deposit (which I assure you was around the going rate back then) in a bottle-deposit state, I could have enjoyed all of that beer and I'd have $36.40 if I turned the bottles back in.

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Well, here is a mirror of the full 2mb, 74 page PDF. At least until they make me take it down. Oh wait, I'm the admin of that server so I'd have to make myself take it down....

It's especially interesting to take a look at all of the categories, and not just the overall rankings, in my opinion. And what the heck is the poster thinking, since when is open space or low cost of living important as to whether a state is "best for technology." I'd sooner assume the opposite!

Heh, looks like you made the same mistake that I almost did. The link on that first page just goes right back to angelfire. The -k option in wget is most useful for these situations

True mirror at: http://netfiles.uiuc.edui/benoc/mirrors/www.angelf ire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

Those pictures are just great at showing the sense of "creepiness" of those places. I can definitely understand why folks are afraid of venturing into the dead zone, even though these aren't terribly large doses of radiation.

Everyone should definitely take the time to look through ALL of the pages. Thanks to the author/photographer for a great photo-essay.

Ah yes, I too have the fond memories of old Apple mice, although my first was on an Apple IIE it did also come with "mousepaint" which -- looking back -- couldn't have been much fun on my 13" television screen and Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer.

As for right now, both at work and at home, I use the Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman . It has neat "forward" and "back" buttons for web browsing that even work fine in Linux. But of course I've always been a bit of a trackball fan. Several case studies claim that trackballs may be slightly more ergonomic because of "hand fit" issues and "reduced arm movement." I wonder what everyone else thinks about the whole trackball vs. conventional issue?

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I must say that Color Kinetics gear rocks. Their color-mixing LED arrays not only look cool, but are a neat toy to program for fancy light shows.

Also on the LED front, the city where I currently reside (champaign, IL) recently passed funding and a proposal to replace all of the old incandescent traffic signals with LED arrays. Should cost a lot of money originally, but will save big on electricity bills in the long run. Here is an interesing EPA EnergyStar paper talking about the potential energy savings that cities can get from this technology -- 1 Million kWh and nearly $70,000 per year per 100 intersections! Also, LED based traffic signals are (IMHO) easier to see both at night and during the day.

One complaint from a study is that the green traffic lights are actually too bright.

Oh wait.....there is no April 31st. I guess we'll have to avoid all of the fun "USian-centric" date format comments.
But anyways, It's interesting that the post was actually posted at 3-14, 1:59. Just makes it that much more special, I suppose.
And while were on the subject of "date numerology" I seem to remember some time back in 1987 where the time and date matched up in some kind of whacky sequence -- something like: October 9th 1987, at 6:54 pm.
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Applying this logic would make virtually all console/game manufacturers suspect of what you call "price dumping." Sega, Nintendo and Sony included.
It's just the way the business works, for every console sold, they expect to sell potentially dozens of games.
DC, PS, and PS2 are all being sold at a loss. As long as the platform catches on (which can be paritally assured by dumping lots of these consoles on people) they could give the consoles away and still expect wide profit margins on the games.

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When I was first looking into broadband solutions for my apartment, the DirectPC solution was among those that interested me -- if nothing else just for the coolness factor of having a satellite link.
But damn, the time-based charges and the lack of an uplink (except via ~30k on modem) makes me quite glad that I'm in an area with cable modem availability (via AT&T). Maybe I'm lucky, or maybe we just hear the horror stories, but I was hooked up within three weeks of placing my order and get excellent bandwidth -- both up and downstream. And I sure as hell didn't need to pay for any such fancy overpriced router/modem equipment like this -- my linksys broadband router does just fine for $150!

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