He said the items ranged from "Holy Cow! I can't believe we know this and I can understand why it is classified." to articles cut out of the newspaper and classified.
Ah, they must have been in the classified section.
The original comment was "I can't spend time on the artificials." The point I was trying to make is that if you only know one language to start with, you're not necessarily wasting time by studying Esperanto, as compared to only studying one other language. I guess the real question is how much you have to study another language to get that benefit. If you only study Spanish for two weeks I doubt you'll get much from it. If studying Spanish for one year will help as much as studying Esperanto for one year, I agree that you could just as well study Spanish.
If you look under "Major Contributions" a little ways down the page you will some experimental evidence to suggest that if you only know one language now, learning Esperanto before learning another language may help you to learn a different language faster. To quote the page:
The headmaster of a secondary school near Manchester, England, found consistently over an 18-year period that pupils who learned Esperanto for a year acquired a level of fluency in the language equivalent to four years of French study, and subsequently achieved a higher level in French after three years of study than those pupils who learned only French for four years.
I did a cursory glance and I didn't see anyone else mention this, but I apologize if it's redundant.
Just get a 48GX, put a 128k expansion card in, and get the Meta Kernel. It completely fills the 128k card and replaces most of the slow user interfaces. The calculator is actual pretty much as fast as TI's offerings, but the user response is very slow with out the meta kernel.
Take a look at the Calculator Buying Guide over at hpcalc.org. You can get a 48GX for about $130. The HP-approved cards are outrageously expensive, but the unofficial ones work fine. I have the one from Klotz Electronic, which is about $20.
I've had the card for about 3 years and I've been using the meta kernel on it for about 2 years, and I haven't had a problem yet.
Disclaimer: I do not generally agree with recent US military policy.
That said, I did imply and I do believe that the US military passively protects not only Costa Rica, but the entire western world. I agree that Nicaragua and Panama aren't much of a threat, but if they suddenly decided to invade, the US military would be there.
If militant regimes believe that they can "get away with" invading another country, they will do it. The real problem is that the US is looking more and more like the militant regime lately.
3) Realization that MS Certification and/or 6-month diploma is NOT a meal ticket. (Note to readers: If you're unemployed and one of these, leave the real work to the pros, go run a convenience store or become a plumber instead)
Was it all that disturbing when individuals were on the threshold of building a railroad across North America? Would it surprise you that only people with cash could ride it?
Besides this, space travel is too expensive for individuals to undertake on their own...The current NASA budget (around $15B yearly) is enough only to launch a couple of probes and a few shuttles every year...
This assumes that NASA operates at high efficiency. I don't recall a government program ever having been accused of that.
Let's not forget that Columbus didn't sail on his donated dimes for curiousity alone, he did it for wealth. I'd hate to see space treated in the same way. At least government space programs are required to share their output with the taxpayers.
How about just changing the 404 document to a php script? I don't remember now if this is exactly correct, but something like this in the apache config:
ErrorDocument 404/logic.php
If the document exists, apache will serve it. If not, apache will load the "error" document and you can do what you want with it.
I have a system similar to what you mention. I recommend this software, under Linux. Of course, I may be biased because I work on it quite a bit. It won't work with a touchscreen (at the moment that is -- you could add it yourself, or maybe convince me to do it), but think hard about whether or not you really want that. I use a 20x4 backlit character LCD panel with a remote control. I think it's easier to hit a key on the remote than it would be to use a touchpad. Anyway, it works great in my car with about 3500 MP3's. I have wifi set up so that I can upload new music when the car is in the garage.
Is there any (technical) reason someone could not hack together a smooth Mac OS X work-a-like on top of Linux? (emphasis mine)
Your choice of words is excellent. Linux desktops tend to feel "hacked together", whereas OSX has a consistent feel. My opinion as to why that is is that the developers on Linux tend to get close enough and then get tired or bored and move on. Not that I blame them (and not that I'm any different with the software I've worked on) -- they're working for free, and if it's not fun, why would they keep going? The real question is why some company can't pay people to make an OSX work-a-like on Linux.
He's not selling CD's from this site. He sells CD's from this site. Not that this proves that he's actually selling any CD's, just that they're for sale.
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He said the items ranged from "Holy Cow! I can't believe we know this and I can understand why it is classified." to articles cut out of the newspaper and classified.
Ah, they must have been in the classified section.
Sorry.
Maybe you should spend some time with your family instead of putting a camera on your robotic vacuum cleaner?
If you don't want to pay for Big Brother, take a look at Big Sister. It does at least much of the same thing, but free (as in beer and speech).
The original comment was "I can't spend time on the artificials." The point I was trying to make is that if you only know one language to start with, you're not necessarily wasting time by studying Esperanto, as compared to only studying one other language. I guess the real question is how much you have to study another language to get that benefit. If you only study Spanish for two weeks I doubt you'll get much from it. If studying Spanish for one year will help as much as studying Esperanto for one year, I agree that you could just as well study Spanish.
Take a look at this:
Esperanto and Language Awareness
If you look under "Major Contributions" a little ways down the page you will some experimental evidence to suggest that if you only know one language now, learning Esperanto before learning another language may help you to learn a different language faster. To quote the page:
The headmaster of a secondary school near Manchester, England, found consistently over an 18-year period that pupils who learned Esperanto for a year acquired a level of fluency in the language equivalent to four years of French study, and subsequently achieved a higher level in French after three years of study than those pupils who learned only French for four years.
I did a cursory glance and I didn't see anyone else mention this, but I apologize if it's redundant.
Just get a 48GX, put a 128k expansion card in, and get the Meta Kernel. It completely fills the 128k card and replaces most of the slow user interfaces. The calculator is actual pretty much as fast as TI's offerings, but the user response is very slow with out the meta kernel.
Take a look at the Calculator Buying Guide over at hpcalc.org. You can get a 48GX for about $130. The HP-approved cards are outrageously expensive, but the unofficial ones work fine. I have the one from Klotz Electronic, which is about $20.
I've had the card for about 3 years and I've been using the meta kernel on it for about 2 years, and I haven't had a problem yet.
Disclaimer: I do not generally agree with recent US military policy.
That said, I did imply and I do believe that the US military passively protects not only Costa Rica, but the entire western world. I agree that Nicaragua and Panama aren't much of a threat, but if they suddenly decided to invade, the US military would be there.
If militant regimes believe that they can "get away with" invading another country, they will do it. The real problem is that the US is looking more and more like the militant regime lately.
Do you really believe that Costa Rica would not need a military if the US suddenly decided to stay out of foreign coutries?
The same package is a little cheaper at Sam's Club.
3) Realization that MS Certification and/or 6-month diploma is NOT a meal ticket. (Note to readers: If you're unemployed and one of these, leave the real work to the pros, go run a convenience store or become a plumber instead)
I'm not sure I'd let an MCSE touch my toilet.
If you can copy my couch and use it at your house without causing me any inconvenience, you're welcome to it.
Was it all that disturbing when individuals were on the threshold of building a railroad across North America? Would it surprise you that only people with cash could ride it?
Besides this, space travel is too expensive for individuals to undertake on their own...The current NASA budget (around $15B yearly) is enough only to launch a couple of probes and a few shuttles every year...
This assumes that NASA operates at high efficiency. I don't recall a government program ever having been accused of that.
Step one: Put down the Coors and Playstation 2 controller.
Well said.
Let's not forget that Columbus didn't sail on his donated dimes for curiousity alone, he did it for wealth. I'd hate to see space treated in the same way. At least government space programs are required to share their output with the taxpayers.
At least he sailed, for whatever reason.
How about just changing the 404 document to a php script? I don't remember now if this is exactly correct, but something like this in the apache config:
/logic.php
ErrorDocument 404
If the document exists, apache will serve it. If not, apache will load the "error" document and you can do what you want with it.
My mistake, this line is elsewhere:
[CmdrTaco] Shit, I just looked this up an hour ago. 50% MSIE ish.
Are you looking at this line or something else?
[hemos] OK, FYI: Windows is 72% of traffic on Slashdot.
Unless I'm missing something, hemos says 72%. Granted, that's less than 95%...
Right on. Not to mention that they tell you up front that they collect the data and you can opt out no questions asked.
The court didn't rule on that; it was settled out of court. That doesn't mean that they weren't demonstrably guilty though.
I have a system similar to what you mention. I recommend this software, under Linux. Of course, I may be biased because I work on it quite a bit. It won't work with a touchscreen (at the moment that is -- you could add it yourself, or maybe convince me to do it), but think hard about whether or not you really want that. I use a 20x4 backlit character LCD panel with a remote control. I think it's easier to hit a key on the remote than it would be to use a touchpad. Anyway, it works great in my car with about 3500 MP3's. I have wifi set up so that I can upload new music when the car is in the garage.
This has been covered many times in the past, but...
Apple hardware is comparable to PC hardware on price vs. performance; however, you can't buy a sub-$650 mac.
OSX would have greater market share on x86, but Apple would lose income on hardware sales.
Is there any (technical) reason someone could not hack together a smooth Mac OS X work-a-like on top of Linux? (emphasis mine)
Your choice of words is excellent. Linux desktops tend to feel "hacked together", whereas OSX has a consistent feel. My opinion as to why that is is that the developers on Linux tend to get close enough and then get tired or bored and move on. Not that I blame them (and not that I'm any different with the software I've worked on) -- they're working for free, and if it's not fun, why would they keep going? The real question is why some company can't pay people to make an OSX work-a-like on Linux.
He's not selling CD's from this site. He sells CD's from this site. Not that this proves that he's actually selling any CD's, just that they're for sale.
Of course, we canâ(TM)t argue anything, since like 98% of people, I did not even bother to read the law.
Yeah, neither did I.