"a powerful positron-generating accelerator under development at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash"
Whaa?? I've been going to school here for three years, and I haven't heard about them building that. Where is it hidden, The New Johnson Hall Addition?
We're a land grant school, damnit! We're supposed to be researching wheat or something!
(One interesting note is the rumor of living cows with fiberglass panels attached to their sides. No one has confirmed this secret program)
So, lemmie get this straight:
The hole gets 2% bigger, scientists freak out, instantly blaming pollution and saying we need to change. Then, when the hole shrinks by 20%, "scientists caution this would have to continue for at least a couple more years to be a trend or anything to get excited about."
Is it just me, or does it seem these scientists are protraying the facts in such a way to continue their funding?
A few years back I was working at a lab for the summer (we'll just call it PNNL), and I was going to go get some lunch. I had my prized Nomad Jukebox with me, which at the time was the only MP3 player out that had a hard drive.
Anyways, when I went to unlock my car, I set my papers, books, nomad, etc on the roof of the car and forgot. I then (in true 16 year old fashion) took off from the parking lot at 30 miles an hour, speeding around a corner and out onto the road. As I made the turn, however, the Nomad did not. I slammed on the brakes and went to go pick up the pieces.
Suprisingly enougth, except for some nasty road rash, the Nomad survived! To think that people freak out about the safety of devices with hard drives in them....
Now, I haven't looked in to this, since I haven't needed to bring thousands of dollars of electronic equipment in to the US, but my roommate's dad has.
Apparantly, it's common practice for people who want to bring items in to have a business license. With a legitimate business license, even if you're not selling it, you can import quite a bit more.
But don't take my word for it, read the customs laws or talk to your friendly neighborhood attorney.
Anyone interested in a CO-OP? (As a little tidbit of reference, CO-OPs are businesses set up and run by the people who would benefit from the business. They were common in rural America for getting power to places that were not profitible to the big power companies).
If we were to each shell out a portion, maybe even do it donation based, we could easily bring this to the US. We could create a game museum, or something, and allow people who contributed to check out hardware for homebrew development. Finding a location would be difficult, but not impossible.
I work in a campus Student Computing Helpdesk, and with the scans we run on most of the computers brought in, about 80-90% have a virus, trojan, or downloader (as found by AVG). I *never* see a computer where Spybot cannot find spyware, though to be fair, it will also find cookies and shortcuts.
The computers that really worry me are the 25% that have a browser hijacker, such as CoolWeb. I've seen ones where every page request will redirect you to incredifind.com. We use CWShredder to clear up those.
Side note: If you remove spyware from your computer and suddenly all your internet applications stop working, you possibly removed a spyware program that had rooted itself into Winsock. Try WinsockFix to clear that up.
Ok, even ignoring all the obvious privacy issues, or about kids being brought up with intrusive technology, I think this is a bad idea?
You might ask "Why"? Because it destroys student-teacher relations.
"How does it do that Mark?" Well, the only reason most of my teachers learned my name was to take attendance. If it's automatic, there won't even be a reason for teachers to learn the kids names.
Maybe kids will be identified by their serial number. "Hey, 4902850386, stop pulling 2958230843's hair, or no ration pill for you!"
I'm not sure how effective it is, or if it would change your results, but there is a website geared towards generating spam email. it's called http://www.emailrevenge.tk/.
The best feature of the Nomad Jukebox is the firmware update feature. Every issue I had regarding the player was fixed (the firmware is now to 2.56, created in November). WMA's (though I don't use them) are supported, a seek feature was built in to rewind / ff through a song, and with the update (plus the updated programs) you CAN take mp3s and place them back on your computer! The lock on mp3s was removed when the WMA lock was placed on.
And on the issue of corrupted mp3s:
Whenever I have a corrupted mp3 (and I have had a few), the best way to fix this is to use Winamp and diskwrite as a WAV, then recompress it as an mp3 (I use Simple).
Side note: Has anyone seen a program to resample mp3s to a lower bitrate? I also have a goofy 16mb mp3 player, and resampling my large mp3s is a 2 step process, plus I lose my ID3 tags.
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It's a little unnerving when I view their website and realize they stole their "Customize It" buttons from Dell.
No, I know for a fact they aren't going to build a Google complex in The Dalles.
How? I asked Google Maps
:P
I'll give someone $5 if they can do this with a VW beetle radiator :P
So... When is someone going to update the BSD logo on the Slashdot site? It's really sad to see a cutting edge site like Slashdot out of date!
No, fourteen does come after three, there's just a few numbers between it.
So, how many small buildings *are* on the moon?
"a powerful positron-generating accelerator under development at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash"
Whaa?? I've been going to school here for three years, and I haven't heard about them building that. Where is it hidden, The New Johnson Hall Addition?
We're a land grant school, damnit! We're supposed to be researching wheat or something!
(One interesting note is the rumor of living cows with fiberglass panels attached to their sides. No one has confirmed this secret program)
So, lemmie get this straight:
The hole gets 2% bigger, scientists freak out, instantly blaming pollution and saying we need to change. Then, when the hole shrinks by 20%, "scientists caution this would have to continue for at least a couple more years to be a trend or anything to get excited about."
Is it just me, or does it seem these scientists are protraying the facts in such a way to continue their funding?
...can it run windows?
(Yes, I'm sure someone could do a Windows CE port if they really wanted to, but I was going for that irony thing).
A few years back I was working at a lab for the summer (we'll just call it PNNL), and I was going to go get some lunch. I had my prized Nomad Jukebox with me, which at the time was the only MP3 player out that had a hard drive.
Anyways, when I went to unlock my car, I set my papers, books, nomad, etc on the roof of the car and forgot. I then (in true 16 year old fashion) took off from the parking lot at 30 miles an hour, speeding around a corner and out onto the road. As I made the turn, however, the Nomad did not. I slammed on the brakes and went to go pick up the pieces.
Suprisingly enougth, except for some nasty road rash, the Nomad survived! To think that people freak out about the safety of devices with hard drives in them....
Now, I haven't looked in to this, since I haven't needed to bring thousands of dollars of electronic equipment in to the US, but my roommate's dad has.
Apparantly, it's common practice for people who want to bring items in to have a business license. With a legitimate business license, even if you're not selling it, you can import quite a bit more.
But don't take my word for it, read the customs laws or talk to your friendly neighborhood attorney.
Anyone interested in a CO-OP? (As a little tidbit of reference, CO-OPs are businesses set up and run by the people who would benefit from the business. They were common in rural America for getting power to places that were not profitible to the big power companies).
If we were to each shell out a portion, maybe even do it donation based, we could easily bring this to the US. We could create a game museum, or something, and allow people who contributed to check out hardware for homebrew development. Finding a location would be difficult, but not impossible.
I dunno, just a pipe dream....
I work in a campus Student Computing Helpdesk, and with the scans we run on most of the computers brought in, about 80-90% have a virus, trojan, or downloader (as found by AVG). I *never* see a computer where Spybot cannot find spyware, though to be fair, it will also find cookies and shortcuts. The computers that really worry me are the 25% that have a browser hijacker, such as CoolWeb. I've seen ones where every page request will redirect you to incredifind.com. We use CWShredder to clear up those. Side note: If you remove spyware from your computer and suddenly all your internet applications stop working, you possibly removed a spyware program that had rooted itself into Winsock. Try WinsockFix to clear that up.
Ok, even ignoring all the obvious privacy issues, or about kids being brought up with intrusive technology, I think this is a bad idea?
You might ask "Why"? Because it destroys student-teacher relations.
"How does it do that Mark?" Well, the only reason most of my teachers learned my name was to take attendance. If it's automatic, there won't even be a reason for teachers to learn the kids names.
Maybe kids will be identified by their serial number. "Hey, 4902850386, stop pulling 2958230843's hair, or no ration pill for you!"
I'm not sure how effective it is, or if it would change your results, but there is a website geared towards generating spam email. it's called http://www.emailrevenge.tk/.
Microsoft is so worried about geting those security updates installed, the Critical Update Notification checks the net for updates every 5 minutes.
Am I the only one who thinks that might be unnecessary?
And on the issue of corrupted mp3s: Whenever I have a corrupted mp3 (and I have had a few), the best way to fix this is to use Winamp and diskwrite as a WAV, then recompress it as an mp3 (I use Simple).
Side note: Has anyone seen a program to resample mp3s to a lower bitrate? I also have a goofy 16mb mp3 player, and resampling my large mp3s is a 2 step process, plus I lose my ID3 tags.