The fushioncharts are the ones I have experience with -- they have a wide range of chart types with animated openings and are clear and easy to use. They pull data from an XML file, which could easily be pointed to a PHP/Perl/etc. script that builds the PHP from a server log.
Drawing a line up to an opening brace doesn't tell you anything but the constraints of the code block, you then have to take another step to figure out what kind of code block it was.
If you draw the line up to the first text line then you'll not only know the constrains but you'll know immediately without any further inspection if it was a for block, a while block, a function, etc.
Not a security bug? The downloaded files go directly to the desktop.
So, what if a site triggers an automatic download of a file called "My Computer.exe" to an XP computer, using the typical My Computer icon. Will a casual user be able to tell the difference? One click will take them to My Computer, another might install a spam zombie. Now think of a user with 500 extra My Computer icons. Which do they choose?
You're in exactly the same position I was in four months ago, though with more budget. Although I'll give you the same advice I took:
Start with binoculars. I spent a grand total of $140 on a pair of 30x80 binoculars, and put them on top of a $30 camera tripod I already had. Very inexpensive start. Binoculars make it easier to find objects because they have a wider field of vision, so they're great for beginners. Also, if it turns out that astronomy isn't your thing, it's a much softer blow on your pocket. With much less than your budget you could get a much nicer pair of binoculars and a better mount. Starting with binoculars will also let you decide if you're more interested in observing lunar vs. planetary vs. DSOs (deep sky objects), which is a decision that can impact your choice of scope later. Binoculars are also great even if you have a scope, especially if you're doing photography. They let you keep looking at the sky while your camera is taking the picture!
For a $1000 budget I wouldn't try for astrophotography yet. Concentrate on getting a nice telescope first. If you start with a cheap scope you're more likely to get discouraged or disappointed after a while. Seeing as how you will want to one day move into astrophotography, though, make sure you get one on a german equatorial mount. You can't take long exposures if you don't have an equatorial mount -- with other mounts, even if the scope tracks the sky, the view will rotate within the eyepiece.
With your budget, a standard newtonian will get the most bang for your buck. You might start by taking a look at Celestron's Advanced Series. You can get a 6" for $800 or so, and an 8" for just over $1,000, complete with GOTO mount and tripod. Although if you know you're more interested in viewing planets, I see that Zhumell has a 6" refractor for about $800. Refractors are generally regarded as better for planetary viewing.
Also check out www.astromart.com for used equipment. There are lots of amateur astronomers selling their scopes to help afford upgrades!
A real must is a red flashlight -- red light doesn't ruin your night-vision, which can take up to 30 minutes to fully get. Go out with a white light, and you ruin 30 minutes of night vision every time you look at your star charts.
Also get a planisphere to help learn the constellations, and a sky atlas for help locating objects.
For software, the new Google sky is great, as is stellarium. I've also located a free package called Cartes du Ciel that is great for printing out sky maps.
Also, check out www.cloudynights.com -- it's a great source of articles and reviews, as well as friendly forums. Another good resource I've recently found is http://obs.nineplanets.org/lm/rjm.html -- if you're logging your observations or just want to talk about them on CloudyNights later, that page has a method to help determine how good your seeing is. Also, look for a Clear Sky Clock http://cleardarksky.com/csk/ in your area to help you be prepared for good/bad nights.
In the realm of non-fiction, that was about the age that I read the Richard Feynman's book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" It's a great mix of amusing stories and science, and not only shows a good peek into science but also shows that scientists can be fun and interesting people. A couple of years later I also read Leon Lederman's book "The God Particle" which was just as enjoyable although stronger on the science, maybe more suitable for a 10-12 grade classroom, but one of the funnier non-fictions I've read.
In the realm of fiction, I want to echo another's suggestion of Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", something that I've recently re-read. It's a great story targeted towards the younger scifi readers, but doesn't get any less enjoyable with age!
The water at 600m - 1000m is at something like 60-100 times the pressure of water on the surface. Do deep sea animals have the same kind of trouble breathing in shallow water that a human has breathing in the thin air on the top of Mt. Everest? I realize that many oceanic creatures come to shallow waters when they are sick or dying, so that's probably the same here. But could the capture of the animal into a (relatively) shallow area contributed due to low oxygen density?
1) Computers are too easy to use. Chances are, if there is a new task you need to do on a computer and you don't already have a GUI tool for it, five minutes on Google will lead you to one. When I got into programming, it was during a time when installing hardware sometimes meant editing autoexec.bat files by hand. There were needs for other.bat files. It was a good entry point into programming, and I benefited from where computers were at at the time. The best shot we have right now it seems like, is teaching how to use scripting inside Word or Excel. Except software has taken the same evolutionary path. Word and Excel now have SO many functions with GUI tools that scripting isn't as necessary as it might have once been.
2) Computers are ubiquitous. Everybody takes computer classes in high school now -- not just computer geeks. Which means that the classes themselves need to be toned down and made more accessible to more average users. Even higher level computer classes must cater toward a wide rrange of students. Computers are used throughout the business world now, so classes have reflected typical uses -- which doesn't include programming.
And what all this comes down to is that schools don't need computer experts to teach the classes. They're teaching non-programming to kids that will never need programming, so why pay a premium for teachers that can program? Most schools probably don't even have the resources to teach programming now.
"so the title, as long as it is, isn't all that accurate"
It's a far sight better than one of the most recent computer books that I bought. Wrox Press' "ASP.NET 1.1 with Visual C#.NET 2003"
Now, I happened to have owned a copy of Visual C#.NET 2003, so I know that it is in fact referring to a piece of software -- as opposed to simply saying "Visual C#" which would be referring to a programming language. So when I started reading this book and realized that the information in the book was only about the language Visual C#, using a no-longer-available free Microsoft tool called Web Matrix and NOT Visual C#.NET 2003, I was a little pissed!
I emailed the publisher and all they could tell me was "It mentions Web Matrix in a bullet point on the back cover, so we think that's clear enough."
Sorry, buddy, but you mention.NET 2003 IN THE FREAKIN' TITLE!
D'oh, you're absolutely right. My experience with Y2K was reading the papers every day to hear the latest news on the town crazy that sold his house to build an underground cement bunker because he was certain that the Y2K bug would start WWIII. I can shamefully say that my awareness of the matter never really reached beyond the comedy of the situation.
Many apologies. Your work to resolve those issues is greatly appreciated.
I'm not sure about some of the javascript, but there is a whole array of CSS "filters" that use ActiveX. That's how to make PNGs with variable transparency in IE. There are also a lot of DHTML menu builder products out there that use these filters to animate the appearance/disappearance of drop down menus.
I don't think we're "Y2K"ing this. This will be a huge headache.
That's right, it's no problem for the media companies. They just up the cost of the CD and DVD media we have now to make up for their HDDVD/BluRay loss, and their budget problems are solved. Of course, we're screwed then.
I'll have to second that recommendation for the Samsung 213t. I got mine about four months ago, and it is an amazing monitor.
Another good thing about LCD monitors in general, though, is how they reduce eye strain. I have a dual monitor setup, one CRT and one LCD (not the prettiest setup), and the difference in eyestrain is night and day.
That looks like a fairly common side effect of a raster-to-vector conversion process. I get the same thing in Flash when I try to "Trace Bitmap" with poor settings. It's the result of an automated process without anyone (or at least anyone that cares enough) overseeing the results.
I was told once that Lucas was following a traditional saga format, where a nine-part story was told starting with the second third, followed by the first third and then the last. Is anyone familiar enough with traditional/ancient story formats to verify this?
Gee, that's great that you've included such detailed coordinates and all. But I hope the far-far-future travellers realize the problem, since apparently none of the MIT folks have taken any earth science classes and didn't take into account tectonic shift!
It would be a sad day to see a traveller from 150,000 years in the future pop in existance in the middle of an MIT wall because the MIT field the visitor was aiming for was actually 150 feet east of it's present day location.
If you take it literally, yes. He could just play in a pool on a cruise ship while it crosses the Atlantic, though, and techically be "swimming" "across the Atlantic"
...pretty much the only raison d'être of the station
There was an extremely cool series that TechTV used to show called "Big Thinkers," with each episode on a modern geniuses like Michio Kaku, Scott Adams, and Neal Stephenson. That show became my 'other' reason to watch TechTV. It was only on for a while though....
I keep wishing the show would come out on DVD. But I'm betting that since G4 that possibility has gone from bad to worse.
IANAS (statistician) but in that first graph, the "Total" line looks a heck of a lot like an "Average" line instead. Wouldn't "Total" be accumulative between men and women?
Slashdot Mirror
There are some pretty nice flash charting tools, some are even free:
http://www.fusioncharts.com/Free/
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
The fushioncharts are the ones I have experience with -- they have a wide range of chart types with animated openings and are clear and easy to use. They pull data from an XML file, which could easily be pointed to a PHP/Perl/etc. script that builds the PHP from a server log.
I've always found this to be clearer.
Drawing a line up to an opening brace doesn't tell you anything but the constraints of the code block, you then have to take another step to figure out what kind of code block it was.
If you draw the line up to the first text line then you'll not only know the constrains but you'll know immediately without any further inspection if it was a for block, a while block, a function, etc.
Not a security bug? The downloaded files go directly to the desktop.
So, what if a site triggers an automatic download of a file called "My Computer.exe" to an XP computer, using the typical My Computer icon. Will a casual user be able to tell the difference? One click will take them to My Computer, another might install a spam zombie. Now think of a user with 500 extra My Computer icons. Which do they choose?
You're in exactly the same position I was in four months ago, though with more budget. Although I'll give you the same advice I took:
Start with binoculars. I spent a grand total of $140 on a pair of 30x80 binoculars, and put them on top of a $30 camera tripod I already had. Very inexpensive start. Binoculars make it easier to find objects because they have a wider field of vision, so they're great for beginners. Also, if it turns out that astronomy isn't your thing, it's a much softer blow on your pocket. With much less than your budget you could get a much nicer pair of binoculars and a better mount. Starting with binoculars will also let you decide if you're more interested in observing lunar vs. planetary vs. DSOs (deep sky objects), which is a decision that can impact your choice of scope later. Binoculars are also great even if you have a scope, especially if you're doing photography. They let you keep looking at the sky while your camera is taking the picture!
For a $1000 budget I wouldn't try for astrophotography yet. Concentrate on getting a nice telescope first. If you start with a cheap scope you're more likely to get discouraged or disappointed after a while. Seeing as how you will want to one day move into astrophotography, though, make sure you get one on a german equatorial mount. You can't take long exposures if you don't have an equatorial mount -- with other mounts, even if the scope tracks the sky, the view will rotate within the eyepiece.
With your budget, a standard newtonian will get the most bang for your buck. You might start by taking a look at Celestron's Advanced Series. You can get a 6" for $800 or so, and an 8" for just over $1,000, complete with GOTO mount and tripod. Although if you know you're more interested in viewing planets, I see that Zhumell has a 6" refractor for about $800. Refractors are generally regarded as better for planetary viewing.
Also check out www.astromart.com for used equipment. There are lots of amateur astronomers selling their scopes to help afford upgrades!
A real must is a red flashlight -- red light doesn't ruin your night-vision, which can take up to 30 minutes to fully get. Go out with a white light, and you ruin 30 minutes of night vision every time you look at your star charts.
Also get a planisphere to help learn the constellations, and a sky atlas for help locating objects.
For software, the new Google sky is great, as is stellarium. I've also located a free package called Cartes du Ciel that is great for printing out sky maps.
Also, check out www.cloudynights.com -- it's a great source of articles and reviews, as well as friendly forums. Another good resource I've recently found is http://obs.nineplanets.org/lm/rjm.html -- if you're logging your observations or just want to talk about them on CloudyNights later, that page has a method to help determine how good your seeing is. Also, look for a Clear Sky Clock http://cleardarksky.com/csk/ in your area to help you be prepared for good/bad nights.
Clear skys!
In the realm of non-fiction, that was about the age that I read the Richard Feynman's book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" It's a great mix of amusing stories and science, and not only shows a good peek into science but also shows that scientists can be fun and interesting people. A couple of years later I also read Leon Lederman's book "The God Particle" which was just as enjoyable although stronger on the science, maybe more suitable for a 10-12 grade classroom, but one of the funnier non-fictions I've read.
In the realm of fiction, I want to echo another's suggestion of Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", something that I've recently re-read. It's a great story targeted towards the younger scifi readers, but doesn't get any less enjoyable with age!
The water at 600m - 1000m is at something like 60-100 times the pressure of water on the surface. Do deep sea animals have the same kind of trouble breathing in shallow water that a human has breathing in the thin air on the top of Mt. Everest? I realize that many oceanic creatures come to shallow waters when they are sick or dying, so that's probably the same here. But could the capture of the animal into a (relatively) shallow area contributed due to low oxygen density?
If the issue ever comes back to Congress, I'll be it's a matter of days before somebody decides to replace "Imperial" system with "Freedom" system.
I wouldn't think that the inability to max out the core is a GOOD thing. Doesn't that just mean that the OS/apps/etc aren't properly optimized?
In my opinion, there are two primary factors:
.bat files. It was a good entry point into programming, and I benefited from where computers were at at the time. The best shot we have right now it seems like, is teaching how to use scripting inside Word or Excel. Except software has taken the same evolutionary path. Word and Excel now have SO many functions with GUI tools that scripting isn't as necessary as it might have once been.
1) Computers are too easy to use. Chances are, if there is a new task you need to do on a computer and you don't already have a GUI tool for it, five minutes on Google will lead you to one. When I got into programming, it was during a time when installing hardware sometimes meant editing autoexec.bat files by hand. There were needs for other
2) Computers are ubiquitous. Everybody takes computer classes in high school now -- not just computer geeks. Which means that the classes themselves need to be toned down and made more accessible to more average users. Even higher level computer classes must cater toward a wide rrange of students. Computers are used throughout the business world now, so classes have reflected typical uses -- which doesn't include programming.
And what all this comes down to is that schools don't need computer experts to teach the classes. They're teaching non-programming to kids that will never need programming, so why pay a premium for teachers that can program? Most schools probably don't even have the resources to teach programming now.
"so the title, as long as it is, isn't all that accurate"
.NET 2003"
.NET 2003, so I know that it is in fact referring to a piece of software -- as opposed to simply saying "Visual C#" which would be referring to a programming language. So when I started reading this book and realized that the information in the book was only about the language Visual C#, using a no-longer-available free Microsoft tool called Web Matrix and NOT Visual C# .NET 2003, I was a little pissed!
.NET 2003 IN THE FREAKIN' TITLE!
It's a far sight better than one of the most recent computer books that I bought. Wrox Press' "ASP.NET 1.1 with Visual C#
Now, I happened to have owned a copy of Visual C#
I emailed the publisher and all they could tell me was "It mentions Web Matrix in a bullet point on the back cover, so we think that's clear enough."
Sorry, buddy, but you mention
[*removes foot from mouth*]
D'oh, you're absolutely right. My experience with Y2K was reading the papers every day to hear the latest news on the town crazy that sold his house to build an underground cement bunker because he was certain that the Y2K bug would start WWIII. I can shamefully say that my awareness of the matter never really reached beyond the comedy of the situation.
Many apologies. Your work to resolve those issues is greatly appreciated.
I'm not sure about some of the javascript, but there is a whole array of CSS "filters" that use ActiveX. That's how to make PNGs with variable transparency in IE. There are also a lot of DHTML menu builder products out there that use these filters to animate the appearance/disappearance of drop down menus.
I don't think we're "Y2K"ing this. This will be a huge headache.
That's right, it's no problem for the media companies. They just up the cost of the CD and DVD media we have now to make up for their HDDVD/BluRay loss, and their budget problems are solved. Of course, we're screwed then.
I'll have to second that recommendation for the Samsung 213t. I got mine about four months ago, and it is an amazing monitor.
Another good thing about LCD monitors in general, though, is how they reduce eye strain. I have a dual monitor setup, one CRT and one LCD (not the prettiest setup), and the difference in eyestrain is night and day.
That looks like a fairly common side effect of a raster-to-vector conversion process. I get the same thing in Flash when I try to "Trace Bitmap" with poor settings. It's the result of an automated process without anyone (or at least anyone that cares enough) overseeing the results.
taxes on everything except oxygen
Try telling that to anybody who needs oxygen, medically (emphysema patients, etc.). Those tanks aren't free.
I was told once that Lucas was following a traditional saga format, where a nine-part story was told starting with the second third, followed by the first third and then the last. Is anyone familiar enough with traditional/ancient story formats to verify this?
Gee, that's great that you've included such detailed coordinates and all. But I hope the far-far-future travellers realize the problem, since apparently none of the MIT folks have taken any earth science classes and didn't take into account tectonic shift!
It would be a sad day to see a traveller from 150,000 years in the future pop in existance in the middle of an MIT wall because the MIT field the visitor was aiming for was actually 150 feet east of it's present day location.
There's already been a couple of reviews to hit the net. Here is one of them based on a screening in Australia.
Currently 62% positive
So, in other words, the reviews are Mostly Harmless?
Full screen here:e renity/ serenity_ifs2.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/s
Ben Lacomte swam across the Atlantic in 1998, and it took him 80 days.
Isn't this quite a long swim?
If you take it literally, yes. He could just play in a pool on a cruise ship while it crosses the Atlantic, though, and techically be "swimming" "across the Atlantic"
...pretty much the only raison d'être of the station
There was an extremely cool series that TechTV used to show called "Big Thinkers," with each episode on a modern geniuses like Michio Kaku, Scott Adams, and Neal Stephenson. That show became my 'other' reason to watch TechTV. It was only on for a while though....
I keep wishing the show would come out on DVD. But I'm betting that since G4 that possibility has gone from bad to worse.
IANAS (statistician) but in that first graph, the "Total" line looks a heck of a lot like an "Average" line instead. Wouldn't "Total" be accumulative between men and women?