I certainly sounds neat but what are the consequences of adding hot air that high above the ground? EIR? Is this thing understood at all? There are such things as unintended consequences and it's not like this is a phenomena that happens in nature all the time.
Just wanting folks to think things through a little?
It's not technology that's needed; quite the contrary: it's intimate human contact. READ to them, tell stories, interact. That's what children need because it's how children learn: listening, interacting, being HUMAN. The technology is a boondoggle in this. Love your kids, play with them, READ to them, be real people. For some slashdot folks that might be challenge enough.
If he is numerical at all, a programmable pocket calculator might be an interesting place. Why do I suggest this? Because it has all the fundamentals with branching and testing with an emphasis on getting the logic right, but without all the syntax issues. Unfortunately he's a little young to have run into reasons he might need to actually use a pocket calculator.
There is also Squeak. As I recall the designers were really interested in getting kids to work with programming. So dufus named Alan Kay is involved - what the heck does HE know? But I see you're a big C advocate and Squeak and Smalltalk are about as fall away from C as is humanly possible without going to Lisp.
And, since Lisp came up, you might consider Logo whose turtle graphics module allows for some really neat complex graphics.
Even a system-wide scripting language such as AppleScript on the Mac would let him work with major software packages in a programmable method.
But, really, it's up to you to work with him. I have to think working together would be great for both of you -- any one-on-one time with your kids, showing your passion for your vocation, has to be a good thing IF you're patient, trusting, and can be playful.
Apple watched the cloners eat up the high-profit-margin portion of the market leaving it with the low-end dregs. They couldn't survive doing that. So Jobs did the right thing: he took that market segment back. Apple does make, relatively, low-end machines but even they make a decent return. He doesn't need to fight it out with Dell and HP. This is called being smart. They also support their machines quite fairly: that has been my experience. Don't like it? Go find a different model.
Personally I'm wondering where the money to form Pysystar came from and more to the point where it went.
I guess you haven't thought much about how much engineering has gone into making a steam-driven electrical power station have you? We have many decades of experience in making these power plants as efficient as they can possibly be. We know a LOT about them. Just because the technology has been around a long time doesn't mean it's inappropriate.
Having a friend on such a deep and downward spiral is difficult to watch. Clearly, since you're asking here, you care. I'm assuming your educational institution has mental health professionals. Make an appointment and talk to one of them - about how YOU feel about this and what you are experiencing. They have a lot more experience with this and, unlike virtually anyone whose postings I have read so far, actual training. You can get insight into the problem, understand the pressures and the meaning of it for you, and understand what you may need to do. This might help you engage with him and help him out.
I believe the first goal is to teach that science is a process. Give students something to investigate: say sliding friction. Give them limited resources (nothing fancy) and then let them go through the process of investigating the properties of friction. Help them understand errors, how to keep notebooks, how to be truthful, how to work as a team with other student colleagues.
By keeping things simple you don't overwhelmed students and you lay bare the essence of science.
This will take some serious work on your part. Developing a way to grade the students and to work with them will be difficult. But you might really get kids to think about how to investigate what they think they already "know".
They will have to do experiments, they'll have to deal with flakey results (welcome to the real world), they'll have to write about sources of error and they'll have to write a final report and hand it in along with their notebooks. Welcome to science!
Well if you look at the next version of OS X you'll see a lot fewer "features" at the user end and a lot more work being done down in the bowels of the OS. So it appears Apple is actually doing what you want.
I have shot in the atrium of the SFMOMA without consequence in full view of staff. Others were also.
I'm inclined to ponder the political confrontation this photographer appears to be looking for. He seems adolescent in his behavior.
I strongly suggest that there's another point of view to this "story", that the facts are hardly well known, and that SF MOMA as a private organization has the right to limit photography inside it's facility.
I think they're being tarred with a very broad brush.
If any of them are baseball fans then Michael Chabon's "Summerland" is certainly worth a read - or listen to it as a book on tape, but reading it is best.
We have a Wii Fit and have found it enjoyable although the weight check-in is frankly broken and counter-productive for many folks. It's preachy and it's use of BMI indicates the designer doesn't really know how to talk to a weightloss-oriented group.
But . . . I really enjoy the games. It's competitive just within one's own abilities. The step aerobic games are addictive, always trying to get a better score. The balance games are fun.
Is it a great workout? Well, it's not the same as hopping on my bike and riding for a couple of hours. But I do that anyway. It trains different muscles. You use TONS of muscles doing small-motion balance corrections and can build strength that way.
I can't wait for the games to come when innovative designers use the Wii Fit pad as a controller. Then it'll be even more of a break-through product that it already is.
Being active is a good thing and this game and controller make it fun. I'm all for it. I give it six out of ten.
You might want to read up on homopolar generators as a power source. Given that the Navy wants all future vessels to be driven by all electric propulsion, they must want power flexibility for some reason - powering energy weapons would be one use. I think the largest homopolar generator was capable of 500 mega-joules at enormous dc amperage which would be appropriate for a naval weapon.
The idea that this can be appealed because of "one man one vote" is goofy - it's in the Constitution itself, not a separate statute. Otherwise the entire Electoral College system would be gone in a puff of logic. But that system was designed into the Constitution by the Framers themselves. They had a political reality in which they lived. It CAN be changed but you'll need an amendment to do that or a new Constitutional Convention, a scary thought in these times. I doubt we could find enough people who even understood the idea of "sacred honor" to measure up to the originals. Sigh. I won't even THINK about the media....
Actually HFCS is worse than sugar because it doesn't get processed by you body to send the right satiety signals to your body -- you get the calories but you don't feel full as a result! BAD THING! This is the really ugly side of HFCS.
Also remember that in the late 1800s the average per capita consumption of sugar was on the order of 2 pounds per YEAR. Now we're close to that per week.
Pretty well since they are VERY hard to see/detect. Even knowing that one is lurking in the area, ground spotters without the aid of some very sophisticated radars have a great deal of difficulty locating one, let alone loosing a weapon against it.
I don't believe this. Are you saying the sliding friction of his tires in the gravel was better than the rolling friction of his tires in the gravel? Naw - ain't so. Maybe it was a new car and he misjudged how much it weighed.
You've drawn the wrong conclusion from improper data.
...that makes the transition difficult. For a long-term Windows user it would mean buying a new software suite unless vendors start giving good cross-grade pricing. There's lots of money tied up in software and shifting it to a new platform may well cost several times the cost of the platform itself. Looking at my quad-G5 I see that I have well over the cost of the machine and its 30" display in software.
The user experience would have to become very bad for me to move.
On the other hand the troubles friends have with the Windows machines seems to suggest that they have passed that line already!
Invisible technology is the best and simple and function is crutial to that. What does that mean?
I'd like to be able to call on a phone and using voice commands have the porch lights on, the house warmed up. I'd like electronic door locks so I can easily set the combination so I can let friends enter in advance. I'd like to play music stored on my computer anywhere in the house. I'd like to watch video stored on my computers on any television in the house. I'd like to have a single remote control that doesn't require a millions steps so a casual visitor can understand how to use it in moments - a non-techie visitor, say someone in their 70s. I'd like to be able to control most of this from my laptop over the internet using a trivial human interface. I'd like to use small distributed controllers to do this that don't have a lot of smarts but enough to work well on their own so the household system can sleep and not use a lot of energy. Obviously all computer connections are wireless except for those serving high-speed video/internet which uses fiber.
Most of this would be most useful in our vacation home where I'd like to monitor inside and outside temperatures, maybe a bit of video but not continuous.
Failure modes should fail SAFE and should tell me if there's a problem either over the net or via a telephone call.
I don't want automated appliances. I do want SIMPLICITY.
I like movies. But my wife and I go to fewer and fewer each year.
Why?
Well the huge drop in our attendence this year was because every movie house around us now shows 20 minutes of video commercials before the lights dim and the trailers (usually 6) begin.
I like to sit in the theatre and talk to my wife or the people we're with. You can't do that over the damn TV being projected onto the screen. It's awful and I hate it.
Blend in people who think they can talk as if they were in their own living room, text message, talk on their cell phones, get up three or four times for more soda/popcorn/etc, and you have a truly wretched experience. I won't even MENTION kids crying and throwing things. I don't go when the high schoolers go - that's even worse.
So mostly it's Netflix and a very good widescreen TV instead of the movies.
I'm SICK and FUCKING TIRED of being endlessly marketed to. I don't need surround-sound tunes blared at me, crap on the screen. I have a mind, I like the people I go to movies with, I want to enjoy them until the lights fade and a new world unrolls on the screen.
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I certainly sounds neat but what are the consequences of adding hot air that high above the ground? EIR? Is this thing understood at all? There are such things as unintended consequences and it's not like this is a phenomena that happens in nature all the time.
Just wanting folks to think things through a little?
It's not technology that's needed; quite the contrary: it's intimate human contact. READ to them, tell stories, interact. That's what children need because it's how children learn: listening, interacting, being HUMAN. The technology is a boondoggle in this. Love your kids, play with them, READ to them, be real people. For some slashdot folks that might be challenge enough.
If he is numerical at all, a programmable pocket calculator might be an interesting place. Why do I suggest this? Because it has all the fundamentals with branching and testing with an emphasis on getting the logic right, but without all the syntax issues. Unfortunately he's a little young to have run into reasons he might need to actually use a pocket calculator.
There is also Squeak. As I recall the designers were really interested in getting kids to work with programming. So dufus named Alan Kay is involved - what the heck does HE know? But I see you're a big C advocate and Squeak and Smalltalk are about as fall away from C as is humanly possible without going to Lisp.
And, since Lisp came up, you might consider Logo whose turtle graphics module allows for some really neat complex graphics.
Even a system-wide scripting language such as AppleScript on the Mac would let him work with major software packages in a programmable method.
But, really, it's up to you to work with him. I have to think working together would be great for both of you -- any one-on-one time with your kids, showing your passion for your vocation, has to be a good thing IF you're patient, trusting, and can be playful.
If it's not Climate Science then Astrophysics isn't a science either or Cosmology.
The scientific process operates in all of these arenas. I think you are misinformed or perhaps work in an easy field.
Apple watched the cloners eat up the high-profit-margin portion of the market leaving it with the low-end dregs. They couldn't survive doing that. So Jobs did the right thing: he took that market segment back. Apple does make, relatively, low-end machines but even they make a decent return. He doesn't need to fight it out with Dell and HP. This is called being smart. They also support their machines quite fairly: that has been my experience. Don't like it? Go find a different model.
Personally I'm wondering where the money to form Pysystar came from and more to the point where it went.
I guess you haven't thought much about how much engineering has gone into making a steam-driven electrical power station have you? We have many decades of experience in making these power plants as efficient as they can possibly be. We know a LOT about them. Just because the technology has been around a long time doesn't mean it's inappropriate.
You're wrong because I can have e-books on both my Kindle and my iPhone both at the same time, and have them synched between them.
You'll have to take that up with the department of vindictive meteorology...
Having a friend on such a deep and downward spiral is difficult to watch. Clearly, since you're asking here, you care. I'm assuming your educational institution has mental health professionals. Make an appointment and talk to one of them - about how YOU feel about this and what you are experiencing. They have a lot more experience with this and, unlike virtually anyone whose postings I have read so far, actual training. You can get insight into the problem, understand the pressures and the meaning of it for you, and understand what you may need to do. This might help you engage with him and help him out.
I'm glad you care enough to ask. Good luck
I believe the first goal is to teach that science is a process. Give students something to investigate: say sliding friction. Give them limited resources (nothing fancy) and then let them go through the process of investigating the properties of friction. Help them understand errors, how to keep notebooks, how to be truthful, how to work as a team with other student colleagues.
By keeping things simple you don't overwhelmed students and you lay bare the essence of science.
This will take some serious work on your part. Developing a way to grade the students and to work with them will be difficult. But you might really get kids to think about how to investigate what they think they already "know".
They will have to do experiments, they'll have to deal with flakey results (welcome to the real world), they'll have to write about sources of error and they'll have to write a final report and hand it in along with their notebooks. Welcome to science!
Well if you look at the next version of OS X you'll see a lot fewer "features" at the user end and a lot more work being done down in the bowels of the OS. So it appears Apple is actually doing what you want.
I have shot in the atrium of the SFMOMA without consequence in full view of staff. Others were also.
I'm inclined to ponder the political confrontation this photographer appears to be looking for. He seems adolescent in his behavior.
I strongly suggest that there's another point of view to this "story", that the facts are hardly well known, and that SF MOMA as a private organization has the right to limit photography inside it's facility.
I think they're being tarred with a very broad brush.
If any of them are baseball fans then Michael Chabon's "Summerland" is certainly worth a read - or listen to it as a book on tape, but reading it is best.
That's sorta like kicking kittens, you know that, right? Nevertheless...
That was really The Onion right? Tell me it was the Onion before I run away screaming.... oh hell, I'll just do that now anyway.....
We have a Wii Fit and have found it enjoyable although the weight check-in is frankly broken and counter-productive for many folks. It's preachy and it's use of BMI indicates the designer doesn't really know how to talk to a weightloss-oriented group.
But . . . I really enjoy the games. It's competitive just within one's own abilities. The step aerobic games are addictive, always trying to get a better score. The balance games are fun.
Is it a great workout? Well, it's not the same as hopping on my bike and riding for a couple of hours. But I do that anyway. It trains different muscles. You use TONS of muscles doing small-motion balance corrections and can build strength that way.
I can't wait for the games to come when innovative designers use the Wii Fit pad as a controller. Then it'll be even more of a break-through product that it already is.
Being active is a good thing and this game and controller make it fun. I'm all for it. I give it six out of ten.
I wouldn't mind helping the whiner . . . make them worse.
You might want to read up on homopolar generators as a power source. Given that the Navy wants all future vessels to be driven by all electric propulsion, they must want power flexibility for some reason - powering energy weapons would be one use. I think the largest homopolar generator was capable of 500 mega-joules at enormous dc amperage which would be appropriate for a naval weapon.
The idea that this can be appealed because of "one man one vote" is goofy - it's in the Constitution itself, not a separate statute. Otherwise the entire Electoral College system would be gone in a puff of logic. But that system was designed into the Constitution by the Framers themselves. They had a political reality in which they lived. It CAN be changed but you'll need an amendment to do that or a new Constitutional Convention, a scary thought in these times. I doubt we could find enough people who even understood the idea of "sacred honor" to measure up to the originals. Sigh. I won't even THINK about the media....
Actually HFCS is worse than sugar because it doesn't get processed by you body to send the right satiety signals to your body -- you get the calories but you don't feel full as a result! BAD THING! This is the really ugly side of HFCS.
Also remember that in the late 1800s the average per capita consumption of sugar was on the order of 2 pounds per YEAR. Now we're close to that per week.
Pretty well since they are VERY hard to see/detect. Even knowing that one is lurking in the area, ground spotters without the aid of some very sophisticated radars have a great deal of difficulty locating one, let alone loosing a weapon against it.
I don't believe this. Are you saying the sliding friction of his tires in the gravel was better than the rolling friction of his tires in the gravel? Naw - ain't so. Maybe it was a new car and he misjudged how much it weighed.
You've drawn the wrong conclusion from improper data.
...that makes the transition difficult. For a long-term Windows user it would mean buying a new software suite unless vendors start giving good cross-grade pricing. There's lots of money tied up in software and shifting it to a new platform may well cost several times the cost of the platform itself. Looking at my quad-G5 I see that I have well over the cost of the machine and its 30" display in software.
The user experience would have to become very bad for me to move.
On the other hand the troubles friends have with the Windows machines seems to suggest that they have passed that line already!
Invisible technology is the best and simple and function is crutial to that. What does that mean?
I'd like to be able to call on a phone and using voice commands have the porch lights on, the house warmed up. I'd like electronic door locks so I can easily set the combination so I can let friends enter in advance. I'd like to play music stored on my computer anywhere in the house. I'd like to watch video stored on my computers on any television in the house. I'd like to have a single remote control that doesn't require a millions steps so a casual visitor can understand how to use it in moments - a non-techie visitor, say someone in their 70s. I'd like to be able to control most of this from my laptop over the internet using a trivial human interface. I'd like to use small distributed controllers to do this that don't have a lot of smarts but enough to work well on their own so the household system can sleep and not use a lot of energy. Obviously all computer connections are wireless except for those serving high-speed video/internet which uses fiber.
Most of this would be most useful in our vacation home where I'd like to monitor inside and outside temperatures, maybe a bit of video but not continuous.
Failure modes should fail SAFE and should tell me if there's a problem either over the net or via a telephone call.
I don't want automated appliances. I do want SIMPLICITY.
I like movies. But my wife and I go to fewer and fewer each year.
Why?
Well the huge drop in our attendence this year was because every movie house around us now shows 20 minutes of video commercials before the lights dim and the trailers (usually 6) begin.
I like to sit in the theatre and talk to my wife or the people we're with. You can't do that over the damn TV being projected onto the screen. It's awful and I hate it.
Blend in people who think they can talk as if they were in their own living room, text message, talk on their cell phones, get up three or four times for more soda/popcorn/etc, and you have a truly wretched experience. I won't even MENTION kids crying and throwing things. I don't go when the high schoolers go - that's even worse.
So mostly it's Netflix and a very good widescreen TV instead of the movies.
I'm SICK and FUCKING TIRED of being endlessly marketed to. I don't need surround-sound tunes blared at me, crap on the screen. I have a mind, I like the people I go to movies with, I want to enjoy them until the lights fade and a new world unrolls on the screen.