"The business of higher education is booming. It's a $400 billion industry fueled by taxpayer money. But what are students getting out of the deal? Critics say a worthless degree and a mountain of debt. Investors insist they're innovators, widening access to education." Watch the video.
Has anyone had a chance to read this book? The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History-and How We Can Fight Back
>>People who make time travel movies don't seem to realize that the earth moves around its axis and around the sun. The spot I'm standing on right now will be vaccum in just a few minutes.
>And the solar system moves [considerably more] [tranlationally and rotationally] in the galaxy. And our galaxy moves in space!!!
Use the balloon to bring an ordinary Estes model rocket to 100,000+ feet and fire it.
Would an ordinary model rocket engine function at such high altitude? I don't know much about model rockets... but I had a couple when I was a kid. I think model rocket engines require oxygen in order for the black powder to burn?
Regarding the planet's moon (or lack thereof), Axial tilt and Axial precession become a question as well.
Another issue is the magnetic field. As in, does it have one? Without a magnetic field, the solar wind strips away the atmosphere. (As is believed to be what happened on Mars.)
A Speech-to-text system in your car -- or built into your phone, that's the better solution...
Person says "lol, omfg. u r so right"
Speech-to-text system says "I'm sorry. I didn't understand that. Please say again."
Person says "L - O - L. O - M - F - G. You - are - so - right."
Speech-to-text system says "I think you said "Laura oh my friendly good."
Person interrupts saying "NO YOU STUPID FUCKING TEXT TO SPEECH FUCKER. I SAID LOL AS IN LAUGH OUT LOUD GOD DAMN YOU. OMFG STANDS FOR OH MY FUCKING GOD YOU FUCKING RETARDED PIECE OF MOTHER FUCKING SHIT!"
Speech-to-text says "You want to call your mother. Is that correct?"
You asked the grandparent to give you a citation... out of curiosity I did a google search and found some interesting information. Apparently there is truth to what he was talking about.
You're not missing much. I played around with it 1 evening just long enough to figure out what there was to do, and how to do it. After about an hour, I had pretty much done all there was to do. The only way to get "good" at the demo is to do things in the most time efficient manner possible. In one game, some kid (well, I assume it was a kid) was going around undoing everything I was doing.
At any rate, if you go to youtube and watch some game play videos, I think it will show you what you're not missing.
Here's one for your convenience. (Note the guy narrating the video curses a couple of times at the beginning, so turn your speakers down if you're at work.)
But I like to go back there from time to time and run through various tests just for "the fun of it." I'm not only surprised by the simple things I've forgotten over the years, but I'm also surprised at some of the things I never use but still remember.
I love this question as it is one I've thought about a few times. I'm not much of a gamer, so my "take" on this question is probably vastly different than a person who loves playing games. For the most part, I think games (especially video games) are an unproductive waste of time. Having said that, I understand that we all need some down time in order to enjoy life. While I prefer to spend my down time doing things that are every bit as unproductive as playing games, I do, nonetheless, play a game from time to time.
My favorite game of all time is Magic: The Gathering. I go through very long periods where I don't play at all (i.e. years), but I still have my card collection and I still get really addicted to it from time to time. I treat all my cards with care so that they will retain as much value as possible should I ever decide to sell my collection. (I keep all my cards in protective sleeves, and I store them away from sunlight.) The game can be very expensive over time because some rares (especially the newer mythic rares) can cost as much as a video game for 1 single card. On the other hand, you can get hours/weeks/months and even years of play out of a $9 pre-constructed deck.
For my time & money, there's no better game.
As far as electronic video games go... I find it very difficult to get *any* value out of them at all. Video games bore me to tears. I would generally rather read a book, clean the house, surf the web, watch a movie, or do just about any other non-productive thing than play video games.
Having said that, there is one video game that comes to mind that I have gotten tremendous value out of. StarCraft. I bought the SC/Broodwar Battle Chest like 10+ years ago and I think I only paid $29 for it. But in the last 10 years, I have played that game off and on many, many times. In fact, about 2 months ago I got the urge to play it again... so I got my discs out, installed it, patched it, and played several games for a period of about 5 days. It was great fun... and I'm probably done with it for another year or two.
But the fact that this game from the late 90's is still working on modern hardware and modern operating systems is a true testament to the value that you can get from some games.
I live in Central Florida so I've watched at least a dozen launches in the last 10 years. In watching this video, it appears as though the solid rocket booster separation happens after the shuttle has reached "black sky"... in watching from the ground, I always assumed SRB separation was happening when the shuttle was still in blue skies... or at least dark blue skies. 100,000 feet or something like that. Does anyone know the altitude that SRB separation occurs?
BIOS's also commonly have PXE boot capability these days allowing someone to boot over a network to perform an install. But the guy said "average user".
I live near Orlando and heard it too. It was the loudest re-entry boom I've ever heard. I was at my computer when it came back yesterday and I hadn't been paying attention to the news for the previous hour so I wasn't expecting it. I literally jumped up out of my chair because I was so startled by it. And it was the same here regarding dogs. I could hear a chorus of dog barks all around the neighborhood.
Coming out of hibernation (S4) seems almost slower to me than a regular boot. (Hibernation being where the machine writes all the information from RAM to the hard-drive and then completely shuts down.) Hibernation is certainly less reliable than a regular reboot... at least in my experience with my Workstation PC. (i.e. The proprietary NVidia Linux module doesn't come back out of hibernation properly.)
Coming back out of "Suspend to RAM" (S3) on the other hand... is virtually instantaneous. And it works flawlessly on my laptop which doesn't have any problematic Linux modules.
You mean OTHER consoles are generally sold at a loss. Nintendo does not operate this way. They make money or they don't sell it.
Thanks to all 3 of you who pointed this out. I wasn't aware of this fact.
I know Nintendo doesn't make huge financial gambles like Microsoft and Sony does, but I just assumed their consoles were sold at a loss (at least a small loss) when they were new. I know manufacturing costs go down over time. I remember reading about how Microsoft calculated that into their Xbox sells. The first X million units sold at some % of loss. The next X million units would still sell at a loss, but the % would be lower. Eventually the Xbox would be break even. And if it lasted long enough, they would eventually profit on the hardware sell of the Xbox. I just assumed that kind of thinking was the norm in the console business in modern times and that Nintendo did the same thing, but on a smaller scale of profit loss and with a faster turn around out of the red.
GameBoy has taught Nintendo alot. The original was the single worst hand-held of its time as far as graphics and hardware go.
I don't know about that. I had a GameBoy and later on I got a Sega gamegear. I thought the Sega would be so much better because it had a color screen and better graphics. But the hardware just wasn't good enough at the time. I remember playing Sonic on my gamegear and it was just a perpetual blur of colors. The LCD didn't update fast enough. When you were standing still, it looked fine, but with Sonic you spend very little time standing in one place. Plus, I quickly found out that I needed to carry a backpack full of extra batteries around with me because the gamegear ate through batteries like crazy.
So... I really don't think the original GameBoy's hardware was all that bad. It was a combination of the most efficient and practical hardware that was available at the time. The Sega gamegear and the Atari Lynx were just crappy technology hardware demos of what handheld gaming *could be like* when the hardware technology caught up. Which took 10+ years. It wasn't until the GameBoy Advance SP that colored, backlit handheld gaming became practical.
Currently, my favorite gaming "system" is my GameBoy Advance SP. (The new model with the improved screen. The original GBA SP was cool, but the new model with the better screen is *sooo* much better.) I have an original Nintendo DS, and 2 Nintendo DS Lites and I still lean towards my GameBoy Advance SP. The first Nintendo DS was pretty lousy in my opinion. The screen wasn't very good and the design was kinda awful. The DS Lite was a *huge* improvement. The DS Lite screen is as good as (as vibrant, as bright, as rich) as the GBA SP's screen - possibly even better than the GBA SP. But for portable gaming, the GBA SP is a little better in my opinion. It's smaller and lighter and more comfortable in the hands.
In theory, yes. In practice, it's better to sell 1 million DS and 1 million Wii consoles than selling 1/2 million of each.
Duh... 1m + 1m = 2m
.5m +.5m = 1m
2 million is more than 1 million, so of course it's better to sell 2 million units.
But whether you sell 2 million Wii's and 0 DS's, or 2 million DS's and 0 Wii's is still important due to manufacturing costs. Consoles are generally sold at a loss when they are first released. I believe Nintendo actually makes money on DS sells. Plus there is the whole business economic benefit of being involved in multiple markets because of people (like me) who aren't really interested in consoles, but are interested in handheld gaming.
so what? It's better for everyone to have it so no one will use it, if that makes sense. Would the US have bombed Japan if the Japanese had the same type of technology?
wow - you so don't understand the mindset of jihadists.
>> Really? How is it informative when the same, single article has the following associated tags: "Yes", "No", "Maybe", "duh"
> Good point - if it has all of them at once, it's probably a waste of time. Although it could be a good indicator of whether this is a hotly debated topic, or possibly just a load of crap not worth reading (OK, a waste of time as first stated).
I understand the sentiment to want to vote on an article, but that's a different mechanism.
If slashdot wants to implement a "Vote on this article" mechanism, I have no problem with that. As you stated, those types of statistics would be meaningful and useful in certain situations... but the point of tagging is to associate a given piece of data with meaningful keywords.
Like music... as an example, "Pearl Jam - Ten - Even Flow"... meaningful tags might be "Grunge", "Alternative", "90's music", "Flannel band", etc... You wouldn't tag it as "duh":)
Slashdot Mirror
"The business of higher education is booming. It's a $400 billion industry fueled by taxpayer money. But what are students getting out of the deal? Critics say a worthless degree and a mountain of debt. Investors insist they're innovators, widening access to education." Watch the video.
Has anyone had a chance to read this book? The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History-and How We Can Fight Back
>>People who make time travel movies don't seem to realize that the earth moves around its axis and around the sun. The spot I'm standing on right now will be vaccum in just a few minutes.
>And the solar system moves [considerably more] [tranlationally and rotationally] in the galaxy. And our galaxy moves in space!!!
And the "fabric" of space is expanding!
Anyone else have anything to add?
Use the balloon to bring an ordinary Estes model rocket to 100,000+ feet and fire it.
Would an ordinary model rocket engine function at such high altitude? I don't know much about model rockets ... but I had a couple when I was a kid. I think model rocket engines require oxygen in order for the black powder to burn?
Regarding the planet's moon (or lack thereof), Axial tilt and Axial precession become a question as well.
Another issue is the magnetic field. As in, does it have one? Without a magnetic field, the solar wind strips away the atmosphere. (As is believed to be what happened on Mars.)
"most conversation within a car don't cause anywhere near this level of distraction"
[citation needed]
Link
Link
Link
Google for more
A Speech-to-text system in your car -- or built into your phone, that's the better solution...
Person says "lol, omfg. u r so right"
Speech-to-text system says "I'm sorry. I didn't understand that. Please say again."
Person says "L - O - L. O - M - F - G. You - are - so - right."
Speech-to-text system says "I think you said "Laura oh my friendly good."
Person interrupts saying "NO YOU STUPID FUCKING TEXT TO SPEECH FUCKER. I SAID LOL AS IN LAUGH OUT LOUD GOD DAMN YOU. OMFG STANDS FOR OH MY FUCKING GOD YOU FUCKING RETARDED PIECE OF MOTHER FUCKING SHIT!"
Speech-to-text says "You want to call your mother. Is that correct?"
You asked the grandparent to give you a citation ... out of curiosity I did a google search and found some interesting information. Apparently there is truth to what he was talking about.
news video on youtube
google search
google search
You're not missing much. I played around with it 1 evening just long enough to figure out what there was to do, and how to do it. After about an hour, I had pretty much done all there was to do. The only way to get "good" at the demo is to do things in the most time efficient manner possible. In one game, some kid (well, I assume it was a kid) was going around undoing everything I was doing.
At any rate, if you go to youtube and watch some game play videos, I think it will show you what you're not missing.
Here's one for your convenience. (Note the guy narrating the video curses a couple of times at the beginning, so turn your speakers down if you're at work.)
I'm not sure to what extent this site would help:
www.ThatQuiz.org
But I like to go back there from time to time and run through various tests just for "the fun of it." I'm not only surprised by the simple things I've forgotten over the years, but I'm also surprised at some of the things I never use but still remember.
I love this question as it is one I've thought about a few times. I'm not much of a gamer, so my "take" on this question is probably vastly different than a person who loves playing games. For the most part, I think games (especially video games) are an unproductive waste of time. Having said that, I understand that we all need some down time in order to enjoy life. While I prefer to spend my down time doing things that are every bit as unproductive as playing games, I do, nonetheless, play a game from time to time.
My favorite game of all time is Magic: The Gathering. I go through very long periods where I don't play at all (i.e. years), but I still have my card collection and I still get really addicted to it from time to time. I treat all my cards with care so that they will retain as much value as possible should I ever decide to sell my collection. (I keep all my cards in protective sleeves, and I store them away from sunlight.) The game can be very expensive over time because some rares (especially the newer mythic rares) can cost as much as a video game for 1 single card. On the other hand, you can get hours/weeks/months and even years of play out of a $9 pre-constructed deck.
For my time & money, there's no better game.
As far as electronic video games go ... I find it very difficult to get *any* value out of them at all. Video games bore me to tears. I would generally rather read a book, clean the house, surf the web, watch a movie, or do just about any other non-productive thing than play video games.
Having said that, there is one video game that comes to mind that I have gotten tremendous value out of. StarCraft. I bought the SC/Broodwar Battle Chest like 10+ years ago and I think I only paid $29 for it. But in the last 10 years, I have played that game off and on many, many times. In fact, about 2 months ago I got the urge to play it again ... so I got my discs out, installed it, patched it, and played several games for a period of about 5 days. It was great fun ... and I'm probably done with it for another year or two.
But the fact that this game from the late 90's is still working on modern hardware and modern operating systems is a true testament to the value that you can get from some games.
I live in Central Florida so I've watched at least a dozen launches in the last 10 years. In watching this video, it appears as though the solid rocket booster separation happens after the shuttle has reached "black sky" ... in watching from the ground, I always assumed SRB separation was happening when the shuttle was still in blue skies ... or at least dark blue skies. 100,000 feet or something like that. Does anyone know the altitude that SRB separation occurs?
Awesome video.
"...ended up switching to the English department, where being a sad, whiny little bitch gets you bonus points."
That part made me snicker a little.
"If someone could please tell me wtf was so funny about that, I'd be much obliged. None of it seemed particularly funny to me while living it."
That part made me fall out of my chair from laughing so hard.
There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
BIOS's also commonly have PXE boot capability these days allowing someone to boot over a network to perform an install. But the guy said "average user".
Your average user will love this computer: it lets them spend $200, and they can just throw a pirated copy of Windows on it.
Since the $200 Shuttle doesn't come with an optical drive, I don't think the average user will be technically savvy enough to install Windows on it.
Video 1
... check the Related Videos on the right side of any video you look at.
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Video 4
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There are more
I also noticed this:
"Second, I suggest the USB Working Group should releases USB 3.0 already."
Assuming the word "releases" was just a simple typo and that he really intended to say "release", it still wouldn't have sounded right.
I live near Orlando and heard it too. It was the loudest re-entry boom I've ever heard. I was at my computer when it came back yesterday and I hadn't been paying attention to the news for the previous hour so I wasn't expecting it. I literally jumped up out of my chair because I was so startled by it. And it was the same here regarding dogs. I could hear a chorus of dog barks all around the neighborhood.
P.S. Congratulations Sweden.
Coming out of hibernation (S4) seems almost slower to me than a regular boot. (Hibernation being where the machine writes all the information from RAM to the hard-drive and then completely shuts down.) Hibernation is certainly less reliable than a regular reboot ... at least in my experience with my Workstation PC. (i.e. The proprietary NVidia Linux module doesn't come back out of hibernation properly.)
Coming back out of "Suspend to RAM" (S3) on the other hand... is virtually instantaneous. And it works flawlessly on my laptop which doesn't have any problematic Linux modules.
If you'd been following this...
And if you had read the posts by the three people who pointed this out before you...
You mean OTHER consoles are generally sold at a loss. Nintendo does not operate this way. They make money or they don't sell it.
Thanks to all 3 of you who pointed this out. I wasn't aware of this fact.
I know Nintendo doesn't make huge financial gambles like Microsoft and Sony does, but I just assumed their consoles were sold at a loss (at least a small loss) when they were new. I know manufacturing costs go down over time. I remember reading about how Microsoft calculated that into their Xbox sells. The first X million units sold at some % of loss. The next X million units would still sell at a loss, but the % would be lower. Eventually the Xbox would be break even. And if it lasted long enough, they would eventually profit on the hardware sell of the Xbox. I just assumed that kind of thinking was the norm in the console business in modern times and that Nintendo did the same thing, but on a smaller scale of profit loss and with a faster turn around out of the red.
GameBoy has taught Nintendo alot. The original was the single worst hand-held of its time as far as graphics and hardware go.
... I really don't think the original GameBoy's hardware was all that bad. It was a combination of the most efficient and practical hardware that was available at the time. The Sega gamegear and the Atari Lynx were just crappy technology hardware demos of what handheld gaming *could be like* when the hardware technology caught up. Which took 10+ years. It wasn't until the GameBoy Advance SP that colored, backlit handheld gaming became practical.
I don't know about that. I had a GameBoy and later on I got a Sega gamegear. I thought the Sega would be so much better because it had a color screen and better graphics. But the hardware just wasn't good enough at the time. I remember playing Sonic on my gamegear and it was just a perpetual blur of colors. The LCD didn't update fast enough. When you were standing still, it looked fine, but with Sonic you spend very little time standing in one place. Plus, I quickly found out that I needed to carry a backpack full of extra batteries around with me because the gamegear ate through batteries like crazy.
So
Currently, my favorite gaming "system" is my GameBoy Advance SP. (The new model with the improved screen. The original GBA SP was cool, but the new model with the better screen is *sooo* much better.) I have an original Nintendo DS, and 2 Nintendo DS Lites and I still lean towards my GameBoy Advance SP. The first Nintendo DS was pretty lousy in my opinion. The screen wasn't very good and the design was kinda awful. The DS Lite was a *huge* improvement. The DS Lite screen is as good as (as vibrant, as bright, as rich) as the GBA SP's screen - possibly even better than the GBA SP. But for portable gaming, the GBA SP is a little better in my opinion. It's smaller and lighter and more comfortable in the hands.
In theory, yes. In practice, it's better to sell 1 million DS and 1 million Wii consoles than selling 1/2 million of each.
... 1m + 1m = 2m
.5m + .5m = 1m
Duh
2 million is more than 1 million, so of course it's better to sell 2 million units.
But whether you sell 2 million Wii's and 0 DS's, or 2 million DS's and 0 Wii's is still important due to manufacturing costs. Consoles are generally sold at a loss when they are first released. I believe Nintendo actually makes money on DS sells. Plus there is the whole business economic benefit of being involved in multiple markets because of people (like me) who aren't really interested in consoles, but are interested in handheld gaming.
so what? It's better for everyone to have it so no one will use it, if that makes sense. Would the US have bombed Japan if the Japanese had the same type of technology?
wow - you so don't understand the mindset of jihadists.
>> Really? How is it informative when the same, single article has the following associated tags: "Yes", "No", "Maybe", "duh"
... but the point of tagging is to associate a given piece of data with meaningful keywords.
... as an example, "Pearl Jam - Ten - Even Flow" ... meaningful tags might be "Grunge", "Alternative", "90's music", "Flannel band", etc... You wouldn't tag it as "duh" :)
> Good point - if it has all of them at once, it's probably a waste of time. Although it could be a good indicator of whether this is a hotly debated topic, or possibly just a load of crap not worth reading (OK, a waste of time as first stated).
I understand the sentiment to want to vote on an article, but that's a different mechanism.
If slashdot wants to implement a "Vote on this article" mechanism, I have no problem with that. As you stated, those types of statistics would be meaningful and useful in certain situations
Like music