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The Creative Zen team could spend years refining their ugly iPod knockoffs and never produce as beautiful, satisfying, and elegant a player as the Apple iPod. And they're not going to make a dent in Apple's market share because the magical design talent is just not there. They don't have it.
Untill the battery dies, and you find out you have to pay $99 every year to keep using it...
The real question is if ISPs are going to support this. Sounds like a lot of more work for them.
but seriously, if the choice is either to use bittorent or deal with an infestation of obnoxious advertizements needed to pay for the content (or not getting the content at all) I think the choice is pretty easy. Why would it bother me to help distribute something cool?
I wonder, with all the ice frozen into the soil, if the pool we see here was created when the astroid which build the crater hit. (i.e. all the ice melted and pooled in the bottom of the crater, then froze) Rather then water that was left behind from the origional rivers and streams on mars.
It's not a bug, it's a feature. Some security products operate by inserting TCP reset signals to blog innapropriate connections. One company has had a patent on this method for years.
What is with this common misconception that breaking any crypto is a violation of the DMCA. It's not. I had a guy sware that WASTE was safe because if the record companies cracked the crypto, they'd be breaking the DMCA.
I mean come on, not only can the crypto in WASTE and other systems not be cracked at all if it could be, it wouldn't be a violation. Only crypto used to prevent copying is protected, and only then as a copy protection mechanism, not in general.
You can't be yackin' about your columbian drug ring with home-brew crypto software and then cry "But the DMCA" when you get busted. Duh.
In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux-based operating systems should have been. I
We use FreeBSD and windows at my company. I hate it. I'd much rather use Linux, simply because I'm more familiar with it.
And while FreeBSD can run on "old" Intel hardware so can Linux, and Linux can run on Itanium, PPC, and just about every thing out there. I'm sure it can scale higher then FreeBSD at this point.
FBSD is, I guess, convenient for companies that don't want to have to give back their enhancements, but beyond that I really don't get the point. I certainly don't see why exactly Linux "should" be like free BSD.
Okay, so one of the machines uses OSX. What do the others use? If this machine had won, it would be a diffrent story, but here all we see is that it one particular machine runs OSX. Who cares?
God slashdot sucks these days.
This isn't a new thing; it's been going on for a while. And a lot of times the "personal information" they ask, you don't even know. One credit reporting company asked me what my student loan payments were on a loan I got in august of 2003. I have no friggin clue! Another one asked me for my credit card account numbers, except they misinterpreted another student loan as a credit card (?!) I had no idea what the 'card number' was, but I guessed my social security number, and that was it.
Stupid.
If they're asking you questions you provide, well, that might be a little better. Just as a way to 'prove' to you that the site is actually the site you originally provided the answers too, but that's hardly innovative.
No, modern charts have all the elements that can exist on them, the 'gaps' are there because lighter elements only have a few valence electrons. For example, hydrogen and helium are very far apart on the table, but actualy they only differ by one electron. And since Hydrogen has one extra electron, it is grouped with lithium, sodium, potasium, etc. Helium has 'all' it's electrons so it gets grouped with neon, xenon, argon, etc.
There's still spaces to to add onto at the end for elements like Unununium which include larger and larger elements. But there are no 'gaps'.
Why is the periodic table superimposed on top of a galaxy? Seems pointless. And why is hydrogen grouped in with Silicon and gallium, rather then the Alkali metals like lithium and sodium?
Why 17 and not 18, or 21? Deciding by committee for every child in the US is stupid. They should use a system that lists the 'level' of sex, violence, dirty language or whatever and let parents choose appropriately for their own fears.
Actualy, using a key for a game would be a lot better then using a CD. A CD can be copied very easily, alternatively, you could put some kind of real authentification on a key.
But creative types would much rather work for a company that tried to 'bribe' them with expensive stock options then simply paid them a sallary and kept all the profits from their work for themselves.
Are you somehow trying to infer that the reason that AI "flopped" was because of the actors not successfully pulling off acting like the director's vision of humanlike robots?
I was assuming because Spielberg was involved. Spielberg does good, if cheesy movies, but he's only producing.
Michael Bay is directing, so I'm sure it will be both financially successful and terrible
Not every classroom is eactly the same. The teacher can give diffrent drills to diffrent students, based on their ability, for example. I attended an elementary school in texas for a couple weeks once, and they did drills like you described. In Iowa, we didn't see anything like that. Texas's education system has been in the bottom 4 for 50 years. Iowa's is in the top four for 50 years.
If this kid can do all the other things that kids his age can do, like with reading and language there's no reason to hold him back and isolate him from his peers. Not being able to add and subtract is not really much of an impediment, he'll always be able to use a calculator in "real life". As long as he dosn't go into engineering or something, he should be fine.
I always had trouble with that myself, I used to have to try use mnumonics about my hands "left hand makes the L" untill I learned to drive, now it's easy for me to think "left hand turn" or "right hand turn".
One of the intresting things about HDTV is that analog broadcasters can send out multiple streams, one the local stations around here has a 24hr radar view. Which is kind of intresting.
There's only a limited amount of spectrum, and broadcast TV takes up a lot of it. That frequency could be used for more, cheaper cellphones, or even always-on internet, like wi-fi but that can go through walls more easily. Rather then one hub per house, you could have one hub per block or even larger radii.
In other words, yes a switch costs money, but if properly used the new spectrum would create even more economic value.
The fact that you learned a certain way doesn't mean it's the best way to learn. The drilling kids get on how to do long division and multiplication is a horribly inefficient way to learn how to do it, in fact most arithmetic can be done without paper (with a reasonable number of digits).
Math (even without a calculator) is easy, but kids are taught the hard way, which causes them to lose interest in it.
Despite the fact that education is basically the most important thing we do (aside from reproducing) it's amazing how rarely it's actually studied in a scientific way. And when it's studied by psychologists, their research is ignored.
Crap like "No Child Left Behind" is just a collection of things people made up and thought might help, with no verification whatsoever, yet it's the law of the land.
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From the article: The Creative Zen team could spend years refining their ugly iPod knockoffs and never produce as beautiful, satisfying, and elegant a player as the Apple iPod. And they're not going to make a dent in Apple's market share because the magical design talent is just not there. They don't have it. Untill the battery dies, and you find out you have to pay $99 every year to keep using it...
The real question is if ISPs are going to support this. Sounds like a lot of more work for them.
but seriously, if the choice is either to use bittorent or deal with an infestation of obnoxious advertizements needed to pay for the content (or not getting the content at all) I think the choice is pretty easy. Why would it bother me to help distribute something cool?
I wonder, with all the ice frozen into the soil, if the pool we see here was created when the astroid which build the crater hit. (i.e. all the ice melted and pooled in the bottom of the crater, then froze) Rather then water that was left behind from the origional rivers and streams on mars.
It's not a bug, it's a feature. Some security products operate by inserting TCP reset signals to blog innapropriate connections. One company has had a patent on this method for years.
Lighten up.
What is with this common misconception that breaking any crypto is a violation of the DMCA. It's not. I had a guy sware that WASTE was safe because if the record companies cracked the crypto, they'd be breaking the DMCA.
I mean come on, not only can the crypto in WASTE and other systems not be cracked at all if it could be, it wouldn't be a violation. Only crypto used to prevent copying is protected, and only then as a copy protection mechanism, not in general.
You can't be yackin' about your columbian drug ring with home-brew crypto software and then cry "But the DMCA" when you get busted. Duh.
If so, nerdcore is pretty big. But I don't know if it does. Oh well, great music anyway :P.
In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux-based operating systems should have been. I
We use FreeBSD and windows at my company. I hate it. I'd much rather use Linux, simply because I'm more familiar with it.
And while FreeBSD can run on "old" Intel hardware so can Linux, and Linux can run on Itanium, PPC, and just about every thing out there. I'm sure it can scale higher then FreeBSD at this point.
FBSD is, I guess, convenient for companies that don't want to have to give back their enhancements, but beyond that I really don't get the point. I certainly don't see why exactly Linux "should" be like free BSD.
Okay, so one of the machines uses OSX. What do the others use? If this machine had won, it would be a diffrent story, but here all we see is that it one particular machine runs OSX. Who cares? God slashdot sucks these days.
This isn't a new thing; it's been going on for a while. And a lot of times the "personal information" they ask, you don't even know. One credit reporting company asked me what my student loan payments were on a loan I got in august of 2003. I have no friggin clue! Another one asked me for my credit card account numbers, except they misinterpreted another student loan as a credit card (?!) I had no idea what the 'card number' was, but I guessed my social security number, and that was it.
Stupid.
If they're asking you questions you provide, well, that might be a little better. Just as a way to 'prove' to you that the site is actually the site you originally provided the answers too, but that's hardly innovative.
No, modern charts have all the elements that can exist on them, the 'gaps' are there because lighter elements only have a few valence electrons. For example, hydrogen and helium are very far apart on the table, but actualy they only differ by one electron. And since Hydrogen has one extra electron, it is grouped with lithium, sodium, potasium, etc. Helium has 'all' it's electrons so it gets grouped with neon, xenon, argon, etc.
There's still spaces to to add onto at the end for elements like Unununium which include larger and larger elements. But there are no 'gaps'.
Why is the periodic table superimposed on top of a galaxy? Seems pointless. And why is hydrogen grouped in with Silicon and gallium, rather then the Alkali metals like lithium and sodium?
Why 17 and not 18, or 21? Deciding by committee for every child in the US is stupid. They should use a system that lists the 'level' of sex, violence, dirty language or whatever and let parents choose appropriately for their own fears.
A small nuclear reactor, or even wind-turbines in the corn-feilds could produce enough energy to power reactors and whatnot.
Actualy, using a key for a game would be a lot better then using a CD. A CD can be copied very easily, alternatively, you could put some kind of real authentification on a key.
But creative types would much rather work for a company that tried to 'bribe' them with expensive stock options then simply paid them a sallary and kept all the profits from their work for themselves.
Are you somehow trying to infer that the reason that AI "flopped" was because of the actors not successfully pulling off acting like the director's vision of humanlike robots? I was assuming because Spielberg was involved. Spielberg does good, if cheesy movies, but he's only producing. Michael Bay is directing, so I'm sure it will be both financially successful and terrible
Not every classroom is eactly the same. The teacher can give diffrent drills to diffrent students, based on their ability, for example. I attended an elementary school in texas for a couple weeks once, and they did drills like you described. In Iowa, we didn't see anything like that. Texas's education system has been in the bottom 4 for 50 years. Iowa's is in the top four for 50 years.
If this kid can do all the other things that kids his age can do, like with reading and language there's no reason to hold him back and isolate him from his peers. Not being able to add and subtract is not really much of an impediment, he'll always be able to use a calculator in "real life". As long as he dosn't go into engineering or something, he should be fine.
I always had trouble with that myself, I used to have to try use mnumonics about my hands "left hand makes the L" untill I learned to drive, now it's easy for me to think "left hand turn" or "right hand turn".
Public schools are run by the states. Some do well, some do poorly.
One of the intresting things about HDTV is that analog broadcasters can send out multiple streams, one the local stations around here has a 24hr radar view. Which is kind of intresting.
There's only a limited amount of spectrum, and broadcast TV takes up a lot of it. That frequency could be used for more, cheaper cellphones, or even always-on internet, like wi-fi but that can go through walls more easily. Rather then one hub per house, you could have one hub per block or even larger radii.
In other words, yes a switch costs money, but if properly used the new spectrum would create even more economic value.
You know, maybe my highschool, being in a collage with lots of children of professors, was warped, but there were lots of smart, popular people there.
The fact that you learned a certain way doesn't mean it's the best way to learn. The drilling kids get on how to do long division and multiplication is a horribly inefficient way to learn how to do it, in fact most arithmetic can be done without paper (with a reasonable number of digits). Math (even without a calculator) is easy, but kids are taught the hard way, which causes them to lose interest in it.
Despite the fact that education is basically the most important thing we do (aside from reproducing) it's amazing how rarely it's actually studied in a scientific way. And when it's studied by psychologists, their research is ignored. Crap like "No Child Left Behind" is just a collection of things people made up and thought might help, with no verification whatsoever, yet it's the law of the land.