"I do believe reading a quote from Tim where he said that the FTC will not tolerate companies not living up to their promises and misrepresenting their products.
I'll be very curious to learn if we get any FTC action on this."
Perhaps it is about time to file a complaint with the FTC and see what they think of Palm and this misleading advertising.
Not with CD-R/w drives, no. The first one, purchased ~4 years ago was a Matsushita 4x CD-R SCSI drive and it still is going strong today! This drive has no buffer underrun prevention since it was not invented at the time of purchase, but still not a buffer underrun in ~3 years (150+ discs) on it. My Plextor 24x10x40 served me well for a few months until I sold it. (30+ discs on that one.) My new Plextor 40x12x40 has been going strong for about 6 months now with ~50 discs burned and no signs of problems.
I suggest you invest in a non-cheap drive (although the Mitsumi should've done you well.) Plextor. Teac. Toshiba. Philips. Yahama. Not Sony, they are annoying with silly software. Actually Lite-On seems to have a good reputation... my brother has one but it's too new to say it has avoided infant mortality.
OMG... it has been so long since I took chemistry that the molar quantity totally slipped by me and I did not recognise it. Shame one me! In high school I was the master of all that stuff.
"I could go down to Fry's and buy a 6.022 x 10^23 Gig drive for $20, but NOOOO I have be a SCSI snob."
You might want to check your units there...
And yes I know about the difficulties of switching from SCSI. I've got this top-of-the-line host adapter and ~8 SCSI HDD's (small ones) sitting around after I threw a 20G IDE in the machine and sold it.
"I had a +4 troll at one point.:) It had been at +5 funny. A Neal Stephenson joke. Some mod did not get the ref and thought it was a troll."
On slashdot, you haven't done anything until you've gotten at least one +5, Troll.
Re:They're running out of book topics
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Vi IMproved -- Vim
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· Score: 2
"Next: ls for dummies"
Why break away from text editors? I would LOVE to see an 'Ed for Dummies' !
(N.B. I actually had to write an Ed clone for a CS course a while back so I actually know how to use that editor. My father, a unix sysadmin in days of yore, still speaks fondly of Ed, cursing the devilish vi users.)
"Several months ago, 40x burning became a reality when Plextor got the jump on all of the other optical storage companies with the PX-W4012TA CD-RW."
I got this plextor drive shortly after it came out and amazingly, it is QUIETER than the 24x10x40! If you are looking for pretty quiet CD-Rw, I say you should check the plextor 40x12x40 out. Furthermore, the slower one has a fan on the back and mine does not! (Try to get the European version, btw, because it comes with Nero as opposed to Roxio EasyCD.0
"How long do you think it will take to get some ppl wardriving for 802.11a?"
I suggest you research 802.11j and then reconsider whether or not you want to ask that question.
OK, ok, I'll tell you. 802.11j is a protocol that is backwards compatible with 802.11b but has the speed of 802.11a. Most.11b devices will upgrade to.11j with a firmware upgrade in some months.
(802.11a will still be attractive because the 2.4 GHz spectrum of.11b/j is way too cluttered, and the spec allows for a higher density of access points. This is good for corporate offices with many users.)
Thus, large scale warchalking if.11a networks is highly unlikely.
"They spent 2.5 BILLION bucks on this fab and the only thing they could think of naming it was "Building 323". That's so weak. How about SupaFab? Fab:TNG? Absolutely Fab-ulous? MegaFab2k2? It's not like this is a super secret government base like Area 51. Come on IBM, have some flair."
"Thanks for the info! Would French work? It frequently uses alternation (consonant-vowel-consant-vowel) in spoken context."
I think the sounds of words in the french language flow from the tongue more easily than in english (because I grew up in the Canada and the education system requires varying levels of french classes depending on the location.) Still, the overall rhythmic feeling, to me, fits into the one described in the parent of your post.
Since I have not taken Japanese courses, I don't know how close French is to Japanese, but I'll be the overall rhythmic feeling of the lanuage is closer to english since both the languages are Romantic while Japanese came from a totally different origin.
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Haiku vs Spam
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"I don't know what's worse:
Yoda writing haiku, or
commenting on it."
Here's a sample of 'Yoda's Haiku' for your amusement:
Use the force, Jedi!
To speak wisdom in all things,
Talk like me, you must.
Re:Ignorance is beaming
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Haiku vs Spam
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· Score: 5, Funny
As long as they're not using this haiku, I'm ok with it:
Hello, I send you
this file to have your advice,
thanks see you later.
"The only legal pressure could come from their customers if they want to access the RIAA website for some reason."
Damn! Now all the boxes I r00t3d on the Information Wave Technologies network for the purpose of DDOS'ing the RIAA's network are useless! Drat! Foiled again! (j/k)
"Teachers aren't paid enough. Private schools do tend to get the better ones. I graduated in the end from a public school, and had good teachers, but my private school experience was by far superior."
I think that HS and Private School teachers are on equal footing in the area of teaching skill.
The difference is that in Private School, the losers, troublemakers, nitwits, idiots, lamers, etc can be kicked out much, MUCH more easily than in public school. Thus the lowest common denominator in private school is way higher than in public school. Thus private school teachers have way more motivation and there is much more potential for enrichment and teaching more exciting and advanced topics in public school.
I took public school the whole while and all of the classes that were non-streamed (i.e. there was no separation in General/Advanced/Enriched difficulty levels) were very lame and I usually couldn't stand them - on the other hand the enriched science and math courses were a blast. The teachers loved teaching them because the people there were there because they chose to be there and really were interested in the subject. In those classes, I learned a ton.
This difference in the lowest common denominator is why private school teachers can do so much 'better' than those in public school on a general basis.
"and (MOST importantly) reading an expression (ie. 3x + 4 means three times x plus 4)."
I agree with you fully on that point. I am a university student (in Ontario, Canada) and sometimes I hear tales from the really enthusiastic professors about some of the madness when they taught grade school level math.
For example, one kid did something like this:
Question: 6x + (-5) = 63
Answer: x = 8
Question: 3x - (+12) = 15
Answer: No solution!
Now really try to think about the thought process which would have lead to these (wrong) answers. Can you figure out what the kid thought? I couldn't until the prof explained it to me:
The kid thought that the first question read as "sixty-(what) minus five equals sixty-three" ?
And naturally 68 - 5 = 63
Thus you can figure out how the kid thought there was no answer in the second one.
Yes, you are right, and there are too many kid falling through the cracks and with rising class sizes, you can't help them all get the concepts right.
"The rest of their time should be spent brushing up and applying their ARITHMETIC skills, such as working with/reducing fractions. Give me a class of students who know how to substitute and know their arithmetic, and I'll give you a class of all stars."
Once again I think that you are right on the money. Too many people are afraid of fractions. Back in the 80s in Canada, fractions were a real subject in grade 6-8 and the students came out of it with a real industrial knowledge of how they work. Most people in my generation in Ontario are scared stiff of the same things. (But if you take a kid from Alberta, they know it cold because they do it all in grade 4-5 there.) Fortunately for me, I was blessed with a really bad teacher (?!?) in grade 5 who was terrible at teaching fractions, so I just ignored him and actually figured out on my own how they worked.
Even now I see people my age who are half way though a university level engineering program solving laplace transforms and systems of differential equations, and they can't handle fractions within fractions or negative fractional exponents.
I wish you good SKILL in tuning your students into shape. I believe you have your priorities in the right place and know what the real problems are.
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Perhaps it is about time to file a complaint with the FTC and see what they think of Palm and this misleading advertising.
Not with CD-R/w drives, no. The first one, purchased ~4 years ago was a Matsushita 4x CD-R SCSI drive and it still is going strong today! This drive has no buffer underrun prevention since it was not invented at the time of purchase, but still not a buffer underrun in ~3 years (150+ discs) on it. My Plextor 24x10x40 served me well for a few months until I sold it. (30+ discs on that one.) My new Plextor 40x12x40 has been going strong for about 6 months now with ~50 discs burned and no signs of problems.
I suggest you invest in a non-cheap drive (although the Mitsumi should've done you well.) Plextor. Teac. Toshiba. Philips. Yahama. Not Sony, they are annoying with silly software. Actually Lite-On seems to have a good reputation ... my brother has one but it's too new to say it has avoided infant mortality.
OMG ... it has been so long since I took chemistry that the molar quantity totally slipped by me and I did not recognise it. Shame one me! In high school I was the master of all that stuff.
Also, for multi-language support, see a previous ask-slashdot for a (chinese-language-centred) answer: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/06/18 50205&mode=flat&tid=106
You might want to check your units there ...
And yes I know about the difficulties of switching from SCSI. I've got this top-of-the-line host adapter and ~8 SCSI HDD's (small ones) sitting around after I threw a 20G IDE in the machine and sold it.
Planned obsolescence. They want to make money on the next, latest, greatest edition.
Maybe this guy was browsing some ascii pr0n. [asscii.com]
(Note: a direct link was not provided because of the site's bandwidth problems.)
LOL! I spit coke on my monitor ...
EMACS 0WNZ VI (Score:1, Flamebait)
by The Pi-Guy (wiseguy586@@@yahoo...com)
NO, VI 0WNZ EMACS (Score:1, Funny)
by The Pi-Guy (wiseguy586@@@yahoo...com)
Only on slashdot ...
On slashdot, you haven't done anything until you've gotten at least one +5, Troll.
Why break away from text editors? I would LOVE to see an 'Ed for Dummies' !
(N.B. I actually had to write an Ed clone for a CS course a while back so I actually know how to use that editor. My father, a unix sysadmin in days of yore, still speaks fondly of Ed, cursing the devilish vi users.)
Of course! Go and browse the plextor site and you can find a nice selection of modern CDRw drives.
Because at that point, you'd be contending with the speed of the IDE bus to avoid buffer underruns.
Until peoples' machines have enough RAM to cache whatever you want to burn, I doubt 52x burning will be reliable.
I got this plextor drive shortly after it came out and amazingly, it is QUIETER than the 24x10x40! If you are looking for pretty quiet CD-Rw, I say you should check the plextor 40x12x40 out. Furthermore, the slower one has a fan on the back and mine does not! (Try to get the European version, btw, because it comes with Nero as opposed to Roxio EasyCD.0
I suggest you research 802.11j and then reconsider whether or not you want to ask that question.
OK, ok, I'll tell you. 802.11j is a protocol that is backwards compatible with 802.11b but has the speed of 802.11a. Most .11b devices will upgrade to .11j with a firmware upgrade in some months.
(802.11a will still be attractive because the 2.4 GHz spectrum of .11b/j is way too cluttered, and the spec allows for a higher density of access points. This is good for corporate offices with many users.)
Thus, large scale warchalking if .11a networks is highly unlikely.
I feel a slashdot poll coming on ...
I wouldn't be surprised if it's 802.11a. Most people with their 2.4 GHz 802.11b equipment can't connect to the 5 GHz 802.11a networks.
I think the sounds of words in the french language flow from the tongue more easily than in english (because I grew up in the Canada and the education system requires varying levels of french classes depending on the location.) Still, the overall rhythmic feeling, to me, fits into the one described in the parent of your post.
Since I have not taken Japanese courses, I don't know how close French is to Japanese, but I'll be the overall rhythmic feeling of the lanuage is closer to english since both the languages are Romantic while Japanese came from a totally different origin.
Here's a sample of 'Yoda's Haiku' for your amusement:
Use the force, Jedi!
To speak wisdom in all things,
Talk like me, you must.
Hello, I send you
this file to have your advice,
thanks see you later.
I got first post hey!
Cowboyneal is my god, yay!
whoop de do da day!
Damn! Now all the boxes I r00t3d on the Information Wave Technologies network for the purpose of DDOS'ing the RIAA's network are useless! Drat! Foiled again! (j/k)
More like, "from the, uh, ACK packet heard round the net dept"
I think that HS and Private School teachers are on equal footing in the area of teaching skill.
The difference is that in Private School, the losers, troublemakers, nitwits, idiots, lamers, etc can be kicked out much, MUCH more easily than in public school. Thus the lowest common denominator in private school is way higher than in public school. Thus private school teachers have way more motivation and there is much more potential for enrichment and teaching more exciting and advanced topics in public school.
I took public school the whole while and all of the classes that were non-streamed (i.e. there was no separation in General/Advanced/Enriched difficulty levels) were very lame and I usually couldn't stand them - on the other hand the enriched science and math courses were a blast. The teachers loved teaching them because the people there were there because they chose to be there and really were interested in the subject. In those classes, I learned a ton.
This difference in the lowest common denominator is why private school teachers can do so much 'better' than those in public school on a general basis.
I agree with you fully on that point. I am a university student (in Ontario, Canada) and sometimes I hear tales from the really enthusiastic professors about some of the madness when they taught grade school level math.
For example, one kid did something like this:
Question: 6x + (-5) = 63
Answer: x = 8
Question: 3x - (+12) = 15
Answer: No solution!
Now really try to think about the thought process which would have lead to these (wrong) answers. Can you figure out what the kid thought? I couldn't until the prof explained it to me:
The kid thought that the first question read as "sixty-(what) minus five equals sixty-three" ?
And naturally 68 - 5 = 63
Thus you can figure out how the kid thought there was no answer in the second one.
Yes, you are right, and there are too many kid falling through the cracks and with rising class sizes, you can't help them all get the concepts right.
"The rest of their time should be spent brushing up and applying their ARITHMETIC skills, such as working with/reducing fractions. Give me a class of students who know how to substitute and know their arithmetic, and I'll give you a class of all stars."
Once again I think that you are right on the money. Too many people are afraid of fractions. Back in the 80s in Canada, fractions were a real subject in grade 6-8 and the students came out of it with a real industrial knowledge of how they work. Most people in my generation in Ontario are scared stiff of the same things. (But if you take a kid from Alberta, they know it cold because they do it all in grade 4-5 there.) Fortunately for me, I was blessed with a really bad teacher (?!?) in grade 5 who was terrible at teaching fractions, so I just ignored him and actually figured out on my own how they worked.
Even now I see people my age who are half way though a university level engineering program solving laplace transforms and systems of differential equations, and they can't handle fractions within fractions or negative fractional exponents.
I wish you good SKILL in tuning your students into shape. I believe you have your priorities in the right place and know what the real problems are.