No. Dropbox files are stored, unmodified, in a local folder across multiple locations. It's a syncing tool, not just a backup system. If Dropbox's servers close tomorrow, I still have the local folder on my desktop and my laptop. It just means they'll no longer be automatically synced across both machines when they are saved, nor can they be remotely accessed any more.
Surprisingly, this was in Augusta GA, not exactly a hotbed of liberal education activism. But the school was where Fort Gordon shipped its students, so it was full of Army brats who were children of the Signal Corps. It's only now that I've begun to realize that my experience was definitely outside of the norm (I went to computer camp and there was always access to a computer someplace from about the time I was seven, even if it was just a crummy Apple IIe in the National Science Center's labatory.)
Those emails are pretty damning, especially the ones specifying payments to users for providing illegal content. To paraphrase: "User X has 10 great, DVD ripped copies of some popular movies, let's send him a check for five grand." If anything, though, this is proof that the existing law is working as intended and we really don't need any additional bills to go through to crack down on piracy.
My middle school had a grant, either from DARPA itself or something similar from the local Army base, and used it to develop an elective for 8th graders called "Explorations in Technology." Students worked through labs as teams, and could pick which labs they wanted to work on. One of the coolest labs, and one that was filled before I could snag it, was the CAD lab with a laser cutter where the student could design their own pendant (either with their initials, or some other design) and then have it carved out of plastic with a laser. The Makerbot will fit right into such technology labs in schools lucky enough to have them.
Other labs we had included building a model rocket, learning a few LOGO commands and creating a picture, learning not to be afraid of the guts of a PC (this is a slot! and it can hold add-in cards!), flying a space shuttle simulator, etc. This was 1994 - the labs today can probably include a lot more advanced things. This technology class replaced our shop class, though, so we lost the chance to learn to use buzz saws safely.
Weight Watchers actually has that, sort of. Every five pounds you lose gives you another star. After you reach your ten percent goal, they give you a keychain to hold charms, which include achievements such as "Ran a 5K" and little weights that represent the pounds you've shed. The most coveted one, of course, is the Lifetime Member, which means you've lost enough weight to reach your goal and you don't have to pay them money to play the game any more.
You're working from home. One of your coworkers complains that you haven't turned in as much code as he has and tells your boss on you. Your boss, concerned about possible slacking, checks your twitter feed, and sees that in the last hour you just got the "Wow, you're really concentrating!" badge in VS for having constant interaction with the problem for the last three hours straight - e.g. it's been open since 9AM and you've been typing code ever since pretty steadily. Boss, having done his due diligence, ignores your coworker.
Happened to a friend's family a year or two ago. The husband had control of all the accounts. All of them. So he was quietly siphoning funds from his wife's accounts to his own, without telling her, and then took off one day with over six hundred thousand dollars, leaving her with a thousand in her account with the mortgage payment due in a week. That was a very, very, very messy divorce.
And vice versa. He's a number guy, I'm a language person. So his passwords are long strings of numbers, and mine are long strings of words and symbols.
The dog and pony show of the Republican primary. While everyone was seething over SOPA, The GOP Establishment managed to get their anointed one, Mitt Romney, as their nominee, pretty much.
This this this. A technical writer who knows what they're doing will do it better, faster, cheaper, more accurately, and can be dedicated to it full time. Writing code and writing documentation for code requires two completely different mindsets, and someone who is great at one is probably not going to be that good at the other one. That isn't to say that a good writer doesn't need to know how programming works, or a good programmer doesn't need to know anything about documentation. But on large scale projects, it's just better to have someone dedicated to documenting the entire thing start to finish and let the programmers worry about making it actually work.
I am a destroyer of keyboards. So I've learned simply to not buy expensive keyboards. Everything else, yeah, I try to treat gently, from my beloved Honda which is about to tick over 200K miles, to my late grandfather's violin 110 year old violin. Even my $80 mouse gets more care and attention and caution than my keyboard, though.
My dilemma is this: If I get an expensive heavy duty mechanical keyboard, I will somehow managed to drop a gallon of paint on it no matter how careful I am. So I just use $20 el cheapo Microsoft Curve keyboards, which invariably wear out after a year because I hammer it so bad.
Scientific instrumentation is usually available for rent on a timeshare basis once a proble's initial mission is done. So if a US team wanted to run an experiment on a live probe, they could pay a fraction of the cost to rent the time from Russia. This is the difference between an experiment getting done and one not getting done. From a scientific research perspective, deliberately sabatoging someone else's work is also shooting yourself in the foot. Pay Russia a million bucks to rent two day's time in the Martian atmosphere, or pay a billion bucks to send your own problem with no guarantee it will succeed...
When science from another country fails, it is still a tragedy to the US. We are not in a cold war any more - the loss of a sattelite, or a probe, is a huge loss for everyone. Russia may be upset but unfortunately it would not be in US interests to intentionally destroy a probe that we cannot ourselves replicate (due to lack of funds or lack of interest.)
Proper physics involves a lot of math. A lot of it. One tiny mistake in crunching a formula means a wrong answer, which means not full credit. Most of us passed the test; many of us fought tooth and nails to get As. I squeaked by with an 85 and was happy as a clam because that meant an A for the year. But a 100% - a perfect exam - had never been done before. The teacher had a long standing offer that anyone who did it would win a box of candy bars of their choice, which he honored for the winning student.
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No. Dropbox files are stored, unmodified, in a local folder across multiple locations. It's a syncing tool, not just a backup system. If Dropbox's servers close tomorrow, I still have the local folder on my desktop and my laptop. It just means they'll no longer be automatically synced across both machines when they are saved, nor can they be remotely accessed any more.
They had a server in Virginia, which meant they were doing business on US soil.
Many people in the Army have children too.
Surprisingly, this was in Augusta GA, not exactly a hotbed of liberal education activism. But the school was where Fort Gordon shipped its students, so it was full of Army brats who were children of the Signal Corps. It's only now that I've begun to realize that my experience was definitely outside of the norm (I went to computer camp and there was always access to a computer someplace from about the time I was seven, even if it was just a crummy Apple IIe in the National Science Center's labatory.)
Those emails are pretty damning, especially the ones specifying payments to users for providing illegal content. To paraphrase: "User X has 10 great, DVD ripped copies of some popular movies, let's send him a check for five grand." If anything, though, this is proof that the existing law is working as intended and we really don't need any additional bills to go through to crack down on piracy.
Exactly - redundancy is built into Dropbox, which is one of the benefits of the system and why I use it despite all its flaws.
Yes. Makerbots are 3D printers small enough for personal use, using CAD software and appropriate drivers.
My middle school had a grant, either from DARPA itself or something similar from the local Army base, and used it to develop an elective for 8th graders called "Explorations in Technology." Students worked through labs as teams, and could pick which labs they wanted to work on. One of the coolest labs, and one that was filled before I could snag it, was the CAD lab with a laser cutter where the student could design their own pendant (either with their initials, or some other design) and then have it carved out of plastic with a laser. The Makerbot will fit right into such technology labs in schools lucky enough to have them.
Other labs we had included building a model rocket, learning a few LOGO commands and creating a picture, learning not to be afraid of the guts of a PC (this is a slot! and it can hold add-in cards!), flying a space shuttle simulator, etc. This was 1994 - the labs today can probably include a lot more advanced things. This technology class replaced our shop class, though, so we lost the chance to learn to use buzz saws safely.
Ever see a line from a Shakespearean sonnet in camel case 1337?
Usually I just roll my eyes and ignore it, but I wanted to thank you for your gallantry here.
Why bother with more than one Pandora account when you like the same music?
Weight Watchers actually has that, sort of. Every five pounds you lose gives you another star. After you reach your ten percent goal, they give you a keychain to hold charms, which include achievements such as "Ran a 5K" and little weights that represent the pounds you've shed. The most coveted one, of course, is the Lifetime Member, which means you've lost enough weight to reach your goal and you don't have to pay them money to play the game any more.
You're working from home. One of your coworkers complains that you haven't turned in as much code as he has and tells your boss on you. Your boss, concerned about possible slacking, checks your twitter feed, and sees that in the last hour you just got the "Wow, you're really concentrating!" badge in VS for having constant interaction with the problem for the last three hours straight - e.g. it's been open since 9AM and you've been typing code ever since pretty steadily. Boss, having done his due diligence, ignores your coworker.
Happened to a friend's family a year or two ago. The husband had control of all the accounts. All of them. So he was quietly siphoning funds from his wife's accounts to his own, without telling her, and then took off one day with over six hundred thousand dollars, leaving her with a thousand in her account with the mortgage payment due in a week. That was a very, very, very messy divorce.
And vice versa. He's a number guy, I'm a language person. So his passwords are long strings of numbers, and mine are long strings of words and symbols.
I dropped mine off in the recycle bin slot at my phone carrier last time I upgraded. Should have held onto it...
The dog and pony show of the Republican primary. While everyone was seething over SOPA, The GOP Establishment managed to get their anointed one, Mitt Romney, as their nominee, pretty much.
Too bad I can't make an edit to my edit.
Hey now, we English major undergrands / CS master's students do exist. We're just a rare breed.
This this this. A technical writer who knows what they're doing will do it better, faster, cheaper, more accurately, and can be dedicated to it full time. Writing code and writing documentation for code requires two completely different mindsets, and someone who is great at one is probably not going to be that good at the other one. That isn't to say that a good writer doesn't need to know how programming works, or a good programmer doesn't need to know anything about documentation. But on large scale projects, it's just better to have someone dedicated to documenting the entire thing start to finish and let the programmers worry about making it actually work.
I am a destroyer of keyboards. So I've learned simply to not buy expensive keyboards. Everything else, yeah, I try to treat gently, from my beloved Honda which is about to tick over 200K miles, to my late grandfather's violin 110 year old violin. Even my $80 mouse gets more care and attention and caution than my keyboard, though.
My dilemma is this: If I get an expensive heavy duty mechanical keyboard, I will somehow managed to drop a gallon of paint on it no matter how careful I am. So I just use $20 el cheapo Microsoft Curve keyboards, which invariably wear out after a year because I hammer it so bad.
Scientific instrumentation is usually available for rent on a timeshare basis once a proble's initial mission is done. So if a US team wanted to run an experiment on a live probe, they could pay a fraction of the cost to rent the time from Russia. This is the difference between an experiment getting done and one not getting done. From a scientific research perspective, deliberately sabatoging someone else's work is also shooting yourself in the foot. Pay Russia a million bucks to rent two day's time in the Martian atmosphere, or pay a billion bucks to send your own problem with no guarantee it will succeed...
When science from another country fails, it is still a tragedy to the US. We are not in a cold war any more - the loss of a sattelite, or a probe, is a huge loss for everyone. Russia may be upset but unfortunately it would not be in US interests to intentionally destroy a probe that we cannot ourselves replicate (due to lack of funds or lack of interest.)
Proper physics involves a lot of math. A lot of it. One tiny mistake in crunching a formula means a wrong answer, which means not full credit. Most of us passed the test; many of us fought tooth and nails to get As. I squeaked by with an 85 and was happy as a clam because that meant an A for the year. But a 100% - a perfect exam - had never been done before. The teacher had a long standing offer that anyone who did it would win a box of candy bars of their choice, which he honored for the winning student.
And here I thought they were bringing the troops home at the demands of the American people.