I've heard Musk say this before, but he also repeated it in last night's announcement. One of the biggest benefits of this mission, and of SpaceX in general, is it gives everyone something to be hopeful about. There is plenty in this world to be down about as evidenced by all of the complaints filed around here. At the end of the day, who doesn't want to see people visiting the Moon!
I want to see it. I want to follow the updates and be excited about them. I want my son to be excited about it - maybe it will even be one of those events where he will forever remember where he was when the dearMoon BFR lifted off. Maybe he will tell his children about it.
There is still plenty to complain about, but I for one, am happy to sit back and say this is awesome!
I have 13 DVDs of my life. From my first steps to high school graduation. 8mm to MiniDV, all converted to DVD now. One of the things that my dad quickly learned was that the video of birthday parties and school musicals is boring to watch. The good stuff is just random everyday life, such as I when I ran my bike straight into the back of our neighbor's truck. Everyone who has ever watched my DVDs has been jealous that they don't have something similar.
I have about 30 hours of childhood video over the course of my childhood which was in the neighborhood of 160,000 hours. I certainly had plenty of time to interact with my parents, but I also have some great footage that is fun to watch.
I agree that the Patent Search is big news. It could actually catch on within the legal community. There really is no such thing as a legal patent search.
The results of patent searching have always been very dependant on the person performing the search. Patent agents/attorneys frequently use the USPTO search site, and it is terrible. Delphion probably still beats Google in terms of algorithms and raw searching power, but Google has advantages. The advantages namely include nice organization and insanely fast results.
If someone asks me to check out a patent and sends me the number, I will probably head here first.
I mainly agree with the parent, but I would like to point out that law schools really encourage laptops now. I would say in my classes the laptop usage rate is probably upwards of 95%. The students use laptops for their other classes so for organization purposes it is better to use laptops for all classes.
I think that law school lends itself to typing notes. There is a huge amount of information coming at you. Most professors encourage reading the cases before class and briefing them. With types briefs you can modify the conclusions you made the night before. Handwriters have a much harder time with this.
If the interest is in improving focus, and typing notes is distracting then so is handwriting.
Sort of sad that the article did not mention anything about the Rose-Hulman laptop program. Not only have freshman been required to purchase laptops for seven or eight years now, but this is right in Indiana State's backyard.
I find it hard to believe that the ISU staff didn't make the five minute drive to check out Rose's program.
If you are thinking of moving out of the country because George Bush won then please do so. I think that is a great idea because you aren't the kind of American that we need hanging around. I voted for Bush, but I was definately ready to live under Kerry.
I heard a quote on CNN last night that went something like "I promise to support our President regardless of his political party. I also pledge to criticize our President regardless of his political party."
It is your responsibility to contact members of government and let them know what you think. Write letters. If you feel strongly enough about something then go out and get other people to contact their representatives.
I count the War of the Worlds as one of the biggest pranks ever pulled. I suppose that this might make the Slashdot hall of fame, but most people won't even notice.
College is supposed to be an experience. I lived in a dorm for two years and now I moved into my fraternity house. If a few mouse clicks and keyboard strokes can keep you awake how do you get any sleep at all. People in the hall ways the neighbor's stereo, etc. I would think that you could just sleep through it.
Maybe your college isn't hard enough and doesn't require enough studying. I have found that I can sleep when my roommate is still up with the lights on.
I'm not going to ask him to go to the library to do his homework just so I don't here mouse clicks.
My advice is start enjoying everything about college.
I too attend Rose-Hulman. I really like my combination of laptop and desktop. I can easily and cheaply upgrade my desktop. My laptop is getting sort of slow so now I also use my laptop as only a terminal to my desktop.
I am surprised that everyone seems to be against PDA's. I love mine and after almost a full year still carry it all day long. I don't even bother trying to take notes, but I do enter all of my homework assignments. I lead a busy life and sometimes I need something to beep and vibrate and let me know to get there. Most of the time I find myself getting the Clie out to cancel the reminder right before it comes up, but there are times when I need it to remind me. Especially on those weeks where 15 hours of sleep doesn't seem like enough for the last 4 days.
You could always just buy a cd player. If you want the nice hook ups you could buy one of the $39 DVD players. Things like this were intended to be plugged into stereos.
Good info about Bluetooth, I think that it would still be in the spirit of what he is trying to do. However, he doesn't want to use AirPort, and buy cards and configure stuff. He doesn't want to carry an ethernet cable, and look like a tool whipping out his crossover. They both have infrared, he would like to transfer with it.
I have infrared as well on my laptop, I can sync with my phone, with my clie, with other people's PDA's. I'm with you though. The hardest thing is usually another computer.
First off Clinton I applaud you for having the courage to be slashdotted.
I too am in high school and at 17 I'm pretty close to the same age. I have a feeling that I am a different kind of geek though. I still love computers, I'm going to go to college to study them, I know what Linux, Gnome, and MPEG are, but I have other interests as well.
I used to be a mean know-it-all in grade school. I don't know why it was pretty dumb really. I knew the answer to the math questions in my head while everyone else was scribbling, I always let people know it too. And then I realized I should change. I quit being condescending all the time and started to like people. They liked me back. I just try to be nice to people and I got along much better. I'm not trying to say that you are mean to everybody, that is just how I was. Now I am involved in lots of activities, I was just named Winterfest King(homecoming king for basketball) and I have a wonderful girlfriend.
You like me have probably but put down in the past and ridiculed. But I was wondering if you had tried fitting in. Dressing nicely and letting other people answer isn't all bad. I read someplace in this discussion someone said Computer Nerds are becoming sort of the in thing. Everybody loves ICQ and Napster so people out with it.
Just my 2 cents.
Once again I admire you for putting yourself into this position. Good luck in all that you do.
I guess I am just lucky, but "Triumph of the Nerds" is airing Wednesday on my local PBS station. Now I can see the real story and compare it to last night's dramatization.
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I've heard Musk say this before, but he also repeated it in last night's announcement. One of the biggest benefits of this mission, and of SpaceX in general, is it gives everyone something to be hopeful about. There is plenty in this world to be down about as evidenced by all of the complaints filed around here. At the end of the day, who doesn't want to see people visiting the Moon!
I want to see it. I want to follow the updates and be excited about them. I want my son to be excited about it - maybe it will even be one of those events where he will forever remember where he was when the dearMoon BFR lifted off. Maybe he will tell his children about it.
There is still plenty to complain about, but I for one, am happy to sit back and say this is awesome!
The lesson of this story? Design for functionality first, and if your design is highly functional it will have a cool all it's own.
Howard Roark, is that you?
Even though the FrobozzCo has fallen on some hard times, I assure you that everything will be fine once we get our government bailout money.
-JBFrobozz
I have 13 DVDs of my life. From my first steps to high school graduation. 8mm to MiniDV, all converted to DVD now. One of the things that my dad quickly learned was that the video of birthday parties and school musicals is boring to watch. The good stuff is just random everyday life, such as I when I ran my bike straight into the back of our neighbor's truck. Everyone who has ever watched my DVDs has been jealous that they don't have something similar.
I have about 30 hours of childhood video over the course of my childhood which was in the neighborhood of 160,000 hours. I certainly had plenty of time to interact with my parents, but I also have some great footage that is fun to watch.
I agree that the Patent Search is big news. It could actually catch on within the legal community. There really is no such thing as a legal patent search.
The results of patent searching have always been very dependant on the person performing the search. Patent agents/attorneys frequently use the USPTO search site, and it is terrible. Delphion probably still beats Google in terms of algorithms and raw searching power, but Google has advantages. The advantages namely include nice organization and insanely fast results.
If someone asks me to check out a patent and sends me the number, I will probably head here first.
I mainly agree with the parent, but I would like to point out that law schools really encourage laptops now. I would say in my classes the laptop usage rate is probably upwards of 95%. The students use laptops for their other classes so for organization purposes it is better to use laptops for all classes.
I think that law school lends itself to typing notes. There is a huge amount of information coming at you. Most professors encourage reading the cases before class and briefing them. With types briefs you can modify the conclusions you made the night before. Handwriters have a much harder time with this.
If the interest is in improving focus, and typing notes is distracting then so is handwriting.
Sort of sad that the article did not mention anything about the Rose-Hulman laptop program. Not only have freshman been required to purchase laptops for seven or eight years now, but this is right in Indiana State's backyard.
I find it hard to believe that the ISU staff didn't make the five minute drive to check out Rose's program.
I'm all for over engineering things, but I think that ~61,940 miles past the Kerman line is probably a bit overkill.
If you are thinking of moving out of the country because George Bush won then please do so. I think that is a great idea because you aren't the kind of American that we need hanging around. I voted for Bush, but I was definately ready to live under Kerry.
I heard a quote on CNN last night that went something like "I promise to support our President regardless of his political party. I also pledge to criticize our President regardless of his political party."
It is your responsibility to contact members of government and let them know what you think. Write letters. If you feel strongly enough about something then go out and get other people to contact their representatives.
Moving out isn't the answer.
I count the War of the Worlds as one of the biggest pranks ever pulled. I suppose that this might make the Slashdot hall of fame, but most people won't even notice.
College is supposed to be an experience. I lived in a dorm for two years and now I moved into my fraternity house. If a few mouse clicks and keyboard strokes can keep you awake how do you get any sleep at all. People in the hall ways the neighbor's stereo, etc. I would think that you could just sleep through it.
Maybe your college isn't hard enough and doesn't require enough studying. I have found that I can sleep when my roommate is still up with the lights on.
I'm not going to ask him to go to the library to do his homework just so I don't here mouse clicks.
My advice is start enjoying everything about college.
I applied for about 75 scholarships my senior year. They didn't have to be related to my major. There are lots of them.
At the end I was practically a machine at fillilng them out. Emphasize your community and school involvement, not just grades.
All said and done I got $11,000 in various scholarships and a full ride to the school of my choice. -Just fill them out-
I too attend Rose-Hulman. I really like my combination of laptop and desktop. I can easily and cheaply upgrade my desktop. My laptop is getting sort of slow so now I also use my laptop as only a terminal to my desktop.
I am surprised that everyone seems to be against PDA's. I love mine and after almost a full year still carry it all day long. I don't even bother trying to take notes, but I do enter all of my homework assignments. I lead a busy life and sometimes I need something to beep and vibrate and let me know to get there. Most of the time I find myself getting the Clie out to cancel the reminder right before it comes up, but there are times when I need it to remind me. Especially on those weeks where 15 hours of sleep doesn't seem like enough for the last 4 days.
You could always just buy a cd player. If you want the nice hook ups you could buy one of the $39 DVD players. Things like this were intended to be plugged into stereos.
Good info about Bluetooth, I think that it would still be in the spirit of what he is trying to do. However, he doesn't want to use AirPort, and buy cards and configure stuff. He doesn't want to carry an ethernet cable, and look like a tool whipping out his crossover. They both have infrared, he would like to transfer with it.
I have infrared as well on my laptop, I can sync with my phone, with my clie, with other people's PDA's. I'm with you though. The hardest thing is usually another computer.
First off Clinton I applaud you for having the courage to be slashdotted.
I too am in high school and at 17 I'm pretty close to the same age. I have a feeling that I am a different kind of geek though. I still love computers, I'm going to go to college to study them, I know what Linux, Gnome, and MPEG are, but I have other interests as well.
I used to be a mean know-it-all in grade school. I don't know why it was pretty dumb really. I knew the answer to the math questions in my head while everyone else was scribbling, I always let people know it too. And then I realized I should change. I quit being condescending all the time and started to like people. They liked me back. I just try to be nice to people and I got along much better. I'm not trying to say that you are mean to everybody, that is just how I was. Now I am involved in lots of activities, I was just named Winterfest King(homecoming king for basketball) and I have a wonderful girlfriend.
You like me have probably but put down in the past and ridiculed. But I was wondering if you had tried fitting in. Dressing nicely and letting other people answer isn't all bad. I read someplace in this discussion someone said Computer Nerds are becoming sort of the in thing. Everybody loves ICQ and Napster so people out with it.
Just my 2 cents.
Once again I admire you for putting yourself into this position. Good luck in all that you do.
I guess I am just lucky, but "Triumph of the Nerds" is airing Wednesday on my local PBS station. Now I can see the real story and compare it to last night's dramatization.