Reading digg comments makes my brain hurt. And their comment implementation is braindead.
I do try to skim through digg headlines, and maybe 5% of the stories are clickable. Even at that, the top users that push stories on the front page are known shills. Of course,/. has had a few shills and many slashvertisements over the years. And digg is even more left leaning than on/.. What use is a technology website that goes way political?
I like the idea of user driven content, and I think/. is working on something... I could see a simple slashbox with user-supplied links. No comments, just positive / negative votes and stories could get popped onto the main page...
You cannot claim the executive order stopped all research in that direction. California has put tons of money into new stem cell lines, without federal money. This is totally legal. Other countries have done so as well.
You are not being honest by calling this a ban on stem cell research, or even a ban on embryonic stem cell research. This is just a ban on federal funding using new embryonic stem cell lines.
Just because you don't like the result does not mean you should mislead people.
It is allowed in the US. Privately funded embryonic stem cell research is allowed.
Federally funded is allowed, if you use existing stem cell lines.
So technically, W was the first president to fund stem cell research... He actually came up with a compromise on the issue (that satisfies neither side, thus the compromise).
Plus you have the 2000 problem where W Bush did not even take the plurality (fewer % popular vote than second place) but took the overall election due to the electoral system.
And if you don't like it, push for a constitutional amendment. Don't bitch on/.
I went to grad school with a nice indian lady that always used bright puke orange and yellow in ppt slides. Painful. Maybe it is a cultural thing, since I have seen saris that have that bright color as well.
I personally dislike orange for everything but Halloween. Football teams especially: Auburn, Tennessee, Clemson, Florida, Miami, etc.
Years ago you could buy a commercial X driver. Maybe that would help things, but it would still be a closed-source driver. At least it would be supported by motivated people. Maybe NVIDIA is now motivated enough to support linux, but the market is still win.
And I like the idea of Cyglinux. If we could just port minesweeper and IE7, we would be set.
Windows does the "do you see the image correctly" and defaults back to low res so you can switch on the fly without hacking your XF86config-4 file. Something like this could be nice in linux, and it may be there in some distros. I installed the nvidia "blob" recently and it had some sort of config gui. Crazy. Next thing you know, linux won't even have a shell, just some cmd.exe garbage...
My "less motivated" comment was from personal experience actually talking to them. They hated working with these kids to expose them to science for some reason.
That New Zealand thing sounds terrific. We have something similar here on the Appalacian Trail (2200 miles up the East Coast of the US). Small shelters every 5-10 miles along much of the trail. Personally, I would never go without some sort of backpacking tent, just in case. During peak season, you have to stop hiking at 2:00 to "reserve" a spot in the shelter, and that limits your milaage.
There is a difference in my book between "profit" and "benefit."
Lots of people benefit from free software. Some companies profit from it by using it.
Individuals donate time and effort to projects to help benfit others. If someone takes my stuff, slaps a new name on it and markets it for profit, I would not be very happy.
Maybe the BSD license is too much freedom. I personally like LGPL, so you can wrap commercial apps around a free backend.
I assumed I was working with volunteers. I thought we were all there to interact with kids and teach them about science.
They were there to get paid and saw the job as babysitting.
I am not sure there is a parallel to the Debian project. There have always been Linux people that got paid to do linux, and things still keep going along.
I actually retook Calc at Tech, thinking my HS was too weak. It was a good review for me, and a easy A when making the transition. I encourage our students to do the same here.
Easy A even with "Double F" Neff, "one F is for you".
I had too many outside things going on in HS to want to leave early. Why rush college? I actually wanted to stay a fifth year and get an extra major at Tech, but the money ran out.
A friend of mine came in a year after me, went straight through (summers) and took extra classes just to finish before me. He still took ~10 quarters to do it (EE!)
My high school had most of the following, but I could not take them alland be in band.
BC calculus, 10 hours (We only had AB) Physics 5 Chemistry 5 I think they have AB now as well English Lit 3 Euro hist 3 Amer hist 3 Biology 5 CompSci 3 (Optional self study) Government 3 Language 3 (Optional self study)
Not sure what else you could do. Maybe Stats? BC Chem, Econ, Another english?
I am surprised they all counted. You can take a ton of AP classes, but a lot of it will never help you to a degree. Any idiot can sign up and take the AP exam even if the AP class is not offered at a high school.
I recently had a student come in with 60, but 72 is amazing. I encouraged her to take more electives and get into undergraduate research.
The other thing, most places limit you to 23 hours per semester. He must have gotten a waiver for 30+. With night classes, you oculd easily do 37. I did 23 one quarter at GT, it wasn't that bad.
Thanks for the useful info. Sounds like it could hold most frames in 24 fps signal for two frames, but 1/4 of the frames are held for three frames, to give 60 fps. Or do they actually process the frames and interpolate the signal to fill gaps I wonder.
Do the DVD players figure this crap out? Do they run both 24fps and 30 fps? The output to my analog tv is the same no matter, I assume.
If you rip it to HD, can you reencode a 24fps to 30 or 60 fps? It still judders, I assume...
Anybody got a suggestion on DVD player for upscaling to 1080p? Looks like you need one that can handle 24 and 30 fps on the fly...
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Reading digg comments makes my brain hurt. And their comment implementation is braindead.
I do try to skim through digg headlines, and maybe 5% of the stories are clickable. Even at that, the top users that push stories on the front page are known shills. Of course,
I like the idea of user driven content, and I think
I love palm powered treo 650. It does everything, but it does not have wifi or stereo bluetooth...
I stand corrected. Everything else is legal.
You cannot claim the executive order stopped all research in that direction. California has put tons of money into new stem cell lines, without federal money. This is totally legal. Other countries have done so as well.
You are not being honest by calling this a ban on stem cell research, or even a ban on embryonic stem cell research. This is just a ban on federal funding using new embryonic stem cell lines.
Just because you don't like the result does not mean you should mislead people.
And remember, W was the first president to fund stem cell research.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/2
It is allowed in the US. Privately funded embryonic stem cell research is allowed.
Federally funded is allowed, if you use existing stem cell lines.
So technically, W was the first president to fund stem cell research... He actually came up with a compromise on the issue (that satisfies neither side, thus the compromise).
But as your brother post points out, private embryonic stem cell research is legal.
You cannot get federal funding for stem cell research on new cell lines. Everything else is fine.
Why not? If you play for money (Scrabble tournement, Chess in the park) you could be taxed.
They probably look the other way for most board game winnings...
Back in the mid 90s I saw MUDs take the life of a few at Georgia Tech. Decent GPA to 2.0 easy, loss of co-op position, etc.
I have periodically gotten hooked on nethack, which is just as lame as MUDs.
Hell, when I was a kid, I would play that terrible Atari 2600 PacMan for hour and hours and hours and days and days. Why?
With all the shiny graphics, this stuff is like super crack...
Totally wrong. Look up Electoral College.
There are a number of presidents that did not get a majority of the popular vote but did become president (Billy boy Clinton in '92 AND '96).
http://www.presidentelect.org/e1992.html
http://www.presidentelect.org/e1996.html
Plus you have the 2000 problem where W Bush did not even take the plurality (fewer % popular vote than second place) but took the overall election due to the electoral system.
And if you don't like it, push for a constitutional amendment. Don't bitch on
My freshman roommate moved out after a quarter (into a fraternity house).
People would periodically come around looking for a new roommate / new room.
I would open the door in my boxers, with my beer gut hanging out, scratching myself.
Never found another roommate for some reason...
I was in grad school and had some pain. My buddy said, "Nothing cures pain like a beer. Let's go to pint night."
After a few pints, I was up all that night with terrible pain. Hit the student health center when they opened at 5:30 or 6:00.
Apparently, Purdue U docs don't have high tech xray type stuff. I got the rubber glove. Didn't care, the pain was terrible.
Doc decided I had appendicitis, sent me to a surgeon. I had to have my buddy drive me.
We get there, and while being admitted buddy says, "Good luck, I have to get to class. See ya."
Luckily did not die, no thanks to Steve.
Forgot to ask to keep the appendix... Oops.
I went to grad school with a nice indian lady that always used bright puke orange and yellow in ppt slides. Painful. Maybe it is a cultural thing, since I have seen saris that have that bright color as well.
I personally dislike orange for everything but Halloween. Football teams especially: Auburn, Tennessee, Clemson, Florida, Miami, etc.
Wine may run IE7... Looking at codeweavers, IE7 does not even install... Doh!
Years ago you could buy a commercial X driver. Maybe that would help things, but it would still be a closed-source driver. At least it would be supported by motivated people. Maybe NVIDIA is now motivated enough to support linux, but the market is still win.
And I like the idea of Cyglinux. If we could just port minesweeper and IE7, we would be set.
Windows does the "do you see the image correctly" and defaults back to low res so you can switch on the fly without hacking your XF86config-4 file. Something like this could be nice in linux, and it may be there in some distros. I installed the nvidia "blob" recently and it had some sort of config gui. Crazy. Next thing you know, linux won't even have a shell, just some cmd.exe garbage...
I just got a 30 inch, but now I am less productive since I now run XP instead of Linux on my desktop.
I try to switch to a new window.........and we switch a few seconds later. Not all the time, but when a couple of app are running this is common.
I try to drop a email in a folder to sort stuff........ and I have control back, just a few seconds later.
It drives me insane. Over Xmas I plan to revert to a linux box.
Funny how sluggish a dual Xeon system with GBs of RAM can be when running XP... Can't wait for Vista.
My "less motivated" comment was from personal experience actually talking to them. They hated working with these kids to expose them to science for some reason.
That New Zealand thing sounds terrific. We have something similar here on the Appalacian Trail (2200 miles up the East Coast of the US). Small shelters every 5-10 miles along much of the trail. Personally, I would never go without some sort of backpacking tent, just in case. During peak season, you have to stop hiking at 2:00 to "reserve" a spot in the shelter, and that limits your milaage.
There is a difference in my book between "profit" and "benefit."
Lots of people benefit from free software. Some companies profit from it by using it.
Individuals donate time and effort to projects to help benfit others. If someone takes my stuff, slaps a new name on it and markets it for profit, I would not be very happy.
Maybe the BSD license is too much freedom. I personally like LGPL, so you can wrap commercial apps around a free backend.
I assumed I was working with volunteers. I thought we were all there to interact with kids and teach them about science.
They were there to get paid and saw the job as babysitting.
I am not sure there is a parallel to the Debian project. There have always been Linux people that got paid to do linux, and things still keep going along.
In college I volunteered at the Atlanta Kids Science Museum.
About a month in, I realized all the other workers were not volunteers, they were getting paid. For doing the same stuff I was doing.
That really destroyed my motivation. Why give away your time for free when others that are less motivated and less qualified are getting paid?
I actually retook Calc at Tech, thinking my HS was too weak. It was a good review for me, and a easy A when making the transition. I encourage our students to do the same here.
Easy A even with "Double F" Neff, "one F is for you".
I had too many outside things going on in HS to want to leave early. Why rush college? I actually wanted to stay a fifth year and get an extra major at Tech, but the money ran out.
Reminds me of
"The competition is so fierce because the stakes are so low."
I did my undergrad at Tech as well- CHE 95-
A friend of mine came in a year after me, went straight through (summers) and took extra classes just to finish before me. He still took ~10 quarters to do it (EE!)
My high school had most of the following, but I could not take them alland be in band.
BC calculus, 10 hours (We only had AB)
Physics 5
Chemistry 5 I think they have AB now as well
English Lit 3
Euro hist 3
Amer hist 3
Biology 5
CompSci 3 (Optional self study)
Government 3
Language 3 (Optional self study)
Not sure what else you could do. Maybe Stats? BC Chem, Econ, Another english?
I am surprised they all counted. You can take a ton of AP classes, but a lot of it will never help you to a degree. Any idiot can sign up and take the AP exam even if the AP class is not offered at a high school.
I recently had a student come in with 60, but 72 is amazing. I encouraged her to take more electives and get into undergraduate research.
The other thing, most places limit you to 23 hours per semester. He must have gotten a waiver for 30+. With night classes, you oculd easily do 37. I did 23 one quarter at GT, it wasn't that bad.
My 30" inch dell runs 1080P in a little window, since the native resolution is like 2650x1600...
Now I need 1600p video!
Thanks for the useful info. Sounds like it could hold most frames in 24 fps signal for two frames, but 1/4 of the frames are held for three frames, to give 60 fps. Or do they actually process the frames and interpolate the signal to fill gaps I wonder.
Do the DVD players figure this crap out? Do they run both 24fps and 30 fps? The output to my analog tv is the same no matter, I assume.
If you rip it to HD, can you reencode a 24fps to 30 or 60 fps? It still judders, I assume...
Anybody got a suggestion on DVD player for upscaling to 1080p? Looks like you need one that can handle 24 and 30 fps on the fly...