What are the implications if you listen to Al-Jazeera?
On second thought, the government probably already has a list of all those people.
But I can see it now. The government using a similiar algorithm to pick up keywords which then alert them to actively listen in on your conversations..... but that's probably old tech already. Or did google just give them an idea?
Honestly, if I or someone in my family were ever to be put on such a moronic thing w/o a conviction nor even civil suit - I'd sue the state for slander, defamation of character and perhaps harassment.
What would you do if you were put on the public list as a potential murderer or terrorist?
Well, you still kinda have to build it yourself.....
TFA:
The Lx8100-MN, available "barebones" (sans CPU, memory, and hard drive) for around $300
Still should come in under $600, depending on your components though I hope they have guidelines on what is necessary for smooth operation and what that socket lets me install on CPUs.
But I don't think this system will save anyone that much cash. It looks like it should be easier to set it up than a diy myth TV though, while still having control of the box.
The official releases are also numbered by date (Year.Month) so you could refer to Breezy Bagder as 5.10 (October 2005) and Dapper Drake as 6.06 (June 2006). I really don't see the big deal, if the name is hard to remember/prounce, a pair of numbers should be okay.
From Wiki: 4.10 October 20, 2004[10] Warty Warthog 5.04 April 8, 2005 Hoary Hedgehog 5.10 October 13, 2005 Breezy Badger 6.06 June 1, 2006[11] Dapper Drake 6.10 October 26, 2006 Edgy Eft
Yeah, it requires a couple passes because the writing is bad. The different perspectives should have been seperated into paragraphs at least, perhaps with attributions on who said what.
It's amazing how things changed in ten years, the computer feels truly neutered without the net.
Which reminds me, if the internet is down, is there a good firefox extension or other thing that saves almost everything that one surfs? Scrapbook is nice, but requires manual use from what I have seen. The cache doesn't cut it either.
I was painfully shy as a teenager. Was terrified of approaching people in general to talk to them and would avoid most social situations at all costs - I guess I had what psychologists would call a social anxiety disorder. I couldn't even post in an internet forum without the fear of humiliation.
Yet it was the internet where I dared post before I ever tried to contribute in such a way in a real life situations. The more I interacted online, the more comfortable (and confident) I felt doing the same in reallife to the point where I can approach strangers and start conversation.
*Shrugs* Maybe it was the internet or just getting older, as I realize this process happens to a lot of people who were extremely shy/self-conscious as teenagers. But there is no comparing the internet to TV, the TV is a passive medium, the internet is interactive. The only danger I see is when people start substituting the internet for real life.
DRM is a way of punishing paying consumers because the people who don't pay anyway get a superior unencumbered version online, for free. You see, companies want to give you incentive to NOT pay, er, um...... wait.
People with real strength of character that do the right thing despite all the peer pressure in the world are often punished by our system and the cowards within it. It took 30 years for the military to recognize Hugh Thompson.
In both cases, they are/were both punished for their roles by the very people they called out. This engineer will face a similiar time, I imagine. If not openly, they will find a unrelated reason to fire him within 6 months if not immediately. Or put him in a crappy closet as an office (same thing happened to my principle whose contract guaranteed they couldn't fire him for anything short of being a murderer. My school district once was paying 14 principles at the same time because of crap like this, but alas that's a different story...)
-takes a bit to light up to full power (nice when your eyes aren't completely shocked by the change) -Don't get as hot, less chance for fires due to proximity -Saves more energy than stated in some cases, for instance, a aower energy bill in summer as well as winter (long nights), not just due to lighting, but because the airconditioner has to do that much less work (less heat)
Let's take that into consideration - let's say you have 12 60w (3 rooms x 4 lights to be conservative) lights lighting up the inside of your place at one time. Replaced by CFL 13w (60 w equivalents) that's a reduction of
720 -156 -----
564 watts.
Thats ~500 less watts of extra heat the airconditioner needs to negate, plus 500 less watts wasted on lighting. That's over a thousand watts (1 kilowatt) savings per hour.
Counterpoints: -I actually find them brighter than their stated equivalent. Did you test this? -I saw the small color different in the beginning, but I got used to it and now appears as normal to me. -The small (1 minute) to full brightness should not be a problem unless used in a application that requires fast on and off switching.
BTW, I'm all for letting people use what they want - but that list was presenting some things as negative which I don't see as necessarily negative.
The one bad thing about the lights was that I think they overstated their life in the beginning. Enough of them died on me to make me doubt the 10+ year lifespan (did they test this by just flicking it on once and letting it run out, the on and off switching may have an effect on lifespans), but it seems to have gotten better in the later generations.
Also, I like CFLs better than regular fluorescents, as regular fluorescents have a ballast in the lamp, so if that dies (which happens from time to time) it is a time consuming job of opening the lamp and replacing that costly part. Lots of labor. A CFL has a ballast built in and has similiar efficiency, so it is just a matter of replacing the bulb if the ballast dies.
Dell has a laser printer that can print 2000 pages per cartridge and costs $99. Replacement cartridges cost around $60. Why would anyone still want a inkjet in this day and age when Lasers are lower in price (figuring just one year's ink here)?
No, inkjets are pretty bad for photo prints to. I don't know who ever thought they were good for photo prints other than the fact that they have a high dpi (but each dot is painfully obvious but I digress). They smear, even on "photo" paper and are generally crap.
I used to use a Hiti printer (4x6, or 8x10 prints depending on model) and for $20, it had the "ink" (actually dry stuff on a roller) included with 50 prints. Not bad. Plus discounts on quantity. With a clear foil, these things came out as good as professional prints, no smearing, etc. People actually think they are from the store.
But now that a target is less than half-a-mile from me, it's cheaper and faster to just go to their kiosk with my compactflash card, select the prints to get done and get them the next hour.
Still, a dye-sub printer can't be beat:) Especially for "special" photos of the wife;)
Agreed, but by the time you get to the cutting edge stuff in the sciences, it is the 3rd or 4th year in most cases so I think it's good advice for most students and still for a lot of classes later on in a lot of disciplines.
In the end, it's best to hold off until after the first class (or week if possible) and see what type of teacher you are getting and what type of work is assigned by the syllabus. For instance, my first programming class (C language), our teacher assigned to us K&R classic but assigned his own homework problems. I checked it out of the University library beforehand and found it way too terse for me (never programmed before then) despite the great hype around it and got along that semester just fine with "C in 21 days" (a much ridiculed series, I know).
I also wanted to amend my original post on this subject. When I said it's not such a good idea if the teacher is a stickler for homework problems, I meant if they assign dozens upon dozens of problems per chapter (like in a math course). Otherwise, an old edition is fine even if the teacher assigns several problems, it's cheaper/easier to lend out the book at the University library and make a photocopy or two of the homework problems.
In college, I always find older editions of books on the internet and save myself a ton of money. For instance, during summer semester, I took the 7th edition psychology textbook instead of the 8th edition. An 8 edition new would have cost me $115, a used one $95 at the campus bookstore. The 7th edition, brand new (sealed) with shipping cost me $9.95. For a lot of classes, that racks up to serious savings. And the only difference is the cover and the color of the layout, all the content is the same. I've seen this where with numerous books which stayed the same content wise for over 6 editions in the row, changing the cover and perhaps the layout just to make it seem different. I compared a old english college textbook (1992) and the new version and all they did was swap 3 out of the 21 essays. That's it.
A word of caution, old editions are a bitch in the rare case that your teacher is a stickler for "homework" problems and collects them (this is more in the lower college classes and a problem if old edition pages don't match up just right and they tend to jumble problems around) and your school library doesn't lend out the new version of the book. It's best to attend the first couple days of class and determine if buying a book at all is necessary (some professors essentially ignore the book for all pratical purpose and test you on their lectures). I can't tell how many times I went to class just to find out that the book is a big waste of money. Especially true if the class is a requirement and you don't give two shits about it.
I even used completely different texts (titles) in Math course where I just find that I prefer one author over another without problems.
I'm not familiar with this software nor their licenses, but can't you just take a build of their software, fork it off as your own build and start treating it as internally made software? The greatest expense would be then certifying that first build.
Yes, the read-eval-loop of lisps are great - in fact many advanced programmers say it boosts their productivity once they get into it (wish I could find the ML of the Crash Bandicoot team again...)
Another lisp dialect that is very easy for the kids. I find the 3 choices of the submitter (not the parent) a little too restrictive - and the limited experience I have with VB taught me it's absolutely horrible as a programming language. Variable settings I specified to be done wasn't because of some arcane rule or something else. Beginning programming languages should be as straightforward as possible.
I think part of this is somewhat like the battle between closed source and open source.
With normal fruit/vegetables, you have seeds and can grow them freely and as you wish.
With GE crops, the seeds of the fruit/vegetables either come out sterile and you are dependent on the company to provide you with more or the seeds are okay but you have to license it from them to be allowed to use it, sort of like how you could theoretically put Windows on unlimited PCs with just one CD but the BSA will come knocking.
I think this is part of the backlash and I don't blame farmers/people not wanting any part of it.
Ultimately, he received several job offers. But he declined them all, and in the summer of 1995 returned to St. Petersburg, to his old job at the Steklov Institute, where he was paid less than a hundred dollars a month. (He told a friend that he had saved enough money in the United States to live on for the rest of his life.) His father had moved to Israel two years earlier, and his younger sister was planning to join him there after she finished college. His mother, however, had decided to remain in St. Petersburg, and Perelman moved in with her.
I still see no specifics why he moved in with her (sickness, mama's boy?, etcetera) but money does not seem to be an issue here. And he may accept the million dollar prize too - he didn't say he would give a definite answer until offered.
I don't think Microsoft can afford another Vista and the model of waiting X number of years before the next latest greatest update. And charging that much for its update to people who have XP.
I think Ubuntu wins this checkbox hands down since they threw down the gauntlet. Ubuntu makes it a point to come out with new release every 6 months. I've been with them through 4 of these upgrades (2 years) and the distro just gets better and better every time. For free.
Microsoft may have to adopt such a model of frequent incremental updates one day if they want to stay competetive. (And no, I'm not talking about patches and crap).
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Ah, second year law school and you've already learned Guilty until Proven Innocent? Bravo!:)
What are the implications if you listen to Al-Jazeera?
On second thought, the government probably already has a list of all those people.
But I can see it now. The government using a similiar algorithm to pick up keywords which then alert them to actively listen in on your conversations..... but that's probably old tech already. Or did google just give them an idea?
Honestly, if I or someone in my family were ever to be put on such a moronic thing w/o a conviction nor even civil suit - I'd sue the state for slander, defamation of character and perhaps harassment.
What would you do if you were put on the public list as a potential murderer or terrorist?
TFA:
Still should come in under $600, depending on your components though I hope they have guidelines on what is necessary for smooth operation and what that socket lets me install on CPUs.
But I don't think this system will save anyone that much cash. It looks like it should be easier to set it up than a diy myth TV though, while still having control of the box.
The official releases are also numbered by date (Year.Month) so you could refer to Breezy Bagder as 5.10 (October 2005) and Dapper Drake as 6.06 (June 2006). I really don't see the big deal, if the name is hard to remember/prounce, a pair of numbers should be okay.
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From Wiki:
4.10 October 20, 2004[10] Warty Warthog
5.04 April 8, 2005 Hoary Hedgehog
5.10 October 13, 2005 Breezy Badger
6.06 June 1, 2006[11] Dapper Drake
6.10 October 26, 2006 Edgy Eft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(Linux_distri
Perhaps you mean the Energizer Bunny.
The Easter Bunny would just melt into a chocately mess.
Yeah, it requires a couple passes because the writing is bad. The different perspectives should have been seperated into paragraphs at least, perhaps with attributions on who said what.
It's amazing how things changed in ten years, the computer feels truly neutered without the net.
Which reminds me, if the internet is down, is there a good firefox extension or other thing that saves almost everything that one surfs? Scrapbook is nice, but requires manual use from what I have seen. The cache doesn't cut it either.
I was painfully shy as a teenager. Was terrified of approaching people in general to talk to them and would avoid most social situations at all costs - I guess I had what psychologists would call a social anxiety disorder. I couldn't even post in an internet forum without the fear of humiliation.
Yet it was the internet where I dared post before I ever tried to contribute in such a way in a real life situations. The more I interacted online, the more comfortable (and confident) I felt doing the same in reallife to the point where I can approach strangers and start conversation.
*Shrugs* Maybe it was the internet or just getting older, as I realize this process happens to a lot of people who were extremely shy/self-conscious as teenagers. But there is no comparing the internet to TV, the TV is a passive medium, the internet is interactive. The only danger I see is when people start substituting the internet for real life.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric. 02/
7 inch would be about 177.8mm.
DRM is a way of punishing paying consumers because the people who don't pay anyway get a superior unencumbered version online, for free. You see, companies want to give you incentive to NOT pay, er, um...... wait.
I think you are correct.
People with real strength of character that do the right thing despite all the peer pressure in the world are often punished by our system and the cowards within it. It took 30 years for the military to recognize Hugh Thompson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thompson,_Jr.
Or Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator, is another good example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds
In both cases, they are/were both punished for their roles by the very people they called out. This engineer will face a similiar time, I imagine. If not openly, they will find a unrelated reason to fire him within 6 months if not immediately. Or put him in a crappy closet as an office (same thing happened to my principle whose contract guaranteed they couldn't fire him for anything short of being a murderer. My school district once was paying 14 principles at the same time because of crap like this, but alas that's a different story...)
Those are marketing hype.
I get a box of 7 CFLs or so CFLs at costco for $15. They look fine.
How about a brain-controlled system. You know, like how the primitive versions today require a huge-ass cable to the brain, something of that variety.
I also how Lisp Machines would have worked on HCI, specifically for programmers.
-takes a bit to light up to full power (nice when your eyes aren't completely shocked by the change)
-Don't get as hot, less chance for fires due to proximity
-Saves more energy than stated in some cases, for instance, a aower energy bill in summer as well as winter (long nights), not just due to lighting, but because the airconditioner has to do that much less work (less heat)
Let's take that into consideration - let's say you have 12 60w (3 rooms x 4 lights to be conservative) lights lighting up the inside of your place at one time. Replaced by CFL 13w (60 w equivalents) that's a reduction of
720
-156
-----
564 watts.
Thats ~500 less watts of extra heat the airconditioner needs to negate, plus 500 less watts wasted on lighting. That's over a thousand watts (1 kilowatt) savings per hour.
Counterpoints:
-I actually find them brighter than their stated equivalent. Did you test this?
-I saw the small color different in the beginning, but I got used to it and now appears as normal to me.
-The small (1 minute) to full brightness should not be a problem unless used in a application that requires fast on and off switching.
BTW, I'm all for letting people use what they want - but that list was presenting some things as negative which I don't see as necessarily negative.
The one bad thing about the lights was that I think they overstated their life in the beginning. Enough of them died on me to make me doubt the 10+ year lifespan (did they test this by just flicking it on once and letting it run out, the on and off switching may have an effect on lifespans), but it seems to have gotten better in the later generations.
Also, I like CFLs better than regular fluorescents, as regular fluorescents have a ballast in the lamp, so if that dies (which happens from time to time) it is a time consuming job of opening the lamp and replacing that costly part. Lots of labor. A CFL has a ballast built in and has similiar efficiency, so it is just a matter of replacing the bulb if the ballast dies.
Dell has a laser printer that can print 2000 pages per cartridge and costs $99. Replacement cartridges cost around $60. Why would anyone still want a inkjet in this day and age when Lasers are lower in price (figuring just one year's ink here)?
No, inkjets are pretty bad for photo prints to. I don't know who ever thought they were good for photo prints other than the fact that they have a high dpi (but each dot is painfully obvious but I digress). They smear, even on "photo" paper and are generally crap.
r s_printers/0306hiti/
For photo prints, you want a dye-sublimation printer, such as these:
http://www.shutterbug.com/equipmentreviews/scanne
I used to use a Hiti printer (4x6, or 8x10 prints depending on model) and for $20, it had the "ink" (actually dry stuff on a roller) included with 50 prints. Not bad. Plus discounts on quantity. With a clear foil, these things came out as good as professional prints, no smearing, etc. People actually think they are from the store.
But now that a target is less than half-a-mile from me, it's cheaper and faster to just go to their kiosk with my compactflash card, select the prints to get done and get them the next hour.
Still, a dye-sub printer can't be beat:) Especially for "special" photos of the wife;)
Agreed, but by the time you get to the cutting edge stuff in the sciences, it is the 3rd or 4th year in most cases so I think it's good advice for most students and still for a lot of classes later on in a lot of disciplines.
In the end, it's best to hold off until after the first class (or week if possible) and see what type of teacher you are getting and what type of work is assigned by the syllabus. For instance, my first programming class (C language), our teacher assigned to us K&R classic but assigned his own homework problems. I checked it out of the University library beforehand and found it way too terse for me (never programmed before then) despite the great hype around it and got along that semester just fine with "C in 21 days" (a much ridiculed series, I know).
I also wanted to amend my original post on this subject. When I said it's not such a good idea if the teacher is a stickler for homework problems, I meant if they assign dozens upon dozens of problems per chapter (like in a math course). Otherwise, an old edition is fine even if the teacher assigns several problems, it's cheaper/easier to lend out the book at the University library and make a photocopy or two of the homework problems.
In college, I always find older editions of books on the internet and save myself a ton of money. For instance, during summer semester, I took the 7th edition psychology textbook instead of the 8th edition. An 8 edition new would have cost me $115, a used one $95 at the campus bookstore. The 7th edition, brand new (sealed) with shipping cost me $9.95. For a lot of classes, that racks up to serious savings. And the only difference is the cover and the color of the layout, all the content is the same. I've seen this where with numerous books which stayed the same content wise for over 6 editions in the row, changing the cover and perhaps the layout just to make it seem different. I compared a old english college textbook (1992) and the new version and all they did was swap 3 out of the 21 essays. That's it.
A word of caution, old editions are a bitch in the rare case that your teacher is a stickler for "homework" problems and collects them (this is more in the lower college classes and a problem if old edition pages don't match up just right and they tend to jumble problems around) and your school library doesn't lend out the new version of the book. It's best to attend the first couple days of class and determine if buying a book at all is necessary (some professors essentially ignore the book for all pratical purpose and test you on their lectures). I can't tell how many times I went to class just to find out that the book is a big waste of money. Especially true if the class is a requirement and you don't give two shits about it.
I even used completely different texts (titles) in Math course where I just find that I prefer one author over another without problems.
But almost all lisps have read-eval-print, it's practically one of its defining features.
I'm not familiar with this software nor their licenses, but can't you just take a build of their software, fork it off as your own build and start treating it as internally made software? The greatest expense would be then certifying that first build.
Yes, the read-eval-loop of lisps are great - in fact many advanced programmers say it boosts their productivity once they get into it (wish I could find the ML of the Crash Bandicoot team again...)
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But how about Logo Programming language?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_programming_lan
Another lisp dialect that is very easy for the kids. I find the 3 choices of the submitter (not the parent) a little too restrictive - and the limited experience I have with VB taught me it's absolutely horrible as a programming language. Variable settings I specified to be done wasn't because of some arcane rule or something else. Beginning programming languages should be as straightforward as possible.
I think part of this is somewhat like the battle between closed source and open source.
With normal fruit/vegetables, you have seeds and can grow them freely and as you wish.
With GE crops, the seeds of the fruit/vegetables either come out sterile and you are dependent on the company to provide you with more or the seeds are okay but you have to license it from them to be allowed to use it, sort of like how you could theoretically put Windows on unlimited PCs with just one CD but the BSA will come knocking.
I think this is part of the backlash and I don't blame farmers/people not wanting any part of it.
I still see no specifics why he moved in with her (sickness, mama's boy?, etcetera) but money does not seem to be an issue here. And he may accept the million dollar prize too - he didn't say he would give a definite answer until offered.
I don't think Microsoft can afford another Vista and the model of waiting X number of years before the next latest greatest update. And charging that much for its update to people who have XP.
I think Ubuntu wins this checkbox hands down since they threw down the gauntlet. Ubuntu makes it a point to come out with new release every 6 months. I've been with them through 4 of these upgrades (2 years) and the distro just gets better and better every time. For free.
Microsoft may have to adopt such a model of frequent incremental updates one day if they want to stay competetive. (And no, I'm not talking about patches and crap).