I've seen some videos of this groups work on this little island. It is no tropical paradise. I don't believe there is any fresh water - so they would need to capture evaporating water somehow. And the island is infested with spider crabs from the size of golf balls to the size of soccer balls. And these crabs are looking for something to eat. You could survive a short time there - long term would be a slice of hell.
Plus we all take modern medicine for granted -- stranded on an island a cut or injury could become infected and that is pretty much game over.... then the crabs eat your body and scatter your bones.
My dear mom was a devout Catholic and tried to raise me and my sibs that way. I was kicked out of a Catholic school in the first grade. Many bumpy years later at age 13 I was declared a lost cause when I questioned the whole "He has risen" thing at an Easter Catechism Class. All I was there for was the chocolate eggs.
I'm a "civilian" now and glad to have nothing to do with these manipulative crackpots in the Vatican.
directly involved with the financial disaster of 2007 - 2008. Its that easy. OWS is a reaction to those sectors and players directly involved with the real estate bubble and the sub-prime mortgage mis-deeds of big banks - and Wall St. Technology served to make all that possible but it was greed - corruption - and politics that made the disaster. Those are the areas that OWS has (or will) focus on along with the business as usual (no CEOs or senior management go to jail -- but rather get bonuses) environment in DC and Wall St.
No matter your technology religion Steve Jobs had an impact - a huge impact. The word iPod is a part of our lexicon. The iPhone has spawned the whole sector called smart phones, The iPad is doing the same. And as another poster noted he took UNIX to the mainstream with OS X. That may have been one of his most gutsy moves. The man had vision. The first computer I ever touched - ever used was an Apple II in college in 1981. Can't believe he is dead at 56 --- hell I'm only 55.
Another example that starting AND maintaining a music / media service is not a simple task. First you have to deal with the nuts in Hollywood on DRM and music catalogs etc. --- Then you have to have a coherent vision for your service and superb software --- Oh, and it would be good if you had either a cool device for consumers... or a seamless way for consumers to get their media to any number of other devices. Lastly you have to have staying power to go on and on and on and on
Love it - hate it - or just use it ---- iTunes has been there for 10yrs (an eon in tech time)..... surrender, it just works.....
This is what happens when you turn over manufacturing to a 3rd party that you have no real control over.
Yeah - good luck with that. Oh and those fake Apple stores.... they were going to build those anyway. Apple just helped things along by sending China all its design info.
I hope this happens to many "American" companies who outsource manufacturing.
Our tech teacher designed this type of approach 3yrs ago and its a popular class. Using Gamemaker software gets kids into the class who might not go for straight up programming. The path is: Game Design 1, Game Design 2, then Java. At that point students can continue on to advanced Java projects that they define themselves. The other neat thing we do is in the Game Design 2 class there is is 1 large project - students form into teams of 3 and then they are matched to 1 or 2 Art students. They learn to work as a team with the art students doing sprite and background design.
You grouchy old timers need to remember that back in the day '70s-'80s computers were still an uncommon and exotic thing. And I can recall being thrilled to pound out BASIC or Pascal or C programs. These days kids are surrounded by computers (and flashy programs) from birth. So naturally I don't think they would be drawn to a pure code environment immediately, but after a couple of terms of learning programing basics creating games --- they can see the possibilities.
what the number of security / virus issues was (or wasn't ) during the period of using Linux in the office ? I do tech support for a medium sized school district and we are constantly getting pretty sophisticated phishing emails to some of our staff. And some staff still fall for them or send out emails or try to reply... Fortunately we are 70% Mac based so most of that just blows by.
The issue with teachers is that they regularly email parents and students who may have infected PCs and their email addresses are then harvested.
and the perfect disguise above. Under the cities lies a heart made of ground But the humans will give no love
You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
you really have no idea what you're talking about. We were in Germany for 3 weeks visiting friends in Hamburg during August. We had planned a 4 day trip to Paris via train. The German trains were nice and we rode all 3 types: a small commuter train, a medium sized inter city train, and Germany's high speed train out to the French German border (Strasbourg). But the French TGV was truly impressive and awesome. Quiet and smooth - no click-clack rail noise, seating was very comfortable - and the speed - wow. And the power -- in really open flat country you could feel a slight pressure against the seat as they opened up the juice. We arrived in Paris well ahead of schedule - and well rested. I felt totally safe during the trip.
I believe we need to start with 2 North - South corridors -- one on each coast. Something like Seattle to LA with limited stops: Tacoma/Olympia, Portland, Salem, Eugene, Redding, Bay Area, Sacramento, LA.
AND - we should partner with one of the existing high speed trains in operation to leverage at lease some of their infrastructure parts - pieces - engineering. Things are cheaper in volume and why re-invent the rail-bed and rail technology.
I do tech support so I am always either getting questions or hearing about tech stuff from the clients I support. So a married couple (both just average Joe and Jane users) decide to upgrade to smart phones. She goes to BestBuy gets a new iPhone for her and the android model her hubby wants. That night she is busy setting up her phone - downloading some apps - taking pics and emailing them - etc. Meanwhile hubby is getting uber frustrated trying to get anything to work on the droid etc. The next day she returns the droid and buys another iPhone for hubby...
I'm no fan boy and I have issues with many things Apple does - but they do understand the user / customer experience
- hard at work stealing our information and creative processes. People (that includes politicians + CEOs) just tend to forget that China is not some quaint country that has rules of law and enforces those laws. This is a state run government and economy - anything goes to enrich the state and acrue power. We've already sent most of our production machines over there - now they are coming back to collect any intellectual property they can grab as well.
They are starting to eat our lunch and will shortly just take our lunch money
And contrary to some comments -- Ford makes some damn fine vehicles -- I dearly miss my 2001 F-150 4x4 - great truck
A corporation serves only its self interest - it cares not about the local area(s) it operates in as long as it can get some sort of special tax treatment etc. They want full use of roadways - airports - water -etc by paying nothing or as little as possible. Yes they hire locals who have to make up the "sweetened tax deals" out of their own earnings.
I say let them move all their crap to crappy nations and see how that works out for them.
- OffShoring. Your original job with a living wage was shipped over-seas for someone to toil at for 1/4 your wage. Now after seeing whats left of our job market you are happy to go work hard for less money - in bum-fuck junction.
Yeah - thanks to our bought and sold politicians and the uber-wealthy who fund them. Fucking shweet dreams
If you are a terrorist and you already have surface to air missiles - and are near a major airport --- then the system has already failed. Any number of simple range finding devices would be all you need to ensure your target is in range. You would not need a credit card - an ATT account - or an iTunes account.
I want to thank the Slashdot community for comments - suggestions - perspective - etc. And yes even the zingers - diatribes - and "in my opinion.." posts. I knew this could be considered a flame-bait post but i have to be honest here... I don't even own a iPhone or smart phone or an android device. So parts of this market are not obvious to me. However I have been testing/using an iPad for our school district and it has impressed me. I'll also say Apple got as many things wrong in the iPad as they got right. And I have so far only cursory insights into the SDKs for either device.
So this was a post to help me gather more input. While I was indeed swayed towards android briefly --- I will take a serious shot this Fall - Winter - Spring coding in iOS environment. This is partially driven by my current work in K12 (Apple and i-devices have a strong pull) but also because Apple understands that average consumers don't care whats "under the hood" (open or closed environments) they just want easy to use devices and a "safe" one stop shopping place for apps. For all their faults - Apple has had the "corporate fortitude" to build the iTunes realm and foresight to make the app store. This is the part of the android ecosystem I find most concerning. There is no doubt Google could pull such things off if they focused on it, but IMHO Google doesn't want to invest the effort into it.
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I like this service, but I would like to be able to pick different routes based on your riding style:
- Beginner
- Traffic Timid
- Intermediate
- Confident
- Advanced
- Overly Confident
- Pro Rider
- Kamikaze
I've seen some videos of this groups work on this little island. It is no tropical paradise. I don't believe there is any fresh water - so they would need to capture evaporating water somehow. And the island is infested with spider crabs from the size of golf balls to the size of soccer balls. And these crabs are looking for something to eat. You could survive a short time there - long term would be a slice of hell.
Plus we all take modern medicine for granted -- stranded on an island a cut or injury could become infected and that is pretty much game over .... then the crabs eat your body and scatter your bones.
My dear mom was a devout Catholic and tried to raise me and my sibs that way. I was kicked out of a Catholic school in the first grade. Many bumpy years later at age 13 I was declared a lost cause when I questioned the whole "He has risen" thing at an Easter Catechism Class. All I was there for was the chocolate eggs.
I'm a "civilian" now and glad to have nothing to do with these manipulative crackpots in the Vatican.
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call (888) 705-JRIC (5742) and mention “Tripwire”
I triple dog dare you .....
In this case it just re-enforces the need to own a shotgun - 16ga with birdshot
This is why I had the goat leggings I purchased wrapped in Hanukkah gift paper and topped with a big red and green bow.
directly involved with the financial disaster of 2007 - 2008. Its that easy. OWS is a reaction to those sectors and players directly involved with the real estate bubble and the sub-prime mortgage mis-deeds of big banks - and Wall St. Technology served to make all that possible but it was greed - corruption - and politics that made the disaster. Those are the areas that OWS has (or will) focus on along with the business as usual (no CEOs or senior management go to jail -- but rather get bonuses) environment in DC and Wall St.
People are fed up - and I am one of them.
The haters will find no peace .....
No matter your technology religion Steve Jobs had an impact - a huge impact. The word iPod is a part of our lexicon. The iPhone has spawned the whole sector called smart phones, The iPad is doing the same. And as another poster noted he took UNIX to the mainstream with OS X. That may have been one of his most gutsy moves. The man had vision. The first computer I ever touched - ever used was an Apple II in college in 1981. Can't believe he is dead at 56 --- hell I'm only 55.
RIP Steve Jobs
Another example that starting AND maintaining a music / media service is not a simple task. First you have to deal with the nuts in Hollywood on DRM and music catalogs etc. --- Then you have to have a coherent vision for your service and superb software --- Oh, and it would be good if you had either a cool device for consumers ... or a seamless way for consumers to get their media to any number of other devices. Lastly you have to have staying power to go on and on and on and on
Love it - hate it - or just use it ---- iTunes has been there for 10yrs (an eon in tech time) ..... surrender, it just works .....
This is what happens when you turn over manufacturing to a 3rd party that you have no real control over.
Yeah - good luck with that. Oh and those fake Apple stores .... they were going to build those anyway. Apple just helped things along by sending China all its design info.
I hope this happens to many "American" companies who outsource manufacturing.
Just rename it the Ronald Reagan Space Telescope and poof the House of Reps will support it
Our tech teacher designed this type of approach 3yrs ago and its a popular class. Using Gamemaker software gets kids into the class who might not go for straight up programming. The path is: Game Design 1, Game Design 2, then Java. At that point students can continue on to advanced Java projects that they define themselves. The other neat thing we do is in the Game Design 2 class there is is 1 large project - students form into teams of 3 and then they are matched to 1 or 2 Art students. They learn to work as a team with the art students doing sprite and background design.
You grouchy old timers need to remember that back in the day '70s-'80s computers were still an uncommon and exotic thing. And I can recall being thrilled to pound out BASIC or Pascal or C programs. These days kids are surrounded by computers (and flashy programs) from birth. So naturally I don't think they would be drawn to a pure code environment immediately, but after a couple of terms of learning programing basics creating games --- they can see the possibilities.
what the number of security / virus issues was (or wasn't ) during the period of using Linux in the office ? I do tech support for a medium sized school district and we are constantly getting pretty sophisticated phishing emails to some of our staff. And some staff still fall for them or send out emails or try to reply ... Fortunately we are 70% Mac based so most of that just blows by.
The issue with teachers is that they regularly email parents and students who may have infected PCs and their email addresses are then harvested.
and the perfect disguise above.
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love
You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La la la la la
La la la la la
The oil companies screwed you again .....
you really have no idea what you're talking about. We were in Germany for 3 weeks visiting friends in Hamburg during August. We had planned a 4 day trip to Paris via train. The German trains were nice and we rode all 3 types: a small commuter train, a medium sized inter city train, and Germany's high speed train out to the French German border (Strasbourg). But the French TGV was truly impressive and awesome. Quiet and smooth - no click-clack rail noise, seating was very comfortable - and the speed - wow. And the power -- in really open flat country you could feel a slight pressure against the seat as they opened up the juice. We arrived in Paris well ahead of schedule - and well rested. I felt totally safe during the trip.
I believe we need to start with 2 North - South corridors -- one on each coast. Something like Seattle to LA with limited stops: Tacoma/Olympia, Portland, Salem, Eugene, Redding, Bay Area, Sacramento, LA.
AND - we should partner with one of the existing high speed trains in operation to leverage at lease some of their infrastructure parts - pieces - engineering. Things are cheaper in volume and why re-invent the rail-bed and rail technology.
mid thirties and just average users -- average meaning they have actual normal lives and would never ever be inclined to look at slashdot.
I do tech support so I am always either getting questions or hearing about tech stuff from the clients I support. So a married couple (both just average Joe and Jane users) decide to upgrade to smart phones. She goes to BestBuy gets a new iPhone for her and the android model her hubby wants. That night she is busy setting up her phone - downloading some apps - taking pics and emailing them - etc. Meanwhile hubby is getting uber frustrated trying to get anything to work on the droid etc. The next day she returns the droid and buys another iPhone for hubby ...
I'm no fan boy and I have issues with many things Apple does - but they do understand the user / customer experience
- hard at work stealing our information and creative processes. People (that includes politicians + CEOs) just tend to forget that China is not some quaint country that has rules of law and enforces those laws. This is a state run government and economy - anything goes to enrich the state and acrue power. We've already sent most of our production machines over there - now they are coming back to collect any intellectual property they can grab as well.
They are starting to eat our lunch and will shortly just take our lunch money
And contrary to some comments -- Ford makes some damn fine vehicles -- I dearly miss my 2001 F-150 4x4 - great truck
A corporation serves only its self interest - it cares not about the local area(s) it operates in as long as it can get some sort of special tax treatment etc. They want full use of roadways - airports - water -etc by paying nothing or as little as possible. Yes they hire locals who have to make up the "sweetened tax deals" out of their own earnings.
I say let them move all their crap to crappy nations and see how that works out for them.
RE: The App Store
Walter Sobchak: Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
- OffShoring. Your original job with a living wage was shipped over-seas for someone to toil at for 1/4 your wage. Now after seeing whats left of our job market you are happy to go work hard for less money - in bum-fuck junction.
Yeah - thanks to our bought and sold politicians and the uber-wealthy who fund them. Fucking shweet dreams
If you are a terrorist and you already have surface to air missiles - and are near a major airport --- then the system has already failed. Any number of simple range finding devices would be all you need to ensure your target is in range. You would not need a credit card - an ATT account - or an iTunes account.
I want to thank the Slashdot community for comments - suggestions - perspective - etc. And yes even the zingers - diatribes - and "in my opinion .." posts. I knew this could be considered a flame-bait post but i have to be honest here ... I don't even own a iPhone or smart phone or an android device. So parts of this market are not obvious to me. However I have been testing/using an iPad for our school district and it has impressed me. I'll also say Apple got as many things wrong in the iPad as they got right. And I have so far only cursory insights into the SDKs for either device.
So this was a post to help me gather more input. While I was indeed swayed towards android briefly --- I will take a serious shot this Fall - Winter - Spring coding in iOS environment. This is partially driven by my current work in K12 (Apple and i-devices have a strong pull) but also because Apple understands that average consumers don't care whats "under the hood" (open or closed environments) they just want easy to use devices and a "safe" one stop shopping place for apps. For all their faults - Apple has had the "corporate fortitude" to build the iTunes realm and foresight to make the app store. This is the part of the android ecosystem I find most concerning. There is no doubt Google could pull such things off if they focused on it, but IMHO Google doesn't want to invest the effort into it.
Thanks for the all the fish ...