I have a friend I met while travelling who works from home for RedHat. He managed to persuade his bos shat since he was working from home why couldn't he move his home around. He then spent 3 months travelling across the US on a moter bike, 3 months living in Scotland, a month in Egypt, 4 months in Australia (where I met him) and 3 weeks in South East Asia. He still put in a full day's work and uploaded his code every day by taking his laptop to an internet cafe.
I just returned from 2 years backpacking around Australia and one thing I realized from travelling is how much you take your own country for granted. In that light here are some geeky things I saw in Australia that you may not be aware of:
Parks Observatory - From the film The Dish. Yes it exists and is near Parkes only 6 hours west of Sydney. Free Visitors Center
Powerhouse Museum - In Sydney. Displays from the industrial revolution to the digital age. Also does a cool Aibo demonstration if you've never seen one before.
As for stuff in North America, I've taken living here for granted and hardly done much local traveling so all I can think of in my neck of the woods is Science World in Vancouver. It's aimed more towards the kids though but the domed IMAX theater is impressive.
No matter what you see or do you're going to have a fantastic time. Just don't try to plan too far ahead or expect to stick to a schedule or budget or you'll spend all your time worrying and won't have any fun.
Yeah, until another dam is required, at which point another river is blocked and several more square miles of land are put underwater, etc
I can't think of any dams that have been built in BC in the last 20 years. I could be wrong I just don't kow any off the top of my head.
Hpwever I know of a couple that are currently or planning to install and upgrade their power generators to more efficiently produce power with existing resources.
My Aunt was a World Cup and Olympic skier in the 60's and at that time you were banned from wearing branded equipment. The skiers had to put tape on their skis to cover the brand name. It's hard to believe now but at one time the Olympics were really about amature sport and not ratings. I don't think she could even accept gifts because they were thought of as a form of compensation and an athlete could loose their amature status.
THe problem with this is you can't have more than one version of IE installed at a time. When I tried to install IE 2.0 to test web pages I'm doing for combatability it wanted to overwrite IE 5.5. P.
Meanwhile I have Netscape 2.0, 4.6 and Mozilla M16 all running at once.
One of the Japanese words for 4 (I believe there are two) sounds alot like the Japanese word for death. Of course I could be wrong, it's been 7 years since I was there.
PNG Alpha on Win32 does not work properly yet. It's not a bug in the mozilla code but is caused by win32 platforms not supporting 8 bit masks. See bug 19283 for more info.
"He is transporting individuals electronically to locations in order to facilitate the illegal copying of DVDs. His behavior is analogous to driving someone to a home so that they may burglarize the home."
Does this mean that If I take the bus to burglarize a home the local transit system is at fault. No, it's just someone providing a service that I may choose to use.
I too attend a school where all students in certain programs are required to purchase a laptop. To accomodate this the school has been wiring several classrooms that are used by these courses with ethernet and power for every student.
The part about requiring a laptop and wireless access is kind of stupid if you ask me. Why laptops? What's wrong with using the lab computers? Making each student procure a laptop is a little silly and tends to weed out the poor from the rich kids.
Why laptops you ask? It provides the students with access to the latest technology instead of outdated labs of 486's and pentiums of which there are many in schools all over. The cost to the school of continuously upgradingthese labs t allow their students to be competitive in the job market can be so prohibitive that it would raise tuition almost as much as requiring students to purchase a laptop.
The school I attend requires all students in specfic courses (currently manditory in computer technology, computer engineering technology and optional in others like journalism) lease and eventially purchase their computer at or below cost from the school. This ensures all students have the same machine and the same programs available to them both at school and at home. This allows the same oppertunity to the students who may not have acomputer at home and it eases on the demand for the existing labs.
it may add additional expense to education but to the students taking these prohrams where the latest technology is essential the expense is worth it.
I am wondering if perhaps there are any games like this or that have the concept of infinite play with a continuous running story that are open for expansion at will. Say perhaps a level or mission pack every 6 months.
There is a game somewhat like you describe. It's Escape Velocity by Ambrosia Shareware. It consists of an expandable map of planetary systems and several elaborate story lines that you can explore and visit as a trader. You can also pick up missions to fight pirates and become good, evil or neutral in different systems and to different alliances.
Systems and missions are simple to create and add on by fans and are available online at fan sites and an official repository.
The show was Muppets Tonight.It only lasted one season on ABC and part of a second season was filmed. I have seen both seasons aired as recently as a couple months ago on Family Channel here in Canada and it probably appears occasionally on the Disney Channel or whatever they have in the US.
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It's called Firefoxie. It's more involved than just adding an extension though.
I've heard it gets outsourced to India
I have a friend I met while travelling who works from home for RedHat. He managed to persuade his bos shat since he was working from home why couldn't he move his home around. He then spent 3 months travelling across the US on a moter bike, 3 months living in Scotland, a month in Egypt, 4 months in Australia (where I met him) and 3 weeks in South East Asia. He still put in a full day's work and uploaded his code every day by taking his laptop to an internet cafe.
No wonder Xerox is struggling. While other companies are busy developing new products Xerox techs are destracted by shiny objects.
"Oooh, shiny!!!"
As for stuff in North America, I've taken living here for granted and hardly done much local traveling so all I can think of in my neck of the woods is Science World in Vancouver. It's aimed more towards the kids though but the domed IMAX theater is impressive.
No matter what you see or do you're going to have a fantastic time. Just don't try to plan too far ahead or expect to stick to a schedule or budget or you'll spend all your time worrying and won't have any fun.
Maybe not but 9 km/h is still twice the average speed of a bus in Bangkok.
I can't think of any dams that have been built in BC in the last 20 years. I could be wrong I just don't kow any off the top of my head.
Hpwever I know of a couple that are currently or planning to install and upgrade their power generators to more efficiently produce power with existing resources.
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Are these some of the high quality discussions we can look forward to when the New Kuro5hin goes up?
I can't wait ;)
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My Aunt was a World Cup and Olympic skier in the 60's and at that time you were banned from wearing branded equipment. The skiers had to put tape on their skis to cover the brand name. It's hard to believe now but at one time the Olympics were really about amature sport and not ratings. I don't think she could even accept gifts because they were thought of as a form of compensation and an athlete could loose their amature status.
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No. Everyone knows first posts are faster than light. At least they appear faster.
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THe problem with this is you can't have more than one version of IE installed at a time. When I tried to install IE 2.0 to test web pages I'm doing for combatability it wanted to overwrite IE 5.5. P. Meanwhile I have Netscape 2.0, 4.6 and Mozilla M16 all running at once.
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One of the Japanese words for 4 (I believe there are two) sounds alot like the Japanese word for death.
Of course I could be wrong, it's been 7 years since I was there.
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I've just applied for a trademark on computer cases that smell like plastic as well as the new car smell. Consider yourself warned.
PNG Alpha on Win32 does not work properly yet. It's not a bug in the mozilla code but is caused by win32 platforms not supporting 8 bit masks. See bug 19283 for more info.
Does this mean that If I take the bus to burglarize a home the local transit system is at fault. No, it's just someone providing a service that I may choose to use.
The part about requiring a laptop and wireless access is kind of stupid if you ask me. Why laptops? What's wrong with using the lab computers? Making each student procure a laptop is a little silly and tends to weed out the poor from the rich kids.
Why laptops you ask? It provides the students with access to the latest technology instead of outdated labs of 486's and pentiums of which there are many in schools all over. The cost to the school of continuously upgradingthese labs t allow their students to be competitive in the job market can be so prohibitive that it would raise tuition almost as much as requiring students to purchase a laptop.
The school I attend requires all students in specfic courses (currently manditory in computer technology, computer engineering technology and optional in others like journalism) lease and eventially purchase their computer at or below cost from the school. This ensures all students have the same machine and the same programs available to them both at school and at home. This allows the same oppertunity to the students who may not have acomputer at home and it eases on the demand for the existing labs.
it may add additional expense to education but to the students taking these prohrams where the latest technology is essential the expense is worth it.
The free version of BeOS R5 does come out at the above mentioned address but not until March 28th
I am wondering if perhaps there are any games like this or that have the concept of infinite play with a continuous running story that are open for expansion at will. Say perhaps a level or mission pack every 6 months.
There is a game somewhat like you describe. It's Escape Velocity by Ambrosia Shareware. It consists of an expandable map of planetary systems and several elaborate story lines that you can explore and visit as a trader. You can also pick up missions to fight pirates and become good, evil or neutral in different systems and to different alliances.
Systems and missions are simple to create and add on by fans and are available online at fan sites and an official repository.
Unfortunately it is only available for MacOS
The show was Muppets Tonight .It only lasted one season on ABC and part of a second season was filmed. I have seen both seasons aired as recently as a couple months ago on Family Channel here in Canada and it probably appears occasionally on the Disney Channel or whatever they have in the US.
So when can we expect to see the VASlashdover conglomerate aquire Time Warner/AOL?