Back in the 80s I was going to UofAlberta and I stumbled upon the plato system. I tired it out a few times and it seemed pretty neat. I remember wondering why I had not heard of it before.
One time I was doing some medical simulation. I remember that I had a patient and no matter what I did he didn't seem to be doing better. I recognized all the medical terms except one so I tried it. I selected Lumbar Puncture and man did his vitals ever drop fast! He was the only patient that died under my care. Actually the correct procedure was to immediately transfer him to a hospital at a major centre.
Downloaded and installed 1.2a. Typeahead works well and also took the time to try bannerblind . It works well for the few sites I tested it on - no more banners on pages. With a tool menu item you can turn it on and off and you can tweek its effect - removing them entirely or hiding them (leaves page layout the same). Way to go mozilla.
Well, something funny going on - the site I went to (see.sun.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/mcp?q=STNdTTEqcdpGc) which says:
Which version of the new Solaris 9 Operating Environment would you prefer? SPARC(TM) platform Intel
But when I submitted the page I got this msg:
The following required questions were left blank: * Which version of the Solaris Operating Environment would you prefer?
Please fill out all of the required fields and re-submit.
And of course it was *not* blank. And when I went back - i didn't have the option for Solaris 9 but then it was " Solaris 8 on Intel". Guess you gotta be quick...
When asked to give a home number I simply say - unlisted, even tho' it is not. a friend used to give a fake number something like 911-xxxx:) naughty naughty.
If we hook up these guys with the guys from boeing (here)[slashdot.org] we could fight fires at supersonic speed! I might patent this before Bill Gates does.
Just to let you know that I wil be out of the office until 1pm MST. Your email is important to me and I will respond as soon as I can.
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I have been taking bookbinding lessons for the past year and a half. During this time I have read a lot about te craft and its interesting to see it come full circle. Twice. Okay, maybe a stretch...
but originally books were so expensive to produce that a town might chip in money to buy one book. Someone with half a dozen books was considered was considered wealthy. With moveable press and the introduction of paper books started to become quite affordable. You would pick the book you wanted bound and have a bookbinder bind it in material to match your library. (or you could afford, leather being considered at some points cheap - velvet was the choice of kings!) Today books are affordable by everyone. As someone who binds books now, I understand how materials and time can quickly make a hand bound book quite expensive. The "Perfect" binding of this machine is actually quite inferior to traditional techniques that are much more durable. Anyways, you *might* now get a custom bound book with this machine - picking a cover to match your library.
Checked their share price. Its trading at around $10, my dad asked about getting into this a year ago and I said don't - it was trading at about $80 (went to $100) and was a "hot tip" from a "friend."
Since I am now an expert in the stock market I can offer stock market advice to the/. community.
Now thats a $65,000 question: Who was the first person to have sex (with another person) in space? Well, actually, the first to have any sex in space would be a milestone too.
why? because i really like my kids and wanted them to experience the joy of learning what grabs them. when i saw first hand my 7yo with no math skills finally get the desire (mostly self motivated) and in three months he was at a grade 3 level - all my readings confirmed yet again. if we caved to societal or familial pressure and sent him to school he would have been sent to remedial math. but when desire and motivation hits, he has the freedom to explore and is not constrained by the ring of a bell.
i have had my amazing moments of coding frenzy that go all night, no constraints on me, no ring of a bell to tell me to do something else. schooling should be the same.
why? when on a group tour of a nature centre the ratio of parents to kids is about 1:1. when a very noisey school group came thru the forest (1 teacher) they saw our groups youngest kids they laughed and sneered at the "grade oners". then they saw our young teen kids with three year olds and shut the f up. it didn't make sense! what? parents and 3yo - 13yo together? something was wrong. a genuine look of confusion on their faces. but they saw real world interactivity.
Public school is but one alternative today. I have home schooled my kids and know first and the benefits. Luckily today there are some great resources on the net. My first read was John Holt. He has taught from kindergarden to Harvard. He started off trying to change the system from within in the early 60s to advocating homeschooling in the late 60s. I still love the book title _burn the schools, save the children_.
A blistering attack on public schools by the NY Teacher of the Year John Gatto - can be found in his acceptance speech Ouch.
Is home schooling for everyone? No.
But is is an alternative and a great one at that. Read lots.
As a nonAmerican about the only thing I watch for from the states is PBS. Gives me hope that there are intelligent people there. I do try and catch other sources - Discovery, TLC etc, but I don't have cable and rely on a friend or two with cable and a vcr.
I don't think that "british accent==intelligence" but I do like british humor. Monty Python, Black Adder,...
Variety in televison programming is a good thing. Never had my eyes and mind opened so much as when I travelled to other places. Television can help do the same thing, with things like PBS, TLC etc this make can happen. With ABC, CBS, NBC etc you are stuck in a vanilla world.
Am I ever glad a spammer is finally seeing a legal foot coming down. Way to go register.com! And what, it only took about a year to do! Maybe its just been a bad week, but I have been getting extra spam and now feel that public floggings for spamming just might be a good idea.
Protons have mass? I didn't even know that they were catholic.
I remember (couldn't find) when a company put 10,000 employees online in one day - and that caused a big slowdown. I did find this (for your enjoyment)..
INTERNET BROWNOUT
Internet traffic slowed to a crawl for three hours on September 4th after a new Sprint customer in Japan broadcast a message intended for the entire Internet community. Users waited 40 minutes or more to get into some Web sites.
Network consultant Daniel Briere said: "Carriers and Internet service providers are selling users higher and higher speed links to the Internet, which means that there could be more -- and more damaging -- brownouts... Users are running
video and other multicast-based applications that chow down on capacity." (Computerworld 11 Sep 95 p1)
RESTON, VA.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2000-- AOL Inc. (Nasdaq:AOLSUX - news), a recognized leader in Closed Source solutions for Internet infrastructure, today announced it has completed the acquisition of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LNUX - news) SUNNYVALE, Calif a formerly recognized leader in Open Source solutions for Internet infrastructure.
Secretly, on February 30, 2000, AOL announced a definitive agreement to acquire VA Linux Systems. Under the terms of the agreement, each share of VA Linux Systems Common Stock outstanding as of the closing of the transaction will be exchanged for 3.1415 shares of AOL Common Stock. The consolidation of the complementary Internet sites (including Aol.com, SourceForge, Linux.com, Themes.org, Playboy.org, Stinkymeat.net, Slashdot.org and Freshmeat.net), creates the Internet's leading destination for Open Source developers and is expected to make AOL cool. Based on data reported in the Linux Journal by the Teletubbies, the combined Open Source developer network is expected to make everybody quite rich.
The acquisition is being accounted for as a purchase as well as increasing the babe-karma for all involved.
Since this thing is in the works, I'd be interested to hear how things go. I know that it might take a week, a month or a year, but please follow up with us sometime!
So it looks like the folks at mp3 will be going through some interesting times again! They will have been thru the legal hassles again, at least they will have experience. Okay, next:
Domain Name: mp5.com Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact: Eom, Sang Sik (SSE20) kdns@KDNS.COM Korea Domain Name Services
I didn't check all the way to mp666.com..but
Domain Name: mp666.com Administrative Contact: Lucey, S Griffin (SGL32) griffin@TGG.COM The Gryphon Group, LLC
I don't think I wil be alive to see this one....maybe you don't have to be! -rvr
I don't care if/. never becomes a mainstream source of information, but in some ways it is. I have noticed a few news sites I hit will post stories earlier posted on/. Consistently. These sites will sometimes do a little more research, but not always. Slashdot and others posted that spoof on the spud server.
I don't mind an occasional tirade from someone, - keep 'em coming - because of course the humbling will come if warrented. I've been humbled enough that when others go thru it I feel-the-pain®. Many eyes will find a good rebuttal sooner or later. And besides I have read many wonderful stories and found great articles consistently.
I like the a-little-from-the-hip rawness of/. and don't mind an occasional mistake. I like/. the way it is, even if every friggen storey is not 100% researched and filtered. I can get that at cnn.
Slashdot Mirror
i don't know, shockingly the connection was *already* refused for me. and the link was just up...
Back in the 80s I was going to UofAlberta and I stumbled upon the plato system. I tired it out a few times and it seemed pretty neat. I remember wondering why I had not heard of it before.
One time I was doing some medical simulation. I remember that I had a patient and no matter what I did he didn't seem to be doing better. I recognized all the medical terms except one so I tried it. I selected Lumbar Puncture and man did his vitals ever drop fast! He was the only patient that died under my care. Actually the correct procedure was to immediately transfer him to a hospital at a major centre.
Downloaded and installed 1.2a. Typeahead works well and also took the time to try bannerblind . It works well for the few sites I tested it on - no more banners on pages. With a tool menu item you can turn it on and off and you can tweek its effect - removing them entirely or hiding them (leaves page layout the same). Way to go mozilla.
But when I submitted the page I got this msg:
And of course it was *not* blank. And when I went back - i didn't have the option for Solaris 9 but then it was " Solaris 8 on Intel". Guess you gotta be quick...
When asked to give a home number I simply say - unlisted, even tho' it is not. a friend used to give a fake number something like 911-xxxx :) naughty naughty.
I *rarely* read the newspaper, especially the business section. This Canadian newspaper summed it up quite nicely:
US Government Caves in to Microsoft.
When you get old your bones will become weak and brittle. Hard arteries will actually hold up your body when your bones fail. You heard it hear first.
If we hook up these guys with the guys from boeing (here)[slashdot.org] we could fight fires at supersonic speed! I might patent this before Bill Gates does.
Just to let you know that I wil be out of the office until 1pm MST. Your email is important to me and I will respond as soon as I can.
I have been taking bookbinding lessons for the past year and a half. During this time I have read a lot about te craft and its interesting to see it come full circle. Twice. Okay, maybe a stretch...
but originally books were so expensive to produce that a town might chip in money to buy one book. Someone with half a dozen books was considered was considered wealthy. With moveable press and the introduction of paper books started to become quite affordable. You would pick the book you wanted bound and have a bookbinder bind it in material to match your library. (or you could afford, leather being considered at some points cheap - velvet was the choice of kings!) Today books are affordable by everyone. As someone who binds books now, I understand how materials and time can quickly make a hand bound book quite expensive. The "Perfect" binding of this machine is actually quite inferior to traditional techniques that are much more durable. Anyways, you *might* now get a custom bound book with this machine - picking a cover to match your library.
Mammals drink moms milk.
They are split into three categories: placental, marsupials and monotremes.
Placental=gestate in womb, these are most common, like homo sapiens and pigs.
Marsupials=pouched animals, mother has no placenta, like kangaroos.
Monotremes=rare these animals are egg-laying, a reminder of things past, like the duck-billed platypus.
You are welcome.
Since I am now an expert in the stock market I can offer stock market advice to the
Now thats a $65,000 question: Who was the first person to have sex (with another person) in space? Well, actually, the first to have any sex in space would be a milestone too.
why? because i really like my kids and wanted them to experience the joy of learning what grabs them. when i saw first hand my 7yo with no math skills finally get the desire (mostly self motivated) and in three months he was at a grade 3 level - all my readings confirmed yet again. if we caved to societal or familial pressure and sent him to school he would have been sent to remedial math. but when desire and motivation hits, he has the freedom to explore and is not constrained by the ring of a bell.
i have had my amazing moments of coding frenzy that go all night, no constraints on me, no ring of a bell to tell me to do something else. schooling should be the same.
why? when on a group tour of a nature centre the ratio of parents to kids is about 1:1. when a very noisey school group came thru the forest (1 teacher) they saw our groups youngest kids they laughed and sneered at the "grade oners". then they saw our young teen kids with three year olds and shut the f up. it didn't make sense! what? parents and 3yo - 13yo together? something was wrong. a genuine look of confusion on their faces. but they saw real world interactivity.
Public school is but one alternative today. I have home schooled my kids and know first and the benefits. Luckily today there are some great resources on the net. My first read was John Holt. He has taught from kindergarden to Harvard. He started off trying to change the system from within in the early 60s to advocating homeschooling in the late 60s. I still love the book title _burn the schools, save the children_.
A blistering attack on public schools by the NY Teacher of the Year John Gatto - can be found in his acceptance speech Ouch.
Is home schooling for everyone? No.
But is is an alternative and a great one at that. Read lots.
As a nonAmerican about the only thing I watch for from the states is PBS. Gives me hope that there are intelligent people there. I do try and catch other sources - Discovery, TLC etc, but I don't have cable and rely on a friend or two with cable and a vcr.
...
I don't think that "british accent==intelligence" but I do like british humor. Monty Python, Black Adder,
Variety in televison programming is a good thing. Never had my eyes and mind opened so much as when I travelled to other places. Television can help do the same thing, with things like PBS, TLC etc this make can happen. With ABC, CBS, NBC etc you are stuck in a vanilla world.
interestingly try http://otnemem.com/
here
Protons have mass? I didn't even know that they were catholic.
I remember (couldn't find) when a company put 10,000 employees online in one day - and that caused a big slowdown. I did find this (for your enjoyment)..
INTERNET BROWNOUT
Internet traffic slowed to a crawl for three hours on September 4th after a new Sprint customer in Japan broadcast a message intended for the entire Internet community. Users waited 40 minutes or more to get into some Web sites.
Network consultant Daniel Briere said: "Carriers and Internet service providers are selling users higher and higher speed links to the Internet, which means that there could be more -- and more damaging -- brownouts... Users are running
video and other multicast-based applications that chow down on capacity." (Computerworld 11 Sep 95 p1)
The last paragraph Ben quoted Moody, Moody had said:
"As Linux zealots are beginning to find out, it's a lot easier to masquerade as a better product than it is to go out and be one."
And then Ben said:
I propose to the security community and to Mr. Moody that what is true for products is sometimes true for journalists as well.
Ouch.
ciao,
-rob
RESTON, VA.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2000-- AOL Inc. (Nasdaq:AOLSUX - news), a recognized leader in Closed Source solutions for Internet infrastructure, today announced it has completed the acquisition of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LNUX - news) SUNNYVALE, Calif a formerly recognized leader in Open Source solutions for Internet infrastructure.
Secretly, on February 30, 2000, AOL announced a definitive agreement to acquire VA Linux Systems. Under the terms of the agreement, each share of VA Linux Systems Common Stock outstanding as of the closing of the transaction will be exchanged for 3.1415 shares of AOL Common Stock. The consolidation of the complementary Internet sites (including Aol.com, SourceForge, Linux.com, Themes.org, Playboy.org, Stinkymeat.net, Slashdot.org and Freshmeat.net), creates the Internet's leading destination for Open Source developers and is expected to make AOL cool. Based on data reported in the Linux Journal by the Teletubbies, the combined Open Source developer network is expected to make everybody quite rich.
The acquisition is being accounted for as a purchase as well as increasing the babe-karma for all involved.
To the owner of thebarbies.com.,
Since this thing is in the works, I'd be interested to hear how things go. I know that it might take a week, a month or a year, but please follow up with us sometime!
-rvr
So it looks like the folks at mp3 will be going through some interesting times again! They will have been thru the legal hassles again, at least they will have experience. Okay, next:
I didn't check all the way to mp666.com..but
I don't think I wil be alive to see this one....maybe you don't have to be!
-rvr
I don't mind an occasional tirade from someone, - keep 'em coming - because of course the humbling will come if warrented. I've been humbled enough that when others go thru it I feel-the-pain®. Many eyes will find a good rebuttal sooner or later. And besides I have read many wonderful stories and found great articles consistently.
I like the a-little-from-the-hip rawness of
-rvr