It is pretty humbling to be 22 and speak at a 3 year old level, but it's great to be able to SPEAK like a 10 year old, and to UNDERSTAND everything in another language.
You only speak like you're 10 years old, but your reasoning ability is much more advanced (assuming that you're older than 10!). The worst part is that people may assume that you are less intelligent, because you don't speak their language as well as they do.
Be more sensitive to people who are not native speakers of your language.
So much of language is culture, I think it is less useful to study latin, as there is less culture attached (don't flame me for this)to it than say Hungarian. Expressions make up the beauty of languages. Turkish is notourious for its descriptive swearing. Latin seems to be alive as a scientific cataloging method and a neat classroom parlor trick. Still, it's better than nothing, and it will definitely help in learning another language. The romans did have some influence on the rest of the world.
Film is a chemcial reaction with light and a photosensitive chemically treated film. This captures things at the atomic level, and has a VERY high resolution. This is something that will probably never be replaced by digital.
Crime scene investigators are a good example of people who need to have that resolution. If you were on trial would you rather have a hard photo, or a digital photo? I'll take kodak film any day over anything digital.
You maybe can't answer this now, but how will it feel in 30 years? When the law has hopefully been properly adjusted instead of these knee-jerk reaction technology laws.
How will you feel if there are others that do not go to jail for it, or that the law doesn't care about?
Are you allowed to use a computer with internet ever again?
Did you get a fine? Would you have taken that over jailtime? Did you have the choice? What kind of lawyer did you have/get offered?
Personally, I also apologize for a great many of the insensitive questions that the slashdotters have asked. You probably understand the "It can't happen to me, I'm too smart." attitude that dominates here. That's all it is. I suspect they'd take this more seriously if they were looking at 33 months.
Perhaps the people who designed it were pissed (meaning quite drunk in British English).
I think people at IKEA might be pleased that the other furniture companies were wasting their time designing logic, sensors, and thinking up ways for the furniture to be mis-constructed, instead of designing other furniture.
I was working in Norway this summer, and I worked for a power company. 99% of the power in Norway is hydro or wind. It then becomes very environmentally friendly.
The speed limits are also lower, the top speed allowed in the country is 90 km an hour, which is also the top speed of the car.
The acceleration is OK, but you roll back a bit if you accelerate up a hill.
I liked it. There was also almost no noise when the car was running. That may be dangerous for pedestrians, but it's kind of cool too.
0.25 USD for a full tank of gas.
TWO Drawbacks:
The stereo system had no bass, that would probably shorten the range, which is also small ~100 km.
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I agree. Underworld, Orbital, and The Orb are classical techno. 808 state is another name that comes to mind, but I haven't listend to them in ages...
Don't go to school for the nice paper they give you at the end, go because you're interested in learning. If you're not ready, work or travel for as long as it takes for you to be ready. Perhaps working for a few years would leave you enough money to go to school. Better hurry, tuition is on the up and up.
No offense, but are you really aspiring to be a sysadmin? Why? Go to school to be sure that you don't want to be an art curator, a biologist, or a sysadmin.
The reason that they are using such old chips, is probably due to stability. These old chips probably do not produce much heat, and therefore are less likely to fail. I remember something about a satellite getting upgraded to a 486, because the 486 had passed the x years radiation test. The pentium had not, due to not being around long enough.
In this article. I think it is just probably cheaper to find the replacement parts than to redesign the system again, it was probably designed well, robust and stable, unlike most modern systems. The engineers trust it, and perhaps are working on something to replace it eventually, but anything new would need a lot of testing, probably about 10 years. Maybe they'll upgrade to a 386 or a 486 soon.
I have installed it for use at a rural residence where I used to live. We had a 26.4 modem connection max, as rural phone lines are often low quality for data. We've had starband since it was available. They sent us an upgrade modem which worked with a netgear router, as the original did, but about march of this year, they wanted original customers to flash upgrade their modems or else service would be cut off. (They were moving us to a different part of the network.) Then it would not work with the router, no matter what. We had to buy winproxy, which was the only thng thay supported. I was a little disgruntled by this obvious ploy to sell copies of winproxy, as it took me several days to figure out how to set up the $%@# winproxy software, but now it's working well and pretty stable, so I can't complain too much.
The Pros of Starband:
Fast internet for those without hope of DSL or Cable.
I've seen downloads of 300K/sec. K not k!
AIM and other programs do work through the proxy server, provided you specify the correct ports. The proxy server is actually faster than the netgear router was too.
The Cons:
High ping times 600-1200 ms. No Games for you!
Filesharing is limited. Some things do work, but they have bandwidth police I'm told.
I don't fully trust the company after they made their modem only work with winproxy. That bothered me a little bit. They essentially have a monopoly at this time, and they know it. Our router is now a paperweight.
You must have win98 or 2k. I won't ever upgrade to Me or XP, so I don't know or care about them. No official Linux support as of yet. I doubt there will be for some time. It *might* work, but I haven't had time to meddle with it. Their mission control software is somewhat usless and windows only. I tried installing it to run a proxy server off of a windows 95 box and it didn't work.
The mixed blessings:
The hardware setup fee is a hefty initial cost, but the money we saved from canceling our extra phone lines paid for it quickly.
The bottom line:
We are saving time and money because of this service. It is worth it if you use the internet a lot and live in a rural area beyond DSL or cable. If you can get DSL or cable get it, otherwise starband is a decent option.
Using the stamps, replacing them with circuit elements, and adding in a circuit analysis tool could make it an effective tool for teaching physics/Electrical engineering, perhaps digital logic too.
Isn't the small size going to be an issue with the 18-34 crowd (the initial target market), as they are very LIKELY to HAVE SMALL CHILDREN. Toddlers like to put things in their mouths, sometimes small things get lodged there accidentally. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. I feel sorry already for the parent that loses their child to this.
You're not even supposed to give a small child a hotdog, unless it's cut up, because that could get caught in their throat.
As technology shrinks, people need to consider the two year old that likes to put EVERYTHING into their mouth! It seems obvious, but I bet very frew people have considered this.
I read the review noted a few comments above, and they said that it is compatible with regular old firewire.
I said I'd always wait for something with decent battery life, and a big hard drive. This is it.
The previous problems were not enough memory and plenty of battery life, or a big hdd, and not enough battery life ~4 hours. This will be a big seller, assuming the price is under 500 USD. No price that I could find. I sure hope it's not 800, because then I'd buy a laptop.
The average temperature has been rising over the past 20 years. Big whoop. The only reason this looks significant is the fact that we only have data dating back 150 years at most. If we had data for the past 1000 years (in which people have survived)that showed a steady upward trend, I'd belive something. Anything else is cold fusion (the claims that were unrepeatable) to me.
It's great to be looking out for the earth and all, but please avoid supporting bad science.
Besides the obvious dirty names you could come up with (which actually might work for pr0n sites), you just need a medical dictionary to finde the names of all of the bones, veins, muscles, teeth, layers of skin, the list goes on and on. I bet you could come up with 4000 names.
Staying away from 'geeky' naming conventions like LOTR, simpsons, anime, scifi stuff is good, because h4x0rs are more likely to recognize something like this, and probably won't know where their traps or glutes or deltoids are.
Organic compounds might also work (for a really really large server farm), but that would be hell to sort through.
A combine isn't a tractor (not sure if you said it was, and I too have listened to Orbital while driving a tractor. You may be the only one to listen to the chemical brothers however.
This is great stuff that matters. I know there are other sites like this, but the more the merrier, and this one seems like it has some active movers and shakers behind it. Perhaps they'll surpass the others if they already haven't.
I could just see this jacket being taken off and then used as a decoy for a heatcam. That could help a soldier out of a pinch, although ditching your jacket is probably a big no-no, especially if it's cold out.
I thought they stopped all work this month to repair bugs. Oh well, Microsoft must have removed the last 9-10 days of February from every version of windows...
I agree with martyb. Use the CD burners already in place in the computer labs. Lots of kids drop lectures, don't attend, ignore lecture notes and read the books, etc. Any CD you gave them would end up as a coaster the following saturday night.
If the students really want to learn the material, and they feel that this CD would help them, then they should go to the lab, download an.ISO, put in a CD and burn it, with all of the instructions on a web page with a link to the ISO. They then provide their own media and time to learn, and they learn how to burn CDs too.
I know at my school, we have probably 30 Plextor 16x CD burners in the lab, and I have seen them used once and I am in the lab often.
My advice, save time money and headache by making a nice ISO and a nice webpage and letting the students loose. If they can't follow well written instructions after asking a few questions (or burning a few coasters), then they shouldn't be in college.
Unless it is something like a CDRW that reads the disk and then has a laser erase it, I doubt that this can be good for the player. The laser needs to stay clean, and coatings that get melted off will probably produce some kind of waste. Perhaps that won't be a solid, but I don't want to be inhaling any strange fumes from my DVD drive.
Then again, maybe someone was inhaling some fumes from their DVD drive and thought it was a good idea.
Is anyone else afraid of something like this? using plastic instead of steel to reinforce a building made of some new kind of concrete. I for one will not set foot in such a building... I have visions of galloping gerdie... (the bridge in Washinton state that wasn't tested enough)
I'm almost done with my EE and my language major. It's a scandinavian tongue, which is much more distinct than say german, french or spanish, but adventure is adventure, and people should seize the day. As great of a place as the US is, there ARE other great places in the world...
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It is pretty humbling to be 22 and speak at a 3 year old level, but it's great to be able to SPEAK like a 10 year old, and to UNDERSTAND everything in another language.
You only speak like you're 10 years old, but your reasoning ability is much more advanced (assuming that you're older than 10!). The worst part is that people may assume that you are less intelligent, because you don't speak their language as well as they do.
Be more sensitive to people who are not native speakers of your language.
So much of language is culture, I think it is less useful to study latin, as there is less culture attached (don't flame me for this)to it than say Hungarian. Expressions make up the beauty of languages. Turkish is notourious for its descriptive swearing. Latin seems to be alive as a scientific cataloging method and a neat classroom parlor trick. Still, it's better than nothing, and it will definitely help in learning another language. The romans did have some influence on the rest of the world.
Definitely not QED.
Film is a chemcial reaction with light and a photosensitive chemically treated film. This captures things at the atomic level, and has a VERY high resolution. This is something that will probably never be replaced by digital.
Crime scene investigators are a good example of people who need to have that resolution. If you were on trial would you rather have a hard photo, or a digital photo? I'll take kodak film any day over anything digital.
Did anyone notice how the nominators all seem to be in New England or California?
I saw one CO, TN, and MI. That's all. 4 from NY, 8 from CA, 8 From New England, (Not NY).
There are talented people everywhere, these folks were just in the right place at the right time.
Go Luck!
How will you feel if there are others that do not go to jail for it, or that the law doesn't care about?
Are you allowed to use a computer with internet ever again?
Did you get a fine? Would you have taken that over jailtime? Did you have the choice? What kind of lawyer did you have/get offered?
Personally, I also apologize for a great many of the insensitive questions that the slashdotters have asked. You probably understand the "It can't happen to me, I'm too smart." attitude that dominates here. That's all it is. I suspect they'd take this more seriously if they were looking at 33 months.
I think people at IKEA might be pleased that the other furniture companies were wasting their time designing logic, sensors, and thinking up ways for the furniture to be mis-constructed, instead of designing other furniture.
I was working in Norway this summer, and I worked for a power company. 99% of the power in Norway is hydro or wind. It then becomes very environmentally friendly.
The speed limits are also lower, the top speed allowed in the country is 90 km an hour, which is also the top speed of the car.
The acceleration is OK, but you roll back a bit if you accelerate up a hill.
I liked it. There was also almost no noise when the car was running. That may be dangerous for pedestrians, but it's kind of cool too.
0.25 USD for a full tank of gas.
TWO Drawbacks:
The stereo system had no bass, that would probably shorten the range, which is also small ~100 km.
I agree. Underworld, Orbital, and The Orb are classical techno. 808 state is another name that comes to mind, but I haven't listend to them in ages...
No offense, but are you really aspiring to be a sysadmin? Why? Go to school to be sure that you don't want to be an art curator, a biologist, or a sysadmin.
In this article. I think it is just probably cheaper to find the replacement parts than to redesign the system again, it was probably designed well, robust and stable, unlike most modern systems. The engineers trust it, and perhaps are working on something to replace it eventually, but anything new would need a lot of testing, probably about 10 years. Maybe they'll upgrade to a 386 or a 486 soon.
The Pros of Starband:
Fast internet for those without hope of DSL or Cable.
I've seen downloads of 300K/sec. K not k!
AIM and other programs do work through the proxy server, provided you specify the correct ports. The proxy server is actually faster than the netgear router was too.
The Cons:
High ping times 600-1200 ms. No Games for you!
Filesharing is limited. Some things do work, but they have bandwidth police I'm told.
I don't fully trust the company after they made their modem only work with winproxy. That bothered me a little bit. They essentially have a monopoly at this time, and they know it. Our router is now a paperweight.
You must have win98 or 2k. I won't ever upgrade to Me or XP, so I don't know or care about them. No official Linux support as of yet. I doubt there will be for some time. It *might* work, but I haven't had time to meddle with it. Their mission control software is somewhat usless and windows only. I tried installing it to run a proxy server off of a
windows 95 box and it didn't work.
The mixed blessings:
The hardware setup fee is a hefty initial cost, but the money we saved from canceling our extra phone lines paid for it quickly.
The bottom line:
We are saving time and money because of this service. It is worth it if you use the internet a lot and live in a rural area beyond DSL or cable. If you can get DSL or cable get it, otherwise starband is a decent option.
Using the stamps, replacing them with circuit elements, and adding in a circuit analysis tool could make it an effective tool for teaching physics/Electrical engineering, perhaps digital logic too.
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You're not even supposed to give a small child a hotdog, unless it's cut up, because that could get caught in their throat.
As technology shrinks, people need to consider the two year old that likes to put EVERYTHING into their mouth! It seems obvious, but I bet very frew people have considered this.
I said I'd always wait for something with decent battery life, and a big hard drive. This is it.
The previous problems were not enough memory and plenty of battery life, or a big hdd, and not enough battery life ~4 hours. This will be a big seller, assuming the price is under 500 USD. No price that I could find. I sure hope it's not 800, because then I'd buy a laptop.
Someone mod this guy up!
It's great to be looking out for the earth and all, but please avoid supporting bad science.
I got all the orbs for each weapon up to level nine. I probably won't get an award until I die either...
Staying away from 'geeky' naming conventions like LOTR, simpsons, anime, scifi stuff is good, because h4x0rs are more likely to recognize something like this, and probably won't know where their traps or glutes or deltoids are.
Organic compounds might also work (for a really really large server farm), but that would be hell to sort through.
A combine isn't a tractor (not sure if you said it was, and I too have listened to Orbital while driving a tractor. You may be the only one to listen to the chemical brothers however.
This is great stuff that matters. I know there are other sites like this, but the more the merrier, and this one seems like it has some active movers and shakers behind it. Perhaps they'll surpass the others if they already haven't.
I could just see this jacket being taken off and then used as a decoy for a heatcam. That could help a soldier out of a pinch, although ditching your jacket is probably a big no-no, especially if it's cold out.
I thought they stopped all work this month to repair bugs. Oh well, Microsoft must have removed the last 9-10 days of February from every version of windows...
If the students really want to learn the material, and they feel that this CD would help them, then they should go to the lab, download an .ISO, put in a CD and burn it, with all of the instructions on a web page with a link to the ISO. They then provide their own media and time to learn, and they learn how to burn CDs too.
I know at my school, we have probably 30 Plextor 16x CD burners in the lab, and I have seen them used once and I am in the lab often.
My advice, save time money and headache by making a nice ISO and a nice webpage and letting the students loose. If they can't follow well written instructions after asking a few questions (or burning a few coasters), then they shouldn't be in college.
Unless it is something like a CDRW that reads the disk and then has a laser erase it, I doubt that this can be good for the player. The laser needs to stay clean, and coatings that get melted off will probably produce some kind of waste. Perhaps that won't be a solid, but I don't want to be inhaling any strange fumes from my DVD drive.
Then again, maybe someone was inhaling some fumes from their DVD drive and thought it was a good idea.
Is anyone else afraid of something like this? using plastic instead of steel to reinforce a building made of some new kind of concrete. I for one will not set foot in such a building... I have visions of galloping gerdie... (the bridge in Washinton state that wasn't tested enough)
I'm almost done with my EE and my language major. It's a scandinavian tongue, which is much more distinct than say german, french or spanish, but adventure is adventure, and people should seize the day. As great of a place as the US is, there ARE other great places in the world...