I pulled my son out of it. It's mostly being used as a course to get kids into a church under the guise of 'usefull life skills' backed by a bunch of logical fallacies.
Where are you? I'm leading a district in NH and that's definitely not the case here.
Back when I worked for the man, the man had a bonus system where part of the bonus was tied to company goals (including profitability)
Yeah, I had one of those promised profitability bonuses. I cranked out three new products that year (R&D to marketing), decreased product turn-around time significantly, and managed a small team.
The company decided to go on a hiring binge which wiped out all the increased profits, so the bonus was $0.
At first everything worked well, but after the first 1TB or so it started to slow down. I re-started the transfer from the middle, but after 10 hours it had only transferred 100GB!
How were you syncing? I did a 2TB Hitachi to 3TB Hitachi with mdraid and it progressed at 125-140MB/s for the entire transfer. The 2TB Hitachi was on an LSI 3801E (no 3TB support!) and the 3TB Hitachi was attached to AMD mobo SATA 6Gbps.
Anyhow, if you want to steal wealth from the average family there's no surer way than printing lots of new currency, which dilutes the value of existing currency, and handing that new currency to your buddies on Wall Street (Goldman Sachs/etc) and politically connected corporate socialists.
And yet you'll get people here holding this^ up as an example of how capitalism has failed...
I think an explanation that's easier for the Slashdot crowd to understand is the idea of distributed decision making. Imagine the Internet model vs. the AOL model. We're 100% better off with millions of websites starting and thriving or failing on their own vs. the idea of what people will access online being decided inside a board room at Time Warner. For non-computer geeks I've described this as Organic vs. Industrial Economics.
Right and entering a 20-40 character email address on a number pad is fun. For address book, that would be some 100 seperate contacts for me alone, none of which are sync'd but would be enetered seperately.
I've written a tiny LDAP server in the past to bind to a directory server from a digital scanner (and this was 1999). Even better would be if everybody had smartcards, so you could include your personal address book and have type-ahead search on it.
If it means anything at all in court, it's just proof that the courts believe fervently in the most threadbare of superstitions.
They dress in black robes, sit on altars, and speak in Latin. Paying a minister is required for equal access. Most of their decisions are based on dogma and tradition. And if you disobey, you'll be sent to a really terrible place.
Any form of historically implementable communism would now require a command control agency to dictate to industry how they will implement the commercial hardware and what it will cost.
Any particular boards you recommend for Coreboot server work? I've transitioned to all AMD over the past 9 months, but I still suffer with legacy BIOS.
No, I think the College learning experience will drift away from the young-people-leaving-the-nest experience. They've been combined for matters of technology and geography, but the two don't really need to be coupled.
Learn at home until 21 or so, then go away for 'labs' for a year, maybe live in a young-people's community for a few years after that.
Neat. Quite right - less than half the price and more effective. This ACR seems to be well-reviewed in general (though all I know about them I learned in the last 10 minutes).
What gap do you predict will have closed in 10 years so that this is no longer true?
Ubiquitous access to high-speed Internet is the most important one (it's still 65% in my area, census area size 225,000). Telepresense really has a long way to go as well. Skype is OK, but we need more resolution, better optics, better compression (and hardware acceleration) better immersive experience, more echo cancellation and acoustic modeling, head/eye tracking, plus rapid document sharing and better human input devices for mark-up.
That's just I/O. Then there's courseware systems, scheduling systems, IT, etc.
Ah, you're right - somebody else posted here that the battery was good for 36 hours, but I just looked at the real specs and it's 1-2 hours. That's not useful.
It was also said that the green laser maximized atmospheric scattering, but perhaps that was wrong as well.
I'm not saying you stop the guy buying the gun - but shouldn't he be required to show that he is able to exercise basic gun safety to buy one?
What makes guns or lasers special? How about swords, or kitchen knives, pocket knives, propane tanks, gasoline, industrial chemicals, plumbing pipe, glass, farm equipment, chainsaws, automobiles? I think you see where I'm going with that.
What's the end you're trying to achieve here? Remember, any of these restrictions impinges on personal liberties, so it's not like there's no downside.
Good use case. It wasn't clear that your 1500 books were all literature. That's actually pretty unusual - most people have a variety of books.
I mean if "books" for you means reference books then no, ebook readers are not for you.
'Books' to me means all kinds of books. But most of the people I know with Kindles primarily use them to read popular fiction, which is appropriate. I'll be thrilled when a quarto sized device of adequate color reproduction and sufficient resolution is invented to make the rest of the books useful in the digital domain.
and if you think that all we need is documentation and disclaimers, then explain to me what went wrong with lawn darts.
If you mean to ensure perfect safety, then no amount of documentation will suffice. See Darwin Awards. I bought a lawnmower once that said not to use it to trim a hedge, and it had a pictogram of two men standing on either side of the hedge, holding the lawnmower by its deck.
But, I had lots of fun with lawn darts as a kid and nothing went wrong. We were shown how not to throw them, just like I've drilled gun safety into my kids' heads. But a box of lawn darts were $9.99 and a 1W laser is $1000.
I actually tried building a burning laser when I was 12, but ran out of money.
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In the case of Diginotar, Price Waterhouse Coopers was doing the audits.
OK, so an independent audit by an auditor who hasn't been banned from the list of reliable auditors like PWC.
Is Mozilla really serious about trust or not?
touche!
I pulled my son out of it. It's mostly being used as a course to get kids into a church under the guise of 'usefull life skills' backed by a bunch of logical fallacies.
Where are you? I'm leading a district in NH and that's definitely not the case here.
Seconded. I've been doing this knot for about a year and the knot has only slipped twice (vs. at least once a day). I've since taught my kids.
For those without video: standard knot with two wraps instead of one.
So this is the last generation that will know how to tie even basic knots.
The Boy Scouts will continue to develop some young men while the rest learn their life skills from XBox.
Back when I worked for the man, the man had a bonus system where part of the bonus was tied to company goals (including profitability)
Yeah, I had one of those promised profitability bonuses. I cranked out three new products that year (R&D to marketing), decreased product turn-around time significantly, and managed a small team.
The company decided to go on a hiring binge which wiped out all the increased profits, so the bonus was $0.
3. Zagat is focused on a narrower market than Yelp.
For now, anyway. I think it's reasonable to assume Zagat will become a standard app on Android and expand from there.
Yelp could use some editors. Five years ago it was really helpful, today it's suffering from lower quality reviews.
At first everything worked well, but after the first 1TB or so it started to slow down. I re-started the transfer from the middle, but after 10 hours it had only transferred 100GB!
How were you syncing? I did a 2TB Hitachi to 3TB Hitachi with mdraid and it progressed at 125-140MB/s for the entire transfer. The 2TB Hitachi was on an LSI 3801E (no 3TB support!) and the 3TB Hitachi was attached to AMD mobo SATA 6Gbps.
Ah, well, 1996 has come and gone.
Still, I might call it dot-thirty.
If your brain is conducting 40 times more electricity than a copper wire of comparable size, please see a doctor immediately.
Dr. Hank McCoy, preferably.
Anyhow, if you want to steal wealth from the average family there's no surer way than printing lots of new currency, which dilutes the value of existing currency, and handing that new currency to your buddies on Wall Street (Goldman Sachs/etc) and politically connected corporate socialists.
And yet you'll get people here holding this^ up as an example of how capitalism has failed...
I think an explanation that's easier for the Slashdot crowd to understand is the idea of distributed decision making. Imagine the Internet model vs. the AOL model. We're 100% better off with millions of websites starting and thriving or failing on their own vs. the idea of what people will access online being decided inside a board room at Time Warner. For non-computer geeks I've described this as Organic vs. Industrial Economics.
My signature is always identical, because it's always a scan of the same one.
Even easier - include your signature in a truetype handwriting font. Mine is at ^. Very handy, and OpenOffice's export to PDF preserves it properly.
Sure, it's a broken system, but might as well cope with it as easily as possible.
Right and entering a 20-40 character email address on a number pad is fun. For address book, that would be some 100 seperate contacts for me alone, none of which are sync'd but would be enetered seperately.
I've written a tiny LDAP server in the past to bind to a directory server from a digital scanner (and this was 1999). Even better would be if everybody had smartcards, so you could include your personal address book and have type-ahead search on it.
If it means anything at all in court, it's just proof that the courts believe fervently in the most threadbare of superstitions.
They dress in black robes, sit on altars, and speak in Latin. Paying a minister is required for equal access. Most of their decisions are based on dogma and tradition. And if you disobey, you'll be sent to a really terrible place.
Sound familiar?
That's what happens when you let stories be written by some guy with a $9 web hosting account.
And this is not communism?
Any form of historically implementable communism would now require a command control agency to dictate to industry how they will implement the commercial hardware and what it will cost.
And this is why we don't put Slashdot in charge of the patent system.
At least we have a way to identify prior art.
Any particular boards you recommend for Coreboot server work? I've transitioned to all AMD over the past 9 months, but I still suffer with legacy BIOS.
No, I think the College learning experience will drift away from the young-people-leaving-the-nest experience. They've been combined for matters of technology and geography, but the two don't really need to be coupled.
Learn at home until 21 or so, then go away for 'labs' for a year, maybe live in a young-people's community for a few years after that.
Neat. Quite right - less than half the price and more effective. This ACR seems to be well-reviewed in general (though all I know about them I learned in the last 10 minutes).
What gap do you predict will have closed in 10 years so that this is no longer true?
Ubiquitous access to high-speed Internet is the most important one (it's still 65% in my area, census area size 225,000). Telepresense really has a long way to go as well. Skype is OK, but we need more resolution, better optics, better compression (and hardware acceleration) better immersive experience, more echo cancellation and acoustic modeling, head/eye tracking, plus rapid document sharing and better human input devices for mark-up.
That's just I/O. Then there's courseware systems, scheduling systems, IT, etc.
Ah, you're right - somebody else posted here that the battery was good for 36 hours, but I just looked at the real specs and it's 1-2 hours. That's not useful.
It was also said that the green laser maximized atmospheric scattering, but perhaps that was wrong as well.
I'm not saying you stop the guy buying the gun - but shouldn't he be required to show that he is able to exercise basic gun safety to buy one?
What makes guns or lasers special? How about swords, or kitchen knives, pocket knives, propane tanks, gasoline, industrial chemicals, plumbing pipe, glass, farm equipment, chainsaws, automobiles? I think you see where I'm going with that.
What's the end you're trying to achieve here? Remember, any of these restrictions impinges on personal liberties, so it's not like there's no downside.
Literature
Good use case. It wasn't clear that your 1500 books were all literature. That's actually pretty unusual - most people have a variety of books.
I mean if "books" for you means reference books then no, ebook readers are not for you.
'Books' to me means all kinds of books. But most of the people I know with Kindles primarily use them to read popular fiction, which is appropriate. I'll be thrilled when a quarto sized device of adequate color reproduction and sufficient resolution is invented to make the rest of the books useful in the digital domain.
and if you think that all we need is documentation and disclaimers, then explain to me what went wrong with lawn darts.
If you mean to ensure perfect safety, then no amount of documentation will suffice. See Darwin Awards. I bought a lawnmower once that said not to use it to trim a hedge, and it had a pictogram of two men standing on either side of the hedge, holding the lawnmower by its deck.
But, I had lots of fun with lawn darts as a kid and nothing went wrong. We were shown how not to throw them, just like I've drilled gun safety into my kids' heads. But a box of lawn darts were $9.99 and a 1W laser is $1000.
I actually tried building a burning laser when I was 12, but ran out of money.