"Originally, that was intended to be destroyed. But I think this (shelter) will be so impressive that even in 100 years people will come to look at it," Yeah, sure: "Honey, let's go take the kids near that radioactive site that was they covered by a shelter some guys build a 100 years ago" Seriously...?
I agree, that the shelter itself won't be nearly that exciting as a piece of architecture. But people will continue to visit it. Heck, I vacationed in Kiev not long ago, and made a point to also visit Chernobyl / Prypiat.
Wires are like dinosaurs. They were really fricken awesome once, but now there's plenty other cools things to use.
The only thing I can think of for needing a wire anymore is still video, as I don't think wireless video has matured enough.
Without wires, where do you get your electricity? I don't believe Tesla ever got around to electrifying the stratosphere to give us all wireless power.
I still find the idea of needing a box highly annoying. It's one thing to need a box because your circa 1980 TV can't decode a digital signal. (Added bonus, you can now change channels with a remote control!) It's quite another when your TV is full of computing power, and can even download new applications over the internet. I don't want to have to deal with a pile of remote controls just to watch a simple TV program.
The mandate is also pressing other providers to get IPv6 up and running. Under the mandate, if you have a provider that can't support IPv6 on Oct. 1, you need to change providers
Yes, this sort of thing does actually have some effect. I work for a company that sells to the government. They are requiring that our products support IPv6. They admit they aren't likely to be using them on an IPv6 network any time soon, but if we don't support IPv6, they won't buy from us.
IPv6 is too complex, which is what has hampered its slow adoption from the beginning.
IPv6 is simpler than IPv4.
True, but dual stack is more complex than either. I don't see flipping a switch and transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6. Instead, I see living with a dual-stack environment for a while. It will not be pretty.
Being left-handed, I've generally found that I have to decide for myself how a thing should be used. I might not use it in the same way as a right-handed person, but I'd usually find a way that makes sense. It's silly when manufacturers go out of their way to make a thing right-handed that could just as easily have been ambidextrous, but still not a huge deal.
One useful example. I'm American. My family attempted to teach me to hold a knife and fork like a right-handed American. (Hold the fork in your right hand... unless you want to cut something - then you switch the fork to your left hand, and hold the knife in the right.) I thought that was silly, and figured I should just take the silverware from where it was on the table. I hold the fork in my left, and the knife in my right. (It turns out I inadvertently learned to eat like a European)
As a kid, I was given a pair of left-handed scissors. They were horrible. I hated them. I learned to use right-handed scissors instead, assuming I wasn't as left-handed as I thought.
Later in life, I happened upon a pair of good-quality left-handed scissors. To my amazement, I could use them just fine! The scissors I'd tried to use as a kid clearly couldn't cut through butter.
I save the packaging for any products I might eventually return/sell. This has nothing to do with Apple. (I also have enough space in the basement that a few extra boxes won't get in the way of anything else.)
I'm getting tempted to start threatening to cancel the cable too
I did this with a credit card... so gratifying. I'd recently moved, and called to update my mailing address. After that, they tried to sell me some service. I politely declined. They tried again. I declined again. They tried selling a different service. At that point, I said "You know what, forget about the change of address. I'd like to close my account."
Of course, there are a million credit cards to chose from, so closing one was hardly a problem.
Sure you'll die out there, but it's a chance to live on forever -- people remember that Buzz Aldrin was the first person to set foot on the moon - they'll remember the first person to go to mars too!
A geek friend of mine (who for reasons I don't understand hasn't watched TNG before) recently started TNG. He made it half way through the first season before giving up. When I considered some of the episodes, I must admit, I don't blame him. It took that show a little while to get off the ground.
I was trying to figure out why you'd want your street numbers painted on the curb. Then I realized, in some places, the curb isn't covered with snow half the year, and sand (left by the snowplow) for the other half.
Still, it would be really cool if there was a standard location where a house number could always be seen. It really can be a pain finding someone's house for the first time.
Nor could they be concerned about substandard results from our country's education system.
Considering the kid doesn't read as well as schooled kids of his age, hasn't had much science education, I would say results of the education system are probably not the reason he is being homeschooled. (Could be wrong, the summary is brief, but this is the conclusion I drew.)
The cat's looking forward. He can't possibly see anything below him, making him most un-useful at making observations, and I imagine landings would therefore be tough. That's really the only issue I have with this.
The important thing is that he not share ALL of the pictures he takes. Unless you're an exceptionally good photographer, if you take 300 pictures, you'll probably end up with at least 290 bad ones, but if you're lucky, you'll have 10 that are great. Only share the good ones, and your friends will think you're a talented photographer.
So I hope you're uploading those for archive purposes, to be sorted later. If you're sharing all of them, your audience will likely get bored fast.
This also brings up memories of college. The projector in the room would be on, but in standby mode. It would emit a high-pitch noise that approx 1/2 of the students could hear, and found annoying.
I'd usually raise my hand, and ask the professor if he'd be so kind as to shut it off. But since it's completely lacking in UI, and since the professor could never hear it, all he could do is press buttons on the remote, and ask the students "is it off now?"
Quite simple: some people work better with music, some don't.
Honestly I don't care what the survey says about cold productivity numbers - if listening to music makes someone happier without having a dramatic impact in performance, cool. (Personally, I'm happiest without headphones.)
I once worked at a place that had no cubes -- only offices. I actually didn't much care for it. I find that so much can be learned through casual hallway conversations. If you're stuck in an office, you you have no idea what other people are doing unless you go to their office.
there are plenty of times you don't carry a phone, but would wear a watch.....
Really? Like what. I cannot think of one. That even includes swimming!
What kind of phone do you own that you can wear it while swimming?!
A watch is valuable while swimming to calculate how fast I swim laps. I similarly use my watch while running, but have no desire to keep a phone in my pocket.
Organization may be the most important thing you can do with your photos, whether you print them or not.
Digital photos are easy to lose if you don't have a good plan setup. Consider an organization tool, or at least a good directory structure, making good use of exif tags for captions, dates, etc. If you're talking prints, don't keep them in shoeboxes - put them in proper albums, with good labels.
By doing this, you've made them easy to share, and easy to search. Additionally, because you've gotten in the habit of regularly organizing new photos (ideally within a week or so of taking them), you are by extension ensuring that old ones stay accessible.
I agree with others that digital is really the way to go for the long term. As long as you move the old ones to each iteration of your hard drive (and a backup in the cloud), you won't have to worry about them being stuck on an obsolete storage media. (In other words, don't just "archive" the old ones.)
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"Originally, that was intended to be destroyed. But I think this (shelter) will be so impressive that even in 100 years people will come to look at it,"
Yeah, sure:
"Honey, let's go take the kids near that radioactive site that was they covered by a shelter some guys build a 100 years ago"
Seriously...?
I agree, that the shelter itself won't be nearly that exciting as a piece of architecture. But people will continue to visit it. Heck, I vacationed in Kiev not long ago, and made a point to also visit Chernobyl / Prypiat.
Since you're going down to the studs anyway, find some place to put in a simple secret passageway. You know, for the kids and grandkids.
Look for dead spaces in the walls. It can be as simple as going from one closet to another. Try to connect to the crawlspace, maybe.
Someone, please mod this up! This is a fantastic idea!
Wires are like dinosaurs. They were really fricken awesome once, but now there's plenty other cools things to use.
The only thing I can think of for needing a wire anymore is still video, as I don't think wireless video has matured enough.
Without wires, where do you get your electricity? I don't believe Tesla ever got around to electrifying the stratosphere to give us all wireless power.
I still find the idea of needing a box highly annoying. It's one thing to need a box because your circa 1980 TV can't decode a digital signal. (Added bonus, you can now change channels with a remote control!) It's quite another when your TV is full of computing power, and can even download new applications over the internet. I don't want to have to deal with a pile of remote controls just to watch a simple TV program.
Build your own with coat hangers.
eg: http://www.repeater-builder.com/antenna/pdf/make-digital-tv-coat-hanger-antenna.pdf
The mandate is also pressing other providers to get IPv6 up and running. Under the mandate, if you have a provider that can't support IPv6 on Oct. 1, you need to change providers
Yes, this sort of thing does actually have some effect. I work for a company that sells to the government. They are requiring that our products support IPv6. They admit they aren't likely to be using them on an IPv6 network any time soon, but if we don't support IPv6, they won't buy from us.
IPv6 is simpler than IPv4.
True, but dual stack is more complex than either.
I don't see flipping a switch and transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6. Instead, I see living with a dual-stack environment for a while. It will not be pretty.
Being left-handed, I've generally found that I have to decide for myself how a thing should be used. I might not use it in the same way as a right-handed person, but I'd usually find a way that makes sense. It's silly when manufacturers go out of their way to make a thing right-handed that could just as easily have been ambidextrous, but still not a huge deal.
One useful example. I'm American. My family attempted to teach me to hold a knife and fork like a right-handed American. (Hold the fork in your right hand... unless you want to cut something - then you switch the fork to your left hand, and hold the knife in the right.) I thought that was silly, and figured I should just take the silverware from where it was on the table. I hold the fork in my left, and the knife in my right. (It turns out I inadvertently learned to eat like a European)
As a kid, I was given a pair of left-handed scissors. They were horrible. I hated them. I learned to use right-handed scissors instead, assuming I wasn't as left-handed as I thought.
Later in life, I happened upon a pair of good-quality left-handed scissors. To my amazement, I could use them just fine! The scissors I'd tried to use as a kid clearly couldn't cut through butter.
"compares prices charged by 885 ISPs in 22 cities worldwide"
Are you telling me they compared a total of 22 cities? That's a ridiculously small sample size!
at least explains how man with two shotguns and in full armor can walk into cinema.
He could have done it by wearing a batman costume.
I save the packaging for any products I might eventually return/sell. This has nothing to do with Apple. (I also have enough space in the basement that a few extra boxes won't get in the way of anything else.)
Is this meant to imply that the average slashdot reader doesn't know the difference between the internet and the web?
I'm getting tempted to start threatening to cancel the cable too
I did this with a credit card... so gratifying. I'd recently moved, and called to update my mailing address. After that, they tried to sell me some service. I politely declined. They tried again. I declined again. They tried selling a different service. At that point, I said "You know what, forget about the change of address. I'd like to close my account."
Of course, there are a million credit cards to chose from, so closing one was hardly a problem.
Sure you'll die out there, but it's a chance to live on forever -- people remember that Buzz Aldrin was the first person to set foot on the moon - they'll remember the first person to go to mars too!
A geek friend of mine (who for reasons I don't understand hasn't watched TNG before) recently started TNG. He made it half way through the first season before giving up. When I considered some of the episodes, I must admit, I don't blame him. It took that show a little while to get off the ground.
I was trying to figure out why you'd want your street numbers painted on the curb. Then I realized, in some places, the curb isn't covered with snow half the year, and sand (left by the snowplow) for the other half.
Still, it would be really cool if there was a standard location where a house number could always be seen. It really can be a pain finding someone's house for the first time.
Nor could they be concerned about substandard results from our country's education system.
Considering the kid doesn't read as well as schooled kids of his age, hasn't had much science education, I would say results of the education system are probably not the reason he is being homeschooled. (Could be wrong, the summary is brief, but this is the conclusion I drew.)
The cat's looking forward. He can't possibly see anything below him, making him most un-useful at making observations, and I imagine landings would therefore be tough. That's really the only issue I have with this.
The important thing is that he not share ALL of the pictures he takes. Unless you're an exceptionally good photographer, if you take 300 pictures, you'll probably end up with at least 290 bad ones, but if you're lucky, you'll have 10 that are great. Only share the good ones, and your friends will think you're a talented photographer.
So I hope you're uploading those for archive purposes, to be sorted later. If you're sharing all of them, your audience will likely get bored fast.
This also brings up memories of college. The projector in the room would be on, but in standby mode. It would emit a high-pitch noise that approx 1/2 of the students could hear, and found annoying.
I'd usually raise my hand, and ask the professor if he'd be so kind as to shut it off. But since it's completely lacking in UI, and since the professor could never hear it, all he could do is press buttons on the remote, and ask the students "is it off now?"
Quite simple: some people work better with music, some don't.
Honestly I don't care what the survey says about cold productivity numbers - if listening to music makes someone happier without having a dramatic impact in performance, cool. (Personally, I'm happiest without headphones.)
I once worked at a place that had no cubes -- only offices. I actually didn't much care for it. I find that so much can be learned through casual hallway conversations. If you're stuck in an office, you you have no idea what other people are doing unless you go to their office.
there are plenty of times you don't carry a phone, but would wear a watch. ....
Really? Like what. I cannot think of one. That even includes swimming!
What kind of phone do you own that you can wear it while swimming?!
A watch is valuable while swimming to calculate how fast I swim laps. I similarly use my watch while running, but have no desire to keep a phone in my pocket.
Organization may be the most important thing you can do with your photos, whether you print them or not.
Digital photos are easy to lose if you don't have a good plan setup. Consider an organization tool, or at least a good directory structure, making good use of exif tags for captions, dates, etc. If you're talking prints, don't keep them in shoeboxes - put them in proper albums, with good labels.
By doing this, you've made them easy to share, and easy to search. Additionally, because you've gotten in the habit of regularly organizing new photos (ideally within a week or so of taking them), you are by extension ensuring that old ones stay accessible.
I agree with others that digital is really the way to go for the long term. As long as you move the old ones to each iteration of your hard drive (and a backup in the cloud), you won't have to worry about them being stuck on an obsolete storage media. (In other words, don't just "archive" the old ones.)