Assuming that you're talking about the U.S., Social Security Disability a) only covers you if you can't do any other form of work (so if you can't type, but can hold a chainsaw, have fun being a lumberjack), b) benefits are based on your current salary, so you have no chance to improve your situation, and c) are also a lot lower than your actual salary. According to my last Social Security statement, my disability benefit would be around 40% of my salary, which I could live on if I had to (I did right out of college), but not well, and certainly not where I'm living now, which is nothing at all like retirement.
Not that cruelly cheated -- it should be plenty visible in daylight, even at its closest to the sun. SN 1054 was visible in daylight for three weeks, and was ten times farther away.
There's no need for the ground to be dark, though -- that was grandparent's point. Light pollution comes from light that's directed upward rather than downward. If we replace our lights with ones that direct all of their light below the horizontal, the ground will still be just as illuminated, but we won't have all of the skyglow. And we'll save electricity, too: all the light that's going into the sky right now is basically just wasted energy.
(I agree with you that a lot of lighting is unnecessary, but that doesn't change the fact that it's possible to have it without the light pollution if done properly.)
As long as they fix the resolution issues that the XO has, with different things interpreting the resolution differently. That's a software issue, but it's one that doesn't come up for most screens, so it's important to deal with it somehow.
I was going to ask the same question.
I have an Apple ][e that I picked up in 1999 when my high school finally got rid of them, and a Zenith 8088 IBM-compatible that my mother bought in 1983.
I have a portable Smith-Corona typewriter that dates from sometime in the 1940s.
Some of the things in my grandmother's sewing kit, which I inherited, are probably from the 1930s -- there are spools of thread and packets of needles that say "10Â".
The boiler in my house dates from around 1900, though it only barely works at this point (and is getting replaced in a couple of weeks).
Some of my father's tools, which he inherited from his father (born in 1880) are probably older than that. Also some of his hardware (the nails and bolts kind), and possibly some of his spare lumber.
TFA indicates that she didn't have Ph.D., just a bachelor's degree. It's not clear from the article that anyone ever told her she ought to be wearing protective gear; in fact, a previous inspection (before she worked there) noted the failure of employees to wear lab coats.
Have you tried the screen on an XO laptop (OLPC project)? In monochrome mode it's great in sunlight, as well as being quite high resolution (1200x900, 7.5") and pretty low power. It has some weird quirks in color mode having to do with existing software's interpretation of the resolution, but it's definitely a good, cheap LCD display. Of course, no one has put that type of display on anything other than an XO, which has other problems that make it less useful than it could be, but they could.
A company called Always Innovating claims to be coming out with a touchscreen netbook (with a detachable keyboard) later this year, so it will be interesting to see how that stacks up, too.
Keep in mind that you can also use it to browse the web, from anywhere. It's a limited browser, but that still gets you Wikipedia, for example, and a lot of other useful stuff, all of which is free.
Because you only get 256 different words that way? There are a lot more commonly used words than that, and then you're left with no way to spell out the uncommonly used words, either. You could use two bytes per word... but that's basically what txtspk is anyway, only with variable compression, such that the most common words get compressed down to a single byte (often as part of a longer abbreviation).
Those are things that would be very useful to teach, for many applications, but I'm not sure that they need to be taught under the umbrella of C.S. Along with some stuff on algorithms, they'd all be fine in a math class; at that point, the students who want to learn programming shouldn't have much difficulty with it, whether they do it on their own or in college.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I learned to program in high school. But while my school wasn't wealthy (we were using Apple IIe's in the late 90s), it did have the resources to offer those classes, for the very few students who took them, without impacting other programs. I'd hate to see stuff like music and art cut (and they're usually the first ones to go) in order to teach everyone to program.
Exactly what I was going to suggest. Or a company that has a particular job that only needs to be part-time -- my organization has one full-time IT person (me), but we also have a part-time sysadmin who takes care of various stuff and is an extra person on-call (useful with a very small staff), and a part-time developer (who is part-time because we can't afford to hire him full-time).
Most economy modes (at least on inkjet printers) just print the letters lighter; this should provide additional savings over that. It may well be more readable than just outlines, too -- I find outlined text very hard to read.
The reason that the keynotes at MacWorld have lost their importance is that Apple can attract just as much attention with their own media events. They've done several product launches that way now, and will almost certainly continue to use that method for major launches in the future. And they can reach consumers directly through the retail stores as well.
RTFA. The military is interested in using this on soldiers who are bleeding out, i.e. about to be dead anyway. The obvious theory being that if they're not alive but can be revived later, there's a lot more time to work to repair the trauma. Obviously, this has applications beyond the battlefield, too: car accidents, dangerous surgeries, etc.
Honestly, box cutters aren't going to be terribly effective against an entire planeful of people who think they're going to die anyway: see United Flight 93. The days of successful hijackings are simply over, whatever the intent, because the assumption on the passengers' part will always be that the hijackers are going to crash the plane. However, there is still a danger of bombs -- many terrorists would be perfectly happy just to blow up a plane, which pretty much guarantees significantly more deaths than any ground-based suicide bomb. And no amount of security on board the plane is going to prevent someone from blowing themselves up if they have a better plan than lighting their shoes with a match. That said, they would do much better to focus on things that can actually be used to make bombs, as opposed to bottles of shampoo.
There is also something to be said for keeping guns off planes in general; a belligerent idiot with a gun in an enclosed space like a plane is pretty bad even if they're not a terrorist.
You seem to be forgetting.mil. Of course, with the new sale of TLDs, it's rapidly going to become impossible to keep track of them all; I would already just use [[:alpha:]]{2,4}|museum, and if they start having more long ones, I'll give up and do [[:alpha:]]{2,}.
Yeah, if you were feeling that, you would have written it m/(ambitious|(art|aut|masoch)istic)/. Though I'm not sure why you needed to capture the whole thing, either -- not sure how you're feeling?
Most of that is just using hex codes for perfectly good ASCII characters -- if you used the characters themselves, some of them (most of the non-alphanumeric ones) would have to be escaped, but it would be a lot more readable, and would work the same way.
Seems like this could also be useful for protecting Earth-based computers from the occasional cosmic ray that makes it through the atmosphere and the magnetosphere. At least, if the magnetic field doesn't interfere with their operation just by itself.
Sure there are. You can play at most six notes at once on a guitar; besides that, there are plenty of notes that are off the bottom of the guitar's range.
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Assuming that you're talking about the U.S., Social Security Disability a) only covers you if you can't do any other form of work (so if you can't type, but can hold a chainsaw, have fun being a lumberjack), b) benefits are based on your current salary, so you have no chance to improve your situation, and c) are also a lot lower than your actual salary. According to my last Social Security statement, my disability benefit would be around 40% of my salary, which I could live on if I had to (I did right out of college), but not well, and certainly not where I'm living now, which is nothing at all like retirement.
Not that cruelly cheated -- it should be plenty visible in daylight, even at its closest to the sun. SN 1054 was visible in daylight for three weeks, and was ten times farther away.
Yup. Though that was admittedly a rare gem.
It bounces off them, just like the other lights do. There isn't any more light hitting the ground, just less going into the sky.
There's no need for the ground to be dark, though -- that was grandparent's point. Light pollution comes from light that's directed upward rather than downward. If we replace our lights with ones that direct all of their light below the horizontal, the ground will still be just as illuminated, but we won't have all of the skyglow. And we'll save electricity, too: all the light that's going into the sky right now is basically just wasted energy. (I agree with you that a lot of lighting is unnecessary, but that doesn't change the fact that it's possible to have it without the light pollution if done properly.)
As long as they fix the resolution issues that the XO has, with different things interpreting the resolution differently. That's a software issue, but it's one that doesn't come up for most screens, so it's important to deal with it somehow.
I was going to ask the same question. I have an Apple ][e that I picked up in 1999 when my high school finally got rid of them, and a Zenith 8088 IBM-compatible that my mother bought in 1983. I have a portable Smith-Corona typewriter that dates from sometime in the 1940s. Some of the things in my grandmother's sewing kit, which I inherited, are probably from the 1930s -- there are spools of thread and packets of needles that say "10Â". The boiler in my house dates from around 1900, though it only barely works at this point (and is getting replaced in a couple of weeks). Some of my father's tools, which he inherited from his father (born in 1880) are probably older than that. Also some of his hardware (the nails and bolts kind), and possibly some of his spare lumber.
TFA indicates that she didn't have Ph.D., just a bachelor's degree. It's not clear from the article that anyone ever told her she ought to be wearing protective gear; in fact, a previous inspection (before she worked there) noted the failure of employees to wear lab coats.
It also assumes that every human that gets bitten turns into a vampire, which is not the case in many (most?) universes.
Have you tried the screen on an XO laptop (OLPC project)? In monochrome mode it's great in sunlight, as well as being quite high resolution (1200x900, 7.5") and pretty low power. It has some weird quirks in color mode having to do with existing software's interpretation of the resolution, but it's definitely a good, cheap LCD display. Of course, no one has put that type of display on anything other than an XO, which has other problems that make it less useful than it could be, but they could. A company called Always Innovating claims to be coming out with a touchscreen netbook (with a detachable keyboard) later this year, so it will be interesting to see how that stacks up, too.
Keep in mind that you can also use it to browse the web, from anywhere. It's a limited browser, but that still gets you Wikipedia, for example, and a lot of other useful stuff, all of which is free.
Because you only get 256 different words that way? There are a lot more commonly used words than that, and then you're left with no way to spell out the uncommonly used words, either. You could use two bytes per word... but that's basically what txtspk is anyway, only with variable compression, such that the most common words get compressed down to a single byte (often as part of a longer abbreviation).
I tried to resist, but I still leapt at the chance...
Those are things that would be very useful to teach, for many applications, but I'm not sure that they need to be taught under the umbrella of C.S. Along with some stuff on algorithms, they'd all be fine in a math class; at that point, the students who want to learn programming shouldn't have much difficulty with it, whether they do it on their own or in college. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I learned to program in high school. But while my school wasn't wealthy (we were using Apple IIe's in the late 90s), it did have the resources to offer those classes, for the very few students who took them, without impacting other programs. I'd hate to see stuff like music and art cut (and they're usually the first ones to go) in order to teach everyone to program.
Exactly what I was going to suggest. Or a company that has a particular job that only needs to be part-time -- my organization has one full-time IT person (me), but we also have a part-time sysadmin who takes care of various stuff and is an extra person on-call (useful with a very small staff), and a part-time developer (who is part-time because we can't afford to hire him full-time).
Most economy modes (at least on inkjet printers) just print the letters lighter; this should provide additional savings over that. It may well be more readable than just outlines, too -- I find outlined text very hard to read.
The reason that the keynotes at MacWorld have lost their importance is that Apple can attract just as much attention with their own media events. They've done several product launches that way now, and will almost certainly continue to use that method for major launches in the future. And they can reach consumers directly through the retail stores as well.
Right, because the Catholic church just couldn't get it together again after Saint Peter died. Oh, wait.
RTFA. The military is interested in using this on soldiers who are bleeding out, i.e. about to be dead anyway. The obvious theory being that if they're not alive but can be revived later, there's a lot more time to work to repair the trauma. Obviously, this has applications beyond the battlefield, too: car accidents, dangerous surgeries, etc.
Honestly, box cutters aren't going to be terribly effective against an entire planeful of people who think they're going to die anyway: see United Flight 93. The days of successful hijackings are simply over, whatever the intent, because the assumption on the passengers' part will always be that the hijackers are going to crash the plane. However, there is still a danger of bombs -- many terrorists would be perfectly happy just to blow up a plane, which pretty much guarantees significantly more deaths than any ground-based suicide bomb. And no amount of security on board the plane is going to prevent someone from blowing themselves up if they have a better plan than lighting their shoes with a match. That said, they would do much better to focus on things that can actually be used to make bombs, as opposed to bottles of shampoo. There is also something to be said for keeping guns off planes in general; a belligerent idiot with a gun in an enclosed space like a plane is pretty bad even if they're not a terrorist.
You seem to be forgetting .mil. Of course, with the new sale of TLDs, it's rapidly going to become impossible to keep track of them all; I would already just use [[:alpha:]]{2,4}|museum, and if they start having more long ones, I'll give up and do [[:alpha:]]{2,}.
Yeah, if you were feeling that, you would have written it m/(ambitious|(art|aut|masoch)istic)/. Though I'm not sure why you needed to capture the whole thing, either -- not sure how you're feeling?
Most of that is just using hex codes for perfectly good ASCII characters -- if you used the characters themselves, some of them (most of the non-alphanumeric ones) would have to be escaped, but it would be a lot more readable, and would work the same way.
Seems like this could also be useful for protecting Earth-based computers from the occasional cosmic ray that makes it through the atmosphere and the magnetosphere. At least, if the magnetic field doesn't interfere with their operation just by itself.
Sure there are. You can play at most six notes at once on a guitar; besides that, there are plenty of notes that are off the bottom of the guitar's range.