I was talking to someone who said this sounded just like Anatabuse for alchololics (drug you take that makes you sick if you then drink alcohol). If you gan garner enough will to take antabuse in the morning, you keep yourself from drinking all day out of fear of getting sick.
Of course, it turns out that antabuse is rarely prescribed these days, because when an alcoholic wants to drink, they just don't take it.
Hmm. The modding on this one is Offtopic to interesting, to insightful. Meta moderation will be fun!
I am no expert - the experts at the meeting where There are some projectors out there with keystone projection. I was just thinking it would be
neat if one could just move or re-point it to a differnet screen and it would sense how far out of perpendicular the screen was and the projector would automatically adjust. The more automatic the better. I don't know how many meetings I've been in where the first 20 minutes was fiddling with the projector.
In our church, we are having issues mounting a projector in a place that is inconspicuous. Most
of the inconspicuous places introduce too much of a keystone effect. That means that we will have to
fix a (very expensive) projector to project with a
special lens to one and only one screen. It might
work fine when there is a large group, but if a smaller group wanted to use it in a more intimate setting, everyone will be sitting up front craning
their necks. It would be neat if we could just
point the projector at any surface and have it automatically correct for whatever distortion happened to be there.
Most of the programmers at my office already have 4
year degrees, but not in computer science. Those folks need a practical education. I just think that it is kind of a waste of time for someone in
their early 30's to start over as a freshman and have to go through 4 years of schooling to get a
degree that won't teach them practical skills.
This is exactly the point mentioned by NPR yesterday:
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_ 1957960.html
Unfortunately, you have to listen, there doesn't seem to be a transcript available. Some interesting points from the broadcast:
To get into low earth orbit (100 miles up), the space shuttle must travel at Mach 24. SpaceShipOne will go up 64 miles, but only get up to Mach 3. It takes a lot of energy to get from Mach 3 to Mach 24.
The engines used aboard the Space Shuttle are pretty efficient and that amount of power (something on the order of 60 Gigawatts - same as the output of 50 nuclear power plants) is needed to get that much payload into orbit. It probably isn't going to be an innovation in fuel or rocket efficiency that makes getting into orbit cheaper. Alternatives to Hydrogen an Liquid Oxygen chemical rockets exist, but they either don't have as much power, or have undesirable side-effects (a chemical that is toxic or nuclear radiation from a nuclear rocket.)
Their opinion was that what will make getting into orbit cheaper will be reducing the "standing army" of people required to maintain the launch vehicle.
We're talking about kids here. There is nothing
to be gained by preserving the rights of
Immature adults to goof off in class.
Remember passing notes in class when you were a kid? Allowing unfettered messages/email is like that on steriods.
I taught middle school students (7th grade) for
a few weeks in 1995, when the public net
was young. All they had was email access to
me and each other. After 1 day, several kids had mailed about hundred messages to each other, including sexually explicit messages to every
girl in the class.
And these were supposededly "good kids." The
only option I had at the time was
to pull the plug on the net and it was a computer
class! What is being proposed to me sounds like
a better sol'n than that, don't you think?
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I was talking to someone who said this sounded just like Anatabuse for alchololics (drug you take that makes you sick if you then drink alcohol). If you gan garner enough will to take antabuse in the morning, you keep yourself from drinking all day out of fear of getting sick.
Of course, it turns out that antabuse is rarely prescribed these days, because when an alcoholic wants to drink, they just don't take it.
Hmm. The modding on this one is Offtopic to interesting, to insightful. Meta moderation will be fun!
I am no expert - the experts at the meeting where There are some projectors out there with keystone projection. I was just thinking it would be neat if one could just move or re-point it to a differnet screen and it would sense how far out of perpendicular the screen was and the projector would automatically adjust. The more automatic the better. I don't know how many meetings I've been in where the first 20 minutes was fiddling with the projector.
In our church, we are having issues mounting a projector in a place that is inconspicuous. Most of the inconspicuous places introduce too much of a keystone effect. That means that we will have to fix a (very expensive) projector to project with a special lens to one and only one screen. It might work fine when there is a large group, but if a smaller group wanted to use it in a more intimate setting, everyone will be sitting up front craning their necks. It would be neat if we could just point the projector at any surface and have it automatically correct for whatever distortion happened to be there.
Most of the programmers at my office already have 4 year degrees, but not in computer science. Those folks need a practical education. I just think that it is kind of a waste of time for someone in their early 30's to start over as a freshman and have to go through 4 years of schooling to get a degree that won't teach them practical skills.
After reading this article, I looked to see if AutoWeek is actually owned by Rupert Murdock, but apparently not.
There's nothing not to like about a $109 piece of hardware capable of running linux like the Gumstix brought to you by a little ARM processor.
This is exactly the point mentioned by NPR yesterday: http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_ 1957960.html
Unfortunately, you have to listen, there doesn't seem to be a transcript available. Some interesting points from the broadcast:
To get into low earth orbit (100 miles up), the space shuttle must travel at Mach 24. SpaceShipOne will go up 64 miles, but only get up to Mach 3. It takes a lot of energy to get from Mach 3 to Mach 24.
The engines used aboard the Space Shuttle are pretty efficient and that amount of power (something on the order of 60 Gigawatts - same as the output of 50 nuclear power plants) is needed to get that much payload into orbit. It probably isn't going to be an innovation in fuel or rocket efficiency that makes getting into orbit cheaper. Alternatives to Hydrogen an Liquid Oxygen chemical rockets exist, but they either don't have as much power, or have undesirable side-effects (a chemical that is toxic or nuclear radiation from a nuclear rocket.)
Their opinion was that what will make getting into orbit cheaper will be reducing the "standing army" of people required to maintain the launch vehicle.
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We're talking about kids here. There is nothing
to be gained by preserving the rights of
Immature adults to goof off in class.
Remember passing notes in class when you were a kid? Allowing unfettered messages/email is like that on steriods.
I taught middle school students (7th grade) for
a few weeks in 1995, when the public net
was young. All they had was email access to
me and each other. After 1 day, several kids had mailed about hundred messages to each other, including sexually explicit messages to every
girl in the class.
And these were supposededly "good kids." The
only option I had at the time was
to pull the plug on the net and it was a computer
class! What is being proposed to me sounds like
a better sol'n than that, don't you think?