Bush: Would someone please design a device to be able to track Senator Clinton's whereabouts in the forthcoming campaign?
Politicians have been followed for ever to find out who they are seeing before an election. This is just another way of being able to follow th right people at the right time. Does it have anything to do with us? No. Not until you become the right person.
A little revolution now and again is a good thing. Not possible if everyone knows where you are.
Paranoia, certainly. But not whithout good cause.
"Nothing to fear folks, we just want to turn up the sensitivity in the devices for a few weeks for an experiment. No reason to be alarmed"
False triggers deliver sensor number and location. We found Clinton!
We spend a great deal of time here discussing the pros/cons of each language in the market place. We spend a little time discussing the merits of learning each language. There are several factors to be concerned with.
Training a student to be a programmer is vastly different from teaching them how to become a programmer.
Learning ALU architecture, followed by Hex code, followed by Assembler, followed by C is a natural progression. If you understand each then at the end, when writing in C, you can visualize the resulting Code and its' affect on the CPU. This turns you into an engineer. This is a hard skill to replace, an engineer who understands what is going on. This is a classical computing education. Learning programming is learning an easily replaceable skill. The argument in TFA.
Computing, is reaching the end of its' witch doctor phase. In the beginning, the IEEE had the opportunity to control the education but largely stepped aside as it is not hardware. Gates took over and lead us to this path of obscurity. We shall return from it but it will take time. Controls will return and the engineering aspects will be a sought after skill.
Log Tables, though absolutely required for all forms of mathematics, are only just touched on in classical schooling. Replaced by the calculator they are never the less there. It is important to understand what is going on. Computer languages are the same way but vastly more complex. It is important to understand the nuances of the language and what it means to the system. There will be many factors of programming that it will be necessary to brush over in a technical college education where we turn out programmers. In a university we should treat our students better. They deserve to be educated. We should teach them a more classical education. Learning a language is easy. Learning why we use it is the tougher line.
Lancor - hosted by ipowerweb.com. Administrative contact, bscinternational.com konyin.com - hosted by ipowerweb.com Admin contact, oluwole@lancorltd.com
For an IT company to not actually have their own web server... and to have their admin contact external (a MS partner BTW)...
Thoughts? How big is this company (they don't have a link on their web site to their Nigerian counterpart. They do have a link to Konyin.com, no drivers available for download there. Anyone got them?
I wonder how much email traffic has been transferred between Lancor and MS recently. SCO is sooo yesterday's news.
BTW - your lancorltd.com web site does not render correctly in FireFox.
I love the Big Island. Use orange street lamps to minimize the damage done from light pollution. Very forward thinking. But then, if a large part of their economy comes from the observatories, why not!
Buy the way, ask Thor. He probably had to count them already. He counted the pebbles in Wales.
Solaris has known stability in certain supportable configurations. Linux supposedly does too. I know that statement will get a lot of hackles raised but just hold on. I am a continuous Linux user since 0.99pl8 and I love it. But, as time moves on I see some instabilities creeping in as complexity rises and hardware moves on.
One of my boxes downstairs, a recent machine (less than 6 months old) running stock Debian (amd64) without a mod to the sources.lst has a slight instability (almost certainly in a driver) and crashes every week or so.
Now, one could say that I should replace the hardware which has the suspect driver (always seems to be on a disk access). Or I should get on the Debian lists and report it. If it was a Sun Solaris box I would know that the hardware I had was (or was not) supported. The word 'Supported' in the Linux world really (I am sorry) does not mean as much as it does to Sun.
Now I have other Linux boxen, (a little older) which have uptimes of over a year. No problems. But on odd occasions as this I would like to have stability and I can't find it. (Read, maybe don't have the time at the moment). And I need the box UP. I can't rebuild it AGAIN! I am on the 6th distro in an attempt to gain stability. That's an aside.
In Sun's world. You pay a little more for your hardware and 'Know' it is going to work.
I believe that perhaps, what Johnny may be failing to realize, is that the sound coming from his speaker/amp is not the sound coming from his guitar. Often, as we know the sound recorded is that which is in the preamp stage. His power amp and speaker, and the very sound stage he is in/on is creating a new sound. One that we can not adequately record nor reproduce, in any medium except live. And even then, it sounds very different 20ft in front of the stage. Or to the side.
The author of the article, who may not know a great deal about audio formats does a great job of reflecting the state of the industry and the big question. Why do we listen to music? Since we all hear sounds differently, subjectively, perhaps that question will never be properly answered.
The same discussion can be used for the old vinyl/CD debate. Both introduce new sound distortions in the final result. Which sounds better? You be the judge.
Had a colleague using this device in a meeting a long time back. He took notes in real time whilst not looking down. He payed full attention to the meeting. Effortless. He said it took a week or so to get the swing of it.
Yep. I put one in a dimmer (not knowing it was a dimmer). Only the wife knows. Nasty smells and a plink plink fizz later (about 5 mins later) exit one bulb.
I try to watch live HD broadcasts of sporting events. Football being the primary. I try and give up with the hideous quality. I'd rather watch a regular broadcast. The image artifacts remaining post co-dec are just awful. Stills are great, but moving grass is just ugly. Watching the little green squares move across the screen is just too distracting.
Maybe, when this is finally fixed, I might want HD. But until then, regular broadcasts are still better.
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Bush: Would someone please design a device to be able to track Senator Clinton's whereabouts in the forthcoming campaign?
Politicians have been followed for ever to find out who they are seeing before an election. This is just another way of being able to follow th right people at the right time. Does it have anything to do with us? No. Not until you become the right person.
A little revolution now and again is a good thing. Not possible if everyone knows where you are.
Paranoia, certainly. But not whithout good cause.
"Nothing to fear folks, we just want to turn up the sensitivity in the devices for a few weeks for an experiment. No reason to be alarmed"
False triggers deliver sensor number and location. We found Clinton!
Jeez. The nerve of the guy. The destroyer of competition. The eater of companies. The exploiter of poorer nations.
Do you really think he has seen the light?
We spend a great deal of time here discussing the pros/cons of each language in the market place. We spend a little time discussing the merits of learning each language. There are several factors to be concerned with.
Training a student to be a programmer is vastly different from teaching them how to become a programmer.
Learning ALU architecture, followed by Hex code, followed by Assembler, followed by C is a natural progression. If you understand each then at the end, when writing in C, you can visualize the resulting Code and its' affect on the CPU. This turns you into an engineer. This is a hard skill to replace, an engineer who understands what is going on. This is a classical computing education. Learning programming is learning an easily replaceable skill. The argument in TFA.
Computing, is reaching the end of its' witch doctor phase. In the beginning, the IEEE had the opportunity to control the education but largely stepped aside as it is not hardware. Gates took over and lead us to this path of obscurity. We shall return from it but it will take time. Controls will return and the engineering aspects will be a sought after skill.
Log Tables, though absolutely required for all forms of mathematics, are only just touched on in classical schooling. Replaced by the calculator they are never the less there. It is important to understand what is going on. Computer languages are the same way but vastly more complex. It is important to understand the nuances of the language and what it means to the system. There will be many factors of programming that it will be necessary to brush over in a technical college education where we turn out programmers. In a university we should treat our students better. They deserve to be educated. We should teach them a more classical education. Learning a language is easy. Learning why we use it is the tougher line.
I would not touch him with a barge pole.
This guy is bad news. His attitude shows it. He may be right but this is wrong.
Part of being brilliant is not necessarily appearing to be so.
Bruce Willis said it beautifully when he answered the question...
"Whose Zed?"
List all the advantages of using MS Office openly.
They can make more money from payola.
MS can contribute more money to the local schools, but only as MS licenses, that will not save any money in the long term.
They can offer you a certain career stability that you might not otherwise enjoy.
They will create more jobs for local companies that will use the MS platform to make money.
etc, etc.
List them openly. Embarrass the heck out of anyone who makes a Pro MS decision.
This sounds like another :-
"Computers will never need more than 640K RAM"
statement. I am sure that one day the artificial machines will catch up with the biological machines.
I just wonder which species will design them.
Yep. The quartz is but another form of silicon, in this case SiO2. Whether it from the same cause, I don't know.
This has always been the explanation for why our digital watches run faster every year. Only a second or two, but faster.
Lancor - hosted by ipowerweb.com. Administrative contact, bscinternational.com
... and to have their admin contact external (a MS partner BTW)...
konyin.com - hosted by ipowerweb.com Admin contact, oluwole@lancorltd.com
For an IT company to not actually have their own web server
Thoughts? How big is this company (they don't have a link on their web site to their Nigerian counterpart. They do have a link to Konyin.com, no drivers available for download there. Anyone got them?
I wonder how much email traffic has been transferred between Lancor and MS recently. SCO is sooo yesterday's news.
BTW - your lancorltd.com web site does not render correctly in FireFox.
I hope that the judge is doing what the French did when they voted for Le Penn.
I hope he is going to hear this case because there is reason to. It may set precedent.
I hope that after he has heard it, he will say "Folks, this is a public broadcast. Anyone can listen to it. For free!"
I hope he will then write it up and throw it out, for good. And that will be an end of it.
Just think of all the TPS reports you can write.
I love the Big Island. Use orange street lamps to minimize the damage done from light pollution. Very forward thinking. But then, if a large part of their economy comes from the observatories, why not!
Buy the way, ask Thor. He probably had to count them already. He counted the pebbles in Wales.
Solaris has known stability in certain supportable configurations. Linux supposedly does too. I know that statement will get a lot of hackles raised but just hold on. I am a continuous Linux user since 0.99pl8 and I love it. But, as time moves on I see some instabilities creeping in as complexity rises and hardware moves on.
One of my boxes downstairs, a recent machine (less than 6 months old) running stock Debian (amd64) without a mod to the sources.lst has a slight instability (almost certainly in a driver) and crashes every week or so.
Now, one could say that I should replace the hardware which has the suspect driver (always seems to be on a disk access). Or I should get on the Debian lists and report it. If it was a Sun Solaris box I would know that the hardware I had was (or was not) supported. The word 'Supported' in the Linux world really (I am sorry) does not mean as much as it does to Sun.
Now I have other Linux boxen, (a little older) which have uptimes of over a year. No problems. But on odd occasions as this I would like to have stability and I can't find it. (Read, maybe don't have the time at the moment). And I need the box UP. I can't rebuild it AGAIN! I am on the 6th distro in an attempt to gain stability. That's an aside.
In Sun's world. You pay a little more for your hardware and 'Know' it is going to work.
I believe that perhaps, what Johnny may be failing to realize, is that the sound coming from his speaker/amp is not the sound coming from his guitar. Often, as we know the sound recorded is that which is in the preamp stage. His power amp and speaker, and the very sound stage he is in/on is creating a new sound. One that we can not adequately record nor reproduce, in any medium except live. And even then, it sounds very different 20ft in front of the stage. Or to the side.
The author of the article, who may not know a great deal about audio formats does a great job of reflecting the state of the industry and the big question. Why do we listen to music? Since we all hear sounds differently, subjectively, perhaps that question will never be properly answered.
The same discussion can be used for the old vinyl/CD debate. Both introduce new sound distortions in the final result. Which sounds better? You be the judge.
When you drop you toast in the morning I bet it lands jam side up - Every Time!
Look out for Jim Carey living next door.
Wake yourself up before Freddie Kruger arrives.
Hit yourself on the head with a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.
Man you could use this little tool soooo much. I want it installed on my Nokia N770. NOW!
Had a colleague using this device in a meeting a long time back. He took notes in real time whilst not looking down. He payed full attention to the meeting. Effortless. He said it took a week or so to get the swing of it.
It is VERY COOL!
Yep. I put one in a dimmer (not knowing it was a dimmer). Only the wife knows. Nasty smells and a plink plink fizz later (about 5 mins later) exit one bulb.
Shorten the life. It sure does...
Of course I, for one, have never had a hard drive failure (apart from the 3 Dead Maxtors in the basement).
How does Microsofts prescious OS recovery work from scratch? Oh Wait, I have to re-install my previous OS first? They are joking right?
It's even better of it is not acually an acronym.
Latin: Acro (Tip) Nym (Word) a word (such as NASA) formed from the beginning of other words.
Pet annoyance. I wish people new what an acronym was.
KVM is an abbreviation, or even better, an initialism.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" - Benjamin Franklin
You can use this quote for this, the conflict in Iraq, airline security nazis...
Our choice??? Maybe one day as the pendulum makes it's long, slow return.
I try to watch live HD broadcasts of sporting events. Football being the primary. I try and give up with the hideous quality. I'd rather watch a regular broadcast. The image artifacts remaining post co-dec are just awful. Stills are great, but moving grass is just ugly. Watching the little green squares move across the screen is just too distracting.
Maybe, when this is finally fixed, I might want HD. But until then, regular broadcasts are still better.
Slashdot ran this story about 5 years ago. I wish I could find the original though. It was interesting then too.
When did the federal law about not sharing information from a driving license arise?
We must also consider how long childhood has been around and that for some, even today, there is no childhood.
"Put 'em straight to work" would have been the motto of old.
So how do we define what childhood actually is?
I don't think that we, the men and women in the street and development community are going to go to the proprietory codec providers (and the like).
But I see Redhat and Suse et al. doing something along these lines. Why not?
They just need to figure out the politics.
Laptops have been in the beds of households for over a decade now.
This is a little late being asked.