It's hard to use allusions to teach maths. Especially to 8 year olds. It has to be done by rote. A "This is so because I say it is." sort of thinking. It's depressing as hell and very useful.
I always remember the look on the teacher's face when plodding through the multiplication tables:
one time three is three etc we got to the system we used for playing Hide and Seek.
We tore through the 5 times table and didn't stop "ready or not" till we reached one hundred. This was fifty years ago I still smile remembering how we all looked around at each other stupidly, realising we had achieved something amazing.
I'm doing something about geo-physics to try and make it understandable. Unfortunately, I have had to reconsider what is accepted by mainstream science and have thrown out most of their concepts. (For example the unpredictability of earthquakes.
I am all in favour of pictures rather than lectures. I went to that Khan academt site and found it boring as hell. Poinltess pictures of carbon, lead and gold and a most annoying nasal tenor voice.
How is this insightful? The USAAF took pains to NOT bomb civilians. That is why they only flew in daylight -at great cost.
Killing civilians has always been a crime. It's just that if your name is Mr President or Bomber Harris, you get away with it.
Under Roosevelt, the WW2 mission to destroy infrastructure conformed to the Geneva convention. It was only with the ability to bomb Japan and the demise of Roosevelt that things American went to hell and stayed there. I suppose a case could be made for the USA remaining allied to a country that committed war crimes implicated it in war crimes. But not to the same degree.
Also the judge has already stated his displeasure with the failure to follow due process in the initial arrest and has required the crown to guarantee to cover costs and lost income if Mr Dotcom is not found guilty.
There is nothing like giving the prosecution a good motive to succeed, is there?
Would this quasi bribe count towards an unfair trial?
I wonder if he has actually got copies of his stuff hidden away somewhere. Whatever; he has the ability to make a crust. What makes anyone on here thing he is any different from the so called "respectable" rich bastards?
>the US.... doesn't employ anyone any more because it's more cost effective to pay an engineer here
> to design an automated shop that employs 10 people instead of 500.
And how many of those 10 would be employed if speaking to a bunch of just as or even much more amenable and gifted Asians was possible for the bankers running the company?
They are technological illiterates like most legislators and believe that human laws work like laws of nature, if you write them down they'll start enforcing themselves.
Did i mention they're also first rate morons?
Since they are not allowed to pass a law limiting the freedom of speech you didn't need to tell us he is a moron. What you needed to do was tell us how the Republican party is so liberally supplied with morons.
(We already know why the USA so often votes for morons to be president.)
Only if their prints are on file. If everyone is chipped at birth, their chip ID will certainly be on file from birth.
But wouldn't it be easier to take fingerprints and even DNA samples at birth?
All I need to know is: "Was George the Thickth brought up on the fairy tales written by this woman?" and I will have an answer for most of the history of the USA since WW 2.
The whole point of having stock of unknown value is that you are betting it has infinite value until the stock is sold or valued in some other way it is of indefinite value. The apparent drain on their value was incorporated in the added value of the input from the additional share holder as without him at the start of the deal it was not going to go through the roof.
> second is that we are moving all the social needs that we used to do face-to-face onto the computer and this trend has just begun.
> "If you think Facebook is the end, ask MySpace. Art, entertainment, everything you can imagine in life is moving to computers.
Music has been internationasl mass media since the printing press and whoever invented staff sheets.
It got with it time wise by the invention of radio
Nothing much has changed since then.
Other methods of interaction are much the same. Online conection may speed things up but there is no substitute for the real thing. There never will be.
This has to be the daftest post I have ever read on Slashdot.
What NASA does with its data is mind-boggling. I can't even get a weather forecast from my country until it is an hour out of date.
In contrast what is available from the Yanks is stupendous. Archives on almost everything and acres of images presented to all for free
There is so much data available that it would have needed the Internet to be invented if it wasn't already just to show a small proportion of it.
I am as surprised as any that the future of space travel is in the hands of the Russians especially after reading about the order to destroy the technology when the walls came down.
And we can't just blame the chimpanzee or anyone else from the court of George the Thickth.
Space vehicles NEED a rethink. Until we can come up with something reliable and cheap, it's best that things are in the slow lane.
Apple is saying that only the Chinese have the right to build machines that can run their software, not that you can't write/sell software to run on their machines.
Sounds logical, sound logic.
And I applaud the legal system that defends to the death, their right to do so. How much does it cost and where can I get one?
(I hope it comes free of all that socialist welfare stuff.) Can you assure me that if people can't afford the banking system that goes with it, they will be thrown out of their homes and the premises locked up until they decay from within?
"No one will ever need more than 640k of memory." -Bill Gates (Disputed by Mr. Gates but who would want to be credited with saying that...?
From Microsoft's own site:
The following list describes the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 98:
486DX 66 megahertz (MHz).
16 megabytes (MB)
A full install of Windows 98 on a FAT32 drive requires 175 MB of free hard disk space, but may range from between 140 MB and 255 MB, depending on your computer configuration and the options that you choose to install.
One 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive.
VGA or higher resolution (16-bit or 24-bit color SVGA recommended).
MSN, The Microsoft Network, Windows Messaging, or Internet access require a 14.4 bits per second (bps) modem (28.8 or faster recommended).
14.4bps who could need 28.8?
That was a nice trip down memory lane.
Or it was until I remembered about dial up. Yurgh!!
I had heard it could use 2 GB of RAM which made the saying somewhat dated if true. The problem, which would never have been one to burden Microsoft was what specifications the hardware makers would allow. My 20 year old Compaq will only take 750 or whatever.
Getting seriously off topic:
Windows 95 will fail to boot if you have more than around 480MB of memory.
The total RAM limitation occurs because the size of the fixed block in the init-data segment needs to be large enough to satisfy all the memory allocations performed during the memory scan. If you have too much memory, an allocation during the memory scan fails and the system halts.
The size of the init-data segment was chosen to balance two factors. The larger you make it, the more memory you can have in the system before hitting an allocation failure during the memory scan. But you can't make it too large or machines with small amounts of memory won't even be able to load VMM into memory.
I can't remember when I last had to defrag a computer. I think it was on a Vista Laptop because I couldn't understand why the damned thing wouldn't move. It was about as mobile a laptop as a not very mobile thing.
Sorry about that.
On with your rants, people.
Anyone know wherre I can get a job that I can install that on someone's computer?
It would be worth getting the sack to do that if I could see their face.
I've seen too many of these bulb manufacturers make promises they knew they couldn't keep. CFL's in particular seem very sensitive to electricity fluctuations and brownouts.
I'd hate to buy a bunch of those only to have some local brownouts blow them in their first year (and find out the company won't back their product up with a replacement or refund).
I think I know how conventional incandescents work. Before they invented tungsten they made hair thin filaments of bamboo charcoal. Very clever stuff in its day. And some still going so I hear.
So what happened after tungsten?
I am not really sure how fluorescent works, some sort of powder gets white hot in a counter current or something?
These new tubes with tubes in defeat the internets out of me.
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I always remember the look on the teacher's face when plodding through the multiplication tables:
one time three is three etc we got to the system we used for playing Hide and Seek.
We tore through the 5 times table and didn't stop "ready or not" till we reached one hundred. This was fifty years ago I still smile remembering how we all looked around at each other stupidly, realising we had achieved something amazing.
It didn't last.
I am all in favour of pictures rather than lectures. I went to that Khan academt site and found it boring as hell. Poinltess pictures of carbon, lead and gold and a most annoying nasal tenor voice.
Here is an example of what |I am trying to do:
http://my.opera.com/Weatherlawyer/blog/2012/05/30/how-to-forecast-typhoons-from-the-north-atlantic-hurricane
All of which can be accomplished with a dozen or less weather charts in an animation. (Which I haven't yet got around to.)
Here is one on a slightly different topic but in pictures:
http://my.opera.com/Weatherlawyer/blog/2012/06/04/4th-5-9-m
Killing civilians has always been a crime. It's just that if your name is Mr President or Bomber Harris, you get away with it.
Under Roosevelt, the WW2 mission to destroy infrastructure conformed to the Geneva convention. It was only with the ability to bomb Japan and the demise of Roosevelt that things American went to hell and stayed there. I suppose a case could be made for the USA remaining allied to a country that committed war crimes implicated it in war crimes. But not to the same degree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II#Timeline_for_all_the_raids
Is that a fact; do you mean pwn3r5?
After a century of owning the artists, the real pirates are now the good guys?
After all if it works for major supermarkets.
Ah, wait...
But not for producers for supermarkets
Ah, wait...I see your point
Supermarkets sell plastic discs, that cost pennies to produce, for pounds. Whereas they pay farmers pennies for produce that is really useful.
This is far too difficult for me. What I need is a government committee to sort it all out.
Spot on truth and educational. Succinct and inarguable reasoning. Gets two?
Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
The same way you can judge abortion is killing an unborn child and murder is wrong.
It must be very hard to find a defendant who doesn't have preternatural contempt for people like that. And a jury of peers of the defendant who ....
Also the judge has already stated his displeasure with the failure to follow due process in the initial arrest and has required the crown to guarantee to cover costs and lost income if Mr Dotcom is not found guilty.
There is nothing like giving the prosecution a good motive to succeed, is there?
Would this quasi bribe count towards an unfair trial?
I wonder if he has actually got copies of his stuff hidden away somewhere. Whatever; he has the ability to make a crust. What makes anyone on here thing he is any different from the so called "respectable" rich bastards?
I'm pretty sure the Scottish plan is to somehow join Scandinavia
You have seen the Swedish women's beach volleyball team, right?
I haven't.
Do they fight a lot, have unkempt beards, heavy woollen dresses and jackets that smell of urine when new then malt whisky when mature?
Meanwhile back at the end of the world:
Its nice to hear a bit of sense in this soap opera.
I don't care if he is guilty or not. I hope he gets off Scott free.
And how many of those 10 would be employed if speaking to a bunch of just as or even much more amenable and gifted Asians was possible for the bankers running the company?
They are technological illiterates like most legislators and believe that human laws work like laws of nature, if you write them down they'll start enforcing themselves.
Did i mention they're also first rate morons?
Since they are not allowed to pass a law limiting the freedom of speech you didn't need to tell us he is a moron. What you needed to do was tell us how the Republican party is so liberally supplied with morons.
(We already know why the USA so often votes for morons to be president.)
Only if their prints are on file. If everyone is chipped at birth, their chip ID will certainly be on file from birth.
But wouldn't it be easier to take fingerprints and even DNA samples at birth?
All I need to know is: "Was George the Thickth brought up on the fairy tales written by this woman?" and I will have an answer for most of the history of the USA since WW 2.
Begone troll.
Shouldn't they have attacked film websites?
> "If you think Facebook is the end, ask MySpace. Art, entertainment, everything you can imagine in life is moving to computers.
Music has been internationasl mass media since the printing press and whoever invented staff sheets.
It got with it time wise by the invention of radio
Nothing much has changed since then.
Other methods of interaction are much the same. Online conection may speed things up but there is no substitute for the real thing. There never will be.
Now what with the computer recycle industry do?
Pass new laws?
What NASA does with its data is mind-boggling. I can't even get a weather forecast from my country until it is an hour out of date.
In contrast what is available from the Yanks is stupendous. Archives on almost everything and acres of images presented to all for free
There is so much data available that it would have needed the Internet to be invented if it wasn't already just to show a small proportion of it.
I am as surprised as any that the future of space travel is in the hands of the Russians especially after reading about the order to destroy the technology when the walls came down. And we can't just blame the chimpanzee or anyone else from the court of George the Thickth. Space vehicles NEED a rethink. Until we can come up with something reliable and cheap, it's best that things are in the slow lane.
Is his name Neptune?
It would explain the tattoos and the estuarine smell -even most of the dirt.
Apple is saying that only the Chinese have the right to build machines that can run their software, not that you can't write/sell software to run on their machines.
Sounds logical, sound logic.
And I applaud the legal system that defends to the death, their right to do so. How much does it cost and where can I get one?
(I hope it comes free of all that socialist welfare stuff.) Can you assure me that if people can't afford the banking system that goes with it, they will be thrown out of their homes and the premises locked up until they decay from within?
Nothing smells like the smell of excess.
"No one will ever need more than 640k of memory." -Bill Gates (Disputed by Mr. Gates but who would want to be credited with saying that...?
From Microsoft's own site:
The following list describes the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 98:
486DX 66 megahertz (MHz).
16 megabytes (MB)
A full install of Windows 98 on a FAT32 drive requires 175 MB of free hard disk space, but may range from between 140 MB and 255 MB, depending on your computer configuration and the options that you choose to install.
One 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive.
VGA or higher resolution (16-bit or 24-bit color SVGA recommended).
MSN, The Microsoft Network, Windows Messaging, or Internet access require a 14.4 bits per second (bps) modem (28.8 or faster recommended).
14.4bps who could need 28.8?
That was a nice trip down memory lane.
Or it was until I remembered about dial up. Yurgh!!
I had heard it could use 2 GB of RAM which made the saying somewhat dated if true. The problem, which would never have been one to burden Microsoft was what specifications the hardware makers would allow. My 20 year old Compaq will only take 750 or whatever.
Getting seriously off topic:
Windows 95 will fail to boot if you have more than around 480MB of memory.
The total RAM limitation occurs because the size of the fixed block in the init-data segment needs to be large enough to satisfy all the memory allocations performed during the memory scan. If you have too much memory, an allocation during the memory scan fails and the system halts.
The size of the init-data segment was chosen to balance two factors. The larger you make it, the more memory you can have in the system before hitting an allocation failure during the memory scan. But you can't make it too large or machines with small amounts of memory won't even be able to load VMM into memory.
I can't remember when I last had to defrag a computer. I think it was on a Vista Laptop because I couldn't understand why the damned thing wouldn't move. It was about as mobile a laptop as a not very mobile thing.
Sorry about that.
On with your rants, people.
Anyone know wherre I can get a job that I can install that on someone's computer?
It would be worth getting the sack to do that if I could see their face.
Or replace the modem?
I'd have to have a camera fitted though.
Any videos of that anyone?
I've seen too many of these bulb manufacturers make promises they knew they couldn't keep. CFL's in particular seem very sensitive to electricity fluctuations and brownouts.
I'd hate to buy a bunch of those only to have some local brownouts blow them in their first year (and find out the company won't back their product up with a replacement or refund).
I think I know how conventional incandescents work. Before they invented tungsten they made hair thin filaments of bamboo charcoal. Very clever stuff in its day. And some still going so I hear.
So what happened after tungsten?
I am not really sure how fluorescent works, some sort of powder gets white hot in a counter current or something?
These new tubes with tubes in defeat the internets out of me.
Not.
You can go to a German or Dutch site and see it almost as soon as it is prepared but on the British site you have to wait 7 hours.
AND you are not allowed to show it to anyone too neither, unless you have paid AGAIN for a copyright.
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