These guys will have looked at what they could potentially invent before they started a business, way before Microsoft would consider accommodating their inquiries. There's good documentation readily available in reasonably digestible formats for OSS. If I'm all about making something new work, I want to know how the system I base it upon works and the easiest way to know that is to base it on an open platform.
Perhaps Visa could set up an alternative to ticketmaster that issues the tickets as prepaid credit cards. I know the venue says you have to take your ID, but I bet it's only as a backup in case the credit swipe does not match their records. For, say, $50 I could buy a prepaid card that is guaranteed to be accepted in payment for a concert ticket or offers, say $30 of regular credit against anything else I would like to buy if I decide not to go to the concert.
to stop the TSA officers watching, but to prevent TSA officers from posting anything "controversial". An unguarded post in a racially charged forum would be damaging.
Is way too low for me to have contributed to Compiz anyway. But I do worry when I see simpler projects converting to C++, because I feel that it locks me out along with so many people that might otherwise contribute. I look at C++ and the whole thing may as well be encrypted or written in perl for the amount that I can understand it. I could at least struggle through what the C was trying to tell me.
is in fact the National Bottle Association. And they run the country, so the cop is probably going to jail along with the state senators and governor for impinging on the kid's right to bare arms.
The genius of it is thinking up something fantastic in your 20s, and savoring the idea for 50 years and announcing it as an older man. Damn, I wish I'd saves some of my best thinking for a rainy day.
Exactly. I'd start by firing anyone that knew this was a problem and did nothing to at least set up a temporary system and start inputting data. And in the mean time, get down to kinkos and photocopy the damn paper records.
I'm sure it is reasonably safe, but why should the neighbors take the guy's word for it? It looks to me like a complex piece of high energy equipment. Does his insurer know how to classify the risk ?
You make a good point, Wikipedia is a good reference. But the articles you happened to pick (I got lucky I guess) don't mention how magnets work. The first pretty much says what magnets do, and the second how little magnets inside the material organize.
It was shocking to me to find out how magnets work (to the extent that I understand them, which is limited) and I suspect that only a small percentage of the general population have any clue how such familiar things work and what a tangible example of relativity in action they provide. I was shocked because I had thought I had a pretty good idea about them until I read more in preparation for a presentation I was to make.
"Accessible" references are not readily available, the density of graduate-level textbooks I have had to wade through to grasp what little I know about the subject is tough going.
I mean I gather it has something to do with quantum spin and relativity and symmetry breaking and virtual gauge boson force-carriers. But I'm somewhat uncertain on the details (and I don't mean in a Heisenberg way). Perhaps the band is just voicing their frustration that there seem to be so few entry level texts that cover the subject in lay terms.
and I don't want to be the one defending it in general. But it has one redeeming feature; it should at least be unbiased. I think if I were to be fired I'd prefer it to be because there was some evidence of shiftlessness, rather than simply because someone in authority had a hunch that they "didn't like the cut of my jib".
of Mr. Greene's strategy was that the worse a candidate he seemed to be, the more cross-over votes he got. For all I know, it could be the only realistic way to get on a Dem ballot in SC.
It seems his candidacy is exceptional in many regards; so a 1 in 10 chance that there was a ballot error / fraud seems to me to be the least of it.
Also it seems redundant to manufacture scandal when there is so much naturally occurring scandal in SC politics anyway.
Yeah, really; take the houses out to the playground where little Jimmy's Dad has brought in his V-8 airboat and let the kids test them to destruction. There will be a long queue of kids wanting to learn engineering then.
An after-school program at my local elementary school where volunteers present on various topics. The presentations are less than an hour long and many have a big hands-on component. The kids clearly enjoy them as do the adults (presenters and attendees) and attendance climbed throughout the series and was pretty even among all grade levels K through 5. The minimum turnout was about 60 children and the maximum was over 90 (out of 380).
They were held in the evenings after school. The presentations we started with were
The chemical history of a candle (Faraday's lecture)
Earthquakes (And what they do to buildings)
Your insides (the function of the heart, liver and kidneys with hands-on animal organs)
Nature (photos by a local naturalist)
Bio-mechanics (examples of levers in animal joints)
Scratch programming (inspired by an "ask slashdot" answer)
.
There was a write up in the local paper and lots of enthusiasm. I would say that the goals of the program were not so much education as...
To involve the community in the school
To spark interest in the subjects - each speaker was talking about their passion and that did come across
To emphasis that there are many things to engage in locally
To emphasis the idea that great results can come from finding something you love to do and working hard at it, genius is not a requirement to do good things
It was a lot of fun and well received. The next batch of sessions will cover:
Nothing (The quantum vacuum and symmetry)
karate
Money
Reptile and amphibian diversity
3d computer graphics
Astronomy
Battle of Gettysburg
Chemistry
DNA
Relativity
.
So far it has not been too hard to avoid the conversation becoming religious, thankfully it has not become a big issue. I think the after school nature of the program and the fact that it covers things that are outside the curriculum releases a lot of pressure. I had intended that the presenters "aim high" with the subject matter and leave the kids that are interested to use their own initiative to find out more; and there is plenty of evidence that this is happening based on reports of classroom discussions and students telling me about the scratch programs they have created. It really is not an intent to directly teach anything, but I have come to believe that there are many subjects that seem unsuitable (such as relativity) but in fact are more hard to believe than hard to understand. I have also come to believe that the single biggest barrier to the schools working well is lack of parental involvement. Getting some parents to come to the school and join in any event is a huge undertaking and I think is the biggest potential benefit of a program like this.
Perhaps we should just get the PTA to open a bar at the school
Yes, it will be an alien that stops it, someone who has come to warn us to stop threatening the security of other planets. But he won't use a worm; it will be a big fuck-off robot that's indestructible and impossible to encase in Plexiglas.
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These guys will have looked at what they could potentially invent before they started a business, way before Microsoft would consider accommodating their inquiries. There's good documentation readily available in reasonably digestible formats for OSS. If I'm all about making something new work, I want to know how the system I base it upon works and the easiest way to know that is to base it on an open platform.
and thought of uncle milton
Perhaps Visa could set up an alternative to ticketmaster that issues the tickets as prepaid credit cards. I know the venue says you have to take your ID, but I bet it's only as a backup in case the credit swipe does not match their records. For, say, $50 I could buy a prepaid card that is guaranteed to be accepted in payment for a concert ticket or offers, say $30 of regular credit against anything else I would like to buy if I decide not to go to the concert.
to stop the TSA officers watching, but to prevent TSA officers from posting anything "controversial". An unguarded post in a racially charged forum would be damaging.
Is way too low for me to have contributed to Compiz anyway. But I do worry when I see simpler projects converting to C++, because I feel that it locks me out along with so many people that might otherwise contribute. I look at C++ and the whole thing may as well be encrypted or written in perl for the amount that I can understand it. I could at least struggle through what the C was trying to tell me.
slashdot followers ?
You fuckers; why did you have to point that out and make me feel so old.
is in fact the National Bottle Association. And they run the country, so the cop is probably going to jail along with the state senators and governor for impinging on the kid's right to bare arms.
he is tired of life...
The genius of it is thinking up something fantastic in your 20s, and savoring the idea for 50 years and announcing it as an older man. Damn, I wish I'd saves some of my best thinking for a rainy day.
Exactly.
I'd start by firing anyone that knew this was a problem and did nothing to at least set up a temporary system and start inputting data. And in the mean time, get down to kinkos and photocopy the damn paper records.
they should have replaced his paws with rabbit feet, that way he might be luckier next time he meets farm machinery.
They don't spin one of those DLP chips instead. Presumably all that would be necessary would be to Illuminate it then.
It will be a fissioned reactor if one of his neighbors cleaves it with an ax.
I'm sure it is reasonably safe, but why should the neighbors take the guy's word for it? It looks to me like a complex piece of high energy equipment. Does his insurer know how to classify the risk ?
Hidin.
It was shocking to me to find out how magnets work (to the extent that I understand them, which is limited) and I suspect that only a small percentage of the general population have any clue how such familiar things work and what a tangible example of relativity in action they provide. I was shocked because I had thought I had a pretty good idea about them until I read more in preparation for a presentation I was to make.
"Accessible" references are not readily available, the density of graduate-level textbooks I have had to wade through to grasp what little I know about the subject is tough going.
I mean I gather it has something to do with quantum spin and relativity and symmetry breaking and virtual gauge boson force-carriers. But I'm somewhat uncertain on the details (and I don't mean in a Heisenberg way). Perhaps the band is just voicing their frustration that there seem to be so few entry level texts that cover the subject in lay terms.
"Natural Keyboard" emulator I'm looking forward too. Perhaps you just bend it back on it's spine, like your dad told you not to do with books.
A swap meat sounds like the kind of place one would go to find an organ donor, not a radar.
and I don't want to be the one defending it in general. But it has one redeeming feature; it should at least be unbiased. I think if I were to be fired I'd prefer it to be because there was some evidence of shiftlessness, rather than simply because someone in authority had a hunch that they "didn't like the cut of my jib".
of Mr. Greene's strategy was that the worse a candidate he seemed to be, the more cross-over votes he got. For all I know, it could be the only realistic way to get on a Dem ballot in SC.
It seems his candidacy is exceptional in many regards; so a 1 in 10 chance that there was a ballot error / fraud seems to me to be the least of it.
Also it seems redundant to manufacture scandal when there is so much naturally occurring scandal in SC politics anyway.
Yeah, really; take the houses out to the playground where little Jimmy's Dad has brought in his V-8 airboat and let the kids test them to destruction. There will be a long queue of kids wanting to learn engineering then.
. There was a write up in the local paper and lots of enthusiasm. I would say that the goals of the program were not so much education as...
It was a lot of fun and well received. The next batch of sessions will cover:
.
So far it has not been too hard to avoid the conversation becoming religious, thankfully it has not become a big issue. I think the after school nature of the program and the fact that it covers things that are outside the curriculum releases a lot of pressure. I had intended that the presenters "aim high" with the subject matter and leave the kids that are interested to use their own initiative to find out more; and there is plenty of evidence that this is happening based on reports of classroom discussions and students telling me about the scratch programs they have created. It really is not an intent to directly teach anything, but I have come to believe that there are many subjects that seem unsuitable (such as relativity) but in fact are more hard to believe than hard to understand. I have also come to believe that the single biggest barrier to the schools working well is lack of parental involvement. Getting some parents to come to the school and join in any event is a huge undertaking and I think is the biggest potential benefit of a program like this.
Perhaps we should just get the PTA to open a bar at the school
.
Yes, it will be an alien that stops it, someone who has come to warn us to stop threatening the security of other planets. But he won't use a worm; it will be a big fuck-off robot that's indestructible and impossible to encase in Plexiglas.