You know what? You are right about the facebook thing. We will take that away and allow viewing of models (creation would it though) from anonymous users.
I just contacted OLPC for the "give many" option, since i'm looking for 120 laptops for the school that i run located in Latin America. I got a response from someone from brightstarcorp.com the same day indicating the price and asking for a shiping address so he could send me the official quote.
So once i get the quote our school will be wiring 36'000 usd plus shipping...
should i be worried?
This is also a suprise for me, considering that down here in Colombia (South America) you can get a wii quite easily. I got mine the first week of January and have always seen available wiis on stores.
Since you already have the webcams set up,do you let them watch themselves?
At first we were trying to avoid that. The installed cameras (16 in total) are CMOS cameras which are really small mainly because we didn't want the kids to feel observed all the time. It took them less than an hour until even the 2 year olds realized that "daddy" was "whatching me on tv". So eventually we just had to go ahead and try to explain how they worked. The first couple of weeks, the classroom (i mean the teachers AND kids) we behaving kind of oddly or "acted" if you will (most teachers strongly opposed the idea, at least at first). Time took care of that. So know i transmit live feeds to parents and keep a record of up to 3 months of classes for latter assessment for quality control and so on. Quite an experience!
Actually we've got that already. Parents just love it. And we run the entire system on linux! We actually got the idea thanks to/. a couple of years ago. We are just about ready for the next big thing, and wanted to ask slashdot for what could that be...;)
"You can provide children software without putting any computers in the classroom. All you have to do is give them displays which have a network connection. These are available from an Australian company called ThinLinx. You won't need to put network cables everywhere, either. You can use wireless networking. All you need for this is a wireless router, about $50."
Wow! this IS pretty interesting. Can you give me any more pointers or references on how to implement this?
Actually we've got that already. Parents just love it. And we run the entire system on linux! We actually got the idea thanks to/. a couple of years ago.
"The debate over the taxation of the Internet isn't about feeding the already well-lined coffers of government. It's about the fundamentally American idea that there should be no taxation without representation.
"While there is no evidence that Main Street firms have lost business due to tax differentials, that is beside the point. The answer to these concerns should not be to raise taxes on the Internet, but to lower taxes on Main Street businesses."
Colorado Governor Bill Owens In a letter to Congress urging the extension of the Internet tax moratorium, and opposing his fellow governors' plea for Congressional approval to force collection of sales and use taxes from remote businesses. August 20, 2001
1. I've heard that you are told to "disconnect" from family and friends who do not agree with what the church is doing or think it's a cult, etc... Is this true and have you personally experienced this or do you know anyone in the church who has?
In Scientology people aren't told what to do. I have not had any experience with this at least personally. I have seem aomeone "disconnecting". A person who disconnects is simply exercising his right to communicate or not to communicate with a particular person. Usually this is done when there is no tolerance on the person's new belief's and that intolerance is in most cases rooted in false information. On my 15 years as a scientologist, i have only seen this once. And i can say that THAT particular scientologist was an idiot (yes I acknowledge there are a lot idiot scientologists as there are a lot idiots pretty much everywhere.) He could probably handled the situation by saying: "Hey i love you and i appreciate you worry 'bout me. Please understand, don't attack my beliefs and be tolerant. I am still a member of this (family, group, whatever) and i am also a (whatever religion, group o belief system)... can we still be friends?
2. Many of don't understand why it is that you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to reach a state of "clear". (And level OTVIII or NOT [whatever it's called now] costs up to $500,000) Can you tell us why?
The first thing is first. Charges are not "up to 500,000". I, as a Scientologist have spent about 9000 USD on scientologist books, training, auditing and donations. This is for 15 years. Was it worth it? absolutely.
A person who donates for auditing receives one-to-one personal and effective assistance to solve problems in life, to communicate more freely with others and to handle the upsets of life preventing his true spiritual freedom. An entire team of Scientology staff members is required to deliver auditing, which is always individual, and/or training to a parishioner. Compare this to a church with a single priest or minister who delivers a single sermon to a congregation of perhaps 1,000 and the difference starts to become apparent. It would take about 650 ministers just to audit 2,000 Scientologists (one auditor can counsel three parishioners per day with some administrative assistance), and this does not account for all other staff who provide the services necessary for the Church itself to function.
The training delivered by Churches of Scientology could be compared to taking a course in a school or similar facility. Four years at a typical university would cost between $30,000 and $40,000; four years at a top university would run between $80,000 and $90,000 or even more. And those figures do not include additional costs such as books and supplies. The most thorough study of Scientology available is the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, which takes more than 50 weeks to complete, at 40 hours per week of study. It provides a student with a full understanding of the mind and life and is the functional equivalent of a complete college education. The requested donation is between a fourth to a tenth of that charged by universities. Yet, the manpower required to deliver such training is very comparable. And Scientology churches provide this service without being supported by any government funding, as many universities are. Students who are learning to become auditors must audit others as part of their training. In many cases, they co-audit each other and, of course, there is no donation requested for that. A person can receive the majority of his own auditing in this manner.
3. Why is the COS and it's members so opposed to psychiatry as to say it should be outlawed? (I have reservations of some of psychiatry but it does help many many people some of whom I know personally who have been helped by it).
Psychiatry need serious reform. I for one, don't believe that psychiatry should be outlawed but i do believe certain practices of psychiatry should,
1. I've heard that you are told to "disconnect" from family and friends who do not agree with what the church is doing or think it's a cult, etc... Is this true and have you personally experienced this or do you know anyone in the church who has?
In Scientology people aren't told what to do. I have not had any experience with this at least personally. I have seem aomeone "disconnecting". A person who disconnects is simply exercising his right to communicate or not to communicate with a particular person. Usually this is done when there is no tolerance on the person's new belief's and that intolerance is in most cases rooted in false information. On my 15 years as a scientologist, i have only seen this once. And i can say that THAT particular scientologist was an idiot (yes I acknowledge there are a lot idiot scientologists as there are a lot idiots pretty much everywhere.) He could probably handled the situation by saying:
"Hey i love you and i appreciate you worry 'bout me. Please understand, don't attack my beliefs and be tolerant. I am still a member of this (family, group, whatever) and i am also a (whatever religion, group o belief system)... can we still be friends?
2. Many of don't understand why it is that you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to reach a state of "clear". (And level OTVIII or NOT [whatever it's called now] costs up to $500,000) Can you tell us why?
The first thing is first. Charges are not "up to 500,000". I, as a Scientologist have spent about 9000 USD on scientologist books, training, auditing and donations. This is for 15 years. Was it worth it? absolutely.
A person who donates for auditing receives one-to-one personal and effective assistance to solve problems in life, to communicate more freely with others and to handle the upsets of life preventing his true spiritual freedom.
An entire team of Scientology staff members is required to deliver auditing, which is always individual, and/or training to a parishioner. Compare this to a church with a single priest or minister who delivers a single sermon to a congregation of perhaps 1,000 and the difference starts to become apparent. It would take about 650 ministers just to audit 2,000 Scientologists (one auditor can counsel three parishioners per day with some administrative assistance), and this does not account for all other staff who provide the services necessary for the Church itself to function.
The training delivered by Churches of Scientology could be compared to taking a course in a school or similar facility. Four years at a typical university would cost between $30,000 and $40,000; four years at a top university would run between $80,000 and $90,000 or even more. And those figures do not include additional costs such as books and supplies.
The most thorough study of Scientology available is the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, which takes more than 50 weeks to complete, at 40 hours per week of study. It provides a student with a full understanding of the mind and life and is the functional equivalent of a complete college education. The requested donation is between a fourth to a tenth of that charged by universities. Yet, the manpower required to deliver such training is very comparable. And Scientology churches provide this service without being supported by any government funding, as many universities are.
Students who are learning to become auditors must audit others as part of their training. In many cases, they co-audit each other and, of course, there is no donation requested for that. A person can receive the majority of his own auditing in this manner.
3. Why is the COS and it's members so opposed to psychiatry as to say it should be outlawed? (I have reservations of some of psychiatry but it does help many many people some of whom I know personally who have been helped by it).
Psychiatry need serious reform. I for one, don't believe that psychiatry should be outlawed but i do believe certain practices of psychiatry should, namely, enforced and harmful psychiatric me
My thoughts exactly. I also wanted to thank the users on/. for posting a valid question without being insulting. I do not except anybody to believe in what i believe. But is seems to me that most people here just don't know what is Scientology really. I've seen the information and made a choice. I'm a proud scientologist that acknowledges that there are things to be improved. Does the church of scientology over react on certain situations? Probably. Does "operation clambake" or whatever it's name promotes hatred? Yes. I think we all need to be carefull of prejudice.
I'm a Scientologist, have been for several years now, and i can tell you this... i've been in disagreement with the church on many subjects, and i have never been arrested or blackmailed or anything like that. So it seems to me that something is just not being said here, I just don't see how can anyone get arrested for a Usenet post. "He fled to Canada after being found guilty of "interfering" with a religion, and spent the next 6 years living as a fugitive." Is that actually the charge?
Just my humble opinion. Please don't start insulting me.
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Actually no. Better search results means fewer necessary searches, which in turn will make the entire process most time effective. And anyway, you can`t just stop indexing webpages just because it might take longer to index them. You just need to improve on hardware or the technology itself.
Growing up to see Revolutions is like growing up to realize that your dad is an alcoholic instead of the superhero you once thought he was.
To all of you who haven't seen this movie... DON'T. Re-Watch Matrix and Reloaded and the Animatrix a thousand times. But stay clear of this one.
You may be thinking: "IT IS INEVITABLE". And you are probably right. You'll still see this movie.
But despite all the talk about fate, chance and karma, the moral of this story is that if you can't tell what is going on or why, the movie plain sucks. If you're thinking about how cold and wet the actors must have been while shooting a fight scene in a giant puddle, well... you see my point.
God, this movie was dissapointing. It is supposed to be about faith but it ended up destroying all my faith in Hollywood
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Ok. Got it! We will kill the facebook thing!
You know what? You are right about the facebook thing. We will take that away and allow viewing of models (creation would it though) from anonymous users.
http://getsatisfaction.com/3dtubeme/topics/im_using_firefox_4_and_still_cant_see_a_3d_model_anywhere_what_should_i_do
I just contacted OLPC for the "give many" option, since i'm looking for 120 laptops for the school that i run located in Latin America. I got a response from someone from brightstarcorp.com the same day indicating the price and asking for a shiping address so he could send me the official quote. So once i get the quote our school will be wiring 36'000 usd plus shipping... should i be worried?
This is also a suprise for me, considering that down here in Colombia (South America) you can get a wii quite easily. I got mine the first week of January and have always seen available wiis on stores.
I for one am a big soccer fifa ea sports fan. I've got a wii and can't wait to get my hands on a decent soccer game for the wii.
The latest version of Microsoft Windows implanted in our brains via an Implant. Talk about blue screen of death!
Dude i actually googled CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet and still don't get it.
Exactly. I know what is RSS. Even use it for my site. But i just don't get what feedburner does.
Excuse me if this question is dumb but what exactly does feedburner do? I just don't get it.
Since you already have the webcams set up ,do you let them watch themselves?
At first we were trying to avoid that. The installed cameras (16 in total) are CMOS cameras which are really small mainly because we didn't want the kids to feel observed all the time. It took them less than an hour until even the 2 year olds realized that "daddy" was "whatching me on tv". So eventually we just had to go ahead and try to explain how they worked. The first couple of weeks, the classroom (i mean the teachers AND kids) we behaving kind of oddly or "acted" if you will (most teachers strongly opposed the idea, at least at first). Time took care of that. So know i transmit live feeds to parents and keep a record of up to 3 months of classes for latter assessment for quality control and so on. Quite an experience!
I am interested. How can i contact you?
Actually we've got that already. Parents just love it. And we run the entire system on linux! We actually got the idea thanks to /. a couple of years ago. We are just about ready for the next big thing, and wanted to ask slashdot for what could that be... ;)
"You can provide children software without putting any computers in the classroom. All you have to do is give them displays which have a network connection. These are available from an Australian company called ThinLinx. You won't need to put network cables everywhere, either. You can use wireless networking. All you need for this is a wireless router, about $50."
Wow! this IS pretty interesting. Can you give me any more pointers or references on how to implement this?
Actually we've got that already. Parents just love it. And we run the entire system on linux! We actually got the idea thanks to /. a couple of years ago.
"The debate over the taxation of the Internet isn't about feeding the already well-lined coffers of government. It's about the fundamentally American idea that there should be no taxation without representation.
"While there is no evidence that Main Street firms have lost business due to tax differentials, that is beside the point. The answer to these concerns should not be to raise taxes on the Internet, but to lower taxes on Main Street businesses."
Colorado Governor Bill Owens
In a letter to Congress urging the extension of the Internet tax moratorium, and opposing his fellow governors' plea for Congressional approval to force collection of sales and use taxes from remote businesses.
August 20, 2001
1. I've heard that you are told to "disconnect" from family and friends who do not agree with what the church is doing or think it's a cult, etc ... Is this true and have you personally experienced this or do you know anyone in the church who has?
In Scientology people aren't told what to do. I have not had any experience with this at least personally. I have seem aomeone "disconnecting". A person who disconnects is simply exercising his right to communicate or not to communicate with a particular person. Usually this is done when there is no tolerance on the person's new belief's and that intolerance is in most cases rooted in false information. On my 15 years as a scientologist, i have only seen this once. And i can say that THAT particular scientologist was an idiot (yes I acknowledge there are a lot idiot scientologists as there are a lot idiots pretty much everywhere.) He could probably handled the situation by saying:
"Hey i love you and i appreciate you worry 'bout me. Please understand, don't attack my beliefs and be tolerant. I am still a member of this (family, group, whatever) and i am also a (whatever religion, group o belief system)... can we still be friends?
2. Many of don't understand why it is that you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to reach a state of "clear". (And level OTVIII or NOT [whatever it's called now] costs up to $500,000) Can you tell us why?
The first thing is first. Charges are not "up to 500,000". I, as a Scientologist have spent about 9000 USD on scientologist books, training, auditing and donations. This is for 15 years. Was it worth it? absolutely.
A person who donates for auditing receives one-to-one personal and effective assistance to solve problems in life, to communicate more freely with others and to handle the upsets of life preventing his true spiritual freedom. An entire team of Scientology staff members is required to deliver auditing, which is always individual, and/or training to a parishioner. Compare this to a church with a single priest or minister who delivers a single sermon to a congregation of perhaps 1,000 and the difference starts to become apparent. It would take about 650 ministers just to audit 2,000 Scientologists (one auditor can counsel three parishioners per day with some administrative assistance), and this does not account for all other staff who provide the services necessary for the Church itself to function.
The training delivered by Churches of Scientology could be compared to taking a course in a school or similar facility. Four years at a typical university would cost between $30,000 and $40,000; four years at a top university would run between $80,000 and $90,000 or even more. And those figures do not include additional costs such as books and supplies. The most thorough study of Scientology available is the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, which takes more than 50 weeks to complete, at 40 hours per week of study. It provides a student with a full understanding of the mind and life and is the functional equivalent of a complete college education. The requested donation is between a fourth to a tenth of that charged by universities. Yet, the manpower required to deliver such training is very comparable. And Scientology churches provide this service without being supported by any government funding, as many universities are. Students who are learning to become auditors must audit others as part of their training. In many cases, they co-audit each other and, of course, there is no donation requested for that. A person can receive the majority of his own auditing in this manner.
3. Why is the COS and it's members so opposed to psychiatry as to say it should be outlawed? (I have reservations of some of psychiatry but it does help many many people some of whom I know personally who have been helped by it).
Psychiatry need serious reform. I for one, don't believe that psychiatry should be outlawed but i do believe certain practices of psychiatry should,
1. I've heard that you are told to "disconnect" from family and friends who do not agree with what the church is doing or think it's a cult, etc ... Is this true and have you personally experienced this or do you know anyone in the church who has?
In Scientology people aren't told what to do. I have not had any experience with this at least personally. I have seem aomeone "disconnecting". A person who disconnects is simply exercising his right to communicate or not to communicate with a particular person. Usually this is done when there is no tolerance on the person's new belief's and that intolerance is in most cases rooted in false information. On my 15 years as a scientologist, i have only seen this once. And i can say that THAT particular scientologist was an idiot (yes I acknowledge there are a lot idiot scientologists as there are a lot idiots pretty much everywhere.) He could probably handled the situation by saying:
"Hey i love you and i appreciate you worry 'bout me. Please understand, don't attack my beliefs and be tolerant. I am still a member of this (family, group, whatever) and i am also a (whatever religion, group o belief system)... can we still be friends?
2. Many of don't understand why it is that you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to reach a state of "clear". (And level OTVIII or NOT [whatever it's called now] costs up to $500,000) Can you tell us why?
The first thing is first. Charges are not "up to 500,000". I, as a Scientologist have spent about 9000 USD on scientologist books, training, auditing and donations. This is for 15 years. Was it worth it? absolutely.
A person who donates for auditing receives one-to-one personal and effective assistance to solve problems in life, to communicate more freely with others and to handle the upsets of life preventing his true spiritual freedom.
An entire team of Scientology staff members is required to deliver auditing, which is always individual, and/or training to a parishioner. Compare this to a church with a single priest or minister who delivers a single sermon to a congregation of perhaps 1,000 and the difference starts to become apparent. It would take about 650 ministers just to audit 2,000 Scientologists (one auditor can counsel three parishioners per day with some administrative assistance), and this does not account for all other staff who provide the services necessary for the Church itself to function.
The training delivered by Churches of Scientology could be compared to taking a course in a school or similar facility. Four years at a typical university would cost between $30,000 and $40,000; four years at a top university would run between $80,000 and $90,000 or even more. And those figures do not include additional costs such as books and supplies.
The most thorough study of Scientology available is the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, which takes more than 50 weeks to complete, at 40 hours per week of study. It provides a student with a full understanding of the mind and life and is the functional equivalent of a complete college education. The requested donation is between a fourth to a tenth of that charged by universities. Yet, the manpower required to deliver such training is very comparable. And Scientology churches provide this service without being supported by any government funding, as many universities are.
Students who are learning to become auditors must audit others as part of their training. In many cases, they co-audit each other and, of course, there is no donation requested for that. A person can receive the majority of his own auditing in this manner.
3. Why is the COS and it's members so opposed to psychiatry as to say it should be outlawed? (I have reservations of some of psychiatry but it does help many many people some of whom I know personally who have been helped by it).
Psychiatry need serious reform. I for one, don't believe that psychiatry should be outlawed but i do believe certain practices of psychiatry should, namely, enforced and harmful psychiatric me
My thoughts exactly. I also wanted to thank the users on /. for posting a valid question without being insulting. I do not except anybody to believe in what i believe. But is seems to me that most people here just don't know what is Scientology really.
I've seen the information and made a choice. I'm a proud scientologist that acknowledges that there are things to be improved. Does the church of scientology over react on certain situations? Probably. Does "operation clambake" or whatever it's name promotes hatred? Yes. I think we all need to be carefull of prejudice.
I'm a Scientologist, have been for several years now, and i can tell you this... i've been in disagreement with the church on many subjects, and i have never been arrested or blackmailed or anything like that. So it seems to me that something is just not being said here, I just don't see how can anyone get arrested for a Usenet post. "He fled to Canada after being found guilty of "interfering" with a religion, and spent the next 6 years living as a fugitive." Is that actually the charge?
Just my humble opinion. Please don't start insulting me.
I realize the sentence but... how can this be enforced? For how much time?
Slashdot.org!!
Actually no. Better search results means fewer necessary searches, which in turn will make the entire process most time effective. And anyway, you can`t just stop indexing webpages just because it might take longer to index them. You just need to improve on hardware or the technology itself.
Growing up to see Revolutions is like growing up to realize that your dad is an alcoholic instead of the superhero you once thought he was.
To all of you who haven't seen this movie... DON'T. Re-Watch Matrix and Reloaded and the Animatrix a thousand times. But stay clear of this one.
You may be thinking: "IT IS INEVITABLE". And you are probably right. You'll still see this movie.
But despite all the talk about fate, chance and karma, the moral of this story is that if you can't tell what is going on or why, the movie plain sucks. If you're thinking about how cold and wet the actors must have been while shooting a fight scene in a giant puddle, well... you see my point.
God, this movie was dissapointing. It is supposed to be about faith but it ended up destroying all my faith in Hollywood
sorry about that. the link is http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/