If you want to do just one course for three weeks, find out if you're eligible for CTY, which does do an international talent search, though you may be too late for Summer 2012
If you're in upstate New York, the Corning Museum of Glass has a nice history of glass, including modern technological applications. It is close to the Glenn Curtiss Museum which has early airplanes, bicycles, and motorcycles.
Free books in Baltimore -- a different way
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Free as in Books?
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Check out the Book Thing of Baltimore if you're around Charm City some weekend. Russell just gives away books. You show up to the "free book place" and take as many as you want. The minimum is ten (he really won't let you leave) and the maximum is 150,000 books per person per day. Corner of 27th & N Charles St, look for the Free Books signs. Open Saturday & Sunday 9 AM - 6 PM.
This isn't an ad, but honestly a post from someone who knows & loves books -- especially those at the Book Thing. I was turned on by a friend, and I've introduced my friends and so on. Probably 95% of the books I've gotten in the past two years were from the Book Thing.
Windows95 was a huge step for the Windows world (note I didn't say computing world), and I bet most Windows people's memories for their OSes aren't even 3 years long. It's going to go out without much of a funeral, which is interesting, because it helped a lot of people "get into" computers, myself included.
Don't forget your roots.
Will it catch on? If so, how long will it take?
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Linux On HP Blades
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This is very cool, on many levels: space-saving, open architecture, and so forth.
And sure, there's a lot of collaboration going on behind it as the press release says, but what's the likelihood that Blades will actually be a force in server hardware? A lot of companies are worried enough about financial situations without replacing large amounts of their assets.
Just seems like a helluva risk to take, with this New Cool thing. When it DOES gain popularity, though, it'll be nice to hear success stories about physically cooler server rooms(I'd imagine) with more space for NERF combat or Ultimate Frisbee.
You/. readers are getting lazier and lazier! Now you even have computer programs written to do your laundry? Seriously, use your own two hands to put the clothing in the washer, turn the knob, put clothes in the dryer, hit the button, then fold your own clothes. This convergence of technology and household chores must end!
(Humorous, folks. Really.)
Old Navy == Clothing the Gap deemed not worthy for their store, for which I still paid $50 too much to obtain
OK, you've obviously never stepped into an Old Navy. Their prices are much lower than the Gap, and the merchandise is targetted at a younger age group. (Nevermind that I see 70 year olds running around in those fscking Old Navy flag t-shirts which are now omnipresent.)
While they're part of the same company, they don't necessarily operate the same way. And both stores provide quality goods. I won't get into the whole WTO/workers/whatnot discussion.
Namely, the how-to section. He says that you can rip MP3s using WinAmp, but I checked their site (despite the fact that I'm an experienced user of it) and no, WinAmp does not rip MP3s; it only plays them. He should do his research first before creating such a project.
The problem is that the parrots would be indistiguishable from the trolls and JonKatz. "Brrawwwwk First Post..." "*squawk* THe world will soon bow down to Open Voiceboxes, so that all organisms may have speech *squaaawk*"
Who said that the robots would be automated? It would make a lot more sense for these machines to be controlled by the doctor. There needs to be some sort of feedback. Minimally invasive surgery is a vague term.
Recently, Corning, Inc. (mentioned in Fairley's article) announced that they will increase production at their Erwin, NY facility... by 700 jobs and $50 million. Read the press release here. Corning expects their photonics division to increase
One personal connection for me is that this plant is literally just down the street from my summer job.
There were the crackpot critics spouting obligatory warnings and alarms, but they were given short shrift amidst all of the gee-whiz hype...
Is it just me, or does Katz fall into this latter clause seems to shout "Look at me! Read my feature!"category too? Well, maybe he doesn't view himself as a "crackpot" but he's definitely a critic of the fact that the technology in the US. The irony boggles my already-addled brain.
If Chris McKinstry had named this processor, it would be the ROFP. Wait, that acronym doesn't just flow off the tongue. How about just RISP? Really Insanely Speedy Processor?
Process vs. practice: It's also common wisdom that the best way to learn how to code is to actually start writing some code. Do you think this is unique to the computer profession?
This question is borderline silly. Sheesh, where to begin? Well, first off, do you learn anything by simply reading? Let me guess, you drove to work today. And you didn't learn to drive by sitting around reading Driving for Dummies or Teach Yourself Automobiles. You got in the car in the parking lot and used the machine. Same goes for cooking: a cookbook does you no good if you can't have a kitchen in which to experiment. But, sure, the book will help. And would Strunk and White's Elements of Style be useful, unless you planned on actually implementing them, and trying to write on your own? Of course not.
So now I feel compelled to get this book and read it over the summer... Thanks,/.
What we do next ought to be obvious. Corporations/organizations/institutions must get together and figure out how to use this ethically. Surely, if we can cure multiple sclerosis, can't we cure [your_least_favorite_skin_color_here]ness? That ought to be a high priority of all involved. Or if you mean, what will technology do next? Flying cars and colonies on Mars.
The ONDCP should've had a little pop-up window when you entered their site saying: "The War on Drugs is now being fought on your hard drive. Stand by while soldiers are uploaded to your computer. Thank you for this invasion of your privacy. Good day."
From the Q&A with Steve Ballmer: "Microsoft.NET services, products and tools will give businesses the power to engage seamlessly and securely with customers and partners, and provide consumers with an integrated, secure and easy-to-use Internet experience."
Because we know that MS products always work seamlessly. And nothing they create ever has security problems.
Integrated means "You must publish the materials using Office 2000 while on Windows 2000 and..."
The day a MS product is truly "easy-to-use" is the day.. I dunno. Cows fly home out of my, no that's not right.
The vast majority of the population remains lazy and passive about their news sources. If you think that Average American/Human Person will get off the couch, go to his box, and research news that interests him, you're sadly mistaken.
People like to have things come to them. Would you rather walk down the street and buy a pizza, or have it delivered? Easy answer. This is why CNN, MSNBC, and newspapers remain in the forefront of the media. They deliver news how and where the viewers want it: in short (Attention span? what's that?) soundbites, directly to the MediaViewer's door/TV/eyes.
Even though many people do read/. and other "Open" media sites, they don't all participate, so it's not truly democratic. Open Media(what a silly term) will keep going, for sure, but until the populace puts in effort, it won't overtake the big, pushed media that has persisted for decades.
Slashdot Mirror
DanceSafe has been doing their form of this for years in the US.
If you want to do just one course for three weeks, find out if you're eligible for CTY, which does do an international talent search, though you may be too late for Summer 2012
If you're in upstate New York, the Corning Museum of Glass has a nice history of glass, including modern technological applications. It is close to the Glenn Curtiss Museum which has early airplanes, bicycles, and motorcycles.
Check out the Book Thing of Baltimore if you're around Charm City some weekend. Russell just gives away books. You show up to the "free book place" and take as many as you want. The minimum is ten (he really won't let you leave) and the maximum is 150,000 books per person per day. Corner of 27th & N Charles St, look for the Free Books signs. Open Saturday & Sunday 9 AM - 6 PM.
This isn't an ad, but honestly a post from someone who knows & loves books -- especially those at the Book Thing. I was turned on by a friend, and I've introduced my friends and so on. Probably 95% of the books I've gotten in the past two years were from the Book Thing.
No really, they're free
Windows95 was a huge step for the Windows world (note I didn't say computing world), and I bet most Windows people's memories for their OSes aren't even 3 years long. It's going to go out without much of a funeral, which is interesting, because it helped a lot of people "get into" computers, myself included.
Don't forget your roots.
This is very cool, on many levels: space-saving, open architecture, and so forth.
And sure, there's a lot of collaboration going on behind it as the press release says, but what's the likelihood that Blades will actually be a force in server hardware? A lot of companies are worried enough about financial situations without replacing large amounts of their assets.
Just seems like a helluva risk to take, with this New Cool thing. When it DOES gain popularity, though, it'll be nice to hear success stories about physically cooler server rooms(I'd imagine) with more space for NERF combat or Ultimate Frisbee.
Actually, it wasn't quite free, I still had to pay the 5% tax on it
Wouldn't 5% sales tax on free still be free? =)
Will we ever know how the "chat room" was setup? i.e. Did they set up a 31337 IRC server, or did they hack together their own service?
And it's all over... The 43rd president of the United States of America is George W. Bush.
Ph34r 31337 Pr351d3nt Bush..
You /. readers are getting lazier and lazier! Now you even have computer programs written to do your laundry? Seriously, use your own two hands to put the clothing in the washer, turn the knob, put clothes in the dryer, hit the button, then fold your own clothes. This convergence of technology and household chores must end!
(Humorous, folks. Really.)
Some friends of mine built a wooden case for that "vintage computing" look =)
Gap == Clothing I paid $50 too much to obtain
Old Navy == Clothing the Gap deemed not worthy for their store, for which I still paid $50 too much to obtain
OK, you've obviously never stepped into an Old Navy. Their prices are much lower than the Gap, and the merchandise is targetted at a younger age group. (Nevermind that I see 70 year olds running around in those fscking Old Navy flag t-shirts which are now omnipresent.)
While they're part of the same company, they don't necessarily operate the same way. And both stores provide quality goods. I won't get into the whole WTO/workers/whatnot discussion.
Namely, the how-to section. He says that you can rip MP3s using WinAmp, but I checked their site (despite the fact that I'm an experienced user of it) and no, WinAmp does not rip MP3s; it only plays them. He should do his research first before creating such a project.
The problem is that the parrots would be indistiguishable from the trolls and JonKatz. "Brrawwwwk First Post..." "*squawk* THe world will soon bow down to Open Voiceboxes, so that all organisms may have speech *squaaawk*"
Who said that the robots would be automated? It would make a lot more sense for these machines to be controlled by the doctor. There needs to be some sort of feedback. Minimally invasive surgery is a vague term.
Somehow I neglected to finish my last sentence in the first paragraph: Corning expects their photonics division to increase by 80% in the next year.
Recently, Corning, Inc. (mentioned in Fairley's article) announced that they will increase production at their Erwin, NY facility... by 700 jobs and $50 million. Read the press release here. Corning expects their photonics division to increase
One personal connection for me is that this plant is literally just down the street from my summer job.
There were the crackpot critics spouting obligatory warnings and alarms, but they were given short shrift amidst all of the gee-whiz hype...
Is it just me, or does Katz fall into this latter clause seems to shout "Look at me! Read my feature!"category too? Well, maybe he doesn't view himself as a "crackpot" but he's definitely a critic of the fact that the technology in the US. The irony boggles my already-addled brain.
6) Really obscenely fast processor
If Chris McKinstry had named this processor, it would be the ROFP. Wait, that acronym doesn't just flow off the tongue. How about just RISP? Really Insanely Speedy Processor?
Process vs. practice: It's also common wisdom that the best way to learn how to code is to actually start writing some code. Do you think this is unique to the computer profession?
This question is borderline silly. Sheesh, where to begin? Well, first off, do you learn anything by simply reading? Let me guess, you drove to work today. And you didn't learn to drive by sitting around reading Driving for Dummies or Teach Yourself Automobiles. You got in the car in the parking lot and used the machine. Same goes for cooking: a cookbook does you no good if you can't have a kitchen in which to experiment. But, sure, the book will help. And would Strunk and White's Elements of Style be useful, unless you planned on actually implementing them, and trying to write on your own? Of course not.
So now I feel compelled to get this book and read it over the summer... Thanks, /.
The users of the college/university/corporate network know that their access is designed for educational/business purposes.
There's no reason for them to complain about PacketShaper. It's simply doing what they should be doing: prioritizing network use.
What we do next ought to be obvious. Corporations/organizations/institutions must get together and figure out how to use this ethically. Surely, if we can cure multiple sclerosis, can't we cure [your_least_favorite_skin_color_here]ness?
That ought to be a high priority of all involved. Or if you mean, what will technology do next? Flying cars and colonies on Mars.
The ONDCP should've had a little pop-up window when you entered their site saying: "The War on Drugs is now being fought on your hard drive. Stand by while soldiers are uploaded to your computer. Thank you for this invasion of your privacy. Good day."
From the Q&A with Steve Ballmer: "Microsoft .NET services, products and tools will give businesses the power to engage seamlessly and securely with customers and partners, and provide consumers with an integrated, secure and easy-to-use Internet experience."
Because we know that MS products always work seamlessly. And nothing they create ever has security problems.
Integrated means "You must publish the materials using Office 2000 while on Windows 2000 and..."
The day a MS product is truly "easy-to-use" is the day.. I dunno. Cows fly home out of my, no that's not right.
The vast majority of the population remains lazy and passive about their news sources. If you think that Average American/Human Person will get off the couch, go to his box, and research news that interests him, you're sadly mistaken.
People like to have things come to them. Would you rather walk down the street and buy a pizza, or have it delivered? Easy answer. This is why CNN, MSNBC, and newspapers remain in the forefront of the media. They deliver news how and where the viewers want it: in short (Attention span? what's that?) soundbites, directly to the MediaViewer's door/TV/eyes.
Even though many people do read /. and other "Open" media sites, they don't all participate, so it's not truly democratic. Open Media(what a silly term) will keep going, for sure, but until the populace puts in effort, it won't overtake the big, pushed media that has persisted for decades.