It used to be that only p0rn sites used the popup windows. Now everybody is getting in on the act. Is ther a browser or 3rd party software which will block webpage requests to make a new window?
It is that same in CA but there is am minimum charge for the connection that is far more expancive then any one house can hope to put back into the system. I know of at least two houses in Central CA who have to run an outside heater most of the time to bleed off the extra power their solar pannels create. Neither are on the grid because it costs too much to get connected.
Sence parody is leagle I suggest anyone wishing to distribute for profit any of the information in a lecture make a humorous framing device of the lecture notes and you can buy the lecture and a good laugh.
As prospective teacher... There are some points there need to be raised here. The first is that at the moment education software is very poor. For an industry that is already technophobic and poorly trained in the use of technology it is very hard to convince Educators to stick there neck out with poor software and even harder to convince them to make good software. Good Educational software should teach something (not just provide a better chalk board), never crash, have as few modes as possible ("I hit a button and it put me here where am I?"), be exciting, and be very secure (the best hackers in the world are board students) this is a tall order which I have not seen filled. For this reason most of what technology is used for in the classroom consists of using applications that were not designed to teach. Word processors will not teach you to write spread sheets will not help you learn to add and graphics programs will not teach you to draw. You must already have these skills, then the computer programs of today can help students improve them. This is the reason many "experts" have recommended agents the use of computers in elementary education. IMHO if computers are to be used as an educational tool and not as someone put it just to "make school work look better" then there must be reliable and easy to use software that serves this purpose and does it as well or better then the current method.
In regards to using computer in High School (where I would like to teach) there is an entirely different problem. That is the immense difference in skill levels between students. Current trends in educational theory say that separating students by skill level is to be avoided if possible. I 'm sure that there are many Slashdot readers who will testify to the fact that in a computer class in high school, those who know about computers often know more then the teacher, while those who don't may need to learn how to use a mouse.(probably not this bad any more but you get the point) Now imagine a science lesson using computers where instead of teaching the science that is needed the teacher spends the entire class trying to teach the students how to use the computers. I have seen lessons like this and it rightly scares most current teachers away.
In conclusion, All students need to be taught to use computer as it is becoming a necessary job skill just like reading or math, but for this to happen there needs to be software that is both useful and reliable. Also more training for teachers whose first taste of technology was most likely not a good one. All this will cost money and take time two things that today's Education system doesn't have. I don't think teachers fear being replaced (At least they shouldn't) Most would be willing to change if they thought it would be an improvement, but for the reasons above that is currently not the case and sadly is not likely to change any time soon.
What do you think? If you can point out the names of Software that you think might fit the bill I would be very interested? Also any advice fro a prospective teachers?
While I agree that the there would be both increased safety and decreased cost for such a mission, I still thing that as was stated the cost increase over a completely robotic mission would be hard for NASA to handle at this point. Further more the difference in cost between manned orbit and a manned landing would not be significant.
Just to add to the comment about the GPS like system for mars. This was part of the mission for the other mars probe which crashed do to metric/english conversions.
Also I would like to, as a side note, congratulate NASA on a successful repair of the Hubble Space Telescope!
This seems much more unlikely. A trip from Earth to Mars is relatively short for one thing and there is nothing in the way. Europa on the other hand is both much further and is also the moon of the largest planet in the solar system. Any debris leaving Earth and finding it's way into an eccentric enough orbit to intercept Jupiter's orbit would have been much more likely to have fallen into Jupiter itself and not one of the moons.
I would suggest that if life is found on Europa that it would be native to that body. Certainly anything is possible but barring strong biological evidence the simplest explanation seems to be that of parallel evolution.
Ok maybe this is off topic but there seems to be much discussion of what RedHat (read: Linux) neads to do to improve there package (read: Operating Syatem) Sevral posters have advocated buying Corel in order to try to provide an Office Suit for linux. The SGI suggests (I think) that they could provide better "operating-system-technology" Many of the posts in responce to this one sugested other companies.
I confess I use windows98 for most of my day to day operations. And ocasionaly log into my Linux box. (The poor Linux server doesn't even have a screen) For me to switch I think I would need the following: 1) Better (read: easier) printer support 2) An Office suit which read (at least to start) all my/everyone elses old.doc files 3) More programs! esp. Vidio Games (don't tell the profs) 4) Better Documentation. (HOWTO style) I didn't even know Un*x existed until I got to college so I still don't know the lingo very well. To get people who are used to Win98 to switch successfully may take some doing.
But this is just me. I would like to know what/.ers think Linux needs to be accepted "By The Masses"? Are these the same types of things that/.ers themselves want?
I will be intersed to see the responce.
JFMiller (Member in good standing of The Unwashed Masses)
Actually this is economicly correct. (IMHO) Tariff's increase the price of foregn goods. This reduces the demand for forign goods and increases the demand for substitute goods i.e. domestic goods. The metefore tossed about in my econ class says if the price of Shell's gas goes up then the demand for cheeper am/pm gas (which is a subststute good) will increase also. Just a thought
Slashdot Mirror
It used to be that only p0rn sites used the popup windows. Now everybody is getting in on the act. Is ther a browser or 3rd party software which will block webpage requests to make a new window?
It is that same in CA but there is am minimum charge for the connection that is far more expancive then any one house can hope to put back into the system. I know of at least two houses in Central CA who have to run an outside heater most of the time to bleed off the extra power their solar pannels create. Neither are on the grid because it costs too much to get connected.
For a picture of the plant in Morro Bay that is causing all the problems click here.
Sence parody is leagle I suggest anyone wishing to distribute for profit any of the information in a lecture make a humorous framing device of the lecture notes and you can buy the lecture and a good laugh.
I think this might make an great slashdot pole or two.
There are some points there need to be raised here. The first is that at the moment education software is very poor. For an industry that is already technophobic and poorly trained in the use of technology it is very hard to convince Educators to stick there neck out with poor software and even harder to convince them to make good software. Good Educational software should teach something (not just provide a better chalk board), never crash, have as few modes as possible ("I hit a button and it put me here where am I?"), be exciting, and be very secure (the best hackers in the world are board students) this is a tall order which I have not seen filled. For this reason most of what technology is used for in the classroom consists of using applications that were not designed to teach. Word processors will not teach you to write spread sheets will not help you learn to add and graphics programs will not teach you to draw. You must already have these skills, then the computer programs of today can help students improve them. This is the reason many "experts" have recommended agents the use of computers in elementary education. IMHO if computers are to be used as an educational tool and not as someone put it just to "make school work look better" then there must be reliable and easy to use software that serves this purpose and does it as well or better then the current method.
In regards to using computer in High School (where I would like to teach) there is an entirely different problem. That is the immense difference in skill levels between students. Current trends in educational theory say that separating students by skill level is to be avoided if possible. I 'm sure that there are many Slashdot readers who will testify to the fact that in a computer class in high school, those who know about computers often know more then the teacher, while those who don't may need to learn how to use a mouse.(probably not this bad any more but you get the point) Now imagine a science lesson using computers where instead of teaching the science that is needed the teacher spends the entire class trying to teach the students how to use the computers. I have seen lessons like this and it rightly scares most current teachers away.
In conclusion, All students need to be taught to use computer as it is becoming a necessary job skill just like reading or math, but for this to happen there needs to be software that is both useful and reliable. Also more training for teachers whose first taste of technology was most likely not a good one. All this will cost money and take time two things that today's Education system doesn't have. I don't think teachers fear being replaced (At least they shouldn't) Most would be willing to change if they thought it would be an improvement, but for the reasons above that is currently not the case and sadly is not likely to change any time soon.
What do you think? If you can point out the names of Software that you think might fit the bill I would be very interested? Also any advice fro a prospective teachers?
JF MIiler
While I agree that the there would be both increased safety and decreased cost for such a mission, I still thing that as was stated the cost increase over a completely robotic mission would be hard for NASA to handle at this point. Further more the difference in cost between manned orbit and a manned landing would not be significant.
Just to add to the comment about the GPS like system for mars. This was part of the mission for the other mars probe which crashed do to metric/english conversions.
Also I would like to, as a side note, congratulate NASA on a successful repair of the Hubble Space Telescope!
JF Miller
I believe the answer to all of these is no. They should all (save the Lib.) be covered under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act title II.
This seems much more unlikely. A trip from Earth to Mars is relatively short for one thing and there is nothing in the way. Europa on the other hand is both much further and is also the moon of the largest planet in the solar system. Any debris leaving Earth and finding it's way into an eccentric enough orbit to intercept Jupiter's orbit would have been much more likely to have fallen into Jupiter itself and not one of the moons.
I would suggest that if life is found on Europa that it would be native to that body. Certainly anything is possible but barring strong biological evidence the simplest explanation seems to be that of parallel evolution.
Just a thought,
JF Miller
Ok maybe this is off topic but there seems to be much discussion of what RedHat (read: Linux) neads to do to improve there package (read: Operating Syatem) Sevral posters have advocated buying Corel in order to try to provide an Office Suit for linux. The SGI suggests (I think) that they could provide better "operating-system-technology" Many of the posts in responce to this one sugested other companies.
.doc files
/.ers think Linux needs to be accepted "By The Masses"? Are these the same types of things that /.ers themselves want?
I confess I use windows98 for most of my day to day operations. And ocasionaly log into my Linux box. (The poor Linux server doesn't even have a screen) For me to switch I think I would need the following:
1) Better (read: easier) printer support
2) An Office suit which read (at least to start) all my/everyone elses old
3) More programs! esp. Vidio Games (don't tell the profs)
4) Better Documentation. (HOWTO style) I didn't even know Un*x existed until I got to college so I still don't know the lingo very well. To get people who are used to Win98 to switch successfully may take some doing.
But this is just me. I would like to know what
I will be intersed to see the responce.
JFMiller (Member in good standing of The Unwashed Masses)
Actually this is economicly correct. (IMHO) Tariff's increase the price of foregn goods. This reduces the demand for forign goods and increases the demand for substitute goods i.e. domestic goods. The metefore tossed about in my econ class says if the price of Shell's gas goes up then the demand for cheeper am/pm gas (which is a subststute good) will increase also. Just a thought