As you quoted: "but allow students to make up their own minds."
I made up my mind, I deserve an A. And for graduation, I made up my mind that you should pay me one MILLION dollars (and not those lousy AUS dollars, but the real thing).
It would be easier to just give her half your shit right now. You can avoid paying for a "One of a kind" ring which the judge will give her anyway. In fact, just give her half and then run to Mexico for a weekend with a Tijuana hooker. Take my word for it, even with catching the clap, it would be a LOT cheaper than getting married.
(if I added up the cost of my divorce a hooker would have been MUCH less expensive than a wife)
My DVD arrives in one day. It returns in one day (I will grant you that I only live 50 miles from the address on the label).
I have had 2 DVDs that were scratched in the 6 months since I started. They were both replaced in a day (and with 3 disks, I had something else to watch). It was older movies that were scratched (can you believe that I finally saw Vanishing Point a couple months ago?). When dealing with DVDs and clumsy customers there is pretty much no way to avoid this. They can't play every movie after return, so yes, occasionally one can be scratched. I would accuse you of hyperbole by saying it is half unless your sample size was very small.
I have been very happy with their service so far. I canceled all my movie channels on cable and just use them. It is way better because I am the one who says what is on tonight. I'd also be curious where and when you were mailing them. I drop them off at the post office on my way to work in the morning after watching it, and up until this glitch, every time the next day they would process a new one and send it.
When I ordered this thing, there were about 7 movies in my queue that were "Watch it now". Right now I have more than 50 in there. Now I will grant you, these are things I probably would never have put in my regular queue. Old TV like "Adam 12" and Emergency!. Lots of documentaries as well. I am just amazed with the thing. I went from paying over $130 for cable from Comcast to now paying $15 for basic cable and $17 for netflix. It will pay for switching over in a little bit more than two months. Why two months? Because I ordered a second one for the bedroom. When you compare this to HBO and showtime and all the other channels I had before, this just kicks butt. No, it will not replace getting the DVDs of the current stuff, but that is the best part of this whole thing. You still get DVDs in the mail, and other content you get on your TV. Even the quality is good on my 46" LCD (I hardwired the ethernet for the best quality). The only time I have disliked the quality is with "widescreen" regular def content. The zoom on the TV makes that look a bit too fuzzy. Still watchable, but not great.
I never thought I would be a fanboy for anything, but I am now. I like it.
The best advice I got (now in retrospective) when starting out was to buy an telescope that was easy to take out and setup, the best scope is the scope you use often.
I SECOND THIS. I can not say it strong enough. This is THE most important advice for someone just getting in to astronomy. So many people as they are buying their first telescope take the wrong road.
There are 3 roads to take here.
Road 1: It's only $129 and it magnifies 8000 TIMES. - The trap is that the optics are junk in it.
Road 2: I will see more deep sky stuff with a 10 inch dob, or a 12 inch SC. - The trap is that it sits in the basement, unused. It is too much of a pain to just get out on a wonderful night, so it sits. This is the advice the poster above was giving you.
Road 3: A nice middle of the road scope that fits your budget and you use all the time to learn the sky and see things that are amazing.
As others have said, the astrophotography aspect of it is really going to be above your budget. Sure, you can get the "webcam converted to a starscope", but it is junk. Stay within your budget, and get a nice scope for yourself. One that you can get outside at the drop of a hat. Not something that becomes an anchor.
Let me quote him again:
The best advice I got (now in retrospective) when starting out was to buy an telescope that was easy to take out and setup, the best scope is the scope you use often.
That was the best advice I got as well. The best one is the one you will use. I guess that means smaller is better in this case.
Please read that comment but replace anything to do with TV with the word Linux.
Now understand that the sheeple of the world are not geeks or pretentious A-holes like you.
Ok, I am off my soapbox.
It was really not flamebait or anything except for the fact that he summed up what is wrong when geeks associate with regular people and can't understand that real folks would not know compiling a kernel from trajectories of meteors.
"You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus."
I would like to thank the developers of this virus. For too long, I have been enjoying hacking my iPod. It is good that someone is out there attempting to stop that by ruining my property.
Really, now on to the real discussion. Can someone explain the motivation? I actually do not understand why someone would waste their time to write a virus. The only type I do understand is the bot net stuff, and that is motivated by money. Heck, if I can take over 5000 computers and sell the work they can do in mass spam or something, at least the writer is attempting to make money. Why write something like this though? If they spent the same time writing real code, they would make money. If they did it for a different organization, they could help the Red Cross with their IT stuff, or a hospital. Why the fsck do this crap?
Malcontent? Antisocial? What the heck drives these people?
Ok, I am going to start an actual simulation for building the Pyramids.
All of you guys come out of your mother's basement and be my slaves. No wages. Bad conditions. Whips and chains. Move some heavy rocks for me and we will build one. Move it or die.
This is going to be fun but I hope there are no uprisings.
(PS: Yes, I know that Nova did it. However, mine will be full size. None of this 9 foot tall crap.)
From TFA: But Ryan Kellogg and Hendrik Wolff, who are working on their doctorates in economics, say the reduced need for light in the evening will likely be negated by the increased need in the early morning.
That sounds logical, but it is not (IMHO). In the morning when I get up for work, I turn on maybe two lights (bedroom and bathroom). I am focused on getting ready for work, so there is not any entertainment (TV), stereo, really nothing except an electric razor. I brew my tea, and I am off to work (I don't think my headlights count as extra energy).
When I come home from work, well, all the lights in the kitchen, the halls, very soon the livingroom, the plasma TV, the surround sound, the computer. Lot's more things. Now, most of these don't change from summer to winter, except the lights. If it is light out, I do not turn them on (shocking). That is a savings of energy by not turning on the lights.
I really don't think this article took into account the different energy needs from the morning to night times. It is short sighted.
Spack
(ok, the gate is open for you to disagree, but really think about the way you do things different in the mornings and how most people do it different first)
Wow, I feel old
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Define - /etc?
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20 years ago, there was nothing to settle. It was et cetera. It was named that because of what it was used for. The configuration files for other things that live elsewhere. It provided a short reference to those files. Also notice how we did not like to type back then. Before that time, you were typing on what amounted to a glorified printer with a keyboard, so every char you did not have to type was great. One central location for binaries with a 3 letter name. Everyone knew where everything was. I'd get flamed if I said it was better than it is now, but it really was more elegant.
Extended tool chest? Yeah, name tools that go in/etc. It all followed logic back then. Anyone loading tools in/etc would have been the one getting flamed for not knowing how to organize a system.
Ok, now I really do feel old because it was more than 20 years ago. Sad because I was smart enough to answer this and not smart enough to make millions when the industry took off. I'm also too stupid to understand flame wars. If you like your system a different way, do it. If you think I should do mine different, pound sand.
I thought they had already accomplished this by making parents do it in case their child is abducted. They get a dental impression and a cheek swab for DNA. Granted, it would take another 60 or 70 years to make sure you had everyone, but they are well on their way.
Ooohh, be carful of little Bobby, better give us a sample of his DNA to hold on record forever.
On day 3 I watched an inning of baseball. Turned off the TV. Went to the store. When I came back I could still see the score. (The red sox were winning). I was very angry.
Every time the Red Sox win, God kills a plasma TV.
As a photojournalist myself, I see the continued need. Sure, right place at the right time is great for cameraphones and pocket digital cameras, HOWEVER, the photo editor of any paper above podunk town status will still need pros to go out and shoot news or sports. It is the experience and the ability to know that they will get a usable shot under any circumstance that they pay for. If they send you somewhere, and you come back with junk, you tend to not last long. If you show up with a pocket camera as your main gear, they pretty much know you are not a photographer, and won't even look at your stuff.
Spot stuff, sure, it is great to have the help. Scheduled stuff (90% of the paper) needs real photographers.
If your XT works, than start writing your column on that. Otherwise, pour yourself a nice warm cup of "shut the hell up" because you are part of the problem. You wanted the small sleek phone, and now your stuck with it. If you pull out the suitcase phone that Danny Glover used in Lethal Weapon and start using it, that would be practicing what you preach. Damn, your sites homepage is pushing a column called "Mobile Phones to Upgrade Your Life". Howz that workin out for you? Fscking Hypocrite.
Before the middle of the video, some chick walked out in baloons. The baloons were clear, and you could see her tits and all you can talk about is the whirring motors? HER FSCKING TITS WERE SHOWING. Jimminy Crickets. Sometimes you folks amaze me.
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As you quoted: "but allow students to make up their own minds."
I made up my mind, I deserve an A. And for graduation, I made up my mind that you should pay me one MILLION dollars (and not those lousy AUS dollars, but the real thing).
It would be easier to just give her half your shit right now. You can avoid paying for a "One of a kind" ring which the judge will give her anyway. In fact, just give her half and then run to Mexico for a weekend with a Tijuana hooker. Take my word for it, even with catching the clap, it would be a LOT cheaper than getting married.
(if I added up the cost of my divorce a hooker would have been MUCH less expensive than a wife)
And I had the exact opposite experience.
My DVD arrives in one day. It returns in one day (I will grant you that I only live 50 miles from the address on the label).
I have had 2 DVDs that were scratched in the 6 months since I started. They were both replaced in a day (and with 3 disks, I had something else to watch). It was older movies that were scratched (can you believe that I finally saw Vanishing Point a couple months ago?). When dealing with DVDs and clumsy customers there is pretty much no way to avoid this. They can't play every movie after return, so yes, occasionally one can be scratched. I would accuse you of hyperbole by saying it is half unless your sample size was very small.
I have been very happy with their service so far. I canceled all my movie channels on cable and just use them. It is way better because I am the one who says what is on tonight. I'd also be curious where and when you were mailing them. I drop them off at the post office on my way to work in the morning after watching it, and up until this glitch, every time the next day they would process a new one and send it.
I am going to agree, and disagree.
When I ordered this thing, there were about 7 movies in my queue that were "Watch it now". Right now I have more than 50 in there. Now I will grant you, these are things I probably would never have put in my regular queue. Old TV like "Adam 12" and Emergency!. Lots of documentaries as well. I am just amazed with the thing. I went from paying over $130 for cable from Comcast to now paying $15 for basic cable and $17 for netflix. It will pay for switching over in a little bit more than two months. Why two months? Because I ordered a second one for the bedroom. When you compare this to HBO and showtime and all the other channels I had before, this just kicks butt. No, it will not replace getting the DVDs of the current stuff, but that is the best part of this whole thing. You still get DVDs in the mail, and other content you get on your TV. Even the quality is good on my 46" LCD (I hardwired the ethernet for the best quality). The only time I have disliked the quality is with "widescreen" regular def content. The zoom on the TV makes that look a bit too fuzzy. Still watchable, but not great.
I never thought I would be a fanboy for anything, but I am now. I like it.
-Spack
I was SO going to say that.
Now that I see it just got +3 I am glad I did not waste the karma time.
In space, nobody can hear you scream because there is no fscking air to transmit the sound waves
Same defect here.
The best advice I got (now in retrospective) when starting out was to buy an telescope that was easy to take out and setup, the best scope is the scope you use often.
I SECOND THIS. I can not say it strong enough. This is THE most important advice for someone just getting in to astronomy. So many people as they are buying their first telescope take the wrong road.
There are 3 roads to take here.
Road 1: It's only $129 and it magnifies 8000 TIMES. - The trap is that the optics are junk in it.
Road 2: I will see more deep sky stuff with a 10 inch dob, or a 12 inch SC. - The trap is that it sits in the basement, unused. It is too much of a pain to just get out on a wonderful night, so it sits. This is the advice the poster above was giving you.
Road 3: A nice middle of the road scope that fits your budget and you use all the time to learn the sky and see things that are amazing.
As others have said, the astrophotography aspect of it is really going to be above your budget. Sure, you can get the "webcam converted to a starscope", but it is junk. Stay within your budget, and get a nice scope for yourself. One that you can get outside at the drop of a hat. Not something that becomes an anchor.
Let me quote him again:
The best advice I got (now in retrospective) when starting out was to buy an telescope that was easy to take out and setup, the best scope is the scope you use often.
That was the best advice I got as well. The best one is the one you will use. I guess that means smaller is better in this case.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
(If you do not get this joke, how the heck did you even know what carbonite was?)
When you see God, tell him he owes me 10 bucks (and the 2 points of karma I am about to lose on this)
-Spack
The RIAA nursery rhyme:
Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum!
I smell the stink of no DRM.
Your music be broadcast on wires long dead,
I'll grind your bones to make my bread.
Ok, soapbox time.
Please read that comment but replace anything to do with TV with the word Linux.
Now understand that the sheeple of the world are not geeks or pretentious A-holes like you.
Ok, I am off my soapbox.
It was really not flamebait or anything except for the fact that he summed up what is wrong when geeks associate with regular people and can't understand that real folks would not know compiling a kernel from trajectories of meteors.
' Meanwhile, Vista is rising, the article says, with just over 2% of computers connected to the Internet using the new Windows OS
They won't be connected for long:
net start BOTNET
"You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus."
I would like to thank the developers of this virus. For too long, I have been enjoying hacking my iPod. It is good that someone is out there attempting to stop that by ruining my property.
Really, now on to the real discussion. Can someone explain the motivation? I actually do not understand why someone would waste their time to write a virus. The only type I do understand is the bot net stuff, and that is motivated by money. Heck, if I can take over 5000 computers and sell the work they can do in mass spam or something, at least the writer is attempting to make money. Why write something like this though? If they spent the same time writing real code, they would make money. If they did it for a different organization, they could help the Red Cross with their IT stuff, or a hospital. Why the fsck do this crap?
Malcontent? Antisocial? What the heck drives these people?
Ok, I am going to start an actual simulation for building the Pyramids.
All of you guys come out of your mother's basement and be my slaves.
No wages. Bad conditions. Whips and chains. Move some heavy rocks
for me and we will build one. Move it or die.
This is going to be fun but I hope there are no uprisings.
(PS: Yes, I know that Nova did it. However, mine will be full size. None of this 9 foot tall crap.)
Ok, I am going to argue the other side of this.
From TFA:
But Ryan Kellogg and Hendrik Wolff, who are working on their doctorates in economics, say the reduced need for light in the evening will likely be negated by the increased need in the early morning.
That sounds logical, but it is not (IMHO). In the morning when I get up for work, I turn on maybe two lights (bedroom and bathroom). I am focused on getting ready for work, so there is not any entertainment (TV), stereo, really nothing except an electric razor. I brew my tea, and I am off to work (I don't think my headlights count as extra energy).
When I come home from work, well, all the lights in the kitchen, the halls, very soon the livingroom, the plasma TV, the surround sound, the computer. Lot's more things. Now, most of these don't change from summer to winter, except the lights. If it is light out, I do not turn them on (shocking). That is a savings of energy by not turning on the lights.
I really don't think this article took into account the different energy needs from the morning to night times. It is short sighted.
Spack
(ok, the gate is open for you to disagree, but really think about the way you do things different in the mornings and how most people do it different first)
20 years ago, there was nothing to settle. It was et cetera. It was named that because of what it was used for. The configuration files for other things that live elsewhere. It provided a short reference to those files. Also notice how we did not like to type back then. Before that time, you were typing on what amounted to a glorified printer with a keyboard, so every char you did not have to type was great. One central location for binaries with a 3 letter name. Everyone knew where everything was. I'd get flamed if I said it was better than it is now, but it really was more elegant.
/etc. It all followed logic back then. Anyone loading tools in /etc would have been the one getting flamed for not knowing how to organize a system.
Extended tool chest? Yeah, name tools that go in
Ok, now I really do feel old because it was more than 20 years ago. Sad because I was smart enough to answer this and not smart enough to make millions when the industry took off. I'm also too stupid to understand flame wars. If you like your system a different way, do it. If you think I should do mine different, pound sand.
They do realize that people can see the buildings by just driving near them, right?
I thought they had already accomplished this by making parents do it in case their child is abducted. They get a dental impression and a cheek swab for DNA. Granted, it would take another 60 or 70 years to make sure you had everyone, but they are well on their way.
Ooohh, be carful of little Bobby, better give us a sample of his DNA to hold on record forever.
On day 3 I watched an inning of baseball. Turned off the TV. Went to the store.
When I came back I could still see the score. (The red sox were winning). I was very angry.
Every time the Red Sox win, God kills a plasma TV.
As a photojournalist myself, I see the continued need. Sure, right place at the right time is great for cameraphones and pocket digital cameras, HOWEVER, the photo editor of any paper above podunk town status will still need pros to go out and shoot news or sports. It is the experience and the ability to know that they will get a usable shot under any circumstance that they pay for. If they send you somewhere, and you come back with junk, you tend to not last long. If you show up with a pocket camera as your main gear, they pretty much know you are not a photographer, and won't even look at your stuff.
Spot stuff, sure, it is great to have the help. Scheduled stuff (90% of the paper) needs real photographers.
Turin has now formed a company to design odorants using his theory
After he lied about the shroud thing, I just would not buy anything from him.
Actually, I think it was those commie bastards who designed the Zune!
Dude,
If your XT works, than start writing your column on that. Otherwise, pour yourself a nice warm cup of "shut the hell up" because you are part of the problem. You wanted the small sleek phone, and now your stuck with it. If you pull out the suitcase phone that Danny Glover used in Lethal Weapon and start using it, that would be practicing what you preach. Damn, your sites homepage is pushing a column called "Mobile Phones to Upgrade Your Life". Howz that workin out for you? Fscking Hypocrite.
Before the middle of the video, some chick walked out in baloons. The baloons were clear, and you could see her tits and all you can talk about is the whirring motors? HER FSCKING TITS WERE SHOWING. Jimminy Crickets. Sometimes you folks amaze me.
In 1972, Armstrong cleared up his first words were actually:
Holy Shit! I'm on the fscking moon!