Judging from the "Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Re:" emails I keep getting from my relatives, it isn't just children who have this problem.
On topic: The main task for 9 and 10 year olds is figuring out how the world works. So yes, help them be critical of information. But also show how the internet works, how a hard-drive works, how a monitor works. Huge numbers of kids who are "into computers", don't have a clue beyond how to chat or how to browse. They don't need alt-key trivia, they need to understand the principles of how it works.
This is _normal_. New technology is always relatively expensive and many manufacturers try to get in on the ground floor to capture market-share and enjoy the relatively large per unit gross profit. Then, whoops, we've made too many, there's a market glut, inventories are growing, gotta mov'em out so drop the price and oh, there _are_ a lot of consumers out there who'll buy them at the new improved price, so more get manufactured, economies of scale take the price even lower, and the cycle continues.
the distributed.net projects? SETI at home? Protein folding?
All these projects do is let real scientists use your computer. You aren't really involved. For real fun, check out some amateur scientist websites. And no you don't need an advanced degree to understand it.
I think at one point I had the server up for ~180 days straight
And your point is...
The only thing I can think of is that you are implying that the experience of one person who "knows how to use them," trumps the experience of over a million people in a typical business environment. I'm certain that some of those million had as good as or better uptimes than you. But that's really irrelevant. The point is M$ (mostly) wrote and marketed software for the typical user and for a significant number of those users, it doesn't work very well.
This is a new robot from a different researcher. It does have a bit of the same background info as the other article, but that stuff was announced on slashdot over a year ago anyway.
The Carnegie Mellon robot is much cooler than the MIT one. The MIT was a proof of concept windup toy. It went about 6 inches, forward.
The Carnegie Mellon robot has a carbon-fiber body, uses piezoelectic actuators with three circuits to go forward and reverse. The researchers are planning to keep the control circuits very simple, but could easily drop a programmable chip onto the thing and have a very small autonomous robot to do all sorts of water related functions.
there has actually been a NET PRESERVATION of Iraqi lives, on the order of the thousands. A statistically significant PRESERVATION of Iraqi lives, over the previous death estimates of "50,000/year" directly due to sanctions
Sorry it doesn't work that way. The 10-15,000 deaths reported on iraqbodycount are directly attributed to military action. The Iraq economy/infrastructure is in worse shape today than it was during sanctions. If 50,000 were dying indirectly from the sanctions, then by all indications at least that many if not 2 to 3 times as many are currently dying indirectly.
Sorry, I can't let you pre-empt me by saying everybody's lying.
Nobody has claimed that Kerry wasn't on duty in Vietnam when he said he was. Nobody has claimed that he doesn't carry shrapnel in his leg. Nobody has claimed that he wasn't a Swift Boat captain.
On the other hand, nobody saw Bush on duty in the Alabama National Guard unit. Bush was never anywhere near live combat. Bush was grounded on August 1, 1972 for "failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards".
Kerry made a lot of military types mad after his honorable completion of his duties by speaking truth to power.
Bush blew off the million plus dollars that the taxpayers had spent to train him, didn't complete his duties and got Daddy to pressure his commanding officers to sign off on him. He then lied and continues to lie to cover-up the truth in his quest for power. The only thing that's changed is that now his lies are costing taxpayers hundreds of billion dollars.
I'm not saying that Kerry has never lied. But to equate lying about months of being AWOL to lying about whether or not the enemy fire had stopped before or after he rescued a comrade is pure political hogwash!!!
P.S. I'm a conscientious objector myself, so normally I'd have more respect for those who chose not to put themselves in a position killing others, but Bush's abuse of power both then and now makes me angry.
The patent was applied for March 6, 1997, but it wasn't approved/published until August 30, 2004. Sorry, no coincidences involved, it's just a week old story which is about on par for Slashdot.
Whoops, I pressed tab to preview my comment. Dang I hate to pay those M$ royalties!
Lots of research has been done in the area of multitasking. One of the more insightful results is that much of what passes as "multitasking" is in fact task-switching. Each switch exacts a cost as we reorient ourselves to the new/old task. If you are really interested heres enough info to write your own thesis on the topic.
You clearly didn't get it so I'll try to explain it to you. "Shrimp" has entered the English language as a word meaning something that is exceptionally small, "jumbo" of course indicates the opposite extreme, thereby causing jumbo shrimp to be an oxymoron.
The stout infantfish however is much smaller than a shrimp (the species). In fact, a quick estimate indicates that a typical shrimp weighs 100 - 200 times more than the stout infantfish, making it "Jumbo" in comparison.
I think thats a humorous connection to a well known oxymoron. You don't have to agree, but to mod it down as off-topic is simply an abuse of power.
P.S. In my original I put an html tag flash, as in newsflash, in front of the post, but slash stripped it out as invalid code.
The magic of ATMs became clear to me when, after three years living as a volunteer in a Chaddian village, I put my bankcard into a machine in the Paris airport and within a couple of seconds I had the computer saying my name: "Bienvenue First Last". In contrast to finding moneychangers in the back alleys of crowded markets, this was truely amazing.
It was then that I realized how ATMs contributed to the easy flow of money which is making globalization a reality.
My wife, whom everyone knows by a nickname unrelated to her given name, has handled this situation by writing First Middle "Nick" Last on her IDs. This has never been questioned. It's been no problem even for international travel in the days of terrorism.
On a related note, I have an illegible signature which many people have told me will get me in trouble. But it never has. If someone questions me I neatly print my name under my signature.
Meanwhile, the average Internet surfer is left with few options. Besides choosing the highest security settings for Internet Explorer, Windows users could download an alternate browser, such as Mozilla or Opera. Mac users are not in danger.
Are you married to IE or what???
That would explain the questions I was asked before I could get help for my sbc telephone account this week. I called the help desk regarding long distance usage and they started asking me all kinds of question about whether I use cable or satellite for my television. No. No. How much would you be willing to pay? Etc, etc. It bugged me at the time, but if they're willing to give me that kind of bandwidth it'd be worth the price.
The IPO clearly states that Google has the right to reject any bid. They specifically say that if they determine that someone is not bidding in good faith--such as submitting a ridiculously high bid--that they won't accept that bid.
The other problem with your $500 bid is that if a significant number of other bidder think the same as you, you've just bought yourself a $500 stock. Are you willing to take that risk?
I RTFMed, but I haven't a clue what assignation is being discussed. But it would be like the folks at Redmond to deny it. Hell, even Clinton denied his assignation.
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In fact if we did get to vote for president, we wouldn't be in this morass. And we all know the world doesn't need more asses.
Dang, only 7 real users.
I'd a thought that maybe there'd be say 6 or 7 hundred real users!
Trouble is that when you ask this president a tough question, the White House will shun not only you, but your entire network.
Actually, they've never met a question that they couldn't brush aside. Typically it goes like this...
Day 1
Reporter: Did you pull rank to get out of the National Guard?
Bush: We destroyed the evi....um... there's not been any proof of that.
Day 2
Reporter: Did you pull rank to get out of the National Guard?
Bush: We've already answered that. Next question.
Judging from the "Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Re:" emails I keep getting from my relatives, it isn't just children who have this problem.
On topic: The main task for 9 and 10 year olds is figuring out how the world works. So yes, help them be critical of information. But also show how the internet works, how a hard-drive works, how a monitor works. Huge numbers of kids who are "into computers", don't have a clue beyond how to chat or how to browse. They don't need alt-key trivia, they need to understand the principles of how it works.
This is _normal_. New technology is always relatively expensive and many manufacturers try to get in on the ground floor to capture market-share and enjoy the relatively large per unit gross profit. Then, whoops, we've made too many, there's a market glut, inventories are growing, gotta mov'em out so drop the price and oh, there _are_ a lot of consumers out there who'll buy them at the new improved price, so more get manufactured, economies of scale take the price even lower, and the cycle continues.
Happens every time....
the distributed.net projects? SETI at home? Protein folding?
All these projects do is let real scientists use your computer. You aren't really involved. For real fun, check out some amateur scientist websites. And no you don't need an advanced degree to understand it.
I think at one point I had the server up for ~180 days straight
And your point is...
The only thing I can think of is that you are implying that the experience of one person who "knows how to use them," trumps the experience of over a million people in a typical business environment. I'm certain that some of those million had as good as or better uptimes than you. But that's really irrelevant. The point is M$ (mostly) wrote and marketed software for the typical user and for a significant number of those users, it doesn't work very well.
Whoops, looked at the wrong previous article. Forgive me... :-)
This is a new robot from a different researcher. It does have a bit of the same background info as the other article, but that stuff was announced on slashdot over a year ago anyway.
The Carnegie Mellon robot is much cooler than the MIT one. The MIT was a proof of concept windup toy. It went about 6 inches, forward.
The Carnegie Mellon robot has a carbon-fiber body, uses piezoelectic actuators with three circuits to go forward and reverse. The researchers are planning to keep the control circuits very simple, but could easily drop a programmable chip onto the thing and have a very small autonomous robot to do all sorts of water related functions.
Nope...he got modded up because he's Bruce Perens.
there has actually been a NET PRESERVATION of Iraqi lives, on the order of the thousands. A statistically significant PRESERVATION of Iraqi lives, over the previous death estimates of "50,000/year" directly due to sanctions
Sorry it doesn't work that way. The 10-15,000 deaths reported on iraqbodycount are directly attributed to military action. The Iraq economy/infrastructure is in worse shape today than it was during sanctions. If 50,000 were dying indirectly from the sanctions, then by all indications at least that many if not 2 to 3 times as many are currently dying indirectly.
Sorry, I can't let you pre-empt me by saying everybody's lying.
Nobody has claimed that Kerry wasn't on duty in Vietnam when he said he was. Nobody has claimed that he doesn't carry shrapnel in his leg. Nobody has claimed that he wasn't a Swift Boat captain.
On the other hand, nobody saw Bush on duty in the Alabama National Guard unit. Bush was never anywhere near live combat. Bush was grounded on August 1, 1972 for "failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards".
Kerry made a lot of military types mad after his honorable completion of his duties by speaking truth to power.
Bush blew off the million plus dollars that the taxpayers had spent to train him, didn't complete his duties and got Daddy to pressure his commanding officers to sign off on him. He then lied and continues to lie to cover-up the truth in his quest for power. The only thing that's changed is that now his lies are costing taxpayers hundreds of billion dollars.
I'm not saying that Kerry has never lied. But to equate lying about months of being AWOL to lying about whether or not the enemy fire had stopped before or after he rescued a comrade is pure political hogwash!!!
P.S. I'm a conscientious objector myself, so normally I'd have more respect for those who chose not to put themselves in a position killing others, but Bush's abuse of power both then and now makes me angry.
Good grief guys! RTFP
The patent was applied for March 6, 1997, but it wasn't approved/published until August 30, 2004. Sorry, no coincidences involved, it's just a week old story which is about on par for Slashdot.
Whoops, I pressed tab to preview my comment. Dang I hate to pay those M$ royalties!
Lots of research has been done in the area of multitasking. One of the more insightful results is that much of what passes as "multitasking" is in fact task-switching. Each switch exacts a cost as we reorient ourselves to the new/old task. If you are really interested heres enough info to write your own thesis on the topic.
I knew lots of *amazing* programmers and IT professionals who had non-IT degrees, so how is this new trend any different than before?"
Never let well-researched statistics get in the way of anecdotal evidence.
Students are now trying biology, nursing or other majors.
This line brought a smile to my face. Somehow I don't believe any computer nerds are saying, "Hmmm, maybe I'll go into nursing instead".
I think the article as already been summarized many times, "Free as in speech, not free as in beer."
I'm tired of clueless moderators....
You clearly didn't get it so I'll try to explain it to you. "Shrimp" has entered the English language as a word meaning something that is exceptionally small, "jumbo" of course indicates the opposite extreme, thereby causing jumbo shrimp to be an oxymoron.
The stout infantfish however is much smaller than a shrimp (the species). In fact, a quick estimate indicates that a typical shrimp weighs 100 - 200 times more than the stout infantfish, making it "Jumbo" in comparison.
I think thats a humorous connection to a well known oxymoron. You don't have to agree, but to mod it down as off-topic is simply an abuse of power.
P.S. In my original I put an html tag flash, as in newsflash, in front of the post, but slash stripped it out as invalid code.
Jumbo shrimp _not_ an oxymoron!
The magic of ATMs became clear to me when, after three years living as a volunteer in a Chaddian village, I put my bankcard into a machine in the Paris airport and within a couple of seconds I had the computer saying my name: "Bienvenue First Last". In contrast to finding moneychangers in the back alleys of crowded markets, this was truely amazing.
It was then that I realized how ATMs contributed to the easy flow of money which is making globalization a reality.
My wife, whom everyone knows by a nickname unrelated to her given name, has handled this situation by writing First Middle "Nick" Last on her IDs. This has never been questioned. It's been no problem even for international travel in the days of terrorism.
On a related note, I have an illegible signature which many people have told me will get me in trouble. But it never has. If someone questions me I neatly print my name under my signature.
Meanwhile, the average Internet surfer is left with few options. Besides choosing the highest security settings for Internet Explorer, Windows users could download an alternate browser, such as Mozilla or Opera. Mac users are not in danger. Are you married to IE or what???
That would explain the questions I was asked before I could get help for my sbc telephone account this week. I called the help desk regarding long distance usage and they started asking me all kinds of question about whether I use cable or satellite for my television. No. No. How much would you be willing to pay? Etc, etc. It bugged me at the time, but if they're willing to give me that kind of bandwidth it'd be worth the price.
Huh!!!???
The IPO clearly states that Google has the right to reject any bid. They specifically say that if they determine that someone is not bidding in good faith--such as submitting a ridiculously high bid--that they won't accept that bid.
The other problem with your $500 bid is that if a significant number of other bidder think the same as you, you've just bought yourself a $500 stock. Are you willing to take that risk?
Man, you don't need to learn C++, you need to learn to be more truthful during job interviews. End of sermon.
Now about c++. Boot linux, bring up kdevelop, create a console project and start writing.
What's that? You need to program windows apps! OMG!! You are a big liar!
I RTFMed, but I haven't a clue what assignation is being discussed. But it would be like the folks at Redmond to deny it. Hell, even Clinton denied his assignation.