They really missed an opportunity here, they could of minted coins that are meant to appear as if they had come from Smaug's Horde. I'd pay for a coin that was cast to look as if it had come from the lonely mountain.
Maybe I'm just a big nerd but I honestly don't think commemorative character coins are all that interesting. Give me something that is anchored in the story
My school had a basic keyboarding class where they tried to get students to learn how to type, despite being a rather skilled typist. I just couldn't make myself sit down and type rows of nonsense or do daily exercises, I only ever did just enough to pass and that was it. In that class they also taught you the very basics, like this is a monitor, this is the tower etc. This was a requirement for graduation and everyone had to take it and pass.
My school also had several elective classes, with computers an A+ class, where at the end you were expected to take the A+ exam and pass it. A CCNA class that was two years, or four semester in total of study. Though you weren't expected to take the exam at the end. We also had the 'network repair' class where students basically worked on the schools network and computers. The A+ class was a requirement for this class.
I learned a lot about computers while I was in highschool, I took the A+ class and it was mostly a breeze for me as I knew just about everything prior to the class, but I did learn a bit of book learning that you typically don't run into just working on computers. I also tried to take the CCNA classes but I couldn't get enough interest to actually form the classes, so I took the Network Repair class instead and during the class I did CCNA work and during my A+ classes I did repair work. All in all my schools education on computers was fantastic for anyone who was interested.
That said the class sizes were relatively small and made up typically of most people you expected how ever we had a few outliers here and there. Talking to other people here in Texas though my school was the exception rather than the rule when it came to computer education though.
Makes me think of Scribes guild destroying printing presses and making them illegal. Who needs better technology when the stuff we have right now is making us so much money?
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The inherit short sightedness of a profit driven society is frightening to behold. Over the last dozen years so I understand why so many people believed in the communist society that the original USSR and other such countries had intended. Sadly those don't work nearly as well either.
I think we need to either move towards a socialistic society, or admit that we suck at self government and hurry up and invent AIs that can be our benevolent over lords. Assuming we can keep from programming human faults into them. Which is doubtful.
Space-x hasn't designed anything new. They have just refined working technology. The tech Nasa tends to work with when designing a new launch system isn't. Just look at the Aerospike engine compared to the launch system that SpaceX uses.
Ya Nasa isn't perfect but they are hardly washed up and they are hardly useless. They face a declining budget each year and have to try find ways to make it streach and what projects should cover it. Any long reaching projects are also impossible because each administration ends up setting Nasa's goals so every four to eight years they end up marching to a new drummer.
blah blah space good. Insult Obama. I will be better than Obama
1:Science and innovation important, some how having nasa means our workforce is some how more scientifically educated and skilled. Which makes no sense because I thought education did that, not Nasa.
2: Space is important some how to a bunch of industries, despite the only real importance being research and satellite launching.
3:Military in space good, need to secure space against space terrorists. More money to defense contractors. Could be hostile aliens?
4:Nasa and our space program is like fancy armor in WoW, it is the international penis we can wave in the face of non-space faring countries. People respect space penis. Also private space penis is good too.
Restate all the above and say that the country needs clear and concise leadership etc.
pretentious quote by me. Who quotes themselves in their own policies? I do. I'm that awesome
Huge diatribe on how Obama is bad and stuff. Also commercial space stuff is good
I don't really see how this is a news story. I mean it makes completely sense to try and lure away experienced professionals away from another company on a similar project.
The drive actually keeps a copy of the files on your system. It acts more as backup and method of accessing your files remotely. So even if google turned the service off tomorrow it wouldn't matter. I see your point about security stuff but I mostly just keep a bit of music, and my novel drafts on google drive. Nothing super important or sensitive.
Seriously if you've not checked out googles iteration of google docs (and their attempt to compete in 'the cloud') you should. 5 gigs free space on the cloud, plus built in web based office suite, all free.
Though from what I understand it costs more than the old google docs subscription models did. If you decide 5 gigs of space isn't enough for you. But it would seem they have added value to it with the rather convenient google drive program
Until very recently no one could get microwave lasers at room temperature. How ever that is no longer the case, I don't remember the specific article but it was posted either here on Slashdot or Reddit.
Some lab had been working on it, with some old papers from the Japanese. Basically it was done with specially doped ruby emitters if I remember correct.
Now that we have at least the general knowledge of one method to create microwave laser emitters at room temperate I expect to see progress on this in the next five to ten years. Though I myself much prefer the nonmilitary uses of microwave lasers, such as communication and wireless power emission.
I agree lots of potential but I worry that it is just too far ahead of it's time right now. Still with luck they can find niche markets and industries to work out the kinks in these glasses with while further pushing the hardware and getting people to see just what they are all about.
Republicans would have no issue with this. It's military spending and that is fine, but if we ever want to invest in solar in the USA for purely clean energy purposes they'd call it wasteful spending and all sorts of crap.
One day I'll come on slashdot and read "Patent Troll had his legs broken by unknown assailants, was tarred and then dumped in a bin of shredded legal papers. :
If there is one thing life has taught me it is that anything can run Linux. All intel has done now is simply issued a challenge which my guess is won't take long for some skilled hardware hacker.
I was going to come on here and complain about how inefficient radar is, when used at the sort of distances that are common in space. Low and behold the summary is wrong and they plan to use it to track orbital debris which is a much more logical use of a radar system.
nah that wasn't his last chat transcript. That was just an example that was pretty common to hear from him when he was in Iraq . His lats words on jabber were "FUCK" and "GUNFIRE" and then he disappeared off Jabber.
He wasn't a diplomat he was a tech guy working in the consulate. I can understand the confusion, Sean Smith aka Vile Rat was a diplomat for the eve online alliance Goonswarm and a former member of the CSM.
He leaves behind two kids so presumably it would go towards them and any funeral costs.
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They really missed an opportunity here, they could of minted coins that are meant to appear as if they had come from Smaug's Horde. I'd pay for a coin that was cast to look as if it had come from the lonely mountain.
Maybe I'm just a big nerd but I honestly don't think commemorative character coins are all that interesting. Give me something that is anchored in the story
My school had a basic keyboarding class where they tried to get students to learn how to type, despite being a rather skilled typist. I just couldn't make myself sit down and type rows of nonsense or do daily exercises, I only ever did just enough to pass and that was it. In that class they also taught you the very basics, like this is a monitor, this is the tower etc. This was a requirement for graduation and everyone had to take it and pass.
My school also had several elective classes, with computers an A+ class, where at the end you were expected to take the A+ exam and pass it. A CCNA class that was two years, or four semester in total of study. Though you weren't expected to take the exam at the end. We also had the 'network repair' class where students basically worked on the schools network and computers. The A+ class was a requirement for this class.
I learned a lot about computers while I was in highschool, I took the A+ class and it was mostly a breeze for me as I knew just about everything prior to the class, but I did learn a bit of book learning that you typically don't run into just working on computers. I also tried to take the CCNA classes but I couldn't get enough interest to actually form the classes, so I took the Network Repair class instead and during the class I did CCNA work and during my A+ classes I did repair work. All in all my schools education on computers was fantastic for anyone who was interested.
That said the class sizes were relatively small and made up typically of most people you expected how ever we had a few outliers here and there. Talking to other people here in Texas though my school was the exception rather than the rule when it came to computer education though.
Makes me think of Scribes guild destroying printing presses and making them illegal. Who needs better technology when the stuff we have right now is making us so much money?
\
The inherit short sightedness of a profit driven society is frightening to behold. Over the last dozen years so I understand why so many people believed in the communist society that the original USSR and other such countries had intended. Sadly those don't work nearly as well either.
I think we need to either move towards a socialistic society, or admit that we suck at self government and hurry up and invent AIs that can be our benevolent over lords. Assuming we can keep from programming human faults into them. Which is doubtful.
Space-x hasn't designed anything new. They have just refined working technology. The tech Nasa tends to work with when designing a new launch system isn't. Just look at the Aerospike engine compared to the launch system that SpaceX uses.
Ya Nasa isn't perfect but they are hardly washed up and they are hardly useless. They face a declining budget each year and have to try find ways to make it streach and what projects should cover it. Any long reaching projects are also impossible because each administration ends up setting Nasa's goals so every four to eight years they end up marching to a new drummer.
1:Science and innovation important, some how having nasa means our workforce is some how more scientifically educated and skilled. Which makes no sense because I thought education did that, not Nasa.
2: Space is important some how to a bunch of industries, despite the only real importance being research and satellite launching.
3:Military in space good, need to secure space against space terrorists. More money to defense contractors. Could be hostile aliens?
4:Nasa and our space program is like fancy armor in WoW, it is the international penis we can wave in the face of non-space faring countries. People respect space penis. Also private space penis is good too.
Restate all the above and say that the country needs clear and concise leadership etc.
pretentious quote by me. Who quotes themselves in their own policies? I do. I'm that awesome
Huge diatribe on how Obama is bad and stuff. Also commercial space stuff is good
I don't really see how this is a news story. I mean it makes completely sense to try and lure away experienced professionals away from another company on a similar project.
The drive actually keeps a copy of the files on your system. It acts more as backup and method of accessing your files remotely. So even if google turned the service off tomorrow it wouldn't matter. I see your point about security stuff but I mostly just keep a bit of music, and my novel drafts on google drive. Nothing super important or sensitive.
I think this is more an indictment of the current method that we use for disturbing academic journals than anything else.
Feel free to point out if I'm wrong though I'm not super familiar with the specifics of this case, but to me it just highlights a bigger problem.
Google Drive.
Seriously if you've not checked out googles iteration of google docs (and their attempt to compete in 'the cloud') you should. 5 gigs free space on the cloud, plus built in web based office suite, all free.
Though from what I understand it costs more than the old google docs subscription models did. If you decide 5 gigs of space isn't enough for you. But it would seem they have added value to it with the rather convenient google drive program
It's all relative.
Until very recently no one could get microwave lasers at room temperature. How ever that is no longer the case, I don't remember the specific article but it was posted either here on Slashdot or Reddit.
Some lab had been working on it, with some old papers from the Japanese. Basically it was done with specially doped ruby emitters if I remember correct.
Now that we have at least the general knowledge of one method to create microwave laser emitters at room temperate I expect to see progress on this in the next five to ten years. Though I myself much prefer the nonmilitary uses of microwave lasers, such as communication and wireless power emission.
America Fuck yeah coming to obstructing congress to save the day!
I agree lots of potential but I worry that it is just too far ahead of it's time right now. Still with luck they can find niche markets and industries to work out the kinks in these glasses with while further pushing the hardware and getting people to see just what they are all about.
Republicans would have no issue with this. It's military spending and that is fine, but if we ever want to invest in solar in the USA for purely clean energy purposes they'd call it wasteful spending and all sorts of crap.
So uh what are the charges?
One day I'll come on slashdot and read "Patent Troll had his legs broken by unknown assailants, was tarred and then dumped in a bin of shredded legal papers. :
Well I'd rather have my stolen money be made into rockets than car elevators for his home.
The original comment made me think of Linux powered Velociraptors.
If there is one thing life has taught me it is that anything can run Linux. All intel has done now is simply issued a challenge which my guess is won't take long for some skilled hardware hacker.
Shit man, I dunno if I'd of given that whole quote out and sourced it. You're likely to have to go into witness protection now.
Stories about unicorns just fuel for beastiality fantasies.
I was going to come on here and complain about how inefficient radar is, when used at the sort of distances that are common in space. Low and behold the summary is wrong and they plan to use it to track orbital debris which is a much more logical use of a radar system.
nah that wasn't his last chat transcript. That was just an example that was pretty common to hear from him when he was in Iraq . His lats words on jabber were "FUCK" and "GUNFIRE" and then he disappeared off Jabber.
Nope I was acquainted with Vile Rat, in Eve. This isn't a troll it is genuine.
He wasn't a diplomat he was a tech guy working in the consulate. I can understand the confusion, Sean Smith aka Vile Rat was a diplomat for the eve online alliance Goonswarm and a former member of the CSM.
He leaves behind two kids so presumably it would go towards them and any funeral costs.