Shouldn't that be the Department of Education's concern?
As far as I can tell, the problem with math and science teachers is that almost all of them can make more money in another profession. Teaching is crappy pay when you consider all that a science or math major has to go through to get their degree.
All these social networking sites got their start in much the same way. Facebook had the pick-a-professor thing which at least at my school got sent around as unsolicited spam to get people to sign up. Once a critical mass of users was achieved, people started signing up of their own volition more rapidly.
Myspace was the same way. They grew based on these "models" and whatnot who would spam people to try to get as many "friends" as possible, and signing up was required to see their pics. Once enough people signed up to look at these fake spam models, regular people started hearing about the site and then it started growing among everyone else.
Social networking sites are basically worthless, since there seems to be no real consumer loyalty to any one site, and all you need to create a new one is a really good combination of spam and viral marketing. Zuckerberg should cash out while he can still walk away with a boatload of cash.
Yeah, I took Matter and Interactions with Sherwood and Chabay in 2001 and 2002. It's pretty interesting and kind of fun to do the stuff on the computer, but I still would have liked to do more hands on experimental stuff. There's something satisfying about actually taking a measurement and doing "real" science that you don't get when you are doing a simulated lab like this, but the level of understanding of a problem needed to construct a computerized model helps to improve the understanding of what is being done.
I wouldn't say that doing computerized experiments is better than doing physical ones, but they do give a different understanding of what is being done. Programming generally helps to understand things from a technical perspective, while experimentation gives a more intuitive understanding.
Or what about Sonic Youth. They had every single piece of their gear stolen just about. Especially bad was the fact that many of their instruments were prepared in some way to get special tones.
And everyone with a brain will point out that more americans have died in american shuttle mishaps than have died in russian shuttle mishaps. And everyone with a brain will point out that there have been no manned russian shuttle flights.
What I'm wondering is, why the need for a synchrotron? Why not just any old X-ray machine? It seems from the video that the technique they're using needs collimated and coherent light. It seems that they are measuring the change in coherence based on the light being shined through the sample in order to calculate density differences and show structure. They're not doing diffraction measurements here, and the samples don't look like they're large enough to require the intensity generated by a SLS.
When communicating with a highly polarized audience, I harken back to my days studying freshman chemistry and the old saying that "like dissolves like".
Therefore, communicating with a highly polar audience requires a highly polar solvent. I find that ethanol works wonders in that regard.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Vista fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Dell (a Core 2 Duo 2.33 with 4 GB of ram) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my G4 running OS X 10.4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this PC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Wordpad is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on Vista, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Vista PC that has run faster than its Mac OS X counterpart, despite the Vista PC's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 2,330 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Vista PC is a superior machine.
Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
if (still_not_crashed) { basically_run_windows_xp(); do_nothing_loop(); } }
if (!DX10GPU()) { set_graphics(aero, very_slow); set_mouse(reaction, sometimes); }// printf("Welcome to Windows 2000);// printf("Welcome to Windows XP"); printf("Welcome to Windows Vista");
while (something) { sleep(10); get_user_input(); sleep(10); act_on_user_input(); sleep(10); flicker_led_promisingly(hard_disk); }
Hey, that #7 job doesn't sound bad at all. Legacy systems? I'll take that any day over most of those other jobs. It's probably not very outsourceable and is obscure enough that when you actually do a good job you'll be revered as a god by those who depend on your work.
Actually, if LSD were in drinking water in parts per million, (micrograms per gram) you'd be tripping balls after drinking a single glass. A couple hundred micrograms is a pretty large dose.
... Just mount the chips in a vertical fashion. I work in an X-ray crystallography lab and we have a large format CCD detector. It's maybe about half a foot in diameter, but because it is mounted vertically, I see a cosmic ray streak maybe once every 200 or so 40 second exposures. Compare that to a cosmic ray detector of roughly the same size which is mounted horizontally in the other side of the building. It's counting cosmic rays almost constantly.
3) Is laden with DRM. No, music bought from the iTunes store is DRM laden. The device isn't laden with DRM at all.
4) Doesn't support popular codecs like OGG. Ogg is popular?
8) Non-removable storage. I think that is considered a feature to most portable media player users. One of the main advantages of the players is that you don't have to carry around a bunch of media.
There's more, but you get the idea. It's over-priced Apple crap. You can get a cheaper device that works just as well. If you find a device with identical features/quality/form factor please let me know. I would like an iPod touch, but the price is a little steep for the amount of capacity. Now, if they offered a slightly thicker iPod touch with the hard drive from the 160 GB iPod classic for $500, I'd probably bite.
You know, the writers could always go back to doing what writers did before the advent of movie studios, TV networks, and the like. There are these things called "Books" and "Plays" which are considerably easier and less costly to form into a finished product than movies and TV shows are.
There is a local 24 hour diner that I sometimes eat at late at night. Generally from 2:00 AM onwards, there is a huge drunk crowd. I place my order over the phone so that when I get there I don't have to wait in line to order. Sometimes, if there is a long line and I didn't expect one, I call from my table to place my order. When my order is ready, the wait staff yells out my name, wirelessly no less, to notify me that my order is ready.
Ground-based solar including panels and batteries could be built local to each home or village, at a fraction of the cost of this over-engineered idea. Maybe they have higher power requirements than there is area available for solar panels. They are an island after all. Space is kind of limited.
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Shouldn't that be the Department of Education's concern?
As far as I can tell, the problem with math and science teachers is that almost all of them can make more money in another profession. Teaching is crappy pay when you consider all that a science or math major has to go through to get their degree.
All these social networking sites got their start in much the same way. Facebook had the pick-a-professor thing which at least at my school got sent around as unsolicited spam to get people to sign up. Once a critical mass of users was achieved, people started signing up of their own volition more rapidly.
Myspace was the same way. They grew based on these "models" and whatnot who would spam people to try to get as many "friends" as possible, and signing up was required to see their pics. Once enough people signed up to look at these fake spam models, regular people started hearing about the site and then it started growing among everyone else.
Social networking sites are basically worthless, since there seems to be no real consumer loyalty to any one site, and all you need to create a new one is a really good combination of spam and viral marketing. Zuckerberg should cash out while he can still walk away with a boatload of cash.
Google, Yahoo, and Apple are peers?
I mean, yeah, they are all three tech companies, but with entirely different products and workplace cultures.
Yeah, I took Matter and Interactions with Sherwood and Chabay in 2001 and 2002. It's pretty interesting and kind of fun to do the stuff on the computer, but I still would have liked to do more hands on experimental stuff. There's something satisfying about actually taking a measurement and doing "real" science that you don't get when you are doing a simulated lab like this, but the level of understanding of a problem needed to construct a computerized model helps to improve the understanding of what is being done.
I wouldn't say that doing computerized experiments is better than doing physical ones, but they do give a different understanding of what is being done. Programming generally helps to understand things from a technical perspective, while experimentation gives a more intuitive understanding.
"Bite my shiny, metal ass."
Or what about Sonic Youth. They had every single piece of their gear stolen just about. Especially bad was the fact that many of their instruments were prepared in some way to get special tones.
Weren't backups kept at the Solisbury Hill data center?
Either way, this is getting a lot of Exposure. Maybe his next server will be entirely D.I.Y.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
by Guy Harris (3803):
No, but are you Guy, buddy?Yes, but are you Buddy Guy?
Wait, I guess you are. Dang.
They're not our fwiends, buddy.
When communicating with a highly polarized audience, I harken back to my days studying freshman chemistry and the old saying that "like dissolves like".
Therefore, communicating with a highly polar audience requires a highly polar solvent. I find that ethanol works wonders in that regard.
Here ya go. And it's not a troll, it's a funnay:
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Vista fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Dell (a Core 2 Duo 2.33 with 4 GB of ram) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my G4 running OS X 10.4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this PC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Wordpad is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on Vista, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Vista PC that has run faster than its Mac OS X counterpart, despite the Vista PC's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 2,330 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Vista PC is a superior machine.
Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Here's the source code: /*
// printf("Welcome to Windows 2000); // printf("Welcome to Windows XP");
TOP SECRET Microsoft(c) Project:Longhorn(TM) SP1
Estimated release date:2008
*/
#include "win95.h"
#include "win98.h"
#include "leopard.h"
char chew_up_some_ram[10000000];
void main () {
while (!CRASHED) {
if (first_time_install) {
make_10_gigabyte_swapfile();
do_nothing_loop();
search_and_destroy(FIREFOX | OPENOFFICEORG | ANYTHING_GOOGLE);
hang_system();
}
if (still_not_crashed) {
basically_run_windows_xp();
do_nothing_loop();
}
}
if (!DX10GPU()) {
set_graphics(aero, very_slow);
set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
}
printf("Welcome to Windows Vista");
while (something) {
sleep(10);
get_user_input();
sleep(10);
act_on_user_input();
sleep(10);
flicker_led_promisingly(hard_disk);
}
creat_general_protection_fault();
}
Hey, that #7 job doesn't sound bad at all. Legacy systems? I'll take that any day over most of those other jobs. It's probably not very outsourceable and is obscure enough that when you actually do a good job you'll be revered as a god by those who depend on your work.
Actually, if LSD were in drinking water in parts per million, (micrograms per gram) you'd be tripping balls after drinking a single glass. A couple hundred micrograms is a pretty large dose.
... Just mount the chips in a vertical fashion. I work in an X-ray crystallography lab and we have a large format CCD detector. It's maybe about half a foot in diameter, but because it is mounted vertically, I see a cosmic ray streak maybe once every 200 or so 40 second exposures. Compare that to a cosmic ray detector of roughly the same size which is mounted horizontally in the other side of the building. It's counting cosmic rays almost constantly.
Blendtec. The will it blend videos. Whenever the guy blends something which produces dust, he says "don't breathe this"
Ave you ever disassembled an Apple laptop. It's pretty easy, and an external battery will probably be coming soon from some third party.
Me American. Me play joke. Me put listening device in your Coke.
And the new one for the Chinese:
Me Chinese. Me play joke. Me put lead paint in your Coke.
You know, the writers could always go back to doing what writers did before the advent of movie studios, TV networks, and the like. There are these things called "Books" and "Plays" which are considerably easier and less costly to form into a finished product than movies and TV shows are.
There is a local 24 hour diner that I sometimes eat at late at night. Generally from 2:00 AM onwards, there is a huge drunk crowd. I place my order over the phone so that when I get there I don't have to wait in line to order. Sometimes, if there is a long line and I didn't expect one, I call from my table to place my order. When my order is ready, the wait staff yells out my name, wirelessly no less, to notify me that my order is ready.