When I was younger I used to watch Bill Nye, Beakman's World, and Newton's Apple. I loved these shows and they were the first things to spark my interest in science and technology. These shows stand out because they are both entertaining and educational (the dreaded edutainment:) ). They kept my interest because they used humor to help teach. Note, all those shows are aimed at different age people, yet I enjoyed them throughout my elementary school years.
Now that I am in high school, I still think entertaining, funny videos are a great way to learn. The more sexual innuendos, the better. For example, thanks to the World of Chemistry video series, I'll never forget that pv=nrt. Hell, my brother won't ever forget because I have talked about it so much. Here is what happens: They are describing the gas laws and say how pv=nrt or, to help you remember it, "pervnert." Then they cut to a clip of a guy in a trench coat walking down the street. He approaches a women, "Excuse me miss." He flings open his trench coat wearing only a sign saying pv=nrt over his genetalia. As he makes a twirling motion with his pelvis, the woman shrieks and runs away. Now I'll never forget that equation. There are also sexual innuendos and hidden jokes in the series, which really keeps your attention. I imagine this would immensely help those that don't enjoy chemistry.
In conclusion: funny videos that keep kids' attention work wonders. Suit the videos to the age group.
Well, where I live people often times back around corners to get out of their driveway. You can just pull out into two or three lanes of traffic to get on the street, you have to turn in order to be less disruptive. When I occasionally drive my family's car, I back around a corner to get into the part of the driveway I use for parking.
Yes. I think existing customers should all go buy some songs right now that they have been holding back on. I am very tempted myself. Then, the next time Steve goes to talk to the RIAA/record people, he can show them a/very/ interesting slide in Keynote. "This is a graph of the daily song purchases on iTunes. See how it starts a plateau right here? That was the day Fairplay was cracked.:) "
While the RIAA is too stubborn to allow them to remove DRM, at least it will make them think. Then, maybe a few years down the line when they have some common sense smacked into them, they might allow iTunes to drop DRM.
Ack, sorry about that. I just got back to my computer and Azureus is being a bitch. For some reason, it switched from Seeding to Queued. I set it to Force Seed, so it is checking right now (which takes forever with this big of a file). Again, I apologize, but it should work if you try again.
Haha, I finally managed to find a place to get the DVD zip. Here is the torrent for it. If you have downloaded part of it or all of it, then you can help seed. Too bad we couldn't have had this when the intial slashdotting took out the server.
That is the address you put in the BitTorrent file. The BitTorrent files passes some information to that address and gets back addresses of seeds and/or peers it can connect to. It is a machine interface.
Plus, you save time using your commute as exercise:
(min per day) . ..Driving ..Bicycling Commuting to work.20 m/d . . 40 m/d. . (estimates) Commuting to gym . 20 m/d . . 0 m/d Working at (@gym). 40 m/d . . 0 m/d
Total time working 40 m/d . . 40 m/d Total time . . . . 80 m/d . . 40 m/d
If you want to exercise 40 minutes a day (cardiovascular), then it would take an estimated 40 minutes more out of your day to do so at the gym versus just riding a bike to work. You might, however, not want to come into work sweaty and out of breath. I ride my bike to school nearly every day, so I get a lot of exercise with just a slightly longer commute. If I had 7th period, then my commute would actually be the same because of all the extra traffic from students getting out.
Hahaha, I remember that. Thanks for mentioning the name. I was talking about the Google thing on my website and I mentioned how this was something reminiscent of the dot-com days. I used your service for a while, I remember uploading a gig or two to the servers by leaving the connection on overnight. I believe I was on dialup at the time, so that was a big feat. In the end, I never really used it that much.
That 'compression' you speak of sounds interesting, care to reveal details?
It is probably a good thing you didn't get noticed by the RIAA (or did you?). If they had a hissy fit of the MP3.com streaming thing (which I also tried), they would probably be up in arms against this too.
A few weeks ago I met some fellow high school girls (from my very school, no less) that watched Anime. Well, I had seen them before, but I didn't know they were Anime fans since they don't run around wearing Gundam t-shirts. Anyway, they were discussing quirks of Japanese culture and the prevalence of tentacles.
It does charge it. On this Segway page (under the San Francisco section), it says the HT has regenerative braking. Thus, pulling it around charges it to. My neighbor occasionally takes one home from his office (at Amazon.com) and one day he was walking home with a dead Segway. It had ran out of battery on the way back. However, by pulling it around and down the hill, it slowly gains energy back. Plus, if you wait a little while, he says it magically finds some more energy (just a little) hidden away:). So, as long as you are not/too/ far away, you can still get some use out of it.
That is false for one simple reason, there are no releases on SACD or DVD-A that aren't also available in CD format. The sole selling point of SACD and DVD-A is the superior sound quality.
Actually, not true. With DVD-A you can make surround sound songs. The Blue Man Group released their first album "Audio" on both CD and DVD-A. The DVD-A version features surround sound mixes of all the songs. Fortunately, they made it double sided with the other side being a normal DVD. On the other side is a slideshow with music playing in surround sound. Their second album, The Complex doesn't yet have a DVD-A release, but they are working on it. If you bought the Complex Tour Live DVD, you get three preview tracks from the upcoming surround mix. So, DVD-A does have an advantage with surround sound, it isn't only improved sound quality.
So you must've been pretty annoyed about goatse. Of course I was, just look at my website (the adpowers link at the bottom of this post; don't worry, it is clean).
Seriously, what about child porn and other illegal content? Shouldn't it be deleted? Well, that is a whole different discussion. Any discussion about child porn quickly degenerates, IMHO (just look at half the posts in stories about Freenet). However, what about the Diebold incident? Diebold claimed that was illegal but I and most other slashdotters didn't want that removed. What is illegal in one place may not be illegal in another. If everything that is illegal in at least one country/state/city was removed from the internet, we probably wouldn't have much left.
That is why you never delete or prune anything. I was involved in a local online community as one of the sys admins. I set the message board to have no pruning and I would never delete threads (just lock them at worst). Unfortunately, there were other admins as well. They decided to prune stuff and delete posts. This is one of the largest reasons for leaving the community, I feel stuff should never be removed from the internet. Thank Jah we have archive.org.
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When I was younger I used to watch Bill Nye, Beakman's World, and Newton's Apple. I loved these shows and they were the first things to spark my interest in science and technology. These shows stand out because they are both entertaining and educational (the dreaded edutainment :) ). They kept my interest because they used humor to help teach. Note, all those shows are aimed at different age people, yet I enjoyed them throughout my elementary school years.
Now that I am in high school, I still think entertaining, funny videos are a great way to learn. The more sexual innuendos, the better. For example, thanks to the World of Chemistry video series, I'll never forget that pv=nrt. Hell, my brother won't ever forget because I have talked about it so much. Here is what happens: They are describing the gas laws and say how pv=nrt or, to help you remember it, "pervnert." Then they cut to a clip of a guy in a trench coat walking down the street. He approaches a women, "Excuse me miss." He flings open his trench coat wearing only a sign saying pv=nrt over his genetalia. As he makes a twirling motion with his pelvis, the woman shrieks and runs away. Now I'll never forget that equation. There are also sexual innuendos and hidden jokes in the series, which really keeps your attention. I imagine this would immensely help those that don't enjoy chemistry.
In conclusion: funny videos that keep kids' attention work wonders. Suit the videos to the age group.
Yes, but Apple charged sales tax here in Washington well before there was an (official) Apple Store here.
Well, where I live people often times back around corners to get out of their driveway. You can just pull out into two or three lanes of traffic to get on the street, you have to turn in order to be less disruptive. When I occasionally drive my family's car, I back around a corner to get into the part of the driveway I use for parking.
Yes. I think existing customers should all go buy some songs right now that they have been holding back on. I am very tempted myself. Then, the next time Steve goes to talk to the RIAA/record people, he can show them a /very/ interesting slide in Keynote. "This is a graph of the daily song purchases on iTunes. See how it starts a plateau right here? That was the day Fairplay was cracked. :) "
While the RIAA is too stubborn to allow them to remove DRM, at least it will make them think. Then, maybe a few years down the line when they have some common sense smacked into them, they might allow iTunes to drop DRM.
Ack, sorry about that. I just got back to my computer and Azureus is being a bitch. For some reason, it switched from Seeding to Queued. I set it to Force Seed, so it is checking right now (which takes forever with this big of a file). Again, I apologize, but it should work if you try again.
Andrew
Haha, I finally managed to find a place to get the DVD zip. Here is the torrent for it. If you have downloaded part of it or all of it, then you can help seed. Too bad we couldn't have had this when the intial slashdotting took out the server.
That is the address you put in the BitTorrent file. The BitTorrent files passes some information to that address and gets back addresses of seeds and/or peers it can connect to. It is a machine interface.
I'm downloading the DVD right now at 11 kbps. It'll take 29.5 hours to complete at this rate, but if it does, I'll post a torrent.
If someone gets it before me, they can use my tracker at http://andrewhitchcock.org:6969/announce
Plus, you save time using your commute as exercise:If you want to exercise 40 minutes a day (cardiovascular), then it would take an estimated 40 minutes more out of your day to do so at the gym versus just riding a bike to work. You might, however, not want to come into work sweaty and out of breath. I ride my bike to school nearly every day, so I get a lot of exercise with just a slightly longer commute. If I had 7th period, then my commute would actually be the same because of all the extra traffic from students getting out.
Hahaha, I remember that. Thanks for mentioning the name. I was talking about the Google thing on my website and I mentioned how this was something reminiscent of the dot-com days. I used your service for a while, I remember uploading a gig or two to the servers by leaving the connection on overnight. I believe I was on dialup at the time, so that was a big feat. In the end, I never really used it that much.
That 'compression' you speak of sounds interesting, care to reveal details?
It is probably a good thing you didn't get noticed by the RIAA (or did you?). If they had a hissy fit of the MP3.com streaming thing (which I also tried), they would probably be up in arms against this too.
Andrew
I met some fellow high school girls
Whoa, should have previewed that more carefully. To be more clear: I met some fellow high schoolers who were girls...
A few weeks ago I met some fellow high school girls (from my very school, no less) that watched Anime. Well, I had seen them before, but I didn't know they were Anime fans since they don't run around wearing Gundam t-shirts. Anyway, they were discussing quirks of Japanese culture and the prevalence of tentacles.
It does charge it. On this Segway page (under the San Francisco section), it says the HT has regenerative braking. Thus, pulling it around charges it to. My neighbor occasionally takes one home from his office (at Amazon.com) and one day he was walking home with a dead Segway. It had ran out of battery on the way back. However, by pulling it around and down the hill, it slowly gains energy back. Plus, if you wait a little while, he says it magically finds some more energy (just a little) hidden away :). So, as long as you are not /too/ far away, you can still get some use out of it.
That is false for one simple reason, there are no releases on SACD or DVD-A that aren't also available in CD format. The sole selling point of SACD and DVD-A is the superior sound quality.
Actually, not true. With DVD-A you can make surround sound songs. The Blue Man Group released their first album "Audio" on both CD and DVD-A. The DVD-A version features surround sound mixes of all the songs. Fortunately, they made it double sided with the other side being a normal DVD. On the other side is a slideshow with music playing in surround sound. Their second album, The Complex doesn't yet have a DVD-A release, but they are working on it. If you bought the Complex Tour Live DVD, you get three preview tracks from the upcoming surround mix. So, DVD-A does have an advantage with surround sound, it isn't only improved sound quality.
Thanks, I added it to the list.
Wow, that went down fast. That'll teach you to post a image gallery directly to /. :).
Anyway, I grabbed what I could and I figure it is better than nothing. It is mostly thumbnails, but I managed to get 1.5 higher resolution images.
Here is my very partial mirror
Not only does Jesus save, he also makes nightly offsite backups.
"Always two there are: a master and an apprentice."
That site seems to only show stories about muslims killing other muslims.
;).
Well, maybe if it didn't happen so often
Well, as a citizen of the USA, I heard about it from my number one news source: Google News
I don't know if it was covered in local media like the evening News. However, I'm sure it was mentioned, at least in passing.
So you must've been pretty annoyed about goatse.
Of course I was, just look at my website (the adpowers link at the bottom of this post; don't worry, it is clean).
Seriously, what about child porn and other illegal content? Shouldn't it be deleted?
Well, that is a whole different discussion. Any discussion about child porn quickly degenerates, IMHO (just look at half the posts in stories about Freenet). However, what about the Diebold incident? Diebold claimed that was illegal but I and most other slashdotters didn't want that removed. What is illegal in one place may not be illegal in another. If everything that is illegal in at least one country/state/city was removed from the internet, we probably wouldn't have much left.
That is why you never delete or prune anything. I was involved in a local online community as one of the sys admins. I set the message board to have no pruning and I would never delete threads (just lock them at worst). Unfortunately, there were other admins as well. They decided to prune stuff and delete posts. This is one of the largest reasons for leaving the community, I feel stuff should never be removed from the internet. Thank Jah we have archive.org.
Personally, I see it more as an endorsement of Eminem by the little kid and/or Apple.
Oops, forgot to close my .