Well isn't this par for the course. I used to see my high school, the one in TFA, in the national news all the time. Which was odd because it only opened in 1991. One kid brought Madonna's Sex book, some football players had rape charges against them, students where throwing guinea pigs in the open windows of passing cars, my old bio teacher getting teacher of the year and then comming out of the closet just a few years later and all kinds of other things that I saw in national news sources. Now I can put something else on the list.
The good news is that the school performs very well in national scores so despite the insanity the kids there do pay attention to the tests. If it weren't for the tests I wouldn't have passed.:) So maybe they can make some money on this. Though I do worry about conflict of interests. An oceanography test brought to you by Exxon could be a bad thing.
One in ten people of European ancestry is immune to HIV. It seems that it came from the selective pressure of the plauge. Of course the odds of HIV+ Africans finding a compatable marrow doner aren't that great. But this could still lead to a cure for them too. This proves that treating the marrow can treat starve the virus. All we have to do is wait the praverbial 20-50 years for medical science to pull that off.
I have long wished that websites like slashdot would offer, for a fee, nntp access. I would so love to have my killfile in full effect when browsing web forems. When lookin for help I could do a quick score entry that would effect a whole thread so I could see at a glance which reply is the most likely to have my answer.
I don't know of any PDA that can access a fat32 'drive'. I do know that plenty that take SD cards. With a cig lighter or smaller sized adapter that card can be turned into a 'drive' on a computer. SD cards can hold up to 8 gig these days but price per gig the larger ones are still price. Good news is that you can fit 5 of them in a match box and if you stick with two to four gig cards it won't cost more than one hundred USAD.
Add a bluetooth or IR keyboard and key size won't even been an issue for typing. My hand writing sucks so I had to go digital a long time ago. I may be just one of the grunts at work but when it comes time for a meeting I pull out my PDA, a folding IR keyboard and am ready to take more notes than anyone else and I am able to do it faster than anyone else. And the whole thing fits in pocket as long as you aren't wearing denim.
This might be the best summery I have seen in some time. It has far more usefull informtaion than the linked news story. I want to personally thank the poster for that and suggest we could use a 'goodsummery' tag to balance the 'badsummery' tag that we so often see.
He isn't going to publish it on a public source because he is following the advice of everyone on Slashdot and adding some form of value added feature to his music. At $71 a print he can make enough money to support his touring habit and get all the money that the labels never paid out from their lawsuits-to-protect-the-artists.
Think of it as a very expensive tour shirt except that has a lot more text on it and you can't get it on a tour./end insane_justification
I work at a cell phone company. I can't wait for this to cause problems in my life. Cust: My service sucks, my calls are going to voicemail and I never get them Rep: I understand.... maybe no one likes you and they are doing it willfully?
Almost need this tagged with whatcouldpossiblygowrong
Google already has this feature. I wonder what the differances are. For example how come google didn't get a slashdot story when it launched its version?
Cutting the weight can make a very big difference. I have a Yamaha 50cc scooter. Depending on how hard I ride it I can get between 90 and 110 miles per gallon. 90 = full power all the time and going up to 43 MPH. 110 = never going above 30 MPH and easing off and off the gas when starting and stopping.
Is a scooter right for everyone? Hell no. Is it right for most everyone a fair chunk of the time? Yes. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) assuming only a 10,000 mile life span = 12 cents per mile based on $4 a gallon and only using 92 octain gas. Not even the best car can beat that.
I use a scooter as my primary means of transport. I actually own 4 right now. I can see some value in the radio or repeator type things but most of it isn't needed. What I could use on a scooter is a cig lighter. That direct access to the scooters power system would be nice and with it you could plug any of the things on their list into it and go.
Though I have thought about installing an amp and a guitar jack in the past. It just seems so perfect for getting away so you can jam where people won't get in your way.
It isn't accurate to say they died for this data. This was one of many things done on that mission. Could they have acknowledge that the crew they are thanking is dead? Yes. Was this project their only reason for going into space? No.
They would have a problem having an IQ over 200 since there aren't enough people in the world for that to be possible. Only about one in a million to one in a billion[0] people have an IQ of 200 but to get to 214 there would have to be more than 100 billion people on Earth. That is to say more than all the people who have ever lived.
Unless you are talking about kids in which a 250 IQ isn't hard to pull off. Finding a 9 year old that can test like a 24 year old isn't that hard. In most schools finding a 24 year old that can even get out of bed to take a test is hard enough.
[0] depends on which source you want to use a) University of London study by Vernon Sare in 1951 or b) Straight Talk About Mental Tests", The Free Press, A Division of the Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1981
My friends and I do this in the USA. We call them library cards. Sure we all have internet access and could email stuff but that would take all the fun out of it. Beer recipes, pod casts, project info etc. It all fits on the cards and in your pocket. Instead of an email that might not get read it is a tangible item that is looked forward to.
My father is a truck driver with spoty internet. We exchange sd cards via the mail. Load them up and ship them off. Works great and gives you something to expect other than another bill in the mail.
I used BeOS for about 20 minutes back when it was around. I would
have spent longer playing with it but something amzing happened. When
I went to to check if it could recognize my modem it did and it
connected to my ISP. Which was something I was unable to do with any
version of Linux I had tried so far. So I quickly started digging
through the differances in the code of the Linux version I was using
at the time and BeOS to find out where the magic happend. I didn't
find it but I asked some others and turned out I was only one line of
code away from fixing the problem./bin/setserial -b/dev/modem IRQ 3
I never got back around to trying BeOS but I am ever so thankful for
it providing me proof that my modem was supposed to be working. After
that I deleted windows from the 1.3 gig hard drive and was Linux
only. Been windows clean for about 9 years now and I owe it all to
BeOS. Maybe when Haiku comes out I will dedicate at bit more time to
it. Maybe it will be or provide an alternative to Windows for more
people.
I wouldn't do this until some law is passed saying that if a test shows I am prone to some genetic condition that the insurance companies can't refuse me service because it is a pre-existing condition. Ignorance is financial bliss.
I have never used Blockbuster because they require a credit card. I can use a debt card anywhere else but there. Add in lack of an adult section and the amount of floor space dedicated to non-movies (games mostly) and they just don't offer enough non-major releases that would get me to spend money there.
No matter what the result might be you won't be allowed to see what it might be. You aren't allowed to be curious in the new world. Curiosity killed the cat and if the cat might be dead then the terrorists can't be allowed to win so the cat can't be put at risk.
While I understand the comment about rethinking the need for robotic weapons and all of the potential social moral implications of such a bad idea the testosterone in me needs to see this kind of thing work and the geek in me wants to debug it.
The quatic ape idea sinks faster than than non-witches float. Any careful thought will quickly show that it is as unlikely as fish first evolving from land to water. For a good list of claim/counter check the wiki.
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The military also invested millions in remote viewing.
Well isn't this par for the course. I used to see my high school, the one in TFA, in the national news all the time. Which was odd because it only opened in 1991. One kid brought Madonna's Sex book, some football players had rape charges against them, students where throwing guinea pigs in the open windows of passing cars, my old bio teacher getting teacher of the year and then comming out of the closet just a few years later and all kinds of other things that I saw in national news sources. Now I can put something else on the list.
The good news is that the school performs very well in national scores so despite the insanity the kids there do pay attention to the tests. If it weren't for the tests I wouldn't have passed. :) So maybe they can make some money on this. Though I do worry about conflict of interests. An oceanography test brought to you by Exxon could be a bad thing.
One in ten people of European ancestry is immune to HIV. It seems that it came from the selective pressure of the plauge. Of course the odds of HIV+ Africans finding a compatable marrow doner aren't that great. But this could still lead to a cure for them too. This proves that treating the marrow can treat starve the virus. All we have to do is wait the praverbial 20-50 years for medical science to pull that off.
I have long wished that websites like slashdot would offer, for a fee, nntp access. I would so love to have my killfile in full effect when browsing web forems. When lookin for help I could do a quick score entry that would effect a whole thread so I could see at a glance which reply is the most likely to have my answer.
I want more nntp, not less.
I don't know of any PDA that can access a fat32 'drive'. I do know that plenty that take SD cards. With a cig lighter or smaller sized adapter that card can be turned into a 'drive' on a computer. SD cards can hold up to 8 gig these days but price per gig the larger ones are still price. Good news is that you can fit 5 of them in a match box and if you stick with two to four gig cards it won't cost more than one hundred USAD.
Add a bluetooth or IR keyboard and key size won't even been an issue for typing. My hand writing sucks so I had to go digital a long time ago. I may be just one of the grunts at work but when it comes time for a meeting I pull out my PDA, a folding IR keyboard and am ready to take more notes than anyone else and I am able to do it faster than anyone else. And the whole thing fits in pocket as long as you aren't wearing denim.
This might be the best summery I have seen in some time. It has far more usefull informtaion than the linked news story. I want to personally thank the poster for that and suggest we could use a 'goodsummery' tag to balance the 'badsummery' tag that we so often see.
He isn't going to publish it on a public source because he is
following the advice of everyone on Slashdot and adding some form of
value added feature to his music. At $71 a print he can make enough
money to support his touring habit and get all the money that the
labels never paid out from their lawsuits-to-protect-the-artists.
Think of it as a very expensive tour shirt except that has a lot more /end insane_justification
text on it and you can't get it on a tour.
I work at a cell phone company. I can't wait for this to cause problems in my life.
Cust: My service sucks, my calls are going to voicemail and I never get them
Rep: I understand.... maybe no one likes you and they are doing it willfully?
Almost need this tagged with whatcouldpossiblygowrong
Google already has this feature. I wonder what the differances are. For example how come google didn't get a slashdot story when it launched its version?
Cutting the weight can make a very big difference. I have a Yamaha 50cc scooter. Depending on how hard I ride it I can get between 90 and 110 miles per gallon. 90 = full power all the time and going up to 43 MPH. 110 = never going above 30 MPH and easing off and off the gas when starting and stopping.
Is a scooter right for everyone? Hell no. Is it right for most everyone a fair chunk of the time? Yes. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) assuming only a 10,000 mile life span = 12 cents per mile based on $4 a gallon and only using 92 octain gas. Not even the best car can beat that.
If guitar hero could teach me to learn to read sheet music and recognize different pitches, notes and keys then I would fork over the money for it.
I use a scooter as my primary means of transport. I actually own 4 right now. I can see some value in the radio or repeator type things but most of it isn't needed. What I could use on a scooter is a cig lighter. That direct access to the scooters power system would be nice and with it you could plug any of the things on their list into it and go.
Though I have thought about installing an amp and a guitar jack in the past. It just seems so perfect for getting away so you can jam where people won't get in your way.
It isn't accurate to say they died for this data. This was one of many things done on that mission. Could they have acknowledge that the crew they are thanking is dead? Yes. Was this project their only reason for going into space? No.
They would have a problem having an IQ over 200 since there aren't enough people in the world for that to be possible. Only about one in a million to one in a billion[0] people have an IQ of 200 but to get to 214 there would have to be more than 100 billion people on Earth. That is to say more than all the people who have ever lived.
Unless you are talking about kids in which a 250 IQ isn't hard to pull off. Finding a 9 year old that can test like a 24 year old isn't that hard. In most schools finding a 24 year old that can even get out of bed to take a test is hard enough.
[0] depends on which source you want to use a) University of London study by Vernon Sare in 1951 or b) Straight Talk About Mental Tests", The Free Press, A Division of the Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1981
My friends and I do this in the USA. We call them library cards. Sure we all have internet access and could email stuff but that would take all the fun out of it. Beer recipes, pod casts, project info etc. It all fits on the cards and in your pocket. Instead of an email that might not get read it is a tangible item that is looked forward to.
My father is a truck driver with spoty internet. We exchange sd cards via the mail. Load them up and ship them off. Works great and gives you something to expect other than another bill in the mail.
I used BeOS for about 20 minutes back when it was around. I would have spent longer playing with it but something amzing happened. When I went to to check if it could recognize my modem it did and it connected to my ISP. Which was something I was unable to do with any version of Linux I had tried so far. So I quickly started digging through the differances in the code of the Linux version I was using at the time and BeOS to find out where the magic happend. I didn't find it but I asked some others and turned out I was only one line of code away from fixing the problem. /bin/setserial -b /dev/modem IRQ 3
I never got back around to trying BeOS but I am ever so thankful for it providing me proof that my modem was supposed to be working. After that I deleted windows from the 1.3 gig hard drive and was Linux only. Been windows clean for about 9 years now and I owe it all to BeOS. Maybe when Haiku comes out I will dedicate at bit more time to it. Maybe it will be or provide an alternative to Windows for more people.
"Domestic Offender" is the most meaningless and undescriptive phrase I have heard in a long time. Can we get a new name for it?
If they pull this off I might have to move there and open a towel shop with a pub next door.
I wouldn't do this until some law is passed saying that if a test shows I am prone to some genetic condition that the insurance companies can't refuse me service because it is a pre-existing condition. Ignorance is financial bliss.
I have never used Blockbuster because they require a credit card. I can use a debt card anywhere else but there. Add in lack of an adult section and the amount of floor space dedicated to non-movies (games mostly) and they just don't offer enough non-major releases that would get me to spend money there.
No matter what the result might be you won't be allowed to see what it might be. You aren't allowed to be curious in the new world. Curiosity killed the cat and if the cat might be dead then the terrorists can't be allowed to win so the cat can't be put at risk.
The apple was never tested so we don't know if it was poisoned. The Apple logo has nothing to do with Turing.
While I understand the comment about rethinking the need for robotic
weapons and all of the potential social moral implications of such a
bad idea the testosterone in me needs to see this kind of thing work
and the geek in me wants to debug it.
The quatic ape idea sinks faster than than non-witches float. Any careful thought will quickly show that it is as unlikely as fish first evolving from land to water. For a good list of claim/counter check the wiki.
They are reluctant to give the info over without a granting of immunity.