Why can't we just move to kibibytes for everything, it's just a slight change in how you say it and everything is as it was before. I'm sure you'll be able to change the way Ubuntu reports sizes from kibi to kilo if you want to, but kilo = 1000 and even though IT has been an exception for many years doesn't mean it should stay that way.
I agree. To be charged with failure to comply in the middle of an unjustified and probably illegal assault is a gross moral wrong that everyone can see. You can't just cherry pick the non-compliance out of there and convict. Well, obviously you can. It stinks. I would not have convicted him if I were free to choose.
Science museum and natural history museum are good days out. You can probably do both in a day. Bletchley park as above is a great one to do, although it's a bit sparse through lack of funds.
Just don't advertise you're american by wearing shorts, a loud shirt and a baseball cap. When on the first day out, look at other people and then dress like them for the rest of the journey
And the best piece of advice is DO NOT SAY YOU ARE AN AMERICAN. Remember - you are a CANADIAN. This will serve you well to avoid problems.:)
If Ubuntu can be bankrolled for a reasonably small amount of cash (few millions to tens of millions), then surely Google can spare a hundred million to create their own, full linux based OS, without many of the problems of current systems, Ubuntu included.
I can see how some Google engineers can come up with something pretty special, taking the best of Linux, Windows and Mac OS's (and others) to create something they can then push for on netbooks and desktops throughout the markets in the world.
With a massive effort like this it might even spur on ports for things that previously didn't have a linux presence.
I think only something as big as Google can create the 'year of the linux desktop'
This isn't the end of the internet when passed. But it may be the end of the open wild west attitude on the net. I hope it doesn't come to pass where everyone is afraid of uploading videos because they may have a coca cola logo in it and whatnot. What it won't do is stop piracy. It will move to darkets, or people posting massive gb thumb drives around. A bit of a backwards step but pirates will find a way. Hell, it might even increase it as you'd be generating a community spirit for pirates. All this fuss over Lily Allen CD's isn't worth it. Musicians should move to live performances to make money and accept that they shouldn't be millionaires for 1 album. They should work for a living like the rest of us. DVD's should be released much later after a film's release, and so move people to get back into the cinema. Live performance is where you make the money. Backup and copies should be let go for free (ish).
Why is this a suprise at all? GPS satellites have to include relativistic calculations. This isn't difficult for anyone involved. It's hardly rocket science.....
As a science teacher I can tell you that this is the exact opposite of education in the UK today. Facts and figures have been decimated from the curriculum and it is ALL about critical thinking in science now.
I don't particularly approve of it either, I think you need both to be well equipped to be a scientist, or be able to have a meaningful debate on a scientific topic.
Science teaching in the UK is going downhill in my estimation after teaching it for 12 years. I can't see a return to better days on the horizon as yet, but now it is getting to the state that I am actively planning getting out of science. I'll be trying to convert over to IT, which seems to have much more support and is getting more 'important' all the time.
And you think a collision happening right in front of you isn't dangerous to your car? You'd be just as involved as you pile into the wrecks spinning right in front of you.
I think you should imagine 5 years down the line, when every phone has the capability. I'm a science teacher. I imagine that in 5 years, I can get my hands on some AR science apps and roll them out to pupils phones (I'd hope the mechanism for doing this would be easy and built by then)
Imagine clearing your desk then looking through your phone at a 3D model of a galaxy, spinning right in front of you, or taking a tour around the solar system right there.
What about simulating predator/prey relationships on your desk, or any kind of simulation really.
I can't imagine any of that getting old quickly. I also imagine that we will get AR glasses that don't look too dorky in the future too. Imagine a class wearing them inside a room with markers on the walls - the room effectively becomes a HOLODECK. You can dissolve away the real world and take them flying where ever you want. The amazing thing is that it is doable RIGHT NOW. We just need someone to build the thing and program it. It doesn't need any inventions 'down the line'.
After that little revelation, you can see the uses for it in the home as well. AR will change a lot of things if they build it well.
Interesting that that isn't what Celsius had in mind. Originally he described the freezing point of water to be 100 C and the boiling point of water to be 0 C. No one objected until his death (he was an imposing figure) and then it was swiftly changed to a more logical scale.
I'd much rather oil be used for something useful rather than simply burning it. There are a myriad of products from oil that will be all the harder to make when it runs out. I say this is a good plan, despite the difficulty. No more harping on about global warming at least, which would be a relief.
If you can make a thin laptop, just add on a massive battery and make it as thick as a regular one. I don't care how thin it is, but a laptop that can survive normal use on battery for 8 hours would be an amazing thing.
Well, if it is compatible, they are releasing free content creators for a game that's not out until november. That's pretty amazing isn't it? Won't that mean that L4D2 will skyrocket in popularity if the amount of official and fan content is staggering when put together?
Think about this - you CAN have a controller as well you know. Imagine a FPS with a johnny lee style 3d effect, without having to wear any headgear. Natal seems to provide this out of the box. Now imagine a gun controller where you have fps controls embedded, but like left 4 dead you can also shove opponents away, and you can actually shove them.
What about some LCD glasses and headtracking? That's immersive VR right there.
I suggest that we line up every piece of digital information that we have and send it all. They can get a half decent view of us that way, and maybe they will do the same at some point, giving us a world of information to sift through. Imagine the advancements if we can understand any of it, and imagine the generations of work if their language or thought is beyond us.
There's really nothing to be done if they are superior and malevolent and on the way, so why not assume they want to be friends?
If I got that right, that's 54 albums, so in cost that's $215 you've spent right there. I bet I could have the majority of that on a torrent in a day or two, for nothing.
What's the incentive for pirates to look at amazon?
I wonder how many regular nouns there are in English for them to have created? It seems like a lot. If Einstein is in there, how many other famous figures are also in there?
I own a DS lite, and an R4 cart. Guess what game I play most often? JetPac, run on an emulated 48k speccy. Emulation is a massive market that is being left behind by these handhelds. The d joypad and buttons are perfect for jetpac, I love it. That and manic miner, JSW etc. There's a c64 emulator as well but it's just a little bit too laggy for me, although I still fire it up for Uridium or Paradroid.
Not all r4's are for pirate games. I want a decent, open emulation handheld, and the DS is pretty good for that if you like the speccy. Not investigated the DSi for how powerful its CPU is, but I may decide to get one if it will do c64, mame or maybe an atari ST?
I wonder, what if it was sold at a profit, how much would it cost? And then maybe the manufacturer wouldn't whine so much about piracy, and the publishers of games can try new models of game production that halts piracy, like regular updates to games similar to valve's steam platform. You'll never get a model that pleases everyone, but you can fight the general piracy of games without a negative lock-down policy, but an open, content driven policy.
They claim that 800,000 jobs are threatened, with the loss of £112 bn in jobs and sales?
Money doesn't just disappear like that. If a file-sharer doesn't buy media and downloads it instead, they have more money to go see a movie, or have a nice meal at a restaurant - whatever. The money is still used in the economy, just not in same industry as media.
To suggest that filesharers are causing an 8% drop in GDP is idiotic, as well as the 50% of all traffic is illegal. And they want to ban illegal filesharers? Ok, lets ban half the population of the UK from surfing the net, or more!
I think my school at least is open enough that people feel free to talk about anything / everything. Kids who I teach can moan about other teachers, and sometimes I agree with them, but compared to my own schooling 20-30 years ago they've never had it so good or so easy. Dictatorial teachers aren't hidden away if they don't talk about it - the kids damn well will make it known.
I think some over-play the impact of teenage years and rebellion. I know that the majority of kids I teach are pretty much happy with their lot in life at the moment. Exams are stressful (coming into the season now) but it's all part of LIFE.
I've not met many teachers who didn't know their subject, but for personal pride reasons I strive to be the teacher who knows most about my particular subject and for the most part succeed where I work.
Maybe being part of the geek under class (or is it over class?) has helped me work with others of a similar nature, or sympathise with the disaffected pupils but I'm not convinced. Most teachers I know work very hard, and it's appreciated by most kids - as indicated by them running around at the moment getting everyone to sign their leavers books - and not just sign, they always want a flippin essay...
Why is it that I get the impression that teaching in the USA is pretty much awful? It seems like teachers are pretty much universally demonised and hated, come across as petty dictators of their classrooms.
As a teacher myself of 11 years (UK, Science) I can say that this is not the situation here. Sure, some teachers are disliked more than others - it goes with the job - but by and large (and I mean 95%) we work well with our students and they work well with us. We enjoy each others interaction in the classroom and around school, have a laugh and learn some interesting stuff.
We don't go around picking on kids and watching youtube instead of teaching. What kind of pride in your job would that give?
I don't have any experience of the US high school system but it seems to have fallen apart for the majority of kids. Is this, sadly, the case? Or have teachers been singled out as a scapegoat for the failings of US society? I genuinely can't believe that American teachers are so universally awful.
Well yes, but the principle is fairly identical. Virtual particles passing a seemingly impenetrable barrier. From reading about Hawking radiation years ago, I thought this was implied elsewhere/everywhere. Maybe I should have pointed it out for a PhD...
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Kilo, Mega, Giga. I do not think you get what those mean.
Why can't we just move to kibibytes for everything, it's just a slight change in how you say it and everything is as it was before. I'm sure you'll be able to change the way Ubuntu reports sizes from kibi to kilo if you want to, but kilo = 1000 and even though IT has been an exception for many years doesn't mean it should stay that way.
I agree. To be charged with failure to comply in the middle of an unjustified and probably illegal assault is a gross moral wrong that everyone can see. You can't just cherry pick the non-compliance out of there and convict. Well, obviously you can. It stinks. I would not have convicted him if I were free to choose.
Science museum and natural history museum are good days out. You can probably do both in a day. Bletchley park as above is a great one to do, although it's a bit sparse through lack of funds.
:)
Just don't advertise you're american by wearing shorts, a loud shirt and a baseball cap. When on the first day out, look at other people and then dress like them for the rest of the journey
And the best piece of advice is DO NOT SAY YOU ARE AN AMERICAN. Remember - you are a CANADIAN. This will serve you well to avoid problems.
If Ubuntu can be bankrolled for a reasonably small amount of cash (few millions to tens of millions), then surely Google can spare a hundred million to create their own, full linux based OS, without many of the problems of current systems, Ubuntu included.
I can see how some Google engineers can come up with something pretty special, taking the best of Linux, Windows and Mac OS's (and others) to create something they can then push for on netbooks and desktops throughout the markets in the world.
With a massive effort like this it might even spur on ports for things that previously didn't have a linux presence.
I think only something as big as Google can create the 'year of the linux desktop'
This isn't the end of the internet when passed. But it may be the end of the open wild west attitude on the net. I hope it doesn't come to pass where everyone is afraid of uploading videos because they may have a coca cola logo in it and whatnot. What it won't do is stop piracy. It will move to darkets, or people posting massive gb thumb drives around. A bit of a backwards step but pirates will find a way. Hell, it might even increase it as you'd be generating a community spirit for pirates. All this fuss over Lily Allen CD's isn't worth it. Musicians should move to live performances to make money and accept that they shouldn't be millionaires for 1 album. They should work for a living like the rest of us. DVD's should be released much later after a film's release, and so move people to get back into the cinema. Live performance is where you make the money. Backup and copies should be let go for free (ish).
Why is this a suprise at all? GPS satellites have to include relativistic calculations. This isn't difficult for anyone involved. It's hardly rocket science.....
As a science teacher I can tell you that this is the exact opposite of education in the UK today. Facts and figures have been decimated from the curriculum and it is ALL about critical thinking in science now.
I don't particularly approve of it either, I think you need both to be well equipped to be a scientist, or be able to have a meaningful debate on a scientific topic.
Science teaching in the UK is going downhill in my estimation after teaching it for 12 years. I can't see a return to better days on the horizon as yet, but now it is getting to the state that I am actively planning getting out of science. I'll be trying to convert over to IT, which seems to have much more support and is getting more 'important' all the time.
And you think a collision happening right in front of you isn't dangerous to your car? You'd be just as involved as you pile into the wrecks spinning right in front of you.
I think you should imagine 5 years down the line, when every phone has the capability. I'm a science teacher. I imagine that in 5 years, I can get my hands on some AR science apps and roll them out to pupils phones (I'd hope the mechanism for doing this would be easy and built by then)
Imagine clearing your desk then looking through your phone at a 3D model of a galaxy, spinning right in front of you, or taking a tour around the solar system right there.
What about simulating predator/prey relationships on your desk, or any kind of simulation really.
I can't imagine any of that getting old quickly. I also imagine that we will get AR glasses that don't look too dorky in the future too. Imagine a class wearing them inside a room with markers on the walls - the room effectively becomes a HOLODECK. You can dissolve away the real world and take them flying where ever you want. The amazing thing is that it is doable RIGHT NOW. We just need someone to build the thing and program it. It doesn't need any inventions 'down the line'.
After that little revelation, you can see the uses for it in the home as well. AR will change a lot of things if they build it well.
Interesting that that isn't what Celsius had in mind. Originally he described the freezing point of water to be 100 C and the boiling point of water to be 0 C. No one objected until his death (he was an imposing figure) and then it was swiftly changed to a more logical scale.
Weird, but there it is.
I'd much rather oil be used for something useful rather than simply burning it. There are a myriad of products from oil that will be all the harder to make when it runs out. I say this is a good plan, despite the difficulty. No more harping on about global warming at least, which would be a relief.
If you can make a thin laptop, just add on a massive battery and make it as thick as a regular one. I don't care how thin it is, but a laptop that can survive normal use on battery for 8 hours would be an amazing thing.
Well, if it is compatible, they are releasing free content creators for a game that's not out until november. That's pretty amazing isn't it? Won't that mean that L4D2 will skyrocket in popularity if the amount of official and fan content is staggering when put together?
Think about this - you CAN have a controller as well you know. Imagine a FPS with a johnny lee style 3d effect, without having to wear any headgear. Natal seems to provide this out of the box. Now imagine a gun controller where you have fps controls embedded, but like left 4 dead you can also shove opponents away, and you can actually shove them.
What about some LCD glasses and headtracking? That's immersive VR right there.
There is a lot of potential in this.
I suggest that we line up every piece of digital information that we have and send it all. They can get a half decent view of us that way, and maybe they will do the same at some point, giving us a world of information to sift through. Imagine the advancements if we can understand any of it, and imagine the generations of work if their language or thought is beyond us.
There's really nothing to be done if they are superior and malevolent and on the way, so why not assume they want to be friends?
If I got that right, that's 54 albums, so in cost that's $215 you've spent right there. I bet I could have the majority of that on a torrent in a day or two, for nothing.
What's the incentive for pirates to look at amazon?
I wonder how many regular nouns there are in English for them to have created? It seems like a lot. If Einstein is in there, how many other famous figures are also in there?
I don't think they were terrorists. Guerillas maybe. Or Baboons.
I own a DS lite, and an R4 cart. Guess what game I play most often? JetPac, run on an emulated 48k speccy. Emulation is a massive market that is being left behind by these handhelds. The d joypad and buttons are perfect for jetpac, I love it. That and manic miner, JSW etc. There's a c64 emulator as well but it's just a little bit too laggy for me, although I still fire it up for Uridium or Paradroid.
Not all r4's are for pirate games. I want a decent, open emulation handheld, and the DS is pretty good for that if you like the speccy. Not investigated the DSi for how powerful its CPU is, but I may decide to get one if it will do c64, mame or maybe an atari ST?
I wonder, what if it was sold at a profit, how much would it cost? And then maybe the manufacturer wouldn't whine so much about piracy, and the publishers of games can try new models of game production that halts piracy, like regular updates to games similar to valve's steam platform. You'll never get a model that pleases everyone, but you can fight the general piracy of games without a negative lock-down policy, but an open, content driven policy.
They claim that 800,000 jobs are threatened, with the loss of £112 bn in jobs and sales?
Money doesn't just disappear like that. If a file-sharer doesn't buy media and downloads it instead, they have more money to go see a movie, or have a nice meal at a restaurant - whatever. The money is still used in the economy, just not in same industry as media.
To suggest that filesharers are causing an 8% drop in GDP is idiotic, as well as the 50% of all traffic is illegal. And they want to ban illegal filesharers? Ok, lets ban half the population of the UK from surfing the net, or more!
Let's see how your sales drop after that pal.
I think my school at least is open enough that people feel free to talk about anything / everything. Kids who I teach can moan about other teachers, and sometimes I agree with them, but compared to my own schooling 20-30 years ago they've never had it so good or so easy. Dictatorial teachers aren't hidden away if they don't talk about it - the kids damn well will make it known.
I think some over-play the impact of teenage years and rebellion. I know that the majority of kids I teach are pretty much happy with their lot in life at the moment. Exams are stressful (coming into the season now) but it's all part of LIFE.
I've not met many teachers who didn't know their subject, but for personal pride reasons I strive to be the teacher who knows most about my particular subject and for the most part succeed where I work.
Maybe being part of the geek under class (or is it over class?) has helped me work with others of a similar nature, or sympathise with the disaffected pupils but I'm not convinced. Most teachers I know work very hard, and it's appreciated by most kids - as indicated by them running around at the moment getting everyone to sign their leavers books - and not just sign, they always want a flippin essay...
Why is it that I get the impression that teaching in the USA is pretty much awful? It seems like teachers are pretty much universally demonised and hated, come across as petty dictators of their classrooms.
As a teacher myself of 11 years (UK, Science) I can say that this is not the situation here. Sure, some teachers are disliked more than others - it goes with the job - but by and large (and I mean 95%) we work well with our students and they work well with us. We enjoy each others interaction in the classroom and around school, have a laugh and learn some interesting stuff.
We don't go around picking on kids and watching youtube instead of teaching. What kind of pride in your job would that give?
I don't have any experience of the US high school system but it seems to have fallen apart for the majority of kids. Is this, sadly, the case? Or have teachers been singled out as a scapegoat for the failings of US society? I genuinely can't believe that American teachers are so universally awful.
Well yes, but the principle is fairly identical. Virtual particles passing a seemingly impenetrable barrier. From reading about Hawking radiation years ago, I thought this was implied elsewhere/everywhere. Maybe I should have pointed it out for a PhD...