I saw a solar furnace at a sustainability fair a couple years ago. It tracks the sun and is generally used to heat water. It is built with a satellite dish lined with mirrored material:
Unfortunately, this product is about 12 years too late for me to take advantage of it. We looked high and low for such a product back in 1997 after my son continually wandered away from home. At that time, there were just a few products becoming available for Alzheimer's patients, but nothing in the children's market. We even contacted a few research organizations that were producing collars for tracking wildlife. Their products would have worked but they couldn't market them for use with humans.
If you have an autistic son or daughter who wanders, you will RUN to get this for the peace of mind it can provide. My son was able to outwit, evade, and overcome all the household locking devices we could generate (aside from a keyed deadbolt that would have been problematic in case of a fire.)
Seriously, this device will give some parents peace of mind.
NOTE: My son was always found, without harm, but only after a great deal of effort at times, including the bulk of the police force in Fort Collins at one point in time. Today he's a fairly well-adjusted sophomore in high school.
The Cheyenne Mountain zoo in Colorado Springs has the best giraffe exhibit I've seen. You are face to face with the long necked giants and are allowed and encouraged to feed them. A deep purple prehensile tongue grabs the snacks from your hands--grossing you out and inspiring entries like this all at the same time.
Okay, this is a totally contentless reply. However, the monks referenced in the article title is more or less what inspired my nickname network-time eons ago. Thus, in many ways, this is the most personal Slashdot article I have ever seen. Thanks Zonk. -- The one true Shallow Monkey
Companies do move software developers into marketing roles regularly.
Companies do move software developers into human resource roles occasionally.
Companies do move software developers into finance roles regularly.
And YES companies regularly promote, encourage, move software developers into management roles.
Now, a wise company would only execute these actions based on an employee's personal development goals and never do them unilaterally. That's a hallmark of a good & wise company. Moreover, you need to develop employees (in the general sense) and I don't want a B-school graduate with little or no technical experience managing, marketing, or perhaps even financing my technical team.
Is it possible that all of the iPhones at Duke are losing their cellular connection at once and/or since they likely all have the same time (ntp) that they have caches that expire simultaneously?
Isn't this more of an Apple or AT&T issue then than a Cisco issue?
My current cell phone (Samsung) burns a hole in my pocket as I'm on the fringe of its network at work--it continuously tries to get a good signal from the nearest tower, sleeps briefly, and tries again. Perhaps something similar is going on at Duke's network that triggers the flood.
I think if I was responsible for Duke's network, I'd outright ban iPhone's on the network until Apple or AT&T has resolved the issue.
Well, one thing is for sure, those folks lighting up cigarrettes near the airport are going to be in for one heck of a smoking cessation plan if the laser targets their lighter.
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Hmmm, Isn't this the key plot item in the movie Serenity (based on the firefly universe)? PAX (a chemical) is introduced into the atmo and 99.99% of the population becomes dull and listless... and 0.01% becomes masochistic, sadistic, cannibalistic REAVERS....!!!!!
Grab a handful (4-5) of "volunteers" and turn them into bits....
I frequently volunteer for the career day at the local elementary school (since the organizer is my next door neighbor). The 3rd year of doing this I tried to "lighten up" the dull software engineer part a bit to some success.
I grab 5 kids to be binary and 2 kids to be decimal. In advance I've created a flip slide for the decimal kids that displays the digits 0-9. They sit side by side and we begin counting to 10 with the 10s place child flipping when the ones place prepares to flip their 9 back to 0.
Once that's done I explain that computers are stupid and can only count to 1 (but very quickly) and we have the 5 bits with their 0/1 page. Quickly the kids see that there is math involved but they also have fun (in an interactive sort of way....)
Mind you, the school I'm at has me competing with reptologists, airline pilots, and the like. The interactive part helps me keep up. Ahead of that I've generally shown the most eyepopping graphics I can muster (but it's awfully hard to compete with what kids see everyday in front of their home computers/gaming consoles....)
Of course, if he'd used a Tablet PC to doodle on, this whole hullabaloo would never have happened.... But then, that too is telling, that it's easier to doodle on paper than on a tablet pc.
I almost convinced my 13 y. o. son that I had downloaded the entire Internet to my laptop last night (as I was using a localhost web-proxy.) Then I explained what a web-proxy was....
Strangely, though an inch is defined as 2.54 cm, they open the web page by indicating that a meter is approximately 39 1/2 inches. No, I'm not implying they mean 39 (1/2 inches) [or 19.5 in]--rather that they approximate poorly. 39.37 does not equal 39.5 inches (even if NIST, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, says so.)
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The HP Elitebooks are rock solid high-end laptops. The workstation elitebooks http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/WW-USSMBPublicStore-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewStandardCatalog-Browse?CatalogCategoryID=vfoQ7EN5XpgAAAEuPyFCFgH7 include numeric keypads.
I saw a solar furnace at a sustainability fair a couple years ago. It tracks the sun and is generally used to heat water. It is built with a satellite dish lined with mirrored material:
http://www.krawlr.com/solarfurnace/solarfurnace.htm
Did you watch Avatar a few too many times and now want to glide applications from one display to another whilst walking around the link lab?
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My son loves the freaky blue dudes.
Unfortunately, this product is about 12 years too late for me to take advantage of it. We looked high and low for such a product back in 1997 after my son continually wandered away from home. At that time, there were just a few products becoming available for Alzheimer's patients, but nothing in the children's market. We even contacted a few research organizations that were producing collars for tracking wildlife. Their products would have worked but they couldn't market them for use with humans.
If you have an autistic son or daughter who wanders, you will RUN to get this for the peace of mind it can provide. My son was able to outwit, evade, and overcome all the household locking devices we could generate (aside from a keyed deadbolt that would have been problematic in case of a fire.)
Seriously, this device will give some parents peace of mind.
NOTE: My son was always found, without harm, but only after a great deal of effort at times, including the bulk of the police force in Fort Collins at one point in time. Today he's a fairly well-adjusted sophomore in high school.
The Cheyenne Mountain zoo in Colorado Springs has the best giraffe exhibit I've seen. You are face to face with the long necked giants and are allowed and encouraged to feed them. A deep purple prehensile tongue grabs the snacks from your hands--grossing you out and inspiring entries like this all at the same time.
http://www.cmzoo.org/
Anyone at GMail want to confirm if this particular cartoon also inspired or contributed to the inspiration of GMail Goggles?
Okay, this is a totally contentless reply. However, the monks referenced in the article title is more or less what inspired my nickname network-time eons ago. Thus, in many ways, this is the most personal Slashdot article I have ever seen. Thanks Zonk. -- The one true Shallow Monkey
I take umbrage with your closing paragraph:
Companies do move software developers into marketing roles regularly.
Companies do move software developers into human resource roles occasionally.
Companies do move software developers into finance roles regularly.
And YES companies regularly promote, encourage, move software developers into management roles.
Now, a wise company would only execute these actions based on an employee's personal development goals and never do them unilaterally. That's a hallmark of a good & wise company. Moreover, you need to develop employees (in the general sense) and I don't want a B-school graduate with little or no technical experience managing, marketing, or perhaps even financing my technical team.
Is it possible that all of the iPhones at Duke are losing their cellular connection at once and/or since they likely all have the same time (ntp) that they have caches that expire simultaneously?
Isn't this more of an Apple or AT&T issue then than a Cisco issue?
My current cell phone (Samsung) burns a hole in my pocket as I'm on the fringe of its network at work--it continuously tries to get a good signal from the nearest tower, sleeps briefly, and tries again. Perhaps something similar is going on at Duke's network that triggers the flood.
I think if I was responsible for Duke's network, I'd outright ban iPhone's on the network until Apple or AT&T has resolved the issue.
Well, one thing is for sure, those folks lighting up cigarrettes near the airport are going to be in for one heck of a smoking cessation plan if the laser targets their lighter.
Yowza!!!
Hmmm,
Isn't this the key plot item in the movie Serenity (based on the firefly universe)? PAX (a chemical) is introduced into the atmo and 99.99% of the population becomes dull and listless... and 0.01% becomes masochistic, sadistic, cannibalistic REAVERS....!!!!!
Reavers... are... people....
Amen, Amen, Amen!
erm, What happened to "fi" in "file"? Weird missing char.s throughout.... Lossy connection pebcak or a bad keyboard.
Our entire team went to the first showing today. Shiny!
Faithful to the TV series and fills in many details.
GO SEE IT.
What windows actually needs is a good leavekit, showing people how to leave MS behind forever.
Gadzukes! No encryption on their (410palm.com) order site!!!
Grab a handful (4-5) of "volunteers" and turn them into bits....
I frequently volunteer for the career day at the local elementary school (since the organizer is my next door neighbor). The 3rd year of doing this I tried to "lighten up" the dull software engineer part a bit to some success.
I grab 5 kids to be binary and 2 kids to be decimal. In advance I've created a flip slide for the decimal kids that displays the digits 0-9. They sit side by side and we begin counting to 10 with the 10s place child flipping when the ones place prepares to flip their 9 back to 0.
Once that's done I explain that computers are stupid and can only count to 1 (but very quickly) and we have the 5 bits with their 0/1 page. Quickly the kids see that there is math involved but they also have fun (in an interactive sort of way....)
Mind you, the school I'm at has me competing with reptologists, airline pilots, and the like. The interactive part helps me keep up. Ahead of that I've generally shown the most eyepopping graphics I can muster (but it's awfully hard to compete with what kids see everyday in front of their home computers/gaming consoles....)
Of course, if he'd used a Tablet PC to doodle on, this whole hullabaloo would never have happened.... But then, that too is telling, that it's easier to doodle on paper than on a tablet pc.
Wirth published "The Programming Language Pascal" in 1971 in Acta Informatica, Volume 1. Pascal is 33 years old!
Goldsmith, you write the book/curriculum and I will send my children to you as students. And they will teach it to others when they graduate.
Seriously, you are the only poster who a) has a good take on this and b) wants something done about it.
So, go DO IT!!!! And may the folks sitting on your dissertation committee swallow it whole or go suck eggs!
... Icarus as it flew to close to the sun and crashed and burned on re-entry
I almost convinced my 13 y. o. son that I had downloaded the entire Internet to my laptop last night (as I was using a localhost web-proxy.) Then I explained what a web-proxy was ....
Strangely, though an inch is defined as 2.54 cm, they open the web page by indicating that a meter is approximately 39 1/2 inches. No, I'm not implying they mean 39 (1/2 inches) [or 19.5 in]--rather that they approximate poorly. 39.37 does not equal 39.5 inches (even if NIST, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, says so.)
Bizarre!
You could try the p-p-p-powerbook...