Banning words is pretty bad, but what do you think the admin staff can do with a "concern" list? If you click through to the North Carolina google doc filter, you get the following set of words:
gun shoot stab knife kill hurt fight murder attack punch hate suicide cutting drug drugs pot weed marijuana grass blunt toke stoned beer alcohol booze drunk gay lesbian porn sex molest molested molesting naked nude
Based on the site, admins are forwarded messages with those terms but they are still delivered. If I was a parent I would not let my kids play in this sandbox...
Spatial resolution is very important in my field (Land Use/Cover analysis), mostly due to Modifiable Areal Unit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_areal_unit_problem) / Ecological Fallacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy) issues.
That being said, I do agree Spectral resolution is very important as well, and a difference I shouldn't have omitted in my original post. Even radiometric and temporal resolution matters when you get down to it.
One thing that is frequently overlooked is the importance of comparable satellites through time for long-term environmental monitoring. This makes collaboration with other countries/sensors challenging, as to say Landsat ETM data's ~30m (for example) is comparable to SPOT data's ~10m (again, for example) is quite a stretch. Common tools for taking care of these differences are fraught with problems, and worse still many people don't care about or just ignore these problems during analysis....
I owned an iLiad for a while and, while it was GREAT for reading, its note-taking capabilities were not at all up to snuff for heavy useage. So, yes, while it CAN do it, I certainly wouldn't recommend it - the tech just isn't there. A few of the note-taking issues:
Slow to load sometimes
Had to specially format PDFs to give enough room to write in (a big deal if you read dozens of articles/week!)
Not all articles (in fact, not nearly enough) worked well with the special formatting
Pages are "smaller" than an actual notebook
Highlighting didn't really work
Now, again, the iLiad is a solid product, but I use composition books again now alongside a PRS-300 for leisure reading. I would argue NO solution is adequate yet for digital note taking.
I second this - if you happen to live near Atlanta, GA Georgia State has a nice cartography / GIS lab. UGA used to as well. Most state colleges will have a geography program or GIS certificate, either way you go you should find people ready and willing to help!
Thought this would be a nice time to throw out a website: http://www.mobileread.com/
is a great community of e-book fanatics. Lots of research comparing different models, a nice flea market for deals, and the forums attached to Calibre, an awesome book-managing software.
I've owned an Illiad and a PRS-300 now, and the PRS-300 wins hands-down for reading books.
The Illiad was handy for taking notes, but really just wasn't up to snuff for heavy note-taking, and was generally slower than the PRS. The PRS also wins on price and battery life.
And, yes, Calibre is a must with Sony's.
Hate to reply to my own post, but I found a great wiki entry on this - apparently the company made a few other products as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik_%26_Play
I hope whoever is writing this sees it, but when I was growing up my parents turned me on to an oolldd program called "Klik and Play", designed for exactly this. http://www.stevenchan.us/programming/klik
I think Star Wars Galaxies tried something like this - e.g., healers got XP for healing ect., but it made different classes *far* easier to level and thus they ended up with a dramatic shortage of some classes. Its no fun LFG for two hours!
Yes, deep spending and tax cuts is precisely what our state needs - after all, who needs welfare programs (only the irresponsible, right?), decent schools (only those with.. irresponsible parents unable to put their kids into private school, right?), *better trained* police forces, firemen, public transportation (some of the best I've used in the country, despite the various flaws with the MBTA), extensive crews to salt / deice during the winter, road and pothole repair folks to avoid soil creep issues,..... ect?
Also, I hate to break it to you, but in November us citizens voted overwhelmingly *AGAINST* a tax decrease. Sure, we have corruption, waste and other such problems, but the corruption found in our government is *nothing*, and I mean *nothing*, compared to the waste we have seen on Wallstreet. If I'm going to throw my money somewhere, I'd much rather it be to an institution designated to provide services to me rather than the capital-hungry fellows on Wallstreet that got us into this mess.
My brother has an alienware system, and you can have multiple systems associated with the same account. Thus, it wouldn't even make sense for someone to list another person on your account as a rights-holder -- what if they stole another of your computers?
Bad system all around, bad company in my experience. Sad, too, because they started off overpriced but friendly.
Seems like integrating private music collections into a game would be prior art.. Audiosurf comes to mind, but I am sure there are plenty of others I am omitting...
Oddly enough, EA is just now (As of yesterday, I think) putting their catalog on Steam.
Also, try X3: Terran Conflict off of Steam for a good space sim - I was not at all a fan of X2 (waaay too complicated) or X3: Reunion (played a demo), but X3:TC does a great job in redesigning the interface so that it is accessible to folks like me (coming out of a Escape Velocity (Ambrosia Software) background largely, too young for Elite and whatnot, although I did play the text-based Federation back when it was on AOL...)
-L
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I'm not sure the ACTA is exactly a Trojan horse. More a tank, with trumpets, that ALSO has anti net-neutrality hidden inside it.
gun shoot stab knife kill hurt fight murder attack punch hate suicide cutting drug drugs pot weed marijuana grass blunt toke stoned beer alcohol booze drunk gay lesbian porn sex molest molested molesting naked nude
Based on the site, admins are forwarded messages with those terms but they are still delivered. If I was a parent I would not let my kids play in this sandbox...
Verizon is not going to add any new cities. You're lucky. All I can get is Time Warner or AT&T.
Verizon disagrees. http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/verizon-brings-fios-upstate-new-york-challenge-time-warner-cable/2011-03-28
E-ink for me, but I think I might be in a minority. LED reading for >3 hours gives me a heck of a headache....
"Resolution isn't important for science"
Spatial resolution is very important in my field (Land Use/Cover analysis), mostly due to Modifiable Areal Unit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_areal_unit_problem) / Ecological Fallacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy) issues.
That being said, I do agree Spectral resolution is very important as well, and a difference I shouldn't have omitted in my original post. Even radiometric and temporal resolution matters when you get down to it.
One thing that is frequently overlooked is the importance of comparable satellites through time for long-term environmental monitoring. This makes collaboration with other countries /sensors challenging, as to say Landsat ETM data's ~30m (for example) is comparable to SPOT data's ~10m (again, for example) is quite a stretch. Common tools for taking care of these differences are fraught with problems, and worse still many people don't care about or just ignore these problems during analysis....
I owned an iLiad for a while and, while it was GREAT for reading, its note-taking capabilities were not at all up to snuff for heavy useage. So, yes, while it CAN do it, I certainly wouldn't recommend it - the tech just isn't there. A few of the note-taking issues:
Slow to load sometimes
Had to specially format PDFs to give enough room to write in (a big deal if you read dozens of articles/week!)
Not all articles (in fact, not nearly enough) worked well with the special formatting
Pages are "smaller" than an actual notebook
Highlighting didn't really work
Now, again, the iLiad is a solid product, but I use composition books again now alongside a PRS-300 for leisure reading. I would argue NO solution is adequate yet for digital note taking.
No, most of us can read.
Citation Needed!
*Woosh*
Citation needed, really. I WANT to believe you and find this hard to stomach!
If anyone has a cite for this it would be appreciated.
I second this - if you happen to live near Atlanta, GA Georgia State has a nice cartography / GIS lab. UGA used to as well. Most state colleges will have a geography program or GIS certificate, either way you go you should find people ready and willing to help!
Thought this would be a nice time to throw out a website:
http://www.mobileread.com/
is a great community of e-book fanatics. Lots of research comparing different models, a nice flea market for deals, and the forums attached to Calibre, an awesome book-managing software.
I've owned an Illiad and a PRS-300 now, and the PRS-300 wins hands-down for reading books. The Illiad was handy for taking notes, but really just wasn't up to snuff for heavy note-taking, and was generally slower than the PRS. The PRS also wins on price and battery life. And, yes, Calibre is a must with Sony's.
Hate to reply to my own post, but I found a great wiki entry on this - apparently the company made a few other products as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik_%26_Play
I hope whoever is writing this sees it, but when I was growing up my parents turned me on to an oolldd program called "Klik and Play", designed for exactly this.
http://www.stevenchan.us/programming/klik
My favorite part of the site: 30 day free trial!
This is just a confirmation of an earlier story that they *might* have the tapes: http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/28/186245/Has-NASA-Found-the-Lost-Moon-Tapes
I think Star Wars Galaxies tried something like this - e.g., healers got XP for healing ect., but it made different classes *far* easier to level and thus they ended up with a dramatic shortage of some classes. Its no fun LFG for two hours!
Yes, deep spending and tax cuts is precisely what our state needs - after all, who needs welfare programs (only the irresponsible, right?), decent schools (only those with.. irresponsible parents unable to put their kids into private school, right?), *better trained* police forces, firemen, public transportation (some of the best I've used in the country, despite the various flaws with the MBTA), extensive crews to salt / deice during the winter, road and pothole repair folks to avoid soil creep issues, ..... ect?
Also, I hate to break it to you, but in November us citizens voted overwhelmingly *AGAINST* a tax decrease. Sure, we have corruption, waste and other such problems, but the corruption found in our government is *nothing*, and I mean *nothing*, compared to the waste we have seen on Wallstreet. If I'm going to throw my money somewhere, I'd much rather it be to an institution designated to provide services to me rather than the capital-hungry fellows on Wallstreet that got us into this mess.
My brother has an alienware system, and you can have multiple systems associated with the same account. Thus, it wouldn't even make sense for someone to list another person on your account as a rights-holder -- what if they stole another of your computers?
Bad system all around, bad company in my experience. Sad, too, because they started off overpriced but friendly.
Seems like integrating private music collections into a game would be prior art.. Audiosurf comes to mind, but I am sure there are plenty of others I am omitting...
Lifehacker did a post on just this: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2009/01/16/where_to_go_when_google_notebook_goes_down-2.html
Oddly enough, EA is just now (As of yesterday, I think) putting their catalog on Steam.
Also, try X3: Terran Conflict off of Steam for a good space sim - I was not at all a fan of X2 (waaay too complicated) or X3: Reunion (played a demo), but X3:TC does a great job in redesigning the interface so that it is accessible to folks like me (coming out of a Escape Velocity (Ambrosia Software) background largely, too young for Elite and whatnot, although I did play the text-based Federation back when it was on AOL...) -L
Or, *build your own* DVR. MythTV, SageTV - solutions for everyone, tracking free. What I'm more scared of is Equifax releasing credit information.
They weren't referring to the pictures - they had video ads apparently, and those were pulled (as I understand it).