That only works for the cases where the teachers are paid for that time in the summer.
Often, that is not the case, and instead they are working another job to replace the paycheck that stops coming during that period.
It's easy to blame the teachers for this, but I try not expect people to spend a quarter of the unpaid time I see teachers already spending doing class prep, let alone more.
(I'm sure that there are teachers that don't spend that time. I'm also sure that there are teachers, somewhere, that actually get paid for that time. But the ones I know personally already spend huge amounts of completely unpaid time on class prep, and often are just left out in the cold entirely during the summer unless they are teaching summer classes.)
The real value of a self-driving car is just that, fully self-driving.
It's having something that can drive while you're asleep, reading, or maybe even working on your laptop.
It's something that can drive your 10 year old to school, drop them off, and then drive back to the house so that other people in the household can use the car.
And just as importantly, it's something that someone who is not fit to drive-maybe for medical reasons, maybe because they have not slept in 24 hours, maybe because they are drunk-can use to safely get where they need to go.
So no, the danger of salf-driving cars isn't that people will decide not to be in the driver's seat, the danger is that both automakers and regulators will try and give us supposedly self-driving cars that can't handle those cases, and then be surprised when things go horribly wrong, or when people just don't see the value in buying one.
Personally, I plan on ownning a true self-driving car very soon after I can buy one that can do the driving when I can't, and I bet that the vast majority of legally blind adults with enouh money will be right along there with me. But that won't happen anytime soon when people are acting like you need a driver for it to be safe.
The #1 priority, it has to be at least as good as my $30 Timex at what that $30 Timex actually does.
I could live with the battery needing charging every week, but not more often, half the point of my watch is being able to tell at a quick glance how much longer I have to sleep. (Without putting my glasses on, thanks, a clock on the night stand really doesn't help here.)
Better programmable alarms, alarm noises, and vibration alerts than I can get with a simple watch would be good.
Beyond that, give me a good heart rate monitor, and other basic sensors, and a good API to play with it all.
Assuming that it goes high enough, power disturbation. It's enough of a savings that every decade or so people talk about using current generation superconductors for it, need for cryogenic cooling and all.
Then making a lot of stuff that uses current superconductors cheaper, like MRI machines and particle accelerators.
Sure, I bet that there will be _plenty_ of new stuff, but I'm less convinced that anyone is going to be able to predict what that will be all that well.
Will the general public be able to buy the units? A lot of interesting low cost hardware has come about (like the OLPC), but it's been rare that people off the street have been able to buy them.
Even if there is a very explicit lack of support, it would be nice to just be able to buy them without having to be a school or having an order for 5000 of them.
I work for a credit card company, and we use ejabberd on the server end of things.
You probably have some jabber only client options, but those will still be able to connect to other jabber servers like Google Chat.
Live with it, because any IM server worth using is going to have _some_ public servers.
I'll leave the logging up to you, ejabberd can do it, but our company decided that the security issues involved with storing the logs were much worse then not having the logs.
(Having stored, unencrypted, card data for any length of time is something that, on the very optimistic (good luck with the auditor) side requires a great deal of security. And just encrypting the drive it's sitting on doesn't really do away with more then half of that. Health data should be as much of a nightmare, but maybe not.)
Quake 1, ThunderWalker CTF. Fast, fun, and a whole lot of frags. It went downhill when they started nerfing some of the runes, but after all these years it still has a fond place in my heart.
No, nothing in the TOS to specificly state that. Just a little FEDERAL LAW. Read the article before you post idiocy.
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> What is the governement going to do,.. outlaw electronics as a hobby?
In short, yes. Also outlaw operating system tinkering. If this makes it into law I will have exactly two choices, go to jail or leave the country, because it is in my nature to tinker with things, to make them do what they were not designed to do.
This is the release where Linus hands over the stable tree to someone else. AND the announcement of the first kernel of the new devel tree. Thus, it is news.
Yeesh.
Zephaniah E. Hull.
We do it because we actually USE it.
I am a firm believer that software is best written by the people who actually use it and need it to work for them.
(I also like the ability to fix problems myself instead of relying on others to get it done, or at least knowing that I can. A personality qwirk perhaps.)
I'm a programmer, do several different languages, but I've been in the game too long, I can't view from the prospective of a user anymore, and as such can't write user interfaces nor documentation worth beans..
So my question is this, how would you suggest I learn how to write documentation which users can actually understand?
To start off, I'm a Debian Developer, a QuakeForge developer, and the former QuakeLives 'InterProject Relations Specialist'..
I joined the QuakeLives project to try and make relations with the QuakeForge project a little better, and to keep QuakeLives in check, to make sure Slade understood the legal and ethical issues..
Things were a little rough, but likeable, and I thought things would work out, until the 2.53 release, which was another attempt to avoid the GPL..
I asked several people, on my word, to hold off any flames on 2.53 until I had a chance to talk to Slade, believing that it was a mistake which could be straightened out, until I talked to Slade, at which point I left the project..
At this point, he has lost all respect and trust that he may have had, and has proven that at heart he does not give a damn about the community, he is a egotistical brat who is in it for the glory, and no matter what happens he refuses to believe that he is wrong..
All I can say, is that this is about time, he has been asking for this to happen for a long time, shoveling shit at people, now, I suppose it comes back at him..
I hope he eventually grows up, and gets a clue, and as I've told him, and others, if he cleans up, and plays it straight, I'm willing to go back to the project to the same position, but I see little sign of him even admitting that he has ever been wrong, so I suppose time will tell..
I am sure that many have asked, and will ask, the obvious question of when the community as a whole will get to see the source to Quake1 and QuakeWorld, so I ask a different question..
What is your view on allowing the various major distributions (redhat, debian, suse, etc) and groups (ALSA, etc) to have the code before hand?
And, in a related question, what do you see your place, and ID software's place in the free software community to be? And what would you personally like it to be?
I just sent my app in, hopefully I'll be betatesting real soon.. As far as the gender question, they just want to know who is really intrested, what parts of the community
Zephaniah E. Hull. (Who is wishing for a ispell interface on this thing)
Remind me to come back to this in a few days to grab the more complete file, I definately need to find a way to work a random quote into my e-mail signature without making it even longer.. Zephaniah E. Hull..
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Damn.
I remember the days, and they feel like yesterday, and so very long ago.
RIP, you will be missed.
I have seen quite a few very well done setups that consist of a Raspberry Pi (or a clone), and a monitor or cheap HDMI TV.
If you want an analog clock, and not just a digital display of one, then you have a harder job cut out for yourself.
That only works for the cases where the teachers are paid for that time in the summer.
Often, that is not the case, and instead they are working another job to replace the paycheck that stops coming during that period.
It's easy to blame the teachers for this, but I try not expect people to spend a quarter of the unpaid time I see teachers already spending doing class prep, let alone more.
(I'm sure that there are teachers that don't spend that time. I'm also sure that there are teachers, somewhere, that actually get paid for that time. But the ones I know personally already spend huge amounts of completely unpaid time on class prep, and often are just left out in the cold entirely during the summer unless they are teaching summer classes.)
The real value of a self-driving car is just that, fully self-driving.
It's having something that can drive while you're asleep, reading, or maybe even working on your laptop.
It's something that can drive your 10 year old to school, drop them off, and then drive back to the house so that other people in the household can use the car.
And just as importantly, it's something that someone who is not fit to drive-maybe for medical reasons, maybe because they have not slept in 24 hours, maybe because they are drunk-can use to safely get where they need to go.
So no, the danger of salf-driving cars isn't that people will decide not to be in the driver's seat, the danger is that both automakers and regulators will try and give us supposedly self-driving cars that can't handle those cases, and then be surprised when things go horribly wrong, or when people just don't see the value in buying one.
Personally, I plan on ownning a true self-driving car very soon after I can buy one that can do the driving when I can't, and I bet that the vast majority of legally blind adults with enouh money will be right along there with me. But that won't happen anytime soon when people are acting like you need a driver for it to be safe.
The #1 priority, it has to be at least as good as my $30 Timex at what that $30 Timex actually does.
I could live with the battery needing charging every week, but not more often, half the point of my watch is being able to tell at a quick glance how much longer I have to sleep. (Without putting my glasses on, thanks, a clock on the night stand really doesn't help here.)
Better programmable alarms, alarm noises, and vibration alerts than I can get with a simple watch would be good.
Beyond that, give me a good heart rate monitor, and other basic sensors, and a good API to play with it all.
Assuming that it goes high enough, power disturbation. It's enough of a savings that every decade or so people talk about using current generation superconductors for it, need for cryogenic cooling and all.
Then making a lot of stuff that uses current superconductors cheaper, like MRI machines and particle accelerators.
Sure, I bet that there will be _plenty_ of new stuff, but I'm less convinced that anyone is going to be able to predict what that will be all that well.
Will the general public be able to buy the units? A lot of interesting low cost hardware has come about (like the OLPC), but it's been rare that people off the street have been able to buy them.
Even if there is a very explicit lack of support, it would be nice to just be able to buy them without having to be a school or having an order for 5000 of them.
You're looking for a jabber server and client.
I work for a credit card company, and we use ejabberd on the server end of things.
You probably have some jabber only client options, but those will still be able to connect to other jabber servers like Google Chat.
Live with it, because any IM server worth using is going to have _some_ public servers.
I'll leave the logging up to you, ejabberd can do it, but our company decided that the security issues involved with storing the logs were much worse then not having the logs.
(Having stored, unencrypted, card data for any length of time is something that, on the very optimistic (good luck with the auditor) side requires a great deal of security. And just encrypting the drive it's sitting on doesn't really do away with more then half of that. Health data should be as much of a nightmare, but maybe not.)
Quake 1, ThunderWalker CTF.
Fast, fun, and a whole lot of frags.
It went downhill when they started nerfing some of the runes, but after all these years it still has a fond place in my heart.
No, nothing in the TOS to specificly state that.
Just a little FEDERAL LAW.
Read the article before you post idiocy.
> What is the governement going to do,.. outlaw electronics as a hobby?
In short, yes.
Also outlaw operating system tinkering.
If this makes it into law I will have exactly two choices, go to jail or leave the country, because it is in my nature to tinker with things, to make them do what they were not designed to do.
Zephaniah E. Hull.
Debian developer.
This is the release where Linus hands over the stable tree to someone else. AND the announcement of the first kernel of the new devel tree. Thus, it is news.
Yeesh.
Zephaniah E. Hull.
We do it because we actually USE it.
I am a firm believer that software is best written by the people who actually use it and need it to work for them.
(I also like the ability to fix problems myself instead of relying on others to get it done, or at least knowing that I can. A personality qwirk perhaps.)
What distribution are you running? And what release of that distribution?
For Debian Potato or Woody you just use apt-get to grab a few packages[1][2].
Other posters covered some for RedHat, and http://sourceforge.net/projects/glide/ is the SourceForge poject for glide and device3dfx.
For the Voodoo 3, Voodoo 4, and Voodoo 5 cards you definitely want to look at http://dri.sourceforge.net.
Hopefully this will help you find what you need.
Zephaniah E. Hull.
(The Debian glide maintainer.)
1: For Debian Potato you want libglide2-v3 and mesag3-glide2.
2: For Debian Woody you want libglide2 and mesag3-glide2.
Unfortunately there seem to be a few other issues which could stand in the way of computers based on DNA.
I'm no expert, but it seems like there could be serious issues connecting the 'wires' to conventional wires.
In addition to this there may also be issues with the voltage these can handle, compared to the voltage required to operate the conventional circuit..
Then we have the issue of laying them out on some form of small chip, a test tube is obviously not the optimal form to have on motherboards...
The last issue I see is that of lifespan, how long are these DNA based circuit expected to last? And what sort of maintance might be required?
Again, I'm no expert, however..
So my question is this, how would you suggest I learn how to write documentation which users can actually understand?
Zephaniah E. Hull.
I joined the QuakeLives project to try and make relations with the QuakeForge project a little better, and to keep QuakeLives in check, to make sure Slade understood the legal and ethical issues..
Things were a little rough, but likeable, and I thought things would work out, until the 2.53 release, which was another attempt to avoid the GPL..
I asked several people, on my word, to hold off any flames on 2.53 until I had a chance to talk to Slade, believing that it was a mistake which could be straightened out, until I talked to Slade, at which point I left the project..
At this point, he has lost all respect and trust that he may have had, and has proven that at heart he does not give a damn about the community, he is a egotistical brat who is in it for the glory, and no matter what happens he refuses to believe that he is wrong..
All I can say, is that this is about time, he has been asking for this to happen for a long time, shoveling shit at people, now, I suppose it comes back at him..
I hope he eventually grows up, and gets a clue, and as I've told him, and others, if he cleans up, and plays it straight, I'm willing to go back to the project to the same position, but I see little sign of him even admitting that he has ever been wrong, so I suppose time will tell..
Zephaniah E. Hull.
What is your view on allowing the various major distributions (redhat, debian, suse, etc) and groups (ALSA, etc) to have the code before hand?
And, in a related question, what do you see your place, and ID software's place in the free software community to be? And what would you personally like it to be?
Zephaniah E. Hull.. (A debian developer, FWIW)
I just sent my app in, hopefully I'll be betatesting real soon..
As far as the gender question, they just want to know who is really intrested, what parts of the community
Zephaniah E. Hull. (Who is wishing for a ispell interface on this thing)
Remind me to come back to this in a few days to grab the more complete file, I definately need to find a way to work a random quote into my e-mail signature without making it even longer..
Zephaniah E. Hull..
Yes, the wonders of truly portable code..
I only wish I could write such code...