Same exact beltway bandit company who socially engineered a Colorado Sheriff into forcing motorists into providing DNA samples at a roadblock.
Suggestion: Maybe the Maryland state police, out of sympathy for their Texas and Colorado fooled by this corporation might consider setting up a mandatory roadblock on the edge of that company's parking lot so the US public learn the percentage of crack cocaine users on staff. I see more Probable Cause for blood testing that company's executives than the Texas or Colorado officers had for testing random citizens.
The blueprints are at best a measure of those portions of the facility where they will allow low level clearance contractors, like vetted electricians.
Even the MCI headquarters in Ashburn has an off blueprints sub basement to intel use, so we should hardly expect less of a facility directly owned by a TLA.
That's not it. That's an older article without the state breakdowns. I've not found a legal open link to this paper (about publicly funded research...mutter) but the site in which it resides is http://www.ajpm-online.net/
The lead researcher is a Mathew M Zack, who is not listed in this older pdf.
Speaking with the experience of my daughter (now 3 months from 5yrs old) and her friends, the ability to do more than just pretend to understand abstract thoughts seems to have hit right around the time that they began to try out more advanced lies. For example: "Mommy (who already left) promised I could do something (that mommy would clearly not promise)" The concepts just need to be framed in terms they want to understand. For my daughter the threshold was around 4.5 yrs. Most recent example, light. I gave her a flashlight a while back, she had a good time playing with focusing the beam and moving it around. Later I moved onto the Sun being the source of light like the flashlight. Last week her teacher sent her home with the question: "why is the sky blue?". One trip to the Discovery store for a prism later and I showed her all the colors in sunlight. I then told her that air reflected one of them to her to get that blue color (she gets reflection...loves mirrors). She chimed in, 'So grass reflects green?'. Much warm fuzzies for her geek dad. Small negative aspect: On getting home she promptly compared to her flashlight's light through the prism resulting in an immediate request for a better flashlight that is like the sun. Followup I've asked her to give her teacher the question: "why does air reflect blue?" Wish I could be there to videotape her teachers look.
Treat your work visit as the point to lay the foundation for good questions by the children later on. If possible send them home with a small fun toy that demonstrates parts of the concepts you're trying to show them. That way they can mentally creep up the concepts when the play with the toys...and telling the doubters raising objections to your planned trip to google on 'Montessori' (and get out of your way).
NeroLinux - Good for weaning windows Nero users
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Nero Burning for Linux
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· Score: 3, Informative
Given that our household owns a WinNero license, I figured why not give it a whirl. Not bad...very easy to install and it does a good job of translating the look and feel from the windows side.
Definitely a good tool for those who have vid burning windows addicts in their household. I may finally have a shot at converting my wife over to the 'dark side' of burning vids on her windows station...time to switch the myth server inittab to default:5.
Ah...but this is slashdot...nitpicking(TM) is mandatory. Well, it'd be nice if the Nero folks provided at least a basic level of support for the linux side. I'd bet there's people in their support arm who'd be happy to work with an OS they can really troubleshoot for a change.
LCDs have 'Burn in' issues too.
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LCD Round-up
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· Score: 2, Informative
Earlier a commentator mentioned tha slow update times of LCD screens as a bane for gamers and the condition got labeled 'Ghosting'. Ironically enough the thread was labelled 'Hello Ignorance'.
The Worldcom NOC is still in the process of replacing over 100 20" SUN screens because of the real ghosting issue. To wit, screen will show ghosts of previous screens that can take over ten minutes to fade (and if that monitoring view is used often, the view can become permanent). It's not the same physical condition as CRT burn in, but the effect is the same.
In summary: Don't plonk a large sum down on a LCD monitor until either a reviewer addresses whether that model is ghost free, or you've seen that model in a production deployment behaving itself.
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Same exact beltway bandit company who socially engineered a Colorado Sheriff into forcing motorists into providing DNA samples at a roadblock.
Suggestion: Maybe the Maryland state police, out of sympathy for their Texas and Colorado fooled by this corporation might consider setting up a mandatory roadblock on the edge of that company's parking lot so the US public learn the percentage of crack cocaine users on staff. I see more Probable Cause for blood testing that company's executives than the Texas or Colorado officers had for testing random citizens.
-proctor
The blueprints are at best a measure of those portions of the facility where they will allow low level clearance contractors, like vetted electricians.
Even the MCI headquarters in Ashburn has an off blueprints sub basement to intel use, so we should hardly expect less of a facility directly owned by a TLA.
no no....you route it through beijing like everybody else.
WJW did a really funny pink panther-esque trilogy that starts with 'The Crown Jewels'
That's not it. That's an older article without the state breakdowns. I've not found a legal open link to this paper (about publicly funded research...mutter) but the site in which it resides is http://www.ajpm-online.net/
The lead researcher is a Mathew M Zack, who is not listed in this older pdf.
On the upside, I did find that the CDC makes the data on which this new paper is based freely available here: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/HRQOL/
with a prettier but less depression specific version here:
http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/findings.htm
Speaking with the experience of my daughter (now 3 months from 5yrs old) and her friends, the ability to do more than just pretend to understand abstract thoughts seems to have hit right around the time that they began to try out more advanced lies. For example: "Mommy (who already left) promised I could do something (that mommy would clearly not promise)" The concepts just need to be framed in terms they want to understand. For my daughter the threshold was around 4.5 yrs. Most recent example, light. I gave her a flashlight a while back, she had a good time playing with focusing the beam and moving it around. Later I moved onto the Sun being the source of light like the flashlight. Last week her teacher sent her home with the question: "why is the sky blue?". One trip to the Discovery store for a prism later and I showed her all the colors in sunlight. I then told her that air reflected one of them to her to get that blue color (she gets reflection...loves mirrors). She chimed in, 'So grass reflects green?'. Much warm fuzzies for her geek dad. Small negative aspect: On getting home she promptly compared to her flashlight's light through the prism resulting in an immediate request for a better flashlight that is like the sun. Followup I've asked her to give her teacher the question: "why does air reflect blue?" Wish I could be there to videotape her teachers look.
Treat your work visit as the point to lay the foundation for good questions by the children later on. If possible send them home with a small fun toy that demonstrates parts of the concepts you're trying to show them. That way they can mentally creep up the concepts when the play with the toys...and telling the doubters raising objections to your planned trip to google on 'Montessori' (and get out of your way).
Definitely a good tool for those who have vid burning windows addicts in their household. I may finally have a shot at converting my wife over to the 'dark side' of burning vids on her windows station...time to switch the myth server inittab to default:5.
Ah...but this is slashdot...nitpicking(TM) is mandatory. Well, it'd be nice if the Nero folks provided at least a basic level of support for the linux side. I'd bet there's people in their support arm who'd be happy to work with an OS they can really troubleshoot for a change.
Earlier a commentator mentioned tha slow update times of LCD screens as a bane for gamers and the condition got labeled 'Ghosting'. Ironically enough the thread was labelled 'Hello Ignorance'.
The Worldcom NOC is still in the process of replacing over 100 20" SUN screens because of the real ghosting issue. To wit, screen will show ghosts of previous screens that can take over ten minutes to fade (and if that monitoring view is used often, the view can become permanent). It's not the same physical condition as CRT burn in, but the effect is the same.
In summary: Don't plonk a large sum down on a LCD monitor until either a reviewer addresses whether that model is ghost free, or you've seen that model in a production deployment behaving itself.