The thing that has always worried me about openly sharing my net connection with any anonymous person within broadcast range is that they could be doing illegal things online and using my network to do it.
When my ISP gets a subpeona to find out who is conducting that activity, it would be me who takes the blame. At that point, it would be hard to say that it was some anonymous person connecting to my network.
Probably the worst thing ever adopted by the education system, IMHO, is PowerPoint.
I don't know about you, but the moment a prof puts up a 'slideshow' and just reads it for the next hour, all education benefits go down the tubes.
I am more a fan of writing information out on the board. This forces the intstructor to explain themselves while they are writing. I think writing slows them down enough on a particular subject to allow their brains to think about all the extras they wanted to get across to the students.
I was thinking of it on more of a large-scale. Imagine if you were off-grid, and instead of having a row of chemical batteries, you kept a series of compressed air tanks.
If it would work and provide enough energy, it would also be an environmentally friendly way to store energy for later use.
Kind of the same idea as pumping water into a tower and then later opening the tower at the bottom and using the flowing water to run a generator. In essence, the water tower is your battery, because it is storing energy in the form of gravitational potential.
I just wonder if the air tanks themselves would have to be the size of a house, or if they could be small enough to be manageable.
I once thought that it might be an interesting idea to store compressed air in a tank and then let it out at a controlled rate to run a turbine.
In essence, the compressed air tank would be a battery (it would 'hold' the energy that was used to pump the compressed air in).
I don't know a lot of about high pressure tanks. Does anyone know if this would work at all? Would all the air come out too quick to make it worthwhile?
beyond that, it got tired. Herbert even has selective memory of some things... in the first novel, Paul had a son he named Leto, but his son was killed.
Afterwards, when they have the twins (children of dune), they carry on as if that first child never existed (one of the twins is even named Leto).
It seems to me that the original Dune novel was intended to stand on it's own. Herbert gave into the pressure of his publishers and screwed up an otherwise perfect and mysterious universe by putting out a series of weirder and weirder sequels.
Independant games are flourishing. (look at http://rpgtoolkit.com)
Really, anyone can break in as long as they find a good niche. Naturally, if an independent churns out a quake clone it's not necissarily gonna be picked up by fans everywhere.
But think of your favorite games -- weren't they unique in some way?
who actually gets loads of spam every day? I get about 3 per day (3 too many!) You always hear about these poor suckers getting 200 or so a day, but how many of us actrually have to put up with that much stuff? If I got that much, I'd just switch email accounts, cos I just wouldn't put up with it. I'm not defending spam here, but I'm just kinda curious how much people actually do get on average.
I remember watching episode 1, and at the end, thinking to myself:
am i convinced that darth maul was bad?
just cos he had red stuff on his face, and he was cloaked in black, they expected me to swallow the bit that he was pure evil.
here's the thing: in the old movies, Vader was actually developed as a character. You *knew* he was a bad guy, cos of what he said and did. Did darth maul even say anything in the whole movie?
I know that Lucas probably though 'well, i'm going to kill off this bad guy at the end, anyway', but that doesn't excuse sloppy character development as far as I'm concerned.
This reminded me of something I used to do when I owned a C64 myself.
There used to be a program that could take an audio recording and digitize it using the cassette reader. (It was called the Digitizer?)
And the sound really was really awful.
I believe the program simply read the audio track as if it were data, and saved the data. Then on playback it just pumped the audio frequencies through the sound unit.
The cassette player was only intended to be sensitive within certain high frequencies (If you've ever played a C64 data tape in a tape recorder, you know what I'm talking about), which is why actual audio didn't read very well.
But it's a really brilliant idea for sampling sound.
AFAIK, Adobe develops all of it's apps on it's own GUI framework. This is how they can maintain both Mac and Windows versions of Photoshop.
So really, the issue is porting the in-house GUI framework. And from my experiences with porting stuff to OS X, they're probably either using carbon or cocoa, both of which are proprietary Apple APIs.
The best chance of an easy port to Linux is probably tying in the Windows version of the Framework through WINE.
Of course, OS X is based on unix, and if you could get your hands on the source behind the carbon or cocoa APIs, things would be a lot easier.
Of course you need to have your corporate sponsored shows showing off the latest and greatest.
But it would have to be balanced. There would have to be shows dedicated to the grassrootscommunity. Maybe shows about the history of gaming (like an A&E 'Biography' but showing the 'Biography' of different games)
If there were a variety of shows like that, the channel might actually be worth watching.
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Speaking as a programmer who works for a big software company, it's unlikely that anything like that would be able to get through.
Code generally goes through peer reviews and quality assurance before it is accepted into the main stream. Say waht you want about MS, but I'm sure they do these things (they can afford it!)
To bypass these failsafes would require a lot of people along the line allowing it to slip through.
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The thing that has always worried me about openly sharing my net connection with any anonymous person within broadcast range is that they could be doing illegal things online and using my network to do it.
When my ISP gets a subpeona to find out who is conducting that activity, it would be me who takes the blame. At that point, it would be hard to say that it was some anonymous person connecting to my network.
Probably the worst thing ever adopted by the education system, IMHO, is PowerPoint.
I don't know about you, but the moment a prof puts up a 'slideshow' and just reads it for the next hour, all education benefits go down the tubes.
I am more a fan of writing information out on the board. This forces the intstructor to explain themselves while they are writing. I think writing slows them down enough on a particular subject to allow their brains to think about all the extras they wanted to get across to the students.
I'm surprised it hasn't been said:
Wouldn't supporting CSS 2.1 or CSS 3 imply support for CSS 2? These standards are backwards-compatible, right?
Their site has a link to a tracker, which is showing some interesting stuff regarding what is happening to the site because of the slashdotting.
Look here.
Looks like slashdot viewers really do use FireFox the most. But looks like they're also using Win XP the most (view the 'System Tracking' section).
I was thinking of it on more of a large-scale. Imagine if you were off-grid, and instead of having a row of chemical batteries, you kept a series of compressed air tanks.
If it would work and provide enough energy, it would also be an environmentally friendly way to store energy for later use.
Kind of the same idea as pumping water into a tower and then later opening the tower at the bottom and using the flowing water to run a generator. In essence, the water tower is your battery, because it is storing energy in the form of gravitational potential.
I just wonder if the air tanks themselves would have to be the size of a house, or if they could be small enough to be manageable.
I once thought that it might be an interesting idea to store compressed air in a tank and then let it out at a controlled rate to run a turbine.
In essence, the compressed air tank would be a battery (it would 'hold' the energy that was used to pump the compressed air in).
I don't know a lot of about high pressure tanks. Does anyone know if this would work at all? Would all the air come out too quick to make it worthwhile?
So, the experiment itself wasn't saved. They just found another way to get the data (reading the doppler shift in the signal).
So, here's a good question: why did they need to include the equipment for the experiment in the first place?
The logfiles for a single site can hardly be used as proof of an overall trend throughout the Internet.
Microsoft's site can probably claim higher numbers of IE users.
RedHat's site can probably claim lower numbers of IE users
It often has very little to do with *you*.
It quickly becomes your problem if you have done business with someone else and *they* are stupid enough to leave stuff in plain view.
It would be nice if we knew that everyone we did business with was intelligent enough not to do this, but realistically we probably can't
I had my homework al done, but the magnetic poles flipped and wiped my harddrive...
He's giving us a subtle hint...
katz: all your base are belong to us
I thinbk that's really 1.21 GIGAwatts.
But of course in the 80's, that prefix was unheard of.
he refers to 'linux', not 'GNU/Linux'
I don't think this thread is credible.
if virtual pc will be suspended for the mac.
are they more concerned about stopping adoption of os x, or more concerned about selling windows licenses to mac users?
the first child was also named Leto II, after Paul's father.
So shouldn't the twin be named Leto III?
dune was only really inspired in the first novel.
beyond that, it got tired. Herbert even has selective memory of some things... in the first novel, Paul had a son he named Leto, but his son was killed.
Afterwards, when they have the twins (children of dune), they carry on as if that first child never existed (one of the twins is even named Leto).
It seems to me that the original Dune novel was intended to stand on it's own. Herbert gave into the pressure of his publishers and screwed up an otherwise perfect and mysterious universe by putting out a series of weirder and weirder sequels.
Independant games are flourishing. (look at http://rpgtoolkit.com)
Really, anyone can break in as long as they find a good niche. Naturally, if an independent churns out a quake clone it's not necissarily gonna be picked up by fans everywhere.
But think of your favorite games -- weren't they unique in some way?
who actually gets loads of spam every day?
I get about 3 per day (3 too many!)
You always hear about these poor suckers getting 200 or so a day, but how many of us actrually have to put up with that much stuff? If I got that much, I'd just switch email accounts, cos I just wouldn't put up with it.
I'm not defending spam here, but I'm just kinda curious how much people actually do get on average.
I'm suprised no one has posted this.
Does anyone know if a flip in the poles would have any impact on magnetic storage?
If so, get burnin!
Actually, the moon was claimed in the name of all mankind. To think the USA could realistially stake a claim on the whole thing would be absurd.
I remember watching episode 1, and at the end, thinking to myself:
am i convinced that darth maul was bad?
just cos he had red stuff on his face, and he was cloaked in black, they expected me to swallow the bit that he was pure evil.
here's the thing: in the old movies, Vader was actually developed as a character. You *knew* he was a bad guy, cos of what he said and did. Did darth maul even say anything in the whole movie?
I know that Lucas probably though 'well, i'm going to kill off this bad guy at the end, anyway', but that doesn't excuse sloppy character development as far as I'm concerned.
This reminded me of something I used to do when I owned a C64 myself.
There used to be a program that could take an audio recording and digitize it using the cassette reader. (It was called the Digitizer?)
And the sound really was really awful.
I believe the program simply read the audio track as if it were data, and saved the data. Then on playback it just pumped the audio frequencies through the sound unit.
The cassette player was only intended to be sensitive within certain high frequencies (If you've ever played a C64 data tape in a tape recorder, you know what I'm talking about), which is why actual audio didn't read very well.
But it's a really brilliant idea for sampling sound.
AFAIK, Adobe develops all of it's apps on it's own GUI framework. This is how they can maintain both Mac and Windows versions of Photoshop.
So really, the issue is porting the in-house GUI framework. And from my experiences with porting stuff to OS X, they're probably either using carbon or cocoa, both of which are proprietary Apple APIs.
The best chance of an easy port to Linux is probably tying in the Windows version of the Framework through WINE.
Of course, OS X is based on unix, and if you could get your hands on the source behind the carbon or cocoa APIs, things would be a lot easier.
...but only of done right.
Of course you need to have your corporate sponsored shows showing off the latest and greatest.
But it would have to be balanced. There would have to be shows dedicated to the grassroots community. Maybe shows about the history of gaming (like an A&E 'Biography' but showing the 'Biography' of different games)
If there were a variety of shows like that, the channel might actually be worth watching.
Speaking as a programmer who works for a big software company, it's unlikely that anything like that would be able to get through.
Code generally goes through peer reviews and quality assurance before it is accepted into the main stream. Say waht you want about MS, but I'm sure they do these things (they can afford it!)
To bypass these failsafes would require a lot of people along the line allowing it to slip through.