The main one didn't give out homework until 6th grade (Bank Street, NYC), the school I went to in VT (Marion Cross) started giving homework in 3rd grade, For the benefit of those of us who don't live in the USA, could someone give some sort of calibration data on this "3rd grade, 6th grade" business? What age corresponds to 3rd grade for instance?
Try powering a lightbulb on a bike. Again, you've missed the point. It doesn't matter that powering an old-fashioned incandescent light bulb from a bike would be awfully difficult to sustain. What matters is that a lot of people put a lot of effort into driving all these exercise machines. Why not harness the energy? A room full of sweating executives could easily power quite a few light bulbs.
There is no environmental gain here at all. Not quite correct. Yes, if you were going to make people take exercise as a means of generating power then you're right - there's no environmental gain. This isn't what's being proposed though. People already take the exercise and currently all the energy which they expend is wasted as heat. The idea is to tap energy which would otherwise go to waste, so there is a potential environmental gain.
You obviously don't have kids. From the content of the parent post I would have drawn the opposite conclusion - that the poster does have children. If you really are in the position where your children might be influenced by this then yes, your parenting is seriously fucked up.
All major brand-name computers come with a ton of crapware pre-installed. The best performance enhancement you can achieve for a new XP-based computer is to remove all the Norton AV and related Norton stuff. Boot up and shut down time improve by a factor of at least 4. Install a decent AV program like AVG instead.
A worse problem is that CFLs lifetime is much less than a normal bulb in situations where the lights are turned on an off often. These CFLs die very quickly under such service. If this is your experience then you're buying the wrong brand of CFLs - it certainly isn't true in general.
We have nothing but CFLs in our house and to a first approximation they last for ever. We've taken to writing the date on them when fitting them so we can tell exactly how long, but it's only a few years since we started writing dates and none of the dated ones has gone wrong yet. The oldest one I know of is in the porch and it dates from 1988; still works fine.
It's conventional incandescent bulbs which have their lives heavily shortened by being turned on and off a lot.
An incandescent lightbulb might cost 1/10th of what a CF bulb would cost, but the cost of running the incandescent would be significantly higher. This is the current state of affairs - a CF bulb already costs much less to run than the equivalent incandescents.
A bouncing economy (for which thanks go to Gordon Brown) Aaaaaargh! Why do people fall for the lies of these politicians. Nothing which Gordon Brown has done has brought any kind of improvement to the country's finances - on the contrary, all his active decisions have been complete disasters.
When Blair and Brown came to power the country was in very good financial shape, engineered by Major and Clarke. Only where Brown has had the sense to leave well alone has anyone prospered.
Brown is excellent at getting journalists to write articles saying what a "prudent" chancellor he is, but once you look behind the spin you find he's mind-bogglingly incompetent.
Tony Blair has been in power 10 years lets not forget and also lets not forget what a mess the Conservatives left the country in. When New Labour came to power the country - especially the financial situation - was in remarkably good shape. For quite a bit of the Tories' reign it had been a mess, but John Major and Kenneth Clarke had done a good job in bringing stability and gentle growth.
New Labour (and especially Gordon Brown) have done an excellent job in taking credit for what was achieved by Major and Clarke. Every active thing which Brown has done (as opposed to just saying, "Carry on as you were") has been an unmitigated disaster. It's hard to conceive of a worse prime minister than Tony Blair, but Brown might just manage it. He's a total incompetent, with a ludicrously high opinion of himself.
NFS is a joke. The security model is broken in version 3, and in version 4, it's a complicated mess. This misses the point of the differences between NFS and SMB.
NFS was designed for use in an environment where both client and server boxes were secure, multi-user systems. One logical connection per share would serve for multiple users. Of course, if you allow insecure clients into the equation then all your security is blown out of the water.
SMB was designed on the assumption that the client would be an insecure single-user system. All the security is on the server, and connections are on a per-user basis.
Neither system is really ideal for the situations which we have today. What is needed is a secure system which copes with multi-user client boxes.
Several times between 1986 and 2002. Maybe central London is also different from the rest of the country since you have more unrenovated old buildings. I know my friend's apartment still had quite a few of the round-pin sockets, among other places that I saw them. Round-pin plugs and sockets came in 3 sizes (rated 15A, 5A and 2A) and disappeared from general use in the early 1960s. They are retained for a few specialist purposes.
1) Theatre lights use them for the simple reason that they don't have a fuse in each plug. Every time a bulb blows it takes the fuse out with it and the last thing you want to do is crawl around the lighting bars looking for a blown fuse. Instead each circuit has a fuse (or nowadays a circuit breaker) back at the dimmer rack. These are the large - 15A - size.
2) Navy ships seem to use them too - I presume for the same reason.
3) Sometimes houses have some of the 2A ones (very small) wired to light switches. You can thus have the room lit by table lights or free standing lights, but still have them controlled from a switch by the door rather than having to go around the room turning them all on and off.
You won't however find any round-pin sockets for general distribution purposes in any UK residence these days - central London or not. The last time they would have been installed would have been in the 1950s, and they'd long ago have been replaced by now.
I don't know whether it was physically like the one in Birmingham, but it certainly wasn't mothballed after a week. It was a regular part of any visit to Leeds for me as a young teenager to go and watch it.
For the benefit of the hard of thinking, I should perhaps make my point more explicit.
The poster to whom I was replying argued that the sentence did not prevent the use of the Internet provided it was indirect. I was just pointing out the flaw in his argument - it can equally well be applied to justifying the use of a web browser. It's a standard logical technique called Reductio Ad Absurdum, or RAA. You demonstrate that either an assumption or an inference is flawed by pointing out that, if correct, it leads inevitably to a false conclusion.
If you ever find yourself in front of a judge, I suggest turning the geek mode off. It will help keep you out of the slammer for contempt. You clearly have no concept of how lawyers work. They thoroughly out-geek geeks when it comes to analysing and relying on precisely what was said rather than what was meant. In this case it's pretty clear that the judgement doesn't say what it meant to say, because of sloppy use of language. Unfortunately, what it meant to say doesn't matter - what matters is what it does actually say.
Your making it harder then it needs to be. If you can access something on the internet it is the destination. It is his intentionand end result. If someone does it on your behalf without you asking them to then the desination and intentions are something else. Sure, website might be the final destination but you can also get those with going on the internet. It coulds be printed out by your boss and handed to you. But if you go onto the internet to get the site, thats the destination we will be in trouble over. You're not the republican senator for Alaska by any chance are you?
No. the internet is the desination, the tool is the web browser. This demonstrates exactly the confusion about terms which I was talking about.
The Internet is most definitely not the destination. The Internet is the means by which the data are transferred from various web sites to the user's web browser. The Internet is used for many other purposes as well - it conveys e-mail (although it's not the only method by which e-mail can reach its destination); it carries telephone calls; it carries hordes of other types of data.
Thank you for demonstrating so comprehensively how accurate I was in my assessment.
Thankfully our legal system has more common sense than you. He can use TV, ATMs, and phones. THEY use the Internet, he uses them. By the same argument, he can use a web browser. It uses the Internet to fetch his pages; he uses the web browser.
I suspect that what the judgement meant to say was that he was banned from using a web browser. A classic example of how sloppy use of terminology leads to problems.
This certainly isn't the case in the UK any more. It used to be part of the agreement, but was removed quite a few years ago (at least 10). You find a number of businesses do charge an additional fee (usually a percentage) if you pay with a credit card.
Green glow!? You've never actually tried one have you?
Some very cheap ones give a rather pink light, especially when cold, but apart from that they give a light very much like a normal incandescent bulb. You can even buy them in different colour temperatures, like incandescent bulbs.
Of course the spectrum which they produce is split into sharply defined bands, dependent on the phosphors used in the tube, rather than the continuous spectrum of an incandescent bulb. They're therefore not a good idea for photographic work, but who would use them for that?
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I didn't even know that Star Trek had taken Christmas 2008. Surely that was the grinch?
And yes, I do have children.
We have nothing but CFLs in our house and to a first approximation they last for ever. We've taken to writing the date on them when fitting them so we can tell exactly how long, but it's only a few years since we started writing dates and none of the dated ones has gone wrong yet. The oldest one I know of is in the porch and it dates from 1988; still works fine.
It's conventional incandescent bulbs which have their lives heavily shortened by being turned on and off a lot.
You seem to have severe logic problems. How does the ERM mess have any relevance to the competence of Gordon Brown?
When Blair and Brown came to power the country was in very good financial shape, engineered by Major and Clarke. Only where Brown has had the sense to leave well alone has anyone prospered.
Brown is excellent at getting journalists to write articles saying what a "prudent" chancellor he is, but once you look behind the spin you find he's mind-bogglingly incompetent.
New Labour (and especially Gordon Brown) have done an excellent job in taking credit for what was achieved by Major and Clarke. Every active thing which Brown has done (as opposed to just saying, "Carry on as you were") has been an unmitigated disaster. It's hard to conceive of a worse prime minister than Tony Blair, but Brown might just manage it. He's a total incompetent, with a ludicrously high opinion of himself.
Presumably what makes them fill up is the heat from the lasers?
Heisenberg probably rules, OK
NFS was designed for use in an environment where both client and server boxes were secure, multi-user systems. One logical connection per share would serve for multiple users. Of course, if you allow insecure clients into the equation then all your security is blown out of the water.
SMB was designed on the assumption that the client would be an insecure single-user system. All the security is on the server, and connections are on a per-user basis.
Neither system is really ideal for the situations which we have today. What is needed is a secure system which copes with multi-user client boxes.
John
1) Theatre lights use them for the simple reason that they don't have a fuse in each plug. Every time a bulb blows it takes the fuse out with it and the last thing you want to do is crawl around the lighting bars looking for a blown fuse. Instead each circuit has a fuse (or nowadays a circuit breaker) back at the dimmer rack. These are the large - 15A - size.
2) Navy ships seem to use them too - I presume for the same reason.
3) Sometimes houses have some of the 2A ones (very small) wired to light switches. You can thus have the room lit by table lights or free standing lights, but still have them controlled from a switch by the door rather than having to go around the room turning them all on and off.
You won't however find any round-pin sockets for general distribution purposes in any UK residence these days - central London or not. The last time they would have been installed would have been in the 1950s, and they'd long ago have been replaced by now.
John
I don't know whether it was physically like the one in Birmingham, but it certainly wasn't mothballed after a week. It was a regular part of any visit to Leeds for me as a young teenager to go and watch it.
There was one in Leeds in the early 70s. Slightly different in that it went up rather than down, but otherwise pretty much the same.
The poster to whom I was replying argued that the sentence did not prevent the use of the Internet provided it was indirect. I was just pointing out the flaw in his argument - it can equally well be applied to justifying the use of a web browser. It's a standard logical technique called Reductio Ad Absurdum, or RAA. You demonstrate that either an assumption or an inference is flawed by pointing out that, if correct, it leads inevitably to a false conclusion. If you ever find yourself in front of a judge, I suggest turning the geek mode off. It will help keep you out of the slammer for contempt. You clearly have no concept of how lawyers work. They thoroughly out-geek geeks when it comes to analysing and relying on precisely what was said rather than what was meant. In this case it's pretty clear that the judgement doesn't say what it meant to say, because of sloppy use of language. Unfortunately, what it meant to say doesn't matter - what matters is what it does actually say.
The Internet is most definitely not the destination. The Internet is the means by which the data are transferred from various web sites to the user's web browser. The Internet is used for many other purposes as well - it conveys e-mail (although it's not the only method by which e-mail can reach its destination); it carries telephone calls; it carries hordes of other types of data.
Thank you for demonstrating so comprehensively how accurate I was in my assessment.
I suspect that what the judgement meant to say was that he was banned from using a web browser. A classic example of how sloppy use of terminology leads to problems.
John
No, no, no - you need Vigor http://vigor.sourceforge.net/
This certainly isn't the case in the UK any more. It used to be part of the agreement, but was removed quite a few years ago (at least 10). You find a number of businesses do charge an additional fee (usually a percentage) if you pay with a credit card.
Green glow!? You've never actually tried one have you?
Some very cheap ones give a rather pink light, especially when cold, but apart from that they give a light very much like a normal incandescent bulb. You can even buy them in different colour temperatures, like incandescent bulbs.
Of course the spectrum which they produce is split into sharply defined bands, dependent on the phosphors used in the tube, rather than the continuous spectrum of an incandescent bulb. They're therefore not a good idea for photographic work, but who would use them for that?
HTH
John
But the article says it was delayed by 5+ years, not that it came out 5+ years after XP.
Perhaps what the author meant to say was that the intended 2 year interval between releases became 5+ years.