I also digitized our family VHS tapes and other old stuff.
I keep one copy on my home computer/server for watching and using. I keep one copy on a USB hard drive in a fire-proof safe in my basement. I keep one copy on a USB drive in the trunk of my car. And I copied the data to my dad and siblings hard drives too.
1) I know grad students who are struggling financially
There are at least two people in my program (of about 100 total) who I know personally who are struggling to make ends meet. Their families aren't well off and our program doesn't have funding. They're getting along OK, but they have to live very very tightly, skipping any extra curricular activities, not buying text books, and budgeting both money and food.
I assume that others may be struggling and I don't know it.
2) More of us miss out on things so we don't have to starve
A good number of us work full time or more to pay for things. I've had to not participate in school events both social and scholastic, including guest speakers and class outings. It is very difficult to see a teacher during office hours since I'm supposed to be at work.
I'm not missing out on food, but if food were available I might be able to work less and be more involved.
The only downside so far is that with SQLite, the database locks when updates are running. This is fairly quick, but might be an issue for some people.
I bought a fast cheap piece of plastic (HP Pavillion!) and it lasted just over a year. It drove me right back to a thinkpad. I paid more, but I have expectations that this thinkpad will last me at least 3 years.
I just bought a new ThinkPad which had several SSD options. I chose the slower 1 terabyte disk instead. I'd rather have everything I need with me, even if it is a little slower.
As for backups, I have a daily cron job which rsyncs between my laptop and my home server.
When I have massive changes I make sure I'm hooked up to the wired home network, otherwise it just goes on over wifi.
"Unless you outright ban guns....or possibly legislate it so that only single shot weapons are legal, you're not going to change or do anything."
Single shot weapons aren't very useful for hunting. I have a single-shot breach action 12ga. shotgun. I missed several ducks and geese this year because I only had one shot -- by the time you reload they're gone.
My first programming course in High School taught me TI Basic. If I remember correctly, the course was titled "American History" or something like that, taught by the football coach.
"While it can be argued that I benefit in the form of the content I DO want being paid for by the ads, there are other revenue models that mysteriously work for much content."
Do you remember the hosting model for hobby-sites before Google Ads were so easy to implement? Remember Angefire, Geocities and 50megs? Those free hosting sites had terrible blinking flashy ads all over the place. You couldn't control placement, quantity or if they had pop-ups, etc.
I think that the current situation with user control over their ads is a much better situation.
My website isn't worth professional hosting. It's basically a blog with code snippets and short how-to posts for stuff I work on. I spend a couple hours a month answering user questions and reading thank-you emails from people who found my content useful. The site is hosted on Bluehost (which is pretty cheap) and Google Ads just cover costs so I don't have to spend any money on it.
Could there be a different revenue model? Sure, probably. But figuring out what it is, implementing it and supporting it is going to take more work than the two hours per month I think my site is worth.
I thought most high schools offered a selection of science classes and you had to take x science classes to graduate.
My high school offered general science, biology, human biology, chemistry and physics. IIRC, you had to take two science classes during your 4 years of HS to graduate.
My high school was in rural Michigan and there were only 116 students in my graduating class, so it's not like it was a big or fancy school. Have things changed that much since 2000?
My 6 year old has been asking me to teach him to program. He played with kturtle for a little while, but turning is relative to the current position and in degrees, and he always ends up distracted by games and videos.
Recently I've started teaching him TI-86 Basic. He is very excited about printing things to the screen.
A couple of pros: * It's self contained with no distractions * Commands are all on the screen so you don't have to memorize them * It's one place where Basic is still useful * IO is simple
The other TI calculators are probably just as good, but I had the 86 in my closet.
"All of the terrestrial earthworms in Minnesota are non-native...at least seven species are invading our hardwood forests and causing the loss of tree seedlings, wildflowers, and ferns."
I've seen before/after photos of forests where earthworms moved in and the undergrowth just disappeared. I don't think that increasing the use of non-native worms is a good idea.
I lived in Brazil for 3 years, and while it's a lot easier to find the black market in Brazil than in the US, it's no where near 90% illegal. Even where Redock and Abbedias type knock-off options are available Brazilians recognize and would rather have the real deal.
For the most part the people who have illegal utilities are shack dwellers (even poorer than those in brick-built favelas). Even most of the brick buildings in the favelas have an electric and water meter attached and in use.
The combi vans are popular and cheaper than the bus, but police busts make them risky, and they're hard to get in and out of. As a result it's mostly poorer working men who need to save the R$0.25 per ride who take them.
My experience was mainly in Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo (the city itself and several suburbs), so maybe Rio is a different story.
At work it's ok to chat with friends, in moderation, as long at the work gets done.
Even with that policy though, when I chat with my wife or friends when I'm at work, I use Off The Record to encrypt my conversations.
It helps that my wife and brother Adium which already had it installed, and that I use a Linux at work which has packages in the repository.
And when I do send emails from work it's from Gmail, and always with https.
I figure that the work email is for work stuff, and they can monitor their business stuff all they want. For my personal stuff, it's personal and I'm not going to give them the chance.
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I also digitized our family VHS tapes and other old stuff.
I keep one copy on my home computer/server for watching and using.
I keep one copy on a USB hard drive in a fire-proof safe in my basement.
I keep one copy on a USB drive in the trunk of my car.
And I copied the data to my dad and siblings hard drives too.
I'm in grad school right now.
1) I know grad students who are struggling financially
There are at least two people in my program (of about 100 total) who I know personally who are struggling to make ends meet. Their families aren't well off and our program doesn't have funding. They're getting along OK, but they have to live very very tightly, skipping any extra curricular activities, not buying text books, and budgeting both money and food.
I assume that others may be struggling and I don't know it.
2) More of us miss out on things so we don't have to starve
A good number of us work full time or more to pay for things. I've had to not participate in school events both social and scholastic, including guest speakers and class outings. It is very difficult to see a teacher during office hours since I'm supposed to be at work.
I'm not missing out on food, but if food were available I might be able to work less and be more involved.
Looks like you're right! The W-540 page says "Notify me" when it's shipping, but the T-540p is available.
I'm not seeing those resolutions. I only see 1600x900 and 1920x1080. Is it in the W-530 line?
Fabrice Bellard could make an x86 emulator out of a paperclip, some spare change and a couple of matchsticks.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean it should be used as a production product.
I wanted a web-based reader, and did some searching last night.
I decided I wanted to go with a self-hosted option, and found SelfOSS. It's light-weight, PHP5 and the code is very clean. It can use MySQL or SQLite.
It's a single-person reader, with one username/password supported.
http://selfoss.aditu.de/
You can see a live demo here: http://stuporglue.org/selfoss/
The only downside so far is that with SQLite, the database locks when updates are running. This is fairly quick, but might be an issue for some people.
The official Bible translation for Latter-Day Saints is the KJV.
Small Joseph Smith Translations (JST) are put in the footnotes for reference, and larger translations are kept separately.
LDS Scriptures online (Genesis 1:31): http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/1?lang=eng#31
None of the footnotes there are JST footnotes.
Joseph Smith Translation: http://www.lds.org/scriptures/jst?lang=eng
No JST for Genesis 1.
I am still waiting for a tiny Zoolander phone.
Since it'd be a dumb phone, it could be mostly battery and could last a week between charges.
I bought a fast cheap piece of plastic (HP Pavillion!) and it lasted just over a year. It drove me right back to a thinkpad. I paid more, but I have expectations that this thinkpad will last me at least 3 years.
Lead-free shot is required at least in Wetlands Managed Areas in Minnesota.
My real name is Michael Moore and I'm not the film maker.
I don't know how many pages you'd have to go through to get to a page that's actually about me.
I just bought a new ThinkPad which had several SSD options. I chose the slower 1 terabyte disk instead. I'd rather have everything I need with me, even if it is a little slower.
As for backups, I have a daily cron job which rsyncs between my laptop and my home server.
When I have massive changes I make sure I'm hooked up to the wired home network, otherwise it just goes on over wifi.
"Unless you outright ban guns....or possibly legislate it so that only single shot weapons are legal, you're not going to change or do anything."
Single shot weapons aren't very useful for hunting. I have a single-shot breach action 12ga. shotgun. I missed several ducks and geese this year because I only had one shot -- by the time you reload they're gone.
I think it'd be a real hassle at gun ranges too.
My first programming course in High School taught me TI Basic. If I remember correctly, the course was titled "American History" or something like that, taught by the football coach.
"While it can be argued that I benefit in the form of the content I DO want being paid for by the ads, there are other revenue models that mysteriously work for much content."
Do you remember the hosting model for hobby-sites before Google Ads were so easy to implement? Remember Angefire, Geocities and 50megs? Those free hosting sites had terrible blinking flashy ads all over the place. You couldn't control placement, quantity or if they had pop-ups, etc.
I think that the current situation with user control over their ads is a much better situation.
My website isn't worth professional hosting. It's basically a blog with code snippets and short how-to posts for stuff I work on. I spend a couple hours a month answering user questions and reading thank-you emails from people who found my content useful. The site is hosted on Bluehost (which is pretty cheap) and Google Ads just cover costs so I don't have to spend any money on it.
Could there be a different revenue model? Sure, probably. But figuring out what it is, implementing it and supporting it is going to take more work than the two hours per month I think my site is worth.
I have a Fisher space pen and it writes well enough, but it globs occasionally and is thicker than the average ballpoint.
I don't currently own a technical pen, but I agree with the guy who posted a link to some. Technical pens are where it's at for that sort of thing.
I thought most high schools offered a selection of science classes and you had to take x science classes to graduate.
My high school offered general science, biology, human biology, chemistry and physics. IIRC, you had to take two science classes during your 4 years of HS to graduate.
My high school was in rural Michigan and there were only 116 students in my graduating class, so it's not like it was a big or fancy school. Have things changed that much since 2000?
My 6 year old has been asking me to teach him to program. He played with kturtle for a little while, but turning is relative to the current position and in degrees, and he always ends up distracted by games and videos.
Recently I've started teaching him TI-86 Basic. He is very excited about printing things to the screen.
A couple of pros:
* It's self contained with no distractions
* Commands are all on the screen so you don't have to memorize them
* It's one place where Basic is still useful
* IO is simple
The other TI calculators are probably just as good, but I had the 86 in my closet.
Did you know that Minnesota has 15 non-native species of earthworms in its forest?
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialanimals/earthworms/index.html
"All of the terrestrial earthworms in Minnesota are non-native...at least seven species are invading our hardwood forests and causing the loss of tree seedlings, wildflowers, and ferns."
I've seen before/after photos of forests where earthworms moved in and the undergrowth just disappeared. I don't think that increasing the use of non-native worms is a good idea.
I lived in Brazil for 3 years, and while it's a lot easier to find the black market in Brazil than in the US, it's no where near 90% illegal. Even where Redock and Abbedias type knock-off options are available Brazilians recognize and would rather have the real deal.
For the most part the people who have illegal utilities are shack dwellers (even poorer than those in brick-built favelas). Even most of the brick buildings in the favelas have an electric and water meter attached and in use.
The combi vans are popular and cheaper than the bus, but police busts make them risky, and they're hard to get in and out of. As a result it's mostly poorer working men who need to save the R$0.25 per ride who take them.
My experience was mainly in Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo (the city itself and several suburbs), so maybe Rio is a different story.
What kind of paranoid nuts are you working for that have keyloggers on their employee's boxes?
Anyways, it was an out-of-the-box from Dell machine, and I installed Ubuntu from an ISO I downloaded myself.
Low chance of keyloggers, I think.
At work it's ok to chat with friends, in moderation, as long at the work gets done.
Even with that policy though, when I chat with my wife or friends when I'm at work, I use Off The Record to encrypt my conversations.
It helps that my wife and brother Adium which already had it installed, and that I use a Linux at work which has packages in the repository.
And when I do send emails from work it's from Gmail, and always with https.
I figure that the work email is for work stuff, and they can monitor their business stuff all they want. For my personal stuff, it's personal and I'm not going to give them the chance.
Meh. Python can do that too.
Finally, a reason to upgrade!
You have never worked at a tech job in Utah. :-)
At my present place of employment, I say that about 40 of the 50 people here are married and probably 30 of those 40 have kids.
My last job had similar ratios.